Disgusting.There’s definitely a media agenda against him and there has been since he signed for City.
Read this thread, it’s ridiculous.
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Disgusting.There’s definitely a media agenda against him and there has been since he signed for City.
Read this thread, it’s ridiculous.
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Not sure if people have short memories or what, but it's been from well before he signed for City. Remember the media propagated myth about him having four kids from four different mums at 18/19?There’s definitely a media agenda against him and there has been since he signed for City.
Read this thread, it’s ridiculous.
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Not just that. You can bet they were cheering on Kante as he scored for Chelsea.Besides the obvious racial abuse, one very very small and annoying aspect about this entire thing is the fact that these guys will interact and might even be friends with black people.
To those who are puzzled by Raheem, the other black Chelsea fan, or the black Chelsea steward not reacting violently or choosing to laugh in response to what was said - I can only presume that you have gone through life without experiencing racism regularly.
At some point, and mainly in public when you are mostly isolated - you are left frozen and unable to react properly, so laughing it off is usually the most productive reaction because you recognise that you have no power in the situation, and it’s best not to lower yourself to their level.
Raheem says as much in his Instagram post, and I’m glad he pointed this out.
Very well said. Beautiful, eloquent posts as usual from Villain on topics that don't really deserve such patience anymore.Exactly this, you have to laugh or shake your head because it’s not the first time, won’t be the last time and if you react negatively then the benefit of doubt won’t be given to you.
Sterling is easily my favourite non-United player. He gets so much shit but always conducts himself in a professional manner; not many people like that.
Completely agree.I'm glad his response is calm. Glad he pointed out the double standards applied to him when he bought his mom a home - it was exactly my thought as well. Coming from their poverty stricken background, of course the lad is proud he's able to give his mom a nice life. Yet the papers mocked him for this.
That's just disgusting. You don't expect better from vile papers like the Sun and DM, but what Sky Sports did was very dickish. Sterling just did an emotional explanation with a personal story to defend himself for his tattoo, but they make it sound like Raheem himself was a gang member or something, like all blacks with tattoos are in the eyes of some people.There’s definitely a media agenda against him and there has been since he signed for City.
Read this thread, it’s ridiculous.
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Oppo fans regularly direct homophobic slurs like rent boys or renties at Chelsea players and fans.
You have no idea what the fan is saying to sterling, if it was racist the fan should be banned. There is no way to tell what the fan is saying.
You cite a group of racist Chelsea fans to label all Chelsea fans as racist, yet in 2017 when at least hundreds of Spurs fans where chanting "Chelsea rent boys we're coming for you", No one cared.
The double standard angers me, when anyone can direct homophobic slurs at Chelsea, and no one cares, but a video comes out, where we don't know what is being said. The media and oppo fans, just decide there is racist language.[/QUOTE
Think you need to google the definition of homophobia.
Calling someone a male prostitute is not homophobic.
Calling someone a black cnut is racist.
Wow I thought it would be some low life punk but that person looks too old to be pulling this kind of shit.Watch the slowed down video below. Two secs in the guy on the far right in the specs clearly calls him an f'in black c.
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Because they don't value minorities, unless it benefits them on a personal level - in this case, their football club doing well.How do you draw that line in the sand to be a selective racist when, as a Chelsea fan attending the game, there's a Didier Drogba banner hanging somewhere near you? How can you hurl that at Sterling when some of your club's beloved players are black? It makes no sense for racism to still exist in football when you are actively supporting your own black players yet abusing opposing players with words specific to their race.
Thank you, and I agree with what you said about Liverpool fans also.Very well said. Beautiful, eloquent posts as usual from Villain on topics that don't really deserve such patience anymore.
Completely agree.
As Gareth Southgate said - Sterling is actually a great role model to young people, and instead he's treated as some sort of 'bad-guy'.
I've always been very, very uncomfortable with the amount of venom he gets from Liverpool fans, as opposed to Suarez - he stayed longer than Suarez, conducted himself better while at the club, yet one is treated like an actual hero who had the 'right' to move on to win trophies and the other is spoken of with genuine hatred by a large portion of the Liverpool fanbase...
It's transparent, and it's fecking disgraceful.
Because it is against the law.Why does it matter so much if what was said was racist? Like it's the holy grail of verbal abuse.
It makes plenty of sense if he's just looking to wind-up the opposition. He might call an opposing German player "a fecking Nazi" or an opposing Asian player a "fecking slit eye". Whatever is most likely to get under the player's skin. And with a black player it is obviously a reference to his skin colour. These people are not going to care if their own team features such players. It's possible of course he's indeed a full-blown racist but as you say that is hard to comprehend when your own team has had so many (important) black players.How do you draw that line in the sand to be a selective racist when, as a Chelsea fan attending the game, there's a Didier Drogba banner hanging somewhere near you? How can you hurl that at Sterling when some of your club's beloved players are black? It makes no sense for racism to still exist in football when you are actively supporting your own black players yet abusing opposing players with words specific to their race.
To be honest, this person looks exactly the right age to be pulling this kind of shitWow I thought it would be some low life punk but that person looks too old to be pulling this kind of shit.
I don't understand where this level of venom/hatred so evident in their faces comes from. It's so disturbing.Wow I thought it would be some low life punk but that person looks too old to be pulling this kind of shit.
Doesn’t look like he reacted at all in the video. If he did say black I don’t think Sterling heard him.He either called him "manc" or "black". Sterling's reaction in the video and his post on Instagram suggests it was the later.
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The recent metro incident at PSG all too fresh in the memory.Chelsea match-going fans are generally vile, obnoxious ignorant cnuts.
And, I suspect, The Sun & co are feeding off the backlash against them in a 'no publicity is bad publicity' manner.Off the top of my head I can't think of any footballer who has been treated more unfairly in recent years. It is genuinely quite disgraceful.
Not sure I agree with this. I always figured the fierce level of vitriol aimed at Sterling from Pool fans was more to do with them viewing him as one of their own. He might have joined them at 15/16 from QPR but from their perspective he was a youth player who made the breakthrough and had become one of the brightest talents in the league at only 18.I've always been very, very uncomfortable with the amount of venom he gets from Liverpool fans, as opposed to Suarez - he stayed longer than Suarez, conducted himself better while at the club, yet one is treated like an actual hero who had the 'right' to move on to win trophies and the other is spoken of with genuine hatred by a large portion of the Liverpool fanbase...
It's transparent, and it's fecking disgraceful.
The vitriol started when he was still at the club (before he was confirmed to be joining a 'rival').Not sure I agree with this. I always figured the fierce level of vitriol aimed at Sterling from Pool fans was more to do with them viewing him as one of their own. He might have joined them at 15/16 from QPR but from their perspective he was a youth player who made the breakthrough and had become one of the brightest talents in the league at only 18.
It hurts a lot when one of your better players wants to leave for a rival (hi robin!) but even more so when they're one of "yours". I suspect if he'd moved abroad he wouldn't get half the stick he does. Of course I might be very wrong and you very right but I hope not.
As a side note I just saw his post on instagram (somehow missed that earlier) and he's absolutely spot on. Very well said.
YoI'd care more about the fact that some cnuts are yelling maliciously at my face for no reason. As far as the content of the insult, I could think of worse things.
This doesn't make sense, if the only way you can wind-up the opposition is by being racist - then you're rightfully going to be called racist.It makes plenty of sense if he's just looking to wind-up the opposition. He might call an opposing German player "a fecking Nazi" or an opposing Asian player a "fecking slit eye". Whatever is most likely to get under the player's skin. And with a black player it is obviously a reference to his skin colour. These people are not going to care if their own team features such players. It's possible of course he's indeed a full-blown racist but as you say that is hard to comprehend when your own team has had so many (important) black players.
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Yep, remember that famous picture from their last game at Stoke:The vitriol started when he was still at the club (before he was confirmed to be joining a 'rival').
Pretty sure Pool fans turned on him after his agent came out saying he wouldn't sign for a million a week or whatever it was. But fair point I guess, they tuned on him before his new club was confirmed. Doesn't change the substance of what I was trying to say.The vitriol started when he was still at the club (before he was confirmed to be joining a 'rival').
He's a Londoner, not even from the North.
Compare that with Coutinho, left them totally in the lurch - still nowhere near the same venom.
Or Ronaldo leaving us.
Sterling hasn't been treated fairly, or anywhere close to it by Liverpool fans.
So what are you implying?I've always been very, very uncomfortable with the amount of venom he gets from Liverpool fans, as opposed to Suarez - he stayed longer than Suarez, conducted himself better while at the club, yet one is treated like an actual hero who had the 'right' to move on to win trophies and the other is spoken of with genuine hatred by a large portion of the Liverpool fanbase...
It's transparent, and it's fecking disgraceful.
Age is no substitute for blind ignorance.Wow I thought it would be some low life punk but that person looks too old to be pulling this kind of shit.
Evra would contest your statement.So what are you implying?
I wouldn't say Sterling is that hated by LFC fans at all - certainly not compared to someone like Torres when he left. He receives stick when he comes to Anfield, but which young player that runs down their contract then joins rivals wouldn't? Racism has absolutely nothing to do with it.