The Chelsea forward’s warrior-level mental toughness has been on show throughout his underrated international career
‘For all the talk of open doors, this is basically it for the Euros, with just two June warm-up games to come.’‘For all the talk of open doors, this is basically it for the Euros, with just two June warm-up games to come.’en White should probably consider himself lucky.
There are three things worth saying about Sterling and England. The first, often overlooked, is how good he has been. Yes, it is possible to access very easily a wide number of Greatest Sterling Disaster Misses YouTube compilation clips set to pounding Dutch techno music. At times there has been a sense that his basic technique, the ability to successfully kick the ball, can’t keep pace with his genuinely A-list movement.
His most significant quality through all this has been a warrior level of mental toughness. There is probably some kind of irony here. For all the talk of distractingly bejewelled sinks, of flash and weakness, a classic slur against black footballers in England, Sterling has turned out to be as tough as old boots.
Naturally, at least one newspaper mocked up a picture of Sterling next to a giant washbag the next day.
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