Beckham did something to get abuse over, I've seen Sterling getting abusive headlines because he's on holiday with his girlfriend after daring to be part of a team that lost a game.

So glad you, who know ****-all about football, can step inside my head and see what I think. You're full of ****. No matter who it is, I'd be laughing at someone who, with the goal at his mercy, could not score. Sterling is **** because he can't finish goals I or even you could score. That's it. End of. I don't care that he's black. Has nothing to do with his lack of skill when it comes to finishing.
It's the very heart of the discussion. Ian Wright says Sterling is getting stick because of racism, and nobody even questions his reason for that, his evidence? That's the whole point. Haven't you been paying attention?

£50m forward.
44 apps for England.
2 goals (none for three years).

Nobody's saying that he can't be criticized because he's black. You're the only one saying that.

So did Jack Grealish for having the cheek to drink alcohol after we lost the cup final. Was that racism?

Batty and Frown will be scratching their heads trying to work out what this means.

Ian Wright is. He's implying it. "What else could it be" indeed. :rolleyes: Do try to keep up, there's a good lad.

Nah, you just suck at inferring. Either way it doesn't seem like you're arguing against a point that anyone is actually making.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...verley-3138186

Another victim of racism in football :(

I kind of assumed you could read. Here, let me help you:

How many people do you see get the criticism Sterling gets?" Wright said.

"The football criticism is something every player has to deal with, but what he gets I don't see any other footballer getting," former England forward Wright added on BBC Radio 5 live's Monday Night Club.

"They don't get that stick because for whatever reason they don't rub up the people in the corridors of power the wrong way. I think there is an agenda against him.

"There is an element of people at high end of the media who want to keep that guy down. Simple.

"When you look at the wave of criticism that he takes, there is a certain amount of racism towards it - what else can it be?

"They are picking on him because of the the background he has come from and they want to keep him down, drag him back down. They don't want him to continue to be a success.

"People say you are playing the racism card, but you give me a good reason why Raheem Sterling gets the stick he gets for just being a footballer."

Answer: cos he couldn't finish most times if his ****ing life depended on it.
Now you tell me that Wright isn't saying you shouldn't criticise a black player and that if you do it's racist.

Another poor black guy being held back by Whitey. :rolleyes: