O/T:- Millwall FC ban the knee!

[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.

[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".

[SwalePie]

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".

I agree, as I said, that it has gone stale. When CK first started it there was a great impact but that has long faded, however, I find it at best 'questionable' that those fans at Millwall were booing because they have become bored with it. That's naive IMHO.

[cher1]

Expect more of the same till the authorities remember it's a game of footie for the working man

Bloody hell I wish I'd known, all those years I've been watching and it's not for me Think of all the heartache I could have saved.

[SwalePie]

Bloody hell I wish I'd known, all those years I've been watching and it's not for me Think of all the heartache I could have saved.

[Elite_Pie]

Bloody hell I wish I'd known, all those years I've been watching and it's not for me Think of all the heartache I could have saved.

Yeah, and don't forget all the extra pot washing, hoovering and ironing you could have done!

I normally agree with Laxton, but if he honestly thinks that those Millwall fans who booed were simply "fed up with a gesture that's lost it's impact", we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

[LaxtonLad]

Well why do you think they were booing, Elite? To say they were just Millwall yobs is easy, and perhaps they were, but there could be the reason that they had seen it all before on the telly and were there for the game and not to watch 22 grown men getting their knees muddy.

Slightly, and only slightly, off the main fred, have you noticed how some of the black players are now raising the clenched fist whilst kneeling? Black power symbolism? Do we sympathize?

[Elite_Pie]

Well why do you think they were booing, Elite?

I think they were booing because they are racists.

[cher1]

Yeah, and don't forget all the extra pot washing, hoovering and ironing you could have done!

I normally agree with Laxton, but if he honestly thinks that those Millwall fans who booed were simply "fed up with a gesture that's lost it's impact", we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Hoovering? I'm not allowed a new fangled gadget like that. Strictly Ewbank here old chap.