The stated aims of its cabal of leaders regards BLM– currently anonymous, include wanting to ‘abolish’ both capitalism and the police and close every UK prison. Meanwhile the organisation, which calls itself ‘@UKBLM’, also boasts a questionable – and some say very ugly – record on anti-Semitism. As a result, the Premier League was forced to issue a statement yesterday distancing itself from Black Lives Matter UK, and instead stressing that football merely wishes to support ‘a single objective of eradicating racial prejudice’.