Sterling Racial abuse

[Bodd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45177178

Ian Wright believes Raheem Sterling gets the stick he gets because he's black..

I don't see it somehow. The stick David Beckham got was that because he was white.

Id say Beckham got more stick

 

[Brigadier]

If I could have been bothered, I'd have told Wrighty "Boll o x ", at least from my end.
What pizzed me off was, as a deluded and optimistic England fan, I wanted us to do well.
And when Sterling (on a couple of hundred grand a week) can't actually kick a ball hard or straight, I can't reconcile that.
For someone to be able to call themselves a footballer, yet show below average ability to actually kick one........that's my peeve.
Sod all to do with his colour.

 

[SammyInnit]

Open and shut case. It's his performance that's the cause of it.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I don't know anything about football but have just googled the England team and he doesn't appear to be the only black player.

Do the others get equal stick or just him?

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Racism was the norm in English football.

Emile Heskey: Racism 'was the norm' in football - ex-England striker

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42680402
I very much doubt it is restricted to football.
If/when corporal punishment is/was the norm in schools, it does not mean that all those that received corporal punishment were misbehaving.
I can confidently suggest that there were many innocent recipients of corporal punishment.

 

[Bodd]

Racism was the norm in English football.

It's not now

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

It's not now

Has there been a revolution in the last six months?
I must have missed it.

 

[Bodd]

Has there been a revolution in the last six months?
I must have missed it.

Not even comparable to what the 80s where like

Emile Heskey
Never experienced as a player how bad it was as whole. It was not just a few

 

[SammyInnit]

Racism was the norm in English football.

was

Open and shut case. It's his performance that's the cause of it.

 

[Notch7]

The stick David Beckham got

Posh and Becks...

or more amusingly referred to as Thin and Thick

 

[Bodd]

I don't know anything about football but have just googled the England team and he doesn't appear to be the only black player.

Do the others get equal stick or just him?

Just him

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Just him

Really?

Football’s ‘wake-up call’ after rise in racist and abusive incidents
Feb 7, 2018
Kick It Out’s mid-season report reveals 59% increase from the previous 12 months

http://www.theweek.co.uk/football/9...tball-rise-in-racism-discrimination-incidents

 

[Bodd]

Really?
http://www.theweek.co.uk/football/9...tball-rise-in-racism-discrimination-incidents

Do you hear the other black England players complain

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Do you hear the other black England players complain

So the one complains means that he is the only one that suffers?
The other incidents are made up statistics?

 

[Bodd]

So the one complains means that he is the only one that suffers?
The other incidents are made up statistics?

I don't think he has complained. Its Ian Wright who has said its racist