O/T:- Millwall FC ban the knee!

[irishpete]

About time it was stopped anyway. Gone on far too long, same with Sky Sports. Get on with life, we all get knock backs in life but do we all cry?. The bloke that died, shouldn't of end of, but do't forget he was a b0llox who had beaten people up mugged a 80 year old in her house & smashed her over the head with the butt of a gun for drugs money. That wee b0llox that was on the cenotaph & burning the Union Jack shows why some get no respect.

[OP67]

There was also booing at the West Ham and Colchester games are they going to stop it? It's got to the stange where it's doing more damage than good IMO.

[LaxtonLad]

Millwall have not banned it. There was a meeting of several stakeholders, including the club, Kick It Out, and players representatives who decided how to react. In my opinion, the booing on Saturday was racist. For anybody who thinks there is not a racist problem in football, the next time there is a proper crowd at Meadow Lane, take a look around. There may be up to half the players who are black, but how many black faces will you see in the crowd? Black people, and other minorities are put off football by the racism, and the booing compounds that.

It doesn't seem to put them off watching the cricket when The Windies are touring, does it? Quite a few black faces in the crowd then, eh?

Incidentally, were the fans who booed at the Millwall game white fans booing the blacks or black fans booing the whites? Or just any old fans booing a faded mockery of racial support.

[andy6025]

Common sense ........ Football with all it's exposure should never be used for political propaganda on something that happened thousands of miles away. All human lives matter, we all come both in and out the same way. Sorry should have prefixed with O/T.

Football is used for political propaganda all the time. Games do moments of silence for remembrance day, for example. If you want to get rid of politics in football then get rid of all of it. But if you allow one you should allow them all.

[sinophile]

Well, Laxton, I'm sure you have a theory why black people aren't attending football games. Have you ever been to games and experienced racism? If so, do you think it's acceptable? If not, then either you haven't been to many games or you have cloth ears.

[Mapperleypie]

I always thought that Millwall fans were some of the most racist in football. However, it turns out, despite a host of evidence to the contrary, that it has all been a very long protest about politics in football.

I just need to work out what the bananas on the pitch were for - any ideas? EU bendy bananas? A misguided protest against the Lib Dems?

[SwalePie]

I have more respect for the Millwall fans who booed at a football stadium than the celebrities who wept their crocodile tears in the media.

I agree regarding crocodile tears from celebrities but the other part of your statement leaves me astounded. I have zero respect for either. Saying that, I feel the 'knee' has perhaps become a somewhat stale gesture now.

[countygump]

I just need to work out what the bananas on the pitch were for - any ideas?

Potential 'banana skins', That's what they were, you ask Ardley.

[LaxtonLad]

I agree regarding crocodile tears from celebrities but the other part of your statement leaves me astounded. I have zero respect for either. Saying that, I feel the 'knee' has perhaps become a somewhat stale gesture now.

You don't think booing is an acceptable way of showing you are fed up with a gesture that has lost it's impact and has now, along with Bovril and the players' warm up, become a pre-match routine? "Taking the knee" is a laughable phrase and the gesture itself lost it's impact as a statement of solidarity weeks ago and which would have been booed at then, had fans been let into games. Expect more of the same till the authorities remember it's a game of footie for the working man and not a political rally and scrap "taking the knee".

[Glad2BeAPie]

As Mark Bright said, kneeling has run its course, but why wasn't it done before instead of waiting for a low life to die