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Monkey boy

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A made the point yesterday in the match thread but imagine being a grown man probably with a family and a decent job and losing all control of yourself because a footballer who doesn’t know you from Adam collects a football to take a corner which you know is kinda what you’re paying to see unless I’m missing something. Embarrassing is not the word really, it’s utterly bizarre and pathetic
 

Col_M

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A made the point yesterday in the match thread but imagine being a grown man probably with a family and a decent job and losing all control of yourself because a footballer who doesn’t know you from Adam collects a football to take a corner which you know is kinda what you’re paying to see unless I’m missing something. Embarrassing is not the word really, it’s utterly bizarre and pathetic

Speaks someone whose never had his parking space pinched forcing him to walk an extra 200 yards in the rain.
 

TheHoddleWaddle

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I'd assume it would need to be run through some sort of accredited 'lip reading expert' and / or based on witnesses. Who knows, maybe Sterling heard it. Seems clear to me, but benefit of the doubt for the word 'manc' instead of 'black' might rescue him.

Horrible character regardless.
 

riggi

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yankspurs

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It is high time Chelsea get punished for this shit. There supporters are noted racists and anti semites. The club knows it and basically admitted as much but they havent really done much to stop it besides a few statements, have they?

Feel awful for Sterling. The amount of abuse he gets from the media and fans alike is an absolute disgrace.
 
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Ionman34

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Am I missing something here?
Sterling gets abused, quite probably racially, by Chelsea fans and he’s blaming the media?

How does that work?
 

Ionman34

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I guess you havent seen all the shit hes been getting from the media since leaving liverpool?
I have indeed, not sure how this equates to the media stirring up race hate though.

There are plenty of White players who have got pelters off the media in the past, so it’s not as though they specifically target black players is it?

Don’t get me wrong, I detest the media as they look to build you up just so the fall is harder, but I’m not buying this assertion that their reporting fuels racist behaviour. Has he been racially abused by supporters of other clubs?
 

RichieS

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I have indeed, not sure how this equates to the media stirring up race hate though.

There are plenty of White players who have got pelters off the media in the past, so it’s not as though they specifically target black players is it?

Don’t get me wrong, I detest the media as they look to build you up just so the fall is harder, but I’m not buying this assertion that their reporting fuels racist behaviour. Has he been racially abused by supporters of other clubs?
Go further back though. Kieron Dyer and JJ both got a rough time from the media despite being fundamentally decent lads. Think of the grief Defoe got when he left West Ham. Rooney and Wilshere, for counter-example, started getting shit once they actually started doing stupid stuff.
 

LexingtonSpurs

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I have indeed, not sure how this equates to the media stirring up race hate though.
He makes the case for institutional racism, that allows people to think its ok.

The gist of his point - two players, one white, one black, each buy a house for their mother. The press treats them differently.

The England international screen-grabbed a story that had appeared on MailOnline last January about his club-mate, Tosin Adarabioyo, under the headline: ‘Young Manchester City footballer, 20, on £25,000 a week splashes out on mansion on market for £2.25m despite having never started a Premier League match’. He went on to reference another story from October about City’s teenage midfielder, Phil Foden, buying a house which had carried the headline: ‘Foden buys new £2m home for his mum’.

So, while it may be subconscious, when the mainstream media treat similar people differently it filters down into everyday life - where people think its ok to treat people differently - just based on the color of their skin, or their nationality, or their religion.
 

Col_M

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He makes the case for institutional racism, that allows people to think its ok.

The gist of his point - two players, one white, one black, each buy a house for their mother. The press treats them differently.

The England international screen-grabbed a story that had appeared on MailOnline last January about his club-mate, Tosin Adarabioyo, under the headline: ‘Young Manchester City footballer, 20, on £25,000 a week splashes out on mansion on market for £2.25m despite having never started a Premier League match’. He went on to reference another story from October about City’s teenage midfielder, Phil Foden, buying a house which had carried the headline: ‘Foden buys new £2m home for his mum’.

So, while it may be subconscious, when the mainstream media treat similar people differently it filters down into everyday life - where people think its ok to treat people differently - just based on the color of their skin, or their nationality, or their religion.


And actually he’s made a very good point. The example he gave really hits home, unknown black spoiled millionaire footballer versus England’s Great White Hope.
 

'O Zio

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Go further back though. Kieron Dyer and JJ both got a rough time from the media despite being fundamentally decent lads. Think of the grief Defoe got when he left West Ham. Rooney and Wilshere, for counter-example, started getting shit once they actually started doing stupid stuff.

Kieran Dyer was far from a "fundamentally decent lad". He was an absolute scumbag.
 

nailsy

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Am I missing something here?
Sterling gets abused, quite probably racially, by Chelsea fans and he’s blaming the media?

How does that work?

The papers keep portraying him in a negative light. They're making him a target. I never buy papers but I saw the back page of one of them a few weeks ago and there was a massive headline about some scandal involving an unnamed premier League player. Right next to it was a match report with a big photo of Sterling celebrating scoring a goal. It was so dodgy.

Kieran Dyer was far from a "fundamentally decent lad". He was an absolute scumbag.

Man, those newspapers did a job on you :cautious:
 

'O Zio

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Man, those newspapers did a job on you :cautious:

Hang on a minute. I'm not criticising sterling, I completely agree with him. It's just the idea suggested by a poster on here that Kieran Dier was a good guy that I disagree with. Nothing to do with newspapers in his case cos he genuinely is a scumbag.
 

mightyspur

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Hang on a minute. I'm not criticising sterling, I completely agree with him. It's just the idea suggested by a poster on here that Kieran Dier was a good guy that I disagree with. Nothing to do with newspapers in his case cos he genuinely is a scumbag.
Did he sleep with your missus?
 
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