Politicising football

[Tigerish]

Taking the knee, wristbands, Arsenal white shirts. What next? Keep politics out of our game!! If anyone wants to push their message they should go elsewhere. The fact that football shirts are advertising spaces for commercial products is bad enough but I don't want anyone telling me how to lead my life. If there is one thing that can unite the world it's football. Just let it be ffs

[sawmiller]

How can football unite the world when some people don’t like or are simply not interested the game? Please explain…

As much as I dislike the divisive and toxic politics we have now, politics impacts every aspect of daily life. It would be great to live in an apolitical world, but unfortunately that is fantasy. If you dislike it that much then consider doing something else with your time?

Or is it the case that you would prefer only the politics you agree with to be in sport instead? A bit like some people who are into free speech, but only if it’s the type of free speech that they resonate and agree with

[Tigerish]

Keep ALL politics out of football. Understand now?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Keep ALL politics out of football. Understand now?

Agree 100%

It's empty virtue signalling

[Masbroughstreet]

Agree 100%

It's empty virtue signalling

I take it you didn't agree with us having a poppy on our shirt in early November then?

[rolymiller]

I take it you didn't agree with us having a poppy on our shirt in early November then?

Yep. You cant have it all ways. Ban the knee then you have to ban the poppy.

An old article but still holds I believe

https://theconversation.com/wearing-...res-why-106489

[daveeed]

Taking the knee, wristbands, Arsenal white shirts. What next? Keep politics out of our game!! If anyone wants to push their message they should go elsewhere. The fact that football shirts are advertising spaces for commercial products is bad enough but I don't want anyone telling me how to lead my life. If there is one thing that can unite the world it's football. Just let it be ffs

Why do you think that trying something to stop knife crime and knife use among young people is political ?

[howdydoo]

Keep ALL politics out of football. Understand now?

Give your head a wobble.

If you don’t want anyone, telling you how to lead your life, I suggest you go and lock yourself in a dark room.

[Tigerish]

Football is an entertainment. It's not there to give people lessons in morals. Understand now?

[Masbroughstreet]

'Please don't stab each other to death' is hardly the most controversial moral lesson to hand out.