Astroblack Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 What's the reaction been like in the public? I'm sure barely anyone bar the media are actually offended. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I agree with a couple of the comments like, the FA and Prem/football League clubs need to just ban them and their reporters from access. They're fucked in the head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 forget banned from training etc the sun needs to be banned full stop for crimes against paper and the english language Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 After Sky Sports edited his statement and slandered him, I think footballers should stop giving them interviews and such at games now. Sterling should also sue the fuck out of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 After Sky Sports edited his statement and slandered him, I think footballers should stop giving them interviews and such at games now. Sterling should also sue the fuck out of them. Really hope he holds every one of these prick organisations to task. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Probably part of the TV contract tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 After Sky Sports edited his statement and slandered him, I think footballers should stop giving them interviews and such at games now. Sterling should also sue the fuck out of them. Really hope he holds every one of these prick organisations to task. Not really relevant since the Norwegian league is tiny and all, but most of the players at Brann stopped doing interviews with the press after they kept unfairly targeting certain players (foreign) for criticism. The press quickly changed their tune to get their access back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 The fucking state of right now. The Sun have published yet another nothing story slagging Sterling off and that bloke's getting absolute pelters for tweeting it (like he does all the back pages, the night before). Had to put a statement out, the lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 This Sterling stuff is fucking tragic. It's so 'nothing' that it makes you think the media are just duty bound to try and destroy one player during/around a WC. The lack of support is just ridiculous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Yesterday's Mediawatch had more to say: https://www.football365.com/news/mediawatch-daily-mail-want-apology-from-twerp-sterling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Of course he can have whatever tattoo he likes, but we also have a right to think it is stupid Yeah, either there's no-one around him to give him advice, or he doesn't listen to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Of course he can have whatever tattoo he likes, but we also have a right to think it is stupid Yeah, either there's no-one around him to give him advice, or he doesn't listen to it. Or it's none of anyone's fucking business what he gets as a tattoo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I sometimes think people like Sterling are a bit naive, because they're so exposed as public figures and getting that tattoo was always likely to cause some sort of reaction. But that's not his fault, it's the state of a press which craves scandal and demonisation. It really isn't fair. To be lambasted in the way that he has from certain places is obscene, and the timing is just so typical. It's the World Cup, better completely shake things up for the worse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Of course he can have whatever tattoo he likes, but we also have a right to think it is stupid Yeah, either there's no-one around him to give him advice, or he doesn't listen to it. Or it's none of anyone's fucking business what he gets as a tattoo. It's his choice, but a tattoo is a form of communication, and so there are going to be reactions. If he wanted to communicate his dislike of guns, he'd have been well advised to choose a different image. That's all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 It's the media in the UK getting confused by the fact we aren't American again. Guns are almost a non issue in the UK, it'd have been more crass if he'd gotten a tattoo of a fucking van. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Of course he can have whatever tattoo he likes, but we also have a right to think it is stupid Yeah, either there's no-one around him to give him advice, or he doesn't listen to it. Or it's none of anyone's fucking business what he gets as a tattoo. It's his choice, but a tattoo is a form of communication, and so there are going to be reactions. If he wanted to communicate his dislike of guns, he'd have been well advised to choose a different image. That's all. Tattoos aren't exclusively a form of communication and the intention varies from person to person, so you can't just apply that school of thought to everyone when everyone has their own reasons for choosing whatever tattoo they choose. Even then, whether he wanted to communicate or not, that choice has nothing to do with onlookers or their perception and opinion on what is and isn't well advised so as to not provoke scumbags like The Sun. If there are people thick enough to allow that tattoo to influence their judgement of his overall character, then that's their problem, he can't spend his life making safe decisions for the benefit of thickets and racists. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 It's the media in the UK getting confused by the fact we aren't American again. Guns are almost a non issue in the UK, it'd have been more crass if he'd gotten a tattoo of a fucking van. If one of the premier athletes in America got the same tattoo, it would not be a serious story at all. Maybe the usual suspects on Twitter would be making noise, but no one else would care.I watched the press conference for the match against Nigeria today, and the first question that was put to the manager of your national team, ahead of an important friendly and less than two weeks before the world's biggest sporting event, was pertaining to a drawing on his winger's leg that will almost certainly not be visible during actual matches. There is no logical reason for this to be leading news for more than a week. There is something seriously wrong with the media in that country. The campaign against Sterling in the past few weeks is both very unsavoury and highly unsurprising. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 This Sterling stuff is fucking tragic. It's so 'nothing' that it makes you think the media are just duty bound to try and destroy one player during/around a WC. The lack of support is just ridiculous. The History Channel has temporarily turned into the Football History Channel for a couple of weeks and they've been running a belting Italia 90 Programme/Documentary. I was ten at the time and can remember the tournament vividly but I had no clue as to the context surrounding it in terms of the vitriol from the press and the general behavioural issues around the England fans and their conduct. I thought that had been broadly sorted well before '90. A real eye opener and I'd recommend it to any younger people on here who may have even less recollection of the tournament and just think back to the Gazza incident. It was quite shocking in parts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Pickford Walker Cahill Stones Trip Young Diet Alli Lingard Sterling Kane .... Who is supposed to be first team left back? Are we missing someone? Mind is blank Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Young? Three at the back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Pickford Walker Cahill Stones Trip Young Diet Alli Lingard Sterling Kane .... Who is supposed to be first team left back? Are we missing someone? Mind is blank Rose Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Pickford Walker Cahill Stones Trip Young Diet Alli Lingard Sterling Kane .... Who is supposed to be first team left back? Are we missing someone? Mind is blank Would've been Bertrand for me. Not even in the squad . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimpy474 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Young and Delph and Rose are the wing back choices i think, suppose they're not bad choices if we're are playing 3 at the back from now on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Wembley looking empty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 :lol: What a fine singing voice Harry Kane has. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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