What a deluded prick. Said we don't know what it feels like with things like stop and search. Is he fckng sure?? 80s and 90s we were searched at every away ground, queuing to get in and once through the turnstiles. Most of the time we were searched at home games too - what a deluded tit
Not the same though is it? How would you like it if you were Black and had a flash car and you were constantly stopped for no other reason than that you were Black? You weren't stopped and searched because you are White. I too was stopped and searched many times when I travelled away in the seventies and eighties. It really isn't the same.
Text from a BBC news website report; Millwall say they are "dismayed and saddened" after some of their fans booed players taking a knee at the start of Saturday's game against Derby. The Den was able to host 2,000 home fans for the first time this season after the second national lockdown was lifted. However, the return of spectators was overshadowed by the pre-match incident. The incident was not 'pre-match'. It took place after the referee blew his whistle to start the game - when the players should have been playing football. I thought there was a rule against political gestures or displays or any other non-footballing activity during a match. In my view the Authorities already break that rule by allowing poppy emblems to be sewn into shirts, and rainbow laces to be worn in boots. As well as some messages (not all of which are personal) worn under shirts and shown during goal celebrations. Now they're breaking it yet again by not only allowing but instructing that the knee to be taken during the 90 minutes, as well as allowing black power salutes. Where is this going to go next?
BLM started as a result of the American police killing black men who were in custody, and I think the point has been made. What is happening in parts of the world is close to genocide, while the world stands by. A game of football is an escape from all of that, so I hope the BLM protests stop before they become too counter-productive. We all tend to be selective about what we're outraged by.
I fully accept that the abuse of, and killing of, non-white people by white police officers (and all the institutional racism that allows it to happen and continue to happen) is something that must never be tolerated. My issue with what happened on Saturday is with the increasing politicisation of football. Taking the knee should never have become a requirement imposed by the FA or the PL or the EFL. The moment that happened, the power and the unifying message of it was lost. But it's only one symptom of the way football has been corrupted for different agendas. Money now dominates everything. Advertising on kits (and boots) has gone too far. Sponsorship by casinos that feed on the addicted and ruin their lives. Worse than tobacco or booze advertising in my opinion. Clubs sell their grounds to their owners, and indulge in God knows what other sleaze to generate money in order to cheat on the pitch. (This is just about the only issue where I have a similar view to Roland). Now we have divisive emblems and gestures imposed on the game - but only those sanctioned by Woke zealots using political correctness. Football must tackle racism within the game. This is what people have been trying to do for 30-40 years now, and with some success. Football should not be used as a political pawn by corporations greedy for popularity and subscriptions, or ruling bodies who are too weak to defend their sport against all kinds of foul play and corruption.
Millwall FC has apologised for the small number of fans that booed when players knelt at the start of the game. A spokesman said, "We weren't allowed to admit more than 2000."
There’s a lot of bandwagon jumping & hypocrisy here because it’s Millwall. The Woke Left, including unsurprisingly an element of our fanbase, just can’t help themselves. Did everyone know that Sky deliberately turned mute on yesterday at the Spurs v Arsenal game, when the players bent the knee Maybe the complete disdain for this Marxist political movement extends far wider than SE8.
Julia Hartley-Brewer nailed it on Talk Radio this morning. Will English footballers playing in Qatar kneel to protest slavery and discrimination in that country? Of course not, so why should we allow black power or other political protests in sporting events here? Very few people in this country are racially prejudiced. But a great many oppose BLM and the constant pandering to its demands, many of which are an untidy mix of Marxism and anarchy. I took BT Sports out of my pub because I disagree so strongly with kneeling down to a movement so opposed to my society. I will not watch any sporting event where this takes place or financially support any business that panders to it. My customers were fine with it. I had dinner with my soon-to-be-ex-wife on Saturday. She is non-white and as sick of this as I am.
I've changed the name of the thread, as it is now known that some fans booed at three matches that I currently know of. Perhaps more. Millwall, Colchester and West Ham (if anybody has verified of booing at other grounds please add them). If Sky did indeed mute the sound while players took the knee at Spurs, what were they trying to achieve? To adjust the truth. To silence any dissent from Spurs fans, in order to create the illusion that supporters of a Club seen as a 'victim' of racism (anti-Semitism) would never boo a BLM symbol at their ground? If television is beginning to censor its broadcasts, to distort the truth of what is really happening, then who is guilty of discrimination then. The Woke believe that anybody who does not wholly subscribe to their point of view is a bigot. They don't want to have a debate about the complexities of the issue. They just want to shut it down. How is that any different from the ways fascists or communists behave in one party States?
Sky have gone all-in with BLM in order to win new customers for their ever-more-expensive subscription TV. It's a totally cynical move. I'm amazed that the BAME employees of the company can't see that. Or perhaps they can see it, but aren't bothered what the company's real motives are, as long as they play along with the BLM movement.
Not sure if this has been mentioned or not, but at our game on Saturday not all players bent the knee. One derby player stood still with his first in the air (the black power salute). In my opinion, this gesture was just as bad as the booing.
I agree with Les Ferdinand. It will be interesting to see who replaces Gordon Taylor and Greg Clarke.
