England’s captain Harry Kane has backed teammate Raheem Sterling over media comments regarding his gun tattoo by describing media scrutiny as “completely unfair”.
According to Kane,”I think there’s some criticism and articles that go around which are completely unfair but unfortunately that’s part of the world we live in,in camp the focus is solely on football, the matches and building that team chemistry. And that’s what we’ve been doing.”
He further added, “Raheem’s very strong mentally. He’s been training very well, he’s come out today and played excellently. As players, all we can do is fight and play for our country to the best of our ability.”
The tattoo has been claimed as inappropriate by anti-gun groups and some tabloid newspapers, but Sterling explained on social media that the image is part of an unfinished design paying tribute to his late father, who died in a shooting.