Sterling's Gun

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Hat's off to him. Losing your father at such a young age and to gun crime, he should be allowed to commemorate how ever he see's fit. Obviously coming from a difficult background he has done immensely well to raise above the darkness that he could have been dragged into.

His explanation is more than enough for me. Do your business for us in Russia

I agree with you to a point but he should have realised being a footballer that what he does sends a message to thousands if not millions of young impressionable people. He may want to send one message but it can easily (as it has been done) been interpreted another way. He, as do all those in the public eye, need to be careful with the message they send. Having an assault rifle tattoo might not be the brightest idea

[Notts78]

Just about every tattoo can be interpreted and manipulated to be offensive. Talk about mountain out of a molehill, a bit like when Wilshere and Grealish were plastered over papers for smoking and being **** faced respectively. Footballers are still people and still want to do things that ‘normal’ people do. We have a habit of putting these men on a pedestal, wait for them to do something remotely wrong and BANG, smash em.
The arguments about the amount of money they earn and role models does not mean they should lead a cocooned life.
Believe me when I say, there is a lot lot lot worse happening in the world that is not being reported.
**** house media

[jackal2]

Just about every tattoo can be interpreted and manipulated to be offensive. Talk about mountain out of a molehill, a bit like when Wilshere and Grealish were plastered over papers for smoking and being **** faced respectively. Footballers are still people and still want to do things that ‘normal’ people do. We have a habit of putting these men on a pedestal, wait for them to do something remotely wrong and BANG, smash em.
The arguments about the amount of money they earn and role models does not mean they should lead a cocooned life.
Believe me when I say, there is a lot lot lot worse happening in the world that is not being reported.
**** house media

Totally agree. It's basically "snowflake generation" stuff again, with people or the media trying to restrict the freedoms of others or exert control through the phoney pretence of being "offended".

I'm not particularly a fan of Raheem Sterling I have to say, but what the lad decides to tattoo on his leg is his business. It has no impact on his ability to play football, which is what he's paid for. If he had bought a gun and gone threatening people then obviously that's a completely different matter, but having a tattoo on your leg just boils down to personal freedom of expression, which you're entitled to whether you earn £300 or £300,000 a week.