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A very powerful moment in British sport

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scott934 said:
The only thing that bothers me is it feels like a corporation pandering to the public, making sure that they can't be accused of anything, the NFL will be the same next season.

The Premier League are about to allow a club to be sold to the Saudi government essentially, look at their human rights record. They make the USA look like Sweden. The Premier League is not interested in social justice, they just don't wanna ruin the chance to get your money.
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Exactly my point and the fact it was at the Etihad with the human rights atrocities going on in Abu Dhabi at this very minute.
I'm all for footballers doing it, if it sends a message to impressionable young uns etc but the Premier League getting on board seems contrived and as genuine as the Government saying it.
 
woodlebert said:
But unfortunately it isn't
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Clearly. But I stated my belief system, cannot speak for anyone else.

Simply, if every person conducts themselves correctly and teaches their own family to do the same, there is never any problem is there? We could go back and forth for evermore, but that's as complex as it needs to be.
 
TopCat said:
I think that poster is getting confused behind 'Black Lives Matter' and the supposedly fraudulent 'Black Lives Matter Foundation" whom GoFundMe have frozen hundreds of thousands of donations to when it discovered they were donated in error
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- 974k with donations just minutes ago. 31000 donations. www. go fund me .com /f/ukblm-fund

" Developing and delivering training, police monitoring and strategies for the abolition of police"

mind you like some have pointed out, players taking the knee etc about slavery whilst wearing football boots/kit made in some Asian factory where staff will be working in piss poor conditions for piss poor money, whilst themselves earning 200k a week is a tad hypocritical
 
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Bamber said:
It was so much more powerful when Kaepernick did it in the NFL. That took some bollocks for him to do that against the national anthem on his own and fair f***ing play to him for that.
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He didn't do it on his own. He did it with Eric Reid. Still a lot of balls though as he was the star.
 
chunkylover53 said:
So we should support something that is non violent?

Like this?
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No you should support what you believe in . Just because its peaceful you don't have to support it if you don't believe in it.
All I was saying was if it resorts to violence while protesting then things like that are what will start and divide opinions even more
 
Iain said:
No you should support what you believe in . Just because its peaceful you don't have to support it if you don't believe in it.
All I was saying was if it resorts to violence while protesting then things like that are what will start and divide opinions even more
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You don’t believe in equality?
 
CEF said:
Most people don't want our police defunded or statues pulled down. The Premier League think differently by the looks of things
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I mean, if you don't want the police refunded I think your issue is more with the last ten years of government rather than the current protests.

Mind the protests seem to have picked up American complaints that don't apply here, defunding the police is one of them.
 
GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
mind you like some have pointed out, players taking the knee etc about slavery whilst wearing football boots/kit made in some Asian factory where staff will be working in piss poor conditions for piss poor money, whilst themselves earning 200k a week is a tad hypocritical
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In the week that Rashford secured meals for starving kids this summer and with all the activism from black footballers related to speaking out against police brutality this comment doesn't hit like it used to.

Besides, would you prefer them not to speak out at all or are you saying that if they kneeled for sweatshops and had shirts that said "Asian Lives Matter" you'd be okay with it?
 
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