Dave Kitson Instagram posts come back to haunt him after Raheem Sterling comments The former Premier League striker told Sterling not to ‘antagonise’ people on social media. Perhaps he should heed his own advice…

Dave Kitson has come in for criticism this week after some inflammatory comments about Raheem Sterling on the radio.

The Manchester City forward was allegedly racially abused at Stamford Bridge on Saturday and, while not condoning that behaviour, Kitson did appear to partake in some victim blaming.

“I do believe that players make themselves a target. Why Raheem Sterling? There are other black players on the pitch, every single week,” the former Reading, Stoke and Portsmouth striker surmised on Talksport.

“I just think that we have a duty of care to ourselves as footballers, to be a little bit careful with social media, and the way we portray ourselves. Jealousy is an awful thing amongst the human race.

“I trawled through Raheem Sterling’s Instagram feed this morning to find that a lot of what he put on in his early days has now been deleted, and it was, ‘look at my cars, look at my house, look at this bathroom, look at this, look at that, look at me.’ And that’s going to antagonise people.”

???? "We have a duty of care to ourselves as footballers, to be careful with social media" ????️ "I do believe players make themselves a target" Dave Kitson has his say on the Raheem Sterling incident pic.twitter.com/vFjKywFWDb — talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) December 9, 2018

He’s right of course: social media can be a minefield for footballers. Indeed, many people have since been trawling through a certain @theboykitson Instagram account. And, yes…

It’s all: ‘Look at my cars’

‘Look at my house’

‘Look at this bathroom’

‘Look at this’

‘Look at that’

‘Look at me’

‘That’s going to antagonise people’