Sterling racially abused by Chelsea fan?

[1961RICH]

This isn’t just Chelsea fans, though. It’s Burnley fans and Stoke fans and Norwich fans and fans of dozens of other teams in the U.K., including our own sometimes. I remember sitting in front of a guy during our 1-0 win over Feyenoord last season - he lambasted Sterling at every opportunity, going as far as shouting “fucking useless wanker” at him for misplacing a pass. He left on 85 minutes in a huff because Sterling let the ball run out for a throw-in and missed him scoring the winner.

Raheem is booed and jeered at every ground he goes to, not just Stamford Bridge. He’s abused in pubs and living rooms up and down the land when he plays for England. Burnley fans loudly let him know that he’d “let his country down” when we played them once. This only happens because the people doing so know it’s not socially acceptable to call him any one of the racist slurs they hold in their throats. Their racism is subconscious and they don’t know how to express it, but it’s still there - hence the level of vitriol and scrutiny that’s applied to every second of his performance.

And when these people leave the ground, calm down after the 90 minutes is over and resume their normal lives, they’ll pick up The Mail or The Sun and read about how Raheem has a tattoo, or how he was late to training, or that he bought things from Primark. And the cycle starts again. If these numbskulls keep reading in the media that it’s okay to dislike Sterling, to track his every move like a stalker, then it eventually reaches the point where one of them works out that they can call him a “black ****” without immediate consequence.

This guy will be found guilty and he’ll be banned from Premier League games for life. He might lose his job and his family might eventually learn to forgive him after a few estranged years. But that’s not enough. The guy should have been beaten up, right there on the spot. At the very least he should have been violently manhandled by a group stewards and escorted out. It’s the only language these idiots speak so we might as well use it against them.

It’s open season against Raheem and it will continue to be until someone is loudly made an example of. Quietly banning these people from the game just allows another one to keep trying their luck, it’s not a strong enough deterrent. Players should walk off the field as a collective, City and the PFA should be all over the media demanding changes in the way black footballers are talked about and covered, the police need to start emptying the prisons of “drug offenders” and start filling them with fuckers like the Chelsea lot. It’s the only way it’ll begin to get better.

Great post, only to add :
1. the considerable number of scouse lip reading experts supporting the "Manc" version in social media comments.
2. The Sun's strategy of slagging Raheem to increase Liverpool sales.

 

[aguero93:20]

Great post, only to add :
1. the considerable number of scouse lip reading experts supporting the "Manc" version in social media comments.
2. The Sun's strategy of slagging Raheem to increase Liverpool sales.

Never gotten point 2, no matter how far up the dippers arses they get their tongues it won't make a difference if the fuckers won't read the paper in the first place.

 

[stonerblue]

well said Raheem...

He should have gone further.

 

[quiet_riot]

Never gotten point 2, no matter how far up the dippers arses they get their tongues it won't make a difference if the fuckers won't read the paper in the first place.

Add to that, "can't"!

 

[northstander62]

The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me, there are so many cameras in stadiums players commit fouls " away " from the play and think they can get away with it and fans shouting racial abuse ( did they not realise why so many players/managers put their hands over their mouths ) throwing pyro or as in spurs fans case a banana skin last week, camera's are everywhere thats why my hands stay in my pocket, don't give the opportunity to be accused of anything.

 

[hammocity]

The abusers of Raz were not young, they would have lived through their earlier years where the use of racist and homophobic language was “normal”, it’s difficult for anyone not living in those times to understand.

As an example, in the mid sixties as a young lad I used to go horse riding with my Dad and Sister at a atables in Mossley, the pony I rode was jet black and called “******”. We had money boxes that were “Black Sambo’s” and collectors badges from Marmalade jars that were “Golliwogs”. “Paki Bashing” was also a much used term and particularly nasty offence. Programmes on TV used offensive language, Love thy Neighbour and Til Death us do part were two of the worst offenders, they had huge viewing figures and were “comedies”.

Now, over 50 years later, in a lot of ways we are much more civilised, earlier generations like mine have mostly been educated and as a society we have evolved to be more inclusive and tolerant.

The abusers at Stamford Bridge have no excuses, none, they need finding and prosecuting, removing from their jobs if they have Employers and making an example of. If prosecuted a Custodial sentence would not go amiss as a punitive punishment, it would make a statement. There is no place for this kind of behaviour in this day and age.

 

[The perfect fumble]

This guy will be found guilty and he’ll be banned from Premier League games for life. He might lose his job and his family might eventually learn to forgive him after a few estranged years. But that’s not enough. The guy should have been beaten up, right there on the spot. At the very least he should have been violently manhandled by a group stewards and escorted out. It’s the only language these idiots speak so we might as well use it against them.

Why not castrate him so he can't pass on his hate? This is fucking bullshit! A nice well structured argument and then a gobbet of hate at the end. Yeah, let's beat up the racists.

You're no better than he is.

 

[manimanc]

'Things like this'?? You mean a racist incident?

You have called this badly wrong.

It was a despicable attack on the lad because of his colour,the shithouse cvnt clearly mouths the word 'black'.People are very rightly 'getting themselves into a lather' about it.I'd be very concerned at those that don't.

I haven't called it badly wrong at all, it's just a matter of a opinion which I'm entitled to.
Just because I haven't agreed and gone along with the majority makes me bad?
Nah mate that's not cricket.
If you look at it and say it to yourself as he's saying it , it looks like he's said both the racist remark and the Manc **** comment what I think he says.

 

[aguero93:20]

Why not castrate him so he can't pass on his hate?

Good idea.

 

[HalfwayUpTheKippax]

The abusers of Raz were not young, they would have lived through their earlier years where the use of racist and homophobic language was “normal”, it’s difficult for anyone not living in those times to understand.

As an example, in the mid sixties as a young lad I used to go horse riding with my Dad and Sister at a atables in Mossley, the pony I rode was jet black and called “******”. We had money boxes that were “Black Sambo’s” and collectors badges from Marmalade jars that were “Golliwogs”. “Paki Bashing” was also a much used term and particularly nasty offence. Programmes on TV used offensive language, Love thy Neighbour and Til Death us do part were two of the worst offenders, they had huge viewing figures and were “comedies”.

Now, over 50 years later, in a lot of ways we are much more civilised, earlier generations like mine have mostly been educated and as a society we have evolved to be more inclusive and tolerant.

The abusers at Stamford Bridge have no excuses, none, they need finding and prosecuting, removing from their jobs if they have Employers and making an example off. If prosecuted a Custodial sentence would not go amiss as a punitive punishment, it would make a statement. There is no place for this kind of behaviour in this day and age.

Til Death Us Do Part was showing up racism and anti-semitism. You were supposed to laugh at the ignorant bigot Alf Garnett, played by the Jewish Warren Mitchell. Unfortunately too many people were too thick to realise, probably because they held similar views to the Garnett character and so it became for them like the appalling Love Your Neighbour.