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.
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.
ReplyDeleteThe uncritical adoption of American wokeness is highly distasteful.
ReplyDeleteBLM = 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.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand this constant need to mix politics with sport
ReplyDeleteMaybe they would be better employed improving their ball-kicking-into-opponents-net skills?
ReplyDeleteSam - 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.
ReplyDeletedearieme - 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.