Sturridge unloved?

[Modo]

Sturridge may never be a Kop idol like Suarez or Gerrard... he's destined to be brilliant but unloved at Liverpool, like Owen

By NEIL ASHTON
PUBLISHED: 00:00 GMT, 12 March 2014 | UPDATED: 00:18 GMT, 13 March 2014

No matter how many goals he scores, no matter how many times he performs that dodgy dance, it feels like Daniel Sturridge will never be one of them.

Such is the scepticism that it is only recently that the Kop have started chanting his name, but it is never with the same gusto or passion as that of captain Steven Gerrard or Luis Suarez.
They are the real fans’ favourites.

Every club has them: players who are respected, but not loved or idolised by their supporters.
Regardless of how many goals they score or trophies they win, they will never be cherished.
Sturridge, with 23 goals and for club and country season, for whatever reason falls into that category.
He has 18 in the Barclays Premier League for Liverpool, more than Sergio Aguero (15), Wayne Rooney (11) and Robin van Persie (11).

And yet, despite his outstanding record in front of goal, people still need convincing that Sturridge is going to stick it out at the highest level.

Liverpool supporters certainly take some winning over, a notoriously difficult crowd after being spoiled down the years with Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, John Barnes, John Aldridge and Robbie Fowler.

They never really took to Stan Collymore, despite a goal on his Liverpool debut against Sheffield Wednesday and those oft-repeated strikes against Newcastle United.

It was the same for Michael Owen. Despite a brilliant career with Liverpool, including that dramatic double against Arsenal in the 2001 FA Cup final at the Millennium Stadium, he was never really taken to their hearts. Never really a Liverpool player.

What will it take, then, for the Kop to sway with Sturridge when he celebrates in front of them after scoring for Liverpool?

His reaction at the Emirates in last month’s FA Cup tie against Arsenal, when he sank to the floor at the final whistle after failing to set a club record by scoring in nine successive matches, did not help his image.


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[Silver Sean]

This guy is a Chelsea-loving cunt. Utter weapon pushing agendas to sell more of that vile hate-filled rag. He's a utter twat. That last paragraph alone is not even worthy of an internet forum, let alone a paid piece.

 

[tony]

No disrespect Modo but what a total load of bollocks

 

[Mystic]

This article might have had some legs at the beginning of the season, but it's clear that Sturridge is growing more and more loved here, I bet you the basis of this article is purely because he doesn't have his own song yet.

 

[FoxForceFive]

I think we should just simply sing his name to the no limits tune until someone comes up with something more apt.

If his goals fire us to an unlikely League title he'll have his own song that's for damn sure.

 

[Modo]

No disrespect Modo but what a total load of bollocks

why should I be offended?
I thought it was bollocks as well

 

[Mystic]

why should I be offended?
I thought it was bollocks as well

He who post it wrote it!

 

[Modo]

He who post it wrote it!

In that case I never want to meet Woland

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Ooh look, some knobhead journo trying to stir shit just before a big game.

 

[dantes]

It's not totally bollocks because there is something off about Sturridge. He has nowhere near enough talent to explain is ridiculous scoring stats, and it must really confuse and frustrate the cunts in the media.

The answer is that he is just one ruthless fucker, to the extent that he demands service from players he has no right to think he is superior to. Less ruthless players would run about in a retarded attempt to lay it off and make space for others. Sturridge is a genius at this, why should he dick around doing hard stuff when it is much easier to kick the ball into a giant gaping net. He makes other players look retarded at times.

I used to think the same thing about Andy Cole.

 

[the count]

We don't like Sturridge.
Oh no,

We love him

 

[Rosco]

He has nowhere near enough talent to explain is ridiculous scoring stats.

I don't get that ?

 

[RolandG]

Chelsea want Sturridge back, the writer is a Chav...... see where this is going?

 

[Rosco]

Well if that was the case, he probably shouldn't have used the Owen example.

Unloved at Liverpool ? Your solution is to leave and then watch as your career slowly unfolds around you

 

[Silver Sean]

I've tweeted the nobhead to point out what a misguided and woeful 'article' he has shat out written.

 

[FoxForceFive]

I emailed the daily fail the other day to point out they'd misspelt Shankly as 'shankley' three times in one article. I also tweeted the journalist.

They mailed me back to thank me & said they'd have it corrected. The journo ignored me.

It's still incorrect. Journalists just don't give a shit.

 

[Glock21]

Neil Ashton is a twat! Nuff said.

 

[Red Astaire]

That article made me really fucking angry. What a massive massive agenda seeking twat!

 

[gkmacca]

Neil Ashton. Hopeless hack. Now, ludicrously, the 'host' of Sunday Supplement. He speaks as though someone is gripping his bollocks very hard.

 

[Athens]

Journalists have become incredibly lazy in the internet age. 99% have a look on twatter and see what's trending then make a story around it. Same on the TV, when they fill time by saying "a facebook group has been set up and it has attracted 20,000 likes". That's not fucking news.

 

[Rosco]

I don't get why people get angry at this stuff

 

[Leo]

Football journalism in England is fucking gash anyway.
The sad thing is that they think they have some sort of pull towards the game whilst sitting around a table in the sky studios with Coffee,Orange juice and wax croissants.
Twitter has given them an extra ego boost too with hoards of dimwit cunts following them.
Ashton,Barclay and Samuel are by far the worst of them.
Samuel especially.
Hope the fat wanker drops off pronto.

 

[dantes]

I don't get that ?

I mean other players with a similar scoring record are Messi, Ronaldo and Suarez. He's nowhere near as talented as them, yet still scores for fun. Like in the past, Andy Cole was a piece of shit compared to Fowler and Owen, yet he still scored at the same rate that they did if not better.

 

[Rosco]

Journalists have become incredibly lazy in the internet age. 99% have a look on twatter and see what's trending then make a story around it. Same on the TV, when they fill time by saying "a facebook group has been set up and it has attracted 20,000 likes". That's not fucking news.

The real reason is they're expected to fill three times the column inches than they were previously.

So very little they write gets fact checked or even researched. It's just a bunch of shite thrown out every day.

But I love those gullible people who think the more something is reported the more likely it is to be true. The Daily Mail says we're signing X, the mirror are reporting it too, and now Sky Sports, it must be happening !!! As though the regurgitation of the same nonsense lends weight to it.

 

[dantes]

I don't get that ?

I mean other players with a similar scoring record are Messi, Ronaldo and Suarez. He's nowhere near as talented as them, yet still scores for fun. Like in the past, Andy Cole was a piece of shit compared to Fowler and Owen, yet he still scored at the same rate that they did if not better.

 

[Rosco]

@gkmacca

Sarcasm !

 

[Rosco]

I mean other players with a similar scoring record are Messi, Ronaldo and Suarez. He's nowhere near as talented as them, yet still scores for fun. Like in the past, Andy Cole was a piece of shit compared to Fowler and Owen, yet he still scored at the same rate that they did if not better.

That's just your bias though isn't it ?

A goal a game is a goal a game no matter how you do it.

And I don't think you can clump Ronaldo, Messi and Suarez in the same group.

Ronaldo and Messi are in a group of their own at the top.

 

[Silver Sean]

This article might have had some legs at the beginning of the season, but it's clear that Sturridge is growing more and more loved here, I bet you the basis of this article is purely because he doesn't have his own song yet.

it would have had no legs at any time. It's utter tripe, pedalling bullshit for a vile rag.

 

[Judge Jules]

I emailed the daily fail the other day to point out they'd misspelt Shankly as 'shankley' three times in one article. I also tweeted the journalist.

They mailed me back to thank me & said they'd have it corrected. The journo ignored me.

It's still incorrect. Journalists just don't give a shit.

In fairness the "Shankley" blooper is embarrassingly common on here too.

 

[Red Astaire]

I don't get why people get angry at this stuff

It's more the fact that a clearly untalented/boring/social networking fuckwit gets a soapbox to shout from. He's clearly writing rubbish because he can't think of anything better to write about. So yeah I guess people that are massively shit at what they do for a living annoy me.