ESPN FC’s Dan Thomas, Craig Burley, Mario Melchiot and Stewart Robson discuss Raheem Sterling getting booed after missing a penalty in Chelsea’s 4-2 win against Leicester City.
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31 Comments
Real Madrid fans do it to them every match 😂
CR7 was booed at the Bernabeau. WTH is sterling
Can't take a boo… Wow… That's why u lot haven't won big trophies in ur playing days… If it was personal and racial abuse I understand bt not booing… Fans pay ur salaries by their hard-earned money so they're entitled to express their frustration.
Very disappointed, he's having a ruff patch of form, but he provided an assist. I do think some of the Chelsea's fans in England are racist too eg. Sterling when he played against us for City. When Torres was missing sitters, they supported him, same with Morata. Boo the team or even the coach, not individual players. I do think they want him out due to the exorbitant contract he has based on budget re financial fairplay rules. They don't accept him like the others and worse, the performances aren't always stellar, but it's still wrong. He's a England international too…disgusting! 😕
Shame
As a chelsea fan i don’t wanna see this kind of behaviour
Sterling is a Disgrace for taking that penalty not the fan shut up
What espn has been saying about Chelsea and Todd is far worse than the boos from the crowd to be honest.
I have never seen anything like Raheem sterling on Sunday….the way he hit that penalty and how he run into opposition players and missing one on one and not making efforts to make runs…yes he made that assist,I have never seen such a poor performance from any player ever…so poor…he seemed to have psychological issues looking down….pochetino made it worse by keeping sterling….I thought he would never start for the second half…you guys what are you talking about…a player is paid a lot to play better than sterling did…it's not about the penalty it's about how he behaved by playing a lazy game
Come-on melchiot….you are a professional you must perform
At the start of the seasoning sterling was the only one actually playing! They guy as been trying to be a team player but everyone else waste the chances and it’s not talked about but when he tries to regain confidence by taking chances these delusional fans wants him out fans can be very messed up you can’t be a real supporter if when the guy scores you with him and if he don’t he gets boed that’s crazy especially your own fans ! How do you think that should motivate the player for the next game idiots!?
Fans don’t boo missing a penalty or kicking a ball to row Z
They boo with continuous lack of effort
How many times am I gonna watch Chelsea and pleading for Raheem Sterling to run more and sprint more and effort!!!!
Timo Werner missed chances badly, very often at Chelsea. But he never once got booed. Because he was a team player that work hard for the club.
He peaked early. The booing is BS coz he is giving effort but it is reflective of the state of the club. Its just disappointing results in his play but I dont think hes changed much in 5 years as a player. Always been overrated.
Yeah fk their feelings. They get paid thousands a week to play for the team. Sterling absolutely deserved to get booed for that awful performance.
Boo him.
Real Madrid fans booed Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul and Casillas. Why does Chelsea players get a pass. Give me a break.
should have never leave city, we wouldnt have done that to him
Raheem has never been appreciated. Has been a great player for Club and country. A few years ago he led England to the Euro Finals. Never gets his due. Chelsea fans are disgusting.
Football player must be probably the most spoiled delusional part of the society. You are at 100 of thousands per week, salaries that 99% of people don't even make within a year yet you whine and cry about getting booed while people in other professions get criticized and face millions times worse things. Guess what? No-one cares that it hits you internally when you get booed in fact that's the intention. Take on some responsibility and grow up. Pathetic spoiled snowflakes.
Im really starting to see y everyone thinks espn hates CHELSEA
Craig is always sounding off on someone or something 😂😂
Craig is always sounding off on someone or something 😂😂
Sterling INSERTING himself into roles he doesn't need to. Taking the ball from a 5/5 penalty taker for your own glory or whatever you thoight you'd gain from it, then proceeding to miss is why we as fans are pissed.
Striking a ball is not one Sterlings key things? Are you out of your mind, only 18 strikers in Premier League history have scored more than him by the end of their careers and he still has over 3 seasons left to play. He did not score his free kicks with his head. The brainwashing of the media has affected you too Mr Melchiot. Sorry, but since when did not scoring a free kick mean you have had a bad game, free kicks are not expected to be scored and great players miss them, and so what if he had a chance to score, but could not get by the keeper this time, especially when he scores more than any other English winger in Premier League history. And as for the penalty, he won it and so if anybody has a right to take it and miss it, he does whether he scores or not, and furthermore, so what if he did not score the penalty especially when he set up the second goal and it was his pass that tore apart the Leicester defense leading to the panic that resulted in their play desperately trying to recover and making a foul that reduced Leicester to 10 men. This is the devastation his actions were causing the Leicester team, then he gets booed and the manager is criticised for keeping him on? We are talking about the Sterling that is a Man City Legend as part of the team that took Man City from nothing today as their second highest scorer in history, only after Aguero, a penalty taking striker. Sterling is an England legend already after almost singlehandedly dragging England to our first final in over half a century and while doing so giving many of us who were not around for the 1966 World Cup the best moments ever with the England team. He is also the best and highest scoring English winger in Premier League history and second highest scoring winger in Premier league history, second only to Salah if you include penalties which he does not take and Salah, but on an even playing field that does not include penalties he is the highest scoring winger in Premier League history. He is no fluke and no flash in the pan, you do not achieve these things if your consistency is not high. He is world class and if he has a few off days that does not make him not world class. But with a media that works so ruthlessly to play down his achievements or credit them to someone else whenever he achieves success, such as when he put on a world class performance against Man City only to see someone else given Man of the Match by the media resulting in a public outcry that he had been robbed it is no surprise the public's view of him are so illogical. When 1) it was claimed by the media that he is only good against poor teams if he puts on a special performance against a poor team as if he did not do the same against Man City or that he only looks like a good player because of Man City players who are so good when it is clear he is producing the same results playing by other players in the England team, and 2) then his misses are criticised and highlighted as big news to the point of hysteria as if all the best players in the world do not miss, and 3) a decision not to pass is made to be critical headline sports news if he shoots instead and does not score as if the best players in the world do not do this, and 4) if he takes a penalty and it is saved by the keeper and it makes critical headline news to the point of hysteria as if the best players in the world do not have their penalties saved who can be surprised, why should their be any surprised the public are so shocked when you tell he is the highest scoring English winger in Premier League history and he still has over 3 seasons to play or that the only reason the highest winger is ahead of him in goals is because he takes penalties, or that he is the England teams highest assist provider and second highest goal scorer, or that he is the best England winger in Premier League history by a mile, only strikers and their penalties are ahead of him in goals which is a phenomenon for wingers. Many strikers the media have praised were not able to achieve what he has achieved by the end of their careers, penalties included, and he still has over 3 seasons to play. Sterling is a phenomenon, he is world class and not only has set the standard, but is still setting the standard for all English wingers that follow him. Of all the English wingers in history, it is Sterling that every English winger must look at and learn and every coach looking for an English winger to study for those he or she will train must study and learn. Yet he is seen as having achieved nothing, inconsistent, clumsy, always a negative to the team and so on buy the public because that is all the media will be happy to write about when concerning him and this has gone on from the age of seventeen resulting in the booing we see coming his way from the fans who read their publications. It's disgusting, it's disgraceful, it's jealousy, it's hateful and it's nothing, but racist and because of the colour of his skin and you will always find a few supporters that would be happy to take that baton of racism to the game. Peace and love
It’s because his black
Sterling is still the attacker with the most pedigree, I definitely don’t agree with booing him at the stadium, he had a horrible game but we won and he got taken off, no need to boo or whistle your own players. He’s also not had a bad season, he scores or assists semi regularly and we need his experience considering how young the team is
Sterling is pathetic sit the boy down
F this pundits. Sterling deserves it. And why are they not so vocal about it when other players get booed? Cucurella was booed and they never said a word!🤦♂️. F these pundits, and F Raheem Sterling
This level of football is unacceptable. Knowing what we watched for years to now witness this level of poor football from this new generation and also the refereeing is a disgrace.
Well Craig, I'm sorry that we're actually establishing standards for once.
Your yearly marathon Chelsea hating is a disgrace
They cry as they go to bank and cash their 100,000.00 weekly check.
Stop it, if you can't handle the booing. Get out.