Oh God, it’s the Premier League’s no room for racism weekend, which should actually be every weekend, but hey ho.
So it’s back. Taking the knee.
Remember this, our hapless politicians jumping on the virtue signalling take the knee bandwagon when it first began.
People who could actually do something useful about stamping out racism. But what did they do? Bending down on one knee. Forgive me if I don’t jump for joy.
Nana Akua calls on footballers to ‘get off your knees, stand on your feet and actually do something practical to remove racism from the sport’
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This week, the FA treated us to part of their efforts to stamp out racism from football.
But instead of doing something tangible and measurable, some players again bent down on one knee in solidarity to show their support.
But some didn’t, like Leeds United player Dominic Calvert Lewin, who is of Jamaican decent, in their match against Burnley.
I don’t blame him, I wouldn’t take it either. Why should the burden of solving racism in football be placed on the shoulders of the players?
Taking the knee has achieved absolutely nothing, other than making people feel better about themselves for doing absolutely nothing.
It started back in 2020 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, during Covid times, clearly by people who had nothing better to do, which if any body looks into BLM will realise it was run by a criminal who was jailed for over £30,000 of fundraiser fraud – spending much of the proceeds on luxury goods for themselves.
The players who took the knee back then got a load of stick, the ones who didn’t probably felt guilty or under pressure to do so and as far the reason they were doing it, nothing has changed at all.
For starters whilst I’m not one for quotas half the players are non white, yet nearly all the managers are white.. why is that? You’d think given the pool of talented players there would be a more diverse mix of people at the top something doesn’t add up.
If FIFA or the FA wanted to kick out racism, they could do it easily, they’re rich enough.
Instead of this ludicrous virtue signalling gesture, I say, get off your knees, stand on your feet and actually do something practical to remove racism from the sport.
