The English Football Thread

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You accept that football is racist, but if someone points it out in kind of the wrong way and "deserves" criticism then it's a cause for outrage. Definitely not a racist.

Completely ridiculous, and worthy of you seeing what you want to see in my posts.

Let me break it down for you:

1. Sterling is, as most fans will accept (even those of his team) a **** finisher
2. He gets stick for this. Any footballer would.
3. Ian Wright, who has, I accept, probably had to endure racist slurs in his career, comes out and says it's racist; the whole reason people are giving him **** is because he's black
4. Wright does not offer any evidence of this, but says "what else could it be?"
5. It MAY be the case - I'm not denying that or excluding it - but it also may not
6. Sterling may just be ****, and that has nothing to do with his colour
7. Just because a black man is criticised this does not automatically make it a racist attack.

So, to sum up: yes, there may be racism behind what's being said of Sterling, but until some evidence of such is put forward (as in my previous posts) I won't be ready to write that off as the cause. He's just a **** footballer, and that doesn't change no matter what his colour. I'll bet that a large percentage of Man City fans, and England fans, don't give a curse what colour he is. They just want him to score more than he misses. I also would not be that surprised if some of the criticism is coming from black footy fans, though of course I don't know that.