O/T:- Millwall FC ban 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.

[SwalePie]

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

It started long before that with Colin Kaepernick in 2016 or 2017 I think. Trump famously demanded that he be sacked by his club IIRC.

[BigFatPie]

I have a feeling that a lot of those people saying ‘it’s run it’s course’ weren’t big fans of it in the first place.

Or any other anti-racism gestures/campaigns for that matter.

[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.

[matt_magpie]

I'm neither for or against it, if it raises awareness of racism then there's no harm in it and I guess it will run it's course. I do question Kick out though, for me their just waiting to pounce on someone like Greg Clarke, yes possibly a bit of a dinosaur but them commenting on it like he was racist, totally taking out of context him highlighting black players abuse through twitter for me was just totally wrong.

[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?

[irish_pie]

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.

This is a very good post... if any club would be first to boo taking the knee if would be that toilet of a football club... the look of horror on some of the players faces wasn't nice to see but for me this taking a knee is complete nonsense anyway...just watch match of the day, they show it for every single game... after a while people get sick of something being rammed down their throat... be interesting to see who cracks next.

[crazyfists]

https://www.theguardian.com/football...-taking-a-knee