Other Football - 2018/19 Season

[Dr Nowt]

The question mark in that video is redundant, that’s for sure.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Great defending on the line.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Not sure it counts as a miss, as he looks like he thought he was offside, and tried to get his leg out of the way.

[Arnaud]

Ben Arfa, from Newcastle?

[El Rojo]

10 hours ago, 3 Stacks said:

This is what the great man can do. He's still got it.

 

 

Video won’t open for me. Repped for constantly banging this kid’s drum though. 

[3 Stacks]

11 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Video won’t open for me. Repped for constantly banging this kid’s drum though. 

Yeah, the official Ligue 1 Youtube channel doesn't let other sites play their videos. Basically, he dribbles around for like 20 seconds, beats 3 players, gives it, runs into the box, gets it back and finishes. Ben Arfa at his best.

[Thoth]

And they say we are lucky..

 

City's fixtures...

 

To reach League Cup final: Oxford, Fulham, Leicester, Burton.

 

To reach FA Cup final: Rotherham, Newport, Swansea, Brighton. 

 

To reach CL quarter-final: Lyon (3rd in France), Hoffenheim (7th in Germany), Shakhtar (1st in Ukraine), Schalke (14th in Germany).

[aws]

Incredible how well things have gone for them off the field. Let's just hope things start turning against them on the field. 

[an tha]

Raheem Sterling saying he'd never heard racism until he moved to Liverpool.

[Pidge]

But obviously he accepted that in light of incidents at Brentford and Spurs that it's still an issue, even in the capital, right?

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, an tha said:

Raheem Sterling saying he'd never heard racism until he moved to Liverpool.

He can fuck off with that shit! I'm more than well aware we've more than our fair share of racist gobshites on Merseyside, but you can't tell me that a black kid brought up in London in the late 90's to early 2000's knew fuck all about racism! I'm sure he'll have been taught all about Stephen Lawrence!

 

Your colour has nothing to do with us not liking you Raheem, you and your agent acting the cunt on the other hand.....

[manwiththestick]

The lad's a prick.

[Oh Buoy]

Article:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/04/08/raheem-sterling-encourages-footballers-speak-suffer-racist-abuse/

 

Raheem Sterling: I would rather stay on the pitch and hurt the racists even more 

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Raheem Sterling (L) gears up for Tuesday night's Champions League quarter-final between Manchester City and Tottenham Credit: AFP

 

• Jason Burt, Chief Football Correspondent

8 April 2019 • 5:43pm

 

 

Raheem Sterling has encouraged more footballers to speak out if they suffer racist abuse but said that he would not personally be in favour of them walking off the pitch in protest.

The Manchester City forward also spoke of how he was brought up to “love my skin” and added: “I know I am black and I’m proud.”

Sterling, 24, has become a key figure in the heightened debate over how racism is handled in football and also the discriminatory perception of black people in the media and in society.

He posted on Instagram last December after allegedly being abused away to Chelsea and also cupped his ear to the Montenegro fans who aimed racist taunts towards his England team-mate Danny Rose during the recent European Championships qualifier in Podgorica.

Sterling insisted that he was not “trying to make a difference” but, again, spoke eloquently and strongly about the subject ahead of the first leg of City’s Champions League quarter-final away to Rose’s Tottenham Hotspur.

Sterling was named Sportsman of the Year at the British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards and called on Uefa to issue a stadium ban to Montenegro – and warned it could also happen in the Premier League – but said it was never his intention to become a spokesman.

 

"I don't think I'm trying to make a difference, as I said it's about speaking [about] what you've experienced and some people probably shied away from that but I'm a person when I do feel that something's not quite right I want to speak about it… If more players speak out then the better it will be,” Sterling said.

There has been a rise in the number of reports of racist abuse with several more over the weekend, leading to two arrests, after insults directed at Wigan Athletic’s Nathan Byrne and Derby County’s Duane Holmes.

How racism is dealt with in football is under debate with one suggestion being that players and managers should take the matter in their own hands and walk off, abandoning the game if an incident occurs. However Sterling argued against this as other players, such as Watford captain Troy Deeney in these pages last Saturday, have also done so.

“I think everyone’s entitled to their own opinion,” Sterling said. “I wouldn’t personally agree with it. At the end of the day, I would rather go and win the game because that would hurt them (the racists) even more. They’re trying to get you down, if you do walk off the pitch as a group then that makes them win. If you score a goal to win the match, then that’s an even better feeling which beats them.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During his childhood in London Sterling said he did not suffer racist abuse but said that changed when he joined Liverpool at the age of 15 from Queen’s Park Rangers. “To be fair in London I didn’t (hear any racism),” Sterling said. “It was mainly when I went up north to Liverpool. That was the first time that I encountered racism.

 

“Growing up my mum has always told me that I’m a wonderful black child. I know this. When I hear it (the abuse), it’s not nothing new to me. I know I’m black and I’m proud. I’m confident with my body. If you let it get to you… as I say some people can’t take it but as I say, growing up I was always told to love myself and who I am.”

Sterling is aware of Rose’s comments last week – that he cannot wait to retire from football because he has become sickened by the abuse – and said: “I’ve heard stories of his past - I don’t want to go into too much detail - youth teams and stuff like that so I think it’s something he’s come across quite a number of times and it probably is getting a bit much for him. I respect his comments and it’s a shame to hear that, really.”

Sterling will continue to speak out and encouraged other players to do so – with Tottenham forward Heung-Min Son, who he will face on Tuesday evening, revealing that he has also been targeted. “We are talking about it a few times – I have been a victim of racism as well, and I think the best reaction is not to react,” the Korean said. “We are all playing football as human beings and it doesn't matter which country you come from. We all playing the same game and we should protect the players who suffer, and fight it together.”

 

Sterling, who called for better “education”, himself added: “I can only speak up about events that happen to me and the people around me and that’s as much as I can do to raise awareness, I’m not trying to be someone that leads or something like that. I can just raise awareness and it’s for people in higher places to do their job.”

Pep Guardiola said that Sterling “handles well” the increased focus on him and added of racism: “It’s always difficult to understand in the 21^st century we are debating this kind of situation,” the City manager said. “All I can say is that what Danny Rose has done is ‘well done’. We have to fight every day to eradicate it (racism) and make a better society. I try to be correct. We try to be correct. Making a lot of mistakes but not because of the colour of my skin.”

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, an tha said:

Raheem Sterling saying he'd never heard racism until he moved to Liverpool.

 

46 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

He can fuck off with that shit! I'm more than well aware we've more than our fair share of racist gobshites on Merseyside, but you can't tell me that a black kid brought up in London in the late 90's to early 2000's knew fuck all about racism! I'm sure he'll have been taught all about Stephen Lawrence!

 

Your colour has nothing to do with us not liking you Raheem, you and your agent acting the cunt on the other hand.....

I'd be very surprised if he's talking about Liverpool fans.

 

I'd be significantly less surprised if he's talking about the Bitters.

[Boss]

I think he is. He got loads of racist messages from dickheads when he was leaving. 

[etho]

He grew up in a largely black community so I don't think his comment was that bad, taken in context

[Oh Buoy]

Amazing how he managed to avoid any news article/incident really:

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/623394/racial-hate-crimes-in-england-and-wales/

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

Just now, Boss said:

I think he is. He got loads of racist messages from dickheads when he was leaving. 

The first time he ever noticed racism was a few years ago - at aged 20 - when leaving LFC?? 

[Boss]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

The first time he ever noticed racism was a few years ago - at aged 20 - when leaving LFC?? 

 

I think that's what he's referring to. Either that or racist abuse from the stands at Goodison.

[Thoth]

He’s a cunt, not arsed what colour his skin is

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, Boss said:

 

I think that's what he's referring to. Either that or racist abuse from the stands at Goodison.

Is there a chance he is talking about real life - as a 16 or 17 year old?

 

 

[No2]

What a goal.

[moof]

I was surprised by his comments at first, but on reflection I don’t find it all that difficult to believe, actually. I think as a kid you’re often somewhat insulated from it, especially in your home environment. As a 15/16 year old lad moving up to Liverpool, I have no doubts he would’ve experienced some horrible shit from a bunch of meffs. 

[moof]

Great time for that unibrow cunt to find form. Cracking goal 

[magicrat]

6 minutes ago, moof said:

Great time for that unibrow cunt to find form. Cracking goal 

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