The gesture would be seen on important days as well as ‘significant moment’
The Premier League players will no longer take a knee before the start of every match in the ahead season. This fresh announcement was done by the ‘Club Captains’ as they were looking to this change for a long time.
We took the decision to confine racism in the Premier League, hope there would be no room for Racism in upcoming seasons, said captains in their announcements. they added that the gesture would be seen on important days and ‘significant moments.’
The Premier League officials also supported the captains’ decision. We support the captains’ decision over the above big change for replacing the racism, it would elevate anti-racism messaging as part of its, said Premier League officials.
Premier League players began taking the knee at the start of every game in June 2020, when the season resumed following a Covid shutdown, a month after the killing in the United States of George Floyd.
Ex-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling to protest against racial injustice in 2016, and the gesture has become a familiar sight across a range of sports since Floyd’s murder by a US police officer.
But Many Players said the gesture was losing its impact. Earlier, some right-wing politicians in the United Kingdom have raised the issue and criticized its identification with the Black Lives Matter movement protest.
Premier League Players opted for the gesture to knee down at the initial of every game in June 2020, when the season resumed after control over the Pandemic Covid-19. It was the time when teams began showing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter campaign which came to light after the murder of George Floyd by the Police in the USA. The Black Lives Matter movement reached every country in the world and was started against Racism.
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