December 2020. On 17th October I watched the Old Firm game in Glasgow on the telly and I was disgusted at the players ‘taking the knee’. If the fans had been present they’d have been booed off the park. But now CCTV is being used after the Millwall game to identify who was booing and hit them with a Life Ban? What has Politics got to do with a football game? The cabinet minister George Eustice has been accused of “providing shelter to racists” after he failed to condemn Millwall fans who booed players taking a knee and claimed that backing the Black Lives Matter movement was not the same as believing in racial equality. The UK environment secretary, who was appearing on Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday, was commenting on the incident on Saturday, in which some of the 2,000 fans attending a home game for the first time this season loudly booed the gesture, which has been adopted by players throughout English football this season in solidarity with victims of racial injustice.
Dec 2020. Footballers Taking a Knee
