Taking the knee

Kneeling down has achieved nothing. Until the racists receive tough punishments nothing will change.

It hasn't served a purpose at all, taking a knee in supposed defiance has come as customary as a handshake before the game. Any meaning behind it has only been lost and if something is continuously dragged on pointlessly when it's clear nothing is changing then it makes it even more pointless.

I am fully supportive of any means to remove racism from the sport, but the Premier League started this when they hurried around the BLM movement, just as people claiming to support them began trashing monuments, causing havoc and vandalising statues. With BLM UK then aligning themselves to a anti-capitalist, hard left stance the Premier League had egg on their face, being a huge capitalist brand. It has continued to snowball ever since.

I think a lot of the booing and negativity around taking the knee stems from animosity in associating it with those who hijacked the agenda for political gain. Lets face it, most Football fans aren't hard left, and so gesturing before each game in a manor that has now been associated with a hard left group is never going to popular. Where as it's clear there is a racist element in Football, I don't think its a majority or anything more than just a few knuckle draggers at each club. It is a true shame for those who are trying to put out a positive message of equality as unfortunately the rent-a-cause factions in world politics will always seek to smother an agenda and use it as a vehicle to front their own ideas.

If any organisation would need rallying behind it would be for English footballs own "Kick it Out " campaign. Any objections to that would soon identify any mindless racists among us as a football community.

Quoted from Gainsbro_Mariner

It hasn't served a purpose at all, taking a knee in supposed defiance has come as customary as a handshake before the game. Any meaning behind it has only been lost and if something is continuously dragged on pointlessly when it's clear nothing is changing then it makes it even more pointless.

I am fully supportive of any means to remove racism from the sport, but the Premier League started this when they hurried around the BLM movement, just as people claiming to support them began trashing monuments, causing havoc and vandalising statues. With BLM UK then aligning themselves to a anti-capitalist, hard left stance the Premier League had egg on their face, being a huge capitalist brand. It has continued to snowball ever since.

I think a lot of the booing and negativity around taking the knee stems from animosity in associating it with those who hijacked the agenda for political gain. Lets face it, most Football fans aren't hard left, and so gesturing before each game in a manor that has now been associated with a hard left group is never going to popular. Where as it's clear there is a racist element in Football, I don't think its a majority or anything more than just a few knuckle draggers at each club. It is a true shame for those who are trying to put out a positive message of equality as unfortunately the rent-a-cause factions in world politics will always seek to smother an agenda and use it as a vehicle to front their own ideas.

If any organisation would need rallying behind it would be for English footballs own "Kick it Out " campaign. Any objections to that would soon identify any mindless racists among us as a football community.

Well said!