Jan 2022
Messrs Thimbles et Karens
are we too simple to know the difference
between the home-grown hommies
who you mark
from day one and scoop out their brains
leaving them as the dog beside the gramophone
listening to their Traders voices
stabbing and killing each-others as Traders plant and sow seeds
to divide, destabilize, disorganize and rule
this here ain't no home-grown
not bred to sit by your distorted archaic disreputable gramophones to jive to the ranting nonsenses of nonsensically wet Frosties
my ancestors rule towns
my siblings are men and women of letters with laurels
I was born in a free Nation
and wrapped in loving velvet
I was raised proper and I do proper things properly
I am not one of the tools variety
thimbles and Karens are tools who handle other tools
what's there about them not already known
what's there to overthink
As guest editor on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sterling sat down to talk with Three Lions boss Southgate.
Asked by his manager what advice he would have said to himself when he was 19, the 27-year-old said: "Come off social media, don't read anything about yourself.
"When I first came into the team, I was getting man of the matches.
"It was all nice - I was playing for England and really excited about that stuff.
"And then one thing happens and it's constant bad, bad, negative, negative.
"When you're putting this information into your brain, there's only way you're going to react.
"You're going to feel down about yourself, you're going to start overthinking. The one thing you don't want your brain to do as a human being - not just a footballer - is to overthink.
"I'd say stay away from looking at anything in regards to myself."
Sterling, Danny Rose and Callum Hudson-Odoi were racially abused by Montenegro fans in March 2019.
are we too simple to know the difference
between the home-grown hommies
who you mark
from day one and scoop out their brains
leaving them as the dog beside the gramophone
listening to their Traders voices
stabbing and killing each-others as Traders plant and sow seeds
to divide, destabilize, disorganize and rule
this here ain't no home-grown
not bred to sit by your distorted archaic disreputable gramophones to jive to the ranting nonsenses of nonsensically wet Frosties
my ancestors rule towns
my siblings are men and women of letters with laurels
I was born in a free Nation
and wrapped in loving velvet
I was raised proper and I do proper things properly
I am not one of the tools variety
thimbles and Karens are tools who handle other tools
what's there about them not already known
what's there to overthink
As guest editor on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sterling sat down to talk with Three Lions boss Southgate.
Asked by his manager what advice he would have said to himself when he was 19, the 27-year-old said: "Come off social media, don't read anything about yourself.
"When I first came into the team, I was getting man of the matches.
"It was all nice - I was playing for England and really excited about that stuff.
"And then one thing happens and it's constant bad, bad, negative, negative.
"When you're putting this information into your brain, there's only way you're going to react.
"You're going to feel down about yourself, you're going to start overthinking. The one thing you don't want your brain to do as a human being - not just a footballer - is to overthink.
"I'd say stay away from looking at anything in regards to myself."
Sterling, Danny Rose and Callum Hudson-Odoi were racially abused by Montenegro fans in March 2019.
