England will take the knee in Qatar, Gareth Southgate says
The England manager says it is "what we stand for as a team and have done for a long period of time".
"We have discussed taking the knee," Southgate said at a news conference in Doha. "We feel we should."
Seems odd to describe kneeling as "what we stand for". Maybe Sir Keir can explain it.
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The World Cup and the European Cup are the only time I manage to cultivate a mild interest in football. Southgate, with his cautious corporate wokeness managed to spoil the Euros for me. Well, for everyone, I guess, as he lost it for us. Now he's going to do the same for the World Cup. I guess the hypocrisy is the most entertaining bit - no boycott from these sensitive souls (or Lineker and the BBC troughers) when money is to be made.
The uncritical adoption of American wokeness is highly distasteful.
BLM = burning looting murder. What a foul thing to bend the knee to.
And all the sand-based media will trumpet that the unbelievers are kneeling in front of their mediaeval master.
I don't understand this constant need to mix politics with sport
Maybe they would be better employed improving their ball-kicking-into-opponents-net skills?
Sam - I find the hypocrisy mildly entertaining, but there is a tedious aspect where the predictability of the circus begins to grate before it even starts.
dearieme - it is a foul thing to bend the knee to and they should be ashamed. I hope at least one or two are ashamed.
Jannie - it would be no surprise if some of them do exactly that.
Bucko - I suppose it comes from the politics, a constant need to interfere from a position of power.
decnine - it might even be worth watching if we knew they were highly likely to give us a ball-kicking-into-opponents-net spectacle instead of the kneeling.
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