Sterling and Gomez train alongside each other after St George’s Park fracas

Raheem Sterling and Joe Gomez both trained with England on Tuesday morning as the fall-out from their altercation at St Georges Park rumbles on.The Football Association announced late on Monday evening that the Manchester City forward would not be considered for Thursdays Euro 2020 qualifier against Montenegro after an incident in the Three Lions camp.Sterling was involved in a clash with Gomez towards the end of Liverpools 3-1 win at Anfield on Sunday and emotions boiled over the pair joined up with Gareth Southgates England squad the following day.Raheem Sterling trained with England on Tuesday (Mike Egerton/PA)The PA news agency understands the pair were again involved in a heated exchange at St Georges Park, leading the FA to remarkably confirm that star man Sterling will sit out Thursdays fixture with Montenegro.With interest piqued, cameras were focused on the practice pitch for open training on Tuesday morning.Both players emerged as part of the group for the morning session, with Gomez appearing to sport a cut close to his right eye. Sterling was hard to spot underneath a woolly hat and a snood.The fracas between the pair is an astonishing situation and is sure to dominate the build-up to Thursdays qualifier, which not only offers the chance to seal progress but is Englands 1,000th international fixture.Sterling has already given his take, writing in a late-night Instagram post that emotions got the better of me and that he and Gomez understand it was a 5-10 second thing and its done.Sterling added: Both Joe and I have had words and figured things out and moved on and we move forward and not make this bigger than it is. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Raheem Sterling x (@sterling7) on Nov 11, 2019 at 4:30pm PSTSpeaking as part of the FA statement confirming the incident, Southgate said: We have taken the decision to not consider Raheem for the match against Montenegro on Thursday.One of the great challenges and strengths for us is that weve been able to separate club rivalries from the national team.Unfortunately the emotions of yesterdays game were still raw. My feeling is that the right thing for the team is the action we have taken.Now that the decision has been made with the agreement of the entire squad its important that we support the players and focus on Thursday night.Southgate was initially only speaking to the media at Wednesdays pre-match press conference, but the England manager will now face the cameras on Tuesday afternoon.Sterling and Gomez clashed on Sunday (Peter Byrne/PA)Some of the squad reportedly believe the treatment of Sterling has been heavy-handed and that the fallout should have been kept in house.That is the feeling of ex-Three Lions captain Rio Ferdinand, who has criticised Southgates handling of the situationI feel this incident could have been handled better, he posted on Facebook. Keep it behind closed doors deal with it internally surely?!Now Raheem is left to defend himself from all of the haters that had had their keyboards turned off due to him becoming a very worthy ambassador for the English game, and rightly so.If this was a terrible incident then I would be all for public shaming discipline. But for this throat grab that we are TOLD its for I cant understand it. View this post on Instagram Theres always handbagsA post shared by Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) on Nov 12, 2019 at 3:01am PSTWhile the handling of the situation will be pored over, ex-England team-mate Gary Neville believes it sends a clear message about not letting club rivalries spilling into international football.Ive seen incidents like this dealt with in both ways with England, and there is no ideal because its so public, the former England coach told Sky Sports.But the reality of it is these things happen in football and it will blow over.He is sending a clear message. He wont accept club rivalries coming into England.Even when there were great rivalries between groups of players when I was in the England squad I never really saw it brew over into the camps in a confrontational manner, it was an underlying thing. I actually think this is better.At least Raheems had the, sort of, courage to go and call him out if thats how he feels.At least its out in the open and it will probably force them to come together and be more open about it and actually help put it behind them, which is what Gareth Southgate will want.(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
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