He was probably, you know, busy being a footballer?
Or has crowd control been written into his latest contract?
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Or has crowd control been written into his latest contract?
That was fecking vile, too. Doesn't happen often in England, although Rio got a coin in his face at this very ground as well.
"What was your favourite moment in football? "
"Kicking the hooligan!" - Eric Cantona
"Kicking the hooligan!" - Eric Cantona
I don't see how this goes to show that he should somehow take a stand against racism during a game of football.
No need to justify your viewpoint to me. We all want the ideas out there. Just be clear and state that you think Sterling is fine with racism from those that are on his own side.
Remember the fan running on and trying to attack one of the players in the same game.
In the moment, I thought I saw D. Silva (do you mean David or Bernard?) appeal to the fans with an arms-out gesture as well as put a consoling hand on Fred after Fred was hit with the lighter.
Also racist "chanting" suggests a concerted effort from a fairly substantial part of a ground.
How do you stop one idiot? You can't, you merely deal with them as swiftly as you can - which regrettably, due to most stewards basically being fans in jackets who are told not to take any risks - is afterwards, with footage.
Ah, had forgotten about that one. They have some absolute morons in their fanbase, as does all the clubs I'm sure.
Is there a protocol in place for are referees supposed to do with regards to objects being thrown at corner takers?. Because Taylor dealt with that aspect itself terribly, by getting annoyed at Fred and sending him back to take the corner quickly instead of accusing him of ‘time wasting’ he made him target practice for a bunch of Neanderthals who then hit him with the next object thrown, that could have been a lot worse considering some of these idiots throw phones and heavy bottles at players heads.
The bigot who got caught being racist deserves all that’s coming to him but there was more than just him behaving like a hooligan, and the referee shown himself to be incompetent in dealing with it.
The bigot who got caught being racist deserves all that’s coming to him but there was more than just him behaving like a hooligan, and the referee shown himself to be incompetent in dealing with it.
That shit wouldn’t fly around here. He’d be hunted down for sure.
Crowd control and literally playing a game to entertain people who are racially abusing you are two totally different things.
You are monitoring Sterling's behaviour in this scenario because he complained about racism previously.
That's textbook victim-blaming.
Have a word with yourself mate.
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I think it’s the new form of racism where it’s used as an insult by people who lack the ability to get to people in any other way. So they resort to racist comments etc.
I remember reading about John Barnes and other great players get death threats telling them not to sign for the clubs that they were linked too. Today’s type of racism is just as deplorable but I doubt any of those fools would object if tomorrow their team was going to sign any good black player.
I bet he didn't anticipate City getting a nice-point deduction when he suggested this 6 months ago.
I wouldn't put it past opposition fans going to extreme lengths to exploit this punishment. What's to stop a City fan, for example, throwing on a United shirt, heading into our end and making racial gestures to his players to enforce a 9 point reduction on United.
It’s possible he wasn’t aware. The thing everyone was focused on was the objects being thrown
He's talking about racist chanting, so I presume what he means is something which goes well beyond a solitary cnut shouting abuse at players: punishing a club for allowing a considerable segment of fans in the crowd to engage in racist chanting is one thing - and makes sense, I would say, if this is a recurring phenomenon. But to punish a club for the actions of an individual cnut shouting abuse at players would be absurd (obviously).
More on the incident and racism in football from Neville, Keane, Richards & Redknapp.
Who the feck cares whether sterling did anything or not? I am more concerned about why the stewards didn't do anything. They were throwing everything at Fred, and the stewards just stood there.
You can't buy class
Given the (correct) high ground taken in England over racism recently, the repercussions need to be pretty severe.
Add in the throwing of objects as well and the only option for me is closed doors.
Anything else seems like hypocrisy
Add in the throwing of objects as well and the only option for me is closed doors.
Anything else seems like hypocrisy
Pretty sure, any rational fan would agree regardless of the club they support.
To be fair, I respect the swift response by city in that statement. Hopefully they follow through on that. It’s impossible for clubs to completely stamp racism out but at least they need to do their part and ban these people from ruining everyone’s day.
The stewards are basically Man City fans with hi vis jacket on. There was very little that could have been done at that moment. There was at least a couple of hundred irate City fans hurling abuse at Fred. Maybe they weren’t being racist but their behaviour was rancid. The stewards were out numbered 10 to 1.
Lots of them being dickheads but I only see the one making monkey gestures and he's wearing jogging bottoms in public so I imagine everybody in his life is already embarrassed by him.
Gary is right about this appalling Prime Minister normalising racism.
Gary is right about this appalling Prime Minister normalising racism.
A bit confused by the posts complaining about the City players doing nothing. Silva, Mahrez and Otamendi all clearly motioned to the fans to calm down, and several more City players were heading in that direction, presumably to do the same.
And are you seriously suggesting Sterling is perfectly fine with ignoring racial abuse as long as it's not aimed at him? Based on him reacting to racism he didn't even see?
Watching an HD recording of the match, I'm happy to inform you that he wasn't laughing. He might have smiled a bit while exchanging a few words with Maguire at one point, but he was never laughing. It was also while he was talking to Maguire, facing away from the fans, that the cnut in the stands did the monkey-thing.
And are you seriously suggesting Sterling is perfectly fine with ignoring racial abuse as long as it's not aimed at him? Based on him reacting to racism he didn't even see?
Raheem could have made a statement tonight. He should have taken both teams off the field after the abuse. What a fantastic gesture that would have been. But "unfortunately" this time, it wasn't aimed at him. Credit to Riyad and David Silva though. They acted in a proper way.
Imagine the 'Who does he think he is?' furore if he'd done that.
Playing behind closed doors will probably have the same amount of fans as their regular home games anyway.
The Sterling comments in here are really fecking weird.
Wonder how the dickhead is feeling sat at home right now knowing he’s getting sacked on Monday.
Merry Christmas ya racist cuntmuscle.
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Poor kids.He has a couple of kids therefore he probably cries right now
absolutely batshit comments
If only they could buy fans eh?.
To be fair they've bought a fair amount
Yeah really strange, what was he supposed to do in that situation?
Yeah agreed. Where were the police?