[Football] Raheem Sterling has an AK 47 tattoo on his thigh. Should he play for England?

[Triggaaar]

Ah the old I'm never going to touch a gun so i'll get an M16 tattooed to my leg. We've all been their haven't we!

Was your dad shot dead too then?

 

[Triggaaar]

Wanna have a guess at at how many he’ll score in the WC? I’ll go for zero.

So which player should we be taking instead of him?

 

[Triggaaar]

I have to say, I do find his explanation difficult to believe.

I don't.

Having a machine gun tattooed on ones leg isn’t the obvious reaction to a family bereavement. I guess grief affects us in different ways though?

Exactly, it does. And who here has had to endure having their father murdered when they (the poster, not father) were a child?

I have a tattoo to remind me of someone. It's not a gun, but then they weren't shot, so that wouldn't make sense.

 

[Dick Head]

Yes yes, but apart from it not being on his thigh and not being an AK-47, what do you think about it?

I think he was an idiot for having a wardrobe tattooed on his forehead but it shouldn't stop him from going to Russia.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I think you're a bit out of date here. People don't read newspapers in the same way that they used to, according to an Ofcom survey, only 29% of the population get their news from newspapers ... and The Sun is just one part of that, It's not even the most widely-read newspaper in the UK any more, it got overtaken by the Mail a couple of years ago.

What I was really getting at was that I felt more England football fans would get their sports news from The Sun - so they are the majority news supplier to the small demographic who would care. They have also moved in to digital media themselves and have 1.39 followers on Twitter.

However, a quick check on the responses on the tweet promoting this story is heartening in the extreme and proves you right to a large extent. The one below is my favourite, and by no means out of step with the others.

[TWEET]1001368547015184385[/TWEET]

 

[AmexRuislip]

He should buy one of those cheap tatty looking shin pads, from the Gaston Ramirez range on the Boro site.
They'll go well together!!

 

[goldstone]

Another thick millionaire footballer. And young kids look up to these types.

That's it really. No doubt has a brain the size of a pea. Stupid boy. First question for me is why he wants any kind of tattoo. Ruining his skin in order to follow all the other idiot lemmings who think it's attractive to cover yourself in drawings. I am truly looking forward to the day they go completely out of fashion and watch all the tattooed fools lining up to have them removed and ending up with permanently damaged skin.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

18 goals and 11 assists in the Prem last season.

Yeah, SHIT.

And internationally?




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[goldstone]

I don't.
Exactly, it does. And who here has had to endure having their father murdered when they (the poster, not father) were a child?

I have a tattoo to remind me of someone. It's not a gun, but then they weren't shot, so that wouldn't make sense.

So you need a tattoo to be reminded of someone? You sad individual.

 

[ozzygull]

If he is in form with his football then of course he should play for England. I thought when I saw it that he had put it there because that is the leg he shoots with,nothing else. But then I don't generally get bothered by what others do to their own body.

 

[AmexRuislip]

So you need a tattoo to be reminded of someone? You sad individual.

 

[Stat Brother]

You know exactly why. Good news is this suggests they are really scraping the barrel this year in terms of shit slinging at the squad.

Just warming up

And internationally?

Be fair you're not exactly comparing like with like.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

It's the Sun wot run it, surely?

It's the Sun wot gun it

 

[Stat Brother]

Raheem has got to be used to it by now:-

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***Click on the twitter icon***.

 

[BigGully]

I get that people dont like Raheem, it started really when Liverpool leaked his wage demands and branded him greedy, something that you wouldn't expect from a top club paying players £100,000's a week anyway, it was typical of a club not willing or able to compete with the Man City's of the world, an uneccesary dirty trick by the club it should have been kept between the player his club and the other club, he was just negotiating his worth as all players do.

Anyway England need an in form Raheem Sterling, desperately so, if he can hit some form in the last third of the pitch he might be worth three or four goals that otherwise will never be scored, if he doesnt then I cannot see another player capable of delivering anything similar.

As for the tattoo, I am sure he will be inundated with messages of support from Guardiola and other football big hitters, he must have learnt by now how these are infinately more important and relevant to a silly Sun newspaper headline.

 

[martin tyler]

I’m struggling to see how it is news to be fair. His body he’s has said why he’s done it. Move on and write about something worth reading. Although as it’s the sun I doubt that will ever happen

 

[Triggaaar]

So you need a tattoo to be reminded of someone? You sad individual.

That's a slightly strange and uncalled for insult.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Apparently a single rifle pointing downwards is a symbol of peace. I can't verify that, but have seen it mentioned a couple of times elsewhere.

The best I can find is the order 'rest on arms reversed' which is what a guard does around a coffin or memorial.

https://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/customs-and-ceremony/arms

 

[Thunder Bolt]

That's it really. No doubt has a brain the size of a pea. Stupid boy. First question for me is why he wants any kind of tattoo. Ruining his skin in order to follow all the other idiot lemmings who think it's attractive to cover yourself in drawings. I am truly looking forward to the day they go completely out of fashion and watch all the tattooed fools lining up to have them removed and ending up with permanently damaged skin.

Do tattoos ever go in or out of fashion? My Dad would have been 98 now had he lived, and he had one. It was done in the 1940s.

 

[Triggaaar]

Do tattoos ever go in or out of fashion? My Dad would have been 98 now had he lived, and he had one. It was done in the 1940s.

I bet he regrets that now