i have no idea what southgate meant with that sentence, smug...it sounds as if they all might have something planned but my guess would be that they are happy enough to get a free holiday over there and a nice bonus to the bank account.
my own view is that anyone who has 'taken the knee' and actually felt strongly about the statement it is supposed to make, cannot possibly take part without making themselves to be hypocrites...unless of course, they have all been doing it just to 'look the part' and none of them really care about equality.
In all honesty, and without any finger pointing, I think many people were carried along by the whole BLM/George Floyd situation, football included.
Yes, it was disgraceful but this still isn't the systemic state led torture, murder and mutilation of people no more guilty than Floyd who, as we know, was a criminal. Being Gay, or a raped woman, or a journalist shouldn't mean barbaric medieval punishments.
Nor should Russians have the right to assassinate people on an English street, be given the right to buy up endless UK properties or destroy a neighbouring country.
So the players/managers/clubs who reacted so overwhelmingly, to the George Floyd murder are being shown up by their silence regarding the murderers who employ them or otherwise hand them huge amounts of money.
Southgate was all too eager to jump on the BLM bandwagon because it cost nothing ...
... but, like many others, won't risk a penny when it comes to their paymasters.
