On the sterling thing, there was a brilliant twitter thread in the summer before the World Cup (just after that gun tattoo storm in a teacup) with screenshots (more than a dozen) of every time some tabloid had used his name in a headline in a completely derogatory and unjustified manner. For example, one was something like ‘footy idiot raheem sterling signs new contract’, with absolutely nothing justifying the description of him as ‘footy idiot’. There is absolutely some perverse racist agenda in the coverage and treatment of sterling by many.
I too was embarrassed by the booing - I had hoped our club was above that.
EDIT: rereading that, I don’t want that last comment to be read as implying that I think any of our fan base is at all racist and that was the reason for the booing. I was more making the comment that, in the wider footballing world, the treatment of raheem sterling is almost definitely fuelled by discriminatory attitudes, and, as a separate point, I was disappointed by the booing on Tuesday. I personally applauded him - as I did David Silva, a bona fide legend of the English game imo, and I was pleased many others felt the same way.
