Not a fan of Raheem Sterling, but great credit to him for helping highlight the campaign for a donor to help Damary Dawkins. Good to see a positive football story in the press.

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Still a few morons in the crowd

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I’m wondering whether this is trying to gain an advantage by sledging but then I look at the blokes doing it, and then I think because they look a bit simple they don’t have much intelligence and sink to the lowest common denominator.

I’m not excusing it but I think it’s sometimes sledging using unacceptable subject matter, or it’s maybe hidden racism that exists in some certain social circles that’s no surprise to people who aren’t 100% sheltered. Some pub conversations or self employment industries or very small businesses owned by someone who can’t help himself with the odd bit of casual racism. Possibly not hatred, even in the football clip, even if it appears so, but definitely ugly and wholly unacceptable.

I also think the way black teenagers have tried to distance themselves from everyone else has been a factor in this. Bad attitudes, changing accents from the accent of the area to the manufactured accent that doesn’t originate from anywhere at all. Ethnic minorities have been here for decades, more and more over time there are equal opportunities, acceptance from the less accepting and ignorant but then black teenagers want to distance themselves again by sounding different from everyone else, by choice as well.

The thing about the reporting of black players’ high spending being critical compared to white players maybe because sometimes black players make their spending so much more obvious. You only need to look at a Mosschino top that young black men often go for compared to other designer clothes. Think the Nigerian kit that was supposed to be great fashion. Really?

My own personal view is that most footballers are to be ignored off the pitch and if you think you can find other things to sledge a footballer but I’m just putting this out here because I think these are factors.

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Or, it’s 50 something’s at Chelsea, what do you expect? I doubt it’ll stop the huge following from African men. Relegation would, and we’d love that.

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It’s a bit odd the black Chelsea steward is smiling through the whole thing.

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Lip readers are actually at odds as to whether the culprit called Sterling 'a Manc c...' or a black one, which is not surprising as even skilled lip readers can misunderstand. However.......

When you see the photos of Block B when the opposition are taking a corner there, just how different do they look from that Chelsea photo?

I know they are not shouting racist abuse at SP, but there's not that much difference in their facial expressions and gesticulations either.

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