After coming on as sub in Sunday's clash at Anfield, Liverpool and England defender Joe Gomez was involved in an altercation with Man City's Raheem Sterling. Apparently during the preparation for Thursdays European Qualifier, Sterling has got into a further heated exchange with Gomez. The result is that Gareth Southgate has now taken the decision to drop Sterling from England's line up. You can understand why the lad got so upset as the Liverpool fans gave him dogs abuse every time he was involved in the game. No mention of Gomez being excluded, so he must have been the "innocent" party. Shame about Sterling, because in recent internationals he has been one of England's stand out performers.
From what I have read Gomez went too far winding him up about the result, Sterling the silly sod attacked Gomez who now has a mark on his face, but the players aren't happy with how such an influential player has been treated, didn't think he should have been dropped and thought it should have been dealt with privately in house.
I think they had to address it because it was leaked last night. I like it to be honest. I’d much rather they had the occasional do & sorted it out rather than the old culture where you’d have Man Utd players on one table, Chelsea on another, Liverpool on another etc & they wouldn’t even mix.
Games gone, we’re punishing ourselves by dropping our best player. I’d guess training ground bust ups happen daily up and down the country, I’d be worried if they didn’t it shows that these players care. To see that this has made its way to the press is embarrassing, Southgate should be finding the mole in the group player or not and getting them out of this squad for good. Sterling should be playing Thursday!
Sterling is brilliant. Fecking love him. Suffered at the hands of various 'fans' over the years. He obviously didnt expect it from one of his team mates - especially one who played about 3 mins on Sunday and was walked past by Sterling about 8 times. He's the man.
Hes apologised and admitted he was in the wrong. He shouldn't get away with **** because hes a good player
Is the right answer. You start letting stuff like this slide next thing you'll be playing lads who've just been in a drunken car accident 7 days before and left the scene of the crime.
If we needed two wins to qualify rather than one point from two games, you could bet a pound to a penny that Sterling would have been in the starting 11.
I agree Helen. It is OK talking about passion, etc., but if I grabbed a colleague by the throat at work, I would not be "dropped" for the next day, I would be sacked. Why should overpaid football players be any different. He deserves some kind of punishment / reprimand.
When i still played, we used to have spats most matches and certainly most training sessions because of a desire to win, push your mate on or get pulled back into line by your peers. Perhaps the modern day game simply has no room for character where they cant take a bit of pillock and give some back.
when I still played we did the same, we were also capable of not being nobheads to each other in the canteen afterwards
