Sterling: my mum's gold

Raheem Sterling, the Manchester City and England football star, has taken a few knocks in recent times – but nothing like the vitriol he has been subjected to since the Three Lions lost in the final of the Euros.

Undeterred, the flying winger refuses to be beaten down by his detractors even though a lot of recent online abuse has targeted his mother and the new home Raheem recently bought her.

“If people want to write about my mum’s bathroom… all I have to tell you is that 15 years ago, we were cleaning toilets in Stonebridge [in the London Borough of Brent] and getting breakfast out of the vending machine," he says.

“If anyone deserves to be happy, it’s my mum. She came to this country with nothing and put herself through school [while] cleaning bathrooms and changing bed sheets.”

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