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Sterling comes across as lad who really wants to improve his game. I'm sure he'd rather not have to address this shite, let alone invent it. |
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Asking for facts and scientific evidence when discussing a newspaper article/headline, which centres around tone, seems disingenuous.
Aside from literally labelling him with some racist tag (which no newspaper would do) what would you consider evidence, Irk? (I'm genuinely asking too. Not being a dick.) Papers, as clumsy as they are, rarely go around overtly stating their opinion/position. It's how they manage to get away with so much shit and hide away like the sniveling shits they are. They let their position bleed through, bit by bit, which the odd choice of word here, the odd bit of framing there.....leading to exactly the kind of Foden example that started this whole thread. And not just on the issue of race. On anything. Can we 'prove' they're being racist? Probably not, but outside a KKK rally, where do you see something as overt as calling someone a . .... You know..... It's more subtle than that. Very hard to prove, but equally, I don't think sterling's accounts and examples of similar articles with very different tones depending on the race of the subject should simply be dismissed as %@#$&!s . These are the discussions that need to be had . Sterling should be able to say this without being dismissed. People should be allowed to question whether the racism exists to the degree people suggest without being labelled ignorant and racist before the conversation even gets going. |
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They posted a pic of his house btw. This... racist newspaper. |
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There clearly is a strong sub conscious racism in society and especially in the media towards black people however I don't think that's the main reason that Sterling has been targeted by the likes of the Daily Mail as otherwise surely Rashford or Lingard would come in for the same treatment but they don't
Let's be honest this hate campaign against Sterling started when he made the unforgivable and almost sacrilegious decision to force a move away from Liverpool to City If he had gone from Southampton to City does anyone think he'd have got half the abuse |
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It's not because they're black. It's because they're young, rich and have garish taste. Foden etc... piss me off equally. I feel so old. |
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So Clownbones, Ziggy and Neville are focussing strongly on tone... interesting.
I'd love to be able to disprove the tone argument but of course, tone can't be disproved. Nor proved. It can only be asserted. OK. Incidentally, Neville didn't provide a single example of racial abuse that separated the criticism levelled at Sterling from the sort levelled at Beckham, Rooney, Gazza. But the sheer tone... blood curdling. |
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talksport getting a bit of a kicking along with the Sun pundits on the show
All part of the Murdoch empire incidentally https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...leroy-13710466 |
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Rooney became England's leading goal scorer of all time. Beckham scored the last minute goal that qualified England for the Euros. Gaza performed out of his skin in Euro 96. 'So when you look at the evidence, it becomes quite blatant'. Wrong. |
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