When all else fails, blame the stewards
WeLL, we all knew who would get the blame eventually. not the fans, even though they spilled towards the pitch; and not the players, because how can they possibly be expected to control their emotions when something as rare and unexpected as a goal happens. It’s not as if they train for precisely that event every day of their professional lives.
no, it’s the stewards’ fault that raheem Sterling got his second yellow card at Bournemouth on Saturday. It was the stewards who were intimidating and out of control; the stewards whose behaviour requires sanction. Manchester City’s players, meanwhile, apparently love nothing more than meeting their public.
Makes you wonder why there has to be such a cordon of hi-viz heavies present each time the team bus pulls up at a stadium. Maybe, in future, the stewards should just leave them all to one giant meet and greet. The rest of us can pull up a deckchair, get some popcorn in, and enjoy the fun.