‘Sport shouldn’t be used for political gains anyway’.
So you don’t approve of the role played by sport in bringing down apartheid, standing up to Hitler or, to take the most obvious recent example, alienating Putin?

As regards the rest...so long as there are football fans elsewhere in Europe who routinely abuse black players or football fans in the UK who indulge in on line abuse of black footballers when they miss a penalty etc then there is a case for continuing to ‘take the knee’. Only those with a right wing agenda will be actually offended by the practice anyway.

Having said that there is a danger that it becomes less meaningful as it becomes more routine however overall it does more good than harm imo, so that makes eleven Andy.