Players making a gesture in support of those who have suffered racism is not a political statement.

Booing them when they do so, whilst disrespectful and thoroughly disagreeable, is not necessarily racist. It could simply be disrespectful.

However, when it happens at a ground which has an unfortunate history of racist abuse it is hardly surprising that criticism of this kind follows it.

When progress on racism has been made at the very least this was the wrong way to attract headlines to your club.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

At least you’ve reversed from me wanting to ruin a protest. Jesus, what a stupid thing to say anyway. Did you see the poll? You can be sure as time goes on that more people would prefer the knee to go.

Your Marcus Rashford attempt is a bad one seeing as he took cabinet ministers on directly with a clear issue that had a clear solution. (I think the error was expecting a tory government to promise to continue it over Easter 6 months ahead, but that’s another debate).

The knee has lost its effect and is becoming more divisive. Black power salutes with it didn’t help its cause either. I’m genuinely hopeful that 2 teams locked in arms might be more effective than players with a 10m radius space around them getting on one knee for a few seconds and maybe a more controversial fist in the air. It’s the sort of thing that happens at schoolboy football but gets lost in teenage years. Somehow competitiveness means respect has to go out of the window, especially at professional level. That doesn’t have to be a given, but try telling that to some foreign international teams. Try Argentinia to begin with.

COYP

Untrue. That few, if any, have, indicates that within the dressing rooms there is a unanimity of purpose presumably because they have witnessed the effects at first hand and via first-hand testimony. They also know that they have a unique opportunity via a worldwide audience to make a strong statement.

Nevertheless, if anyone wanted to stand aside, and offered rational reasoning on why that would be respected. It has elsewhere so why not here.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

You can tell you haven't been on there.

The BBS actually has some decent discussions on the matter, the majority actually.

It does however have on there a quite obvious contingent of extreme left posters, and I mean the extreme, to the point I would question whether they are fans at all or not just hijackers. As previously mentioned, this does not exclude people openly identifying as 'Antifa'.

As for BLM, there are also some posters who have posted long narratives quite pathetically trying to justify the BLM 'manifesto' let alone disassociate it with the kneeling.

Your posts do baffle me sometimes to the point I become very suspicious and tend not to reply but thought I would give you some insight on this one.

There can some hurtful comments from both sides on here (boohoo) but in comparison it does actually make me grateful that a platform exists where we can have sometimes heated discussion without some nutcase posting things like this when someone (an OP) merely poses the question of whether people would boo or not without any indication of their position:

"I would boo you, you f**king Aids toilet c**t"

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

You know that all players are for it because nobody has said they aren’t for taking the knee every week. Of course you’re right as usual.

You’d be at risk of being crucified. They’re probably now at the point where they’re so focused on playing that this bollox is too stressful in potentially throwing them off their concentration and not worry getting involved in so just drop to one knee and remember the instructions and what they’re expected to do in the match.

And on the subject of alleged regular abuse from the stands, I don’t see how taking the knee would change it. As I said, it’s becoming more divisive so is in danger of having the opposite effect. Who expected that? Oh just plenty of people while it continued.

COYP

You’ve read every mind of every footballer in England? Wow, lottery numbers please. Maybe your super powers didn’t stretch to QPR players who didn’t take the knee after their black director, Les Ferdinand, instructed them not to. You really are amusing. Now some QPR players might take the knee because the booing is being reported as racist. Well we’ll see tonight during the kick it out banner if it was.

COYP