Football and politics / causes

[Prisoner 24601]

Sam Mattaface introducing the L'pool West Ham game on the radio. He starts by describing the captains of all Premier League teams doing this and that, then all the players are wearing blue and yellow armbands, then all crowd raising their Ukraine flags (which is fair enough, it's not Premier League sanctioned). Then, in an instant Sam Mattaface is onto taking the knee and the support for BLM and the eradication of racial inequality. Bl**dy heck, this is a football match and it's taken Sam 2 mins to introduce all the latest causes and politics that are being supported.

What do you think? Should it be 100% no politics in sport? Just brief the pundits and media to stick to the programme. describing and commentating on the sport in question?

[Gary29]

I have to admit I was thinking along similar lines having watched a good few matches this weekend.

Everyone is aware of the Ukraine crisis at the moment, clapping about it for 60 seconds isn't going to change anything, have they now set the precedent where they're going to have to do this before every game for the forseeable future?

And does anyone think all the players taking the knee before every game is going to change some knuckle dragger's attitude? Do they ever plan on stopping this? You'll get the "Oh they're racist because they don't do it anymore" brigade out in force.

[Drezza]

Yep, it's all getting a bit long in the tooth now. I don't particularly mind a one off gesture of solidarity such as the Ukraine crisis, but when it's every game like taking a knee it seems to lose it's impact.