| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing 09:31 - Jun 6 with 3472 views | unstableblue |
… before the Austria friendly at Boro.
It’s clear the lads want to end the season of anti racism kneeling as a gesture to a big audience at the Euros, social media racial abuse of uk players this season, some of the squads own experience, and abuse of England team at Eastern European grounds front and centre in thinking.
It’s a squad decision, they see it as a squad togetherness gesture, something they feel strongly about. And they’ll continue.
It’s not directly aligned to the BLM movement, more kick racism out. But probably rightly is being perceived as part of the BLM narrative.
I have three issues with booing at Boro that may continue into today’s Romania game and the tournament ….. one this is just before a young team of players compete and it’s just not supportive and negative to the teams performance - your own fans seemingly booing you!
Second, how this represents the growing shift to the right and populism in this country, with questionable groups seizing on it, with Tory MPs and right wing media using it as an anti-woke, all lives matter, demonising of the BLM movement opportunity, rather than supporting young black England players who have experienced racism trying to make a stand.
Thirdly the discrediting of BLM by the right is in itself concerning, and the ‘I don’t want to watch a football match and be preached at’ stance, whilst having some merit is also I think a facade for the misinformation on BLM because ‘English traditionalists’ find it threatening. BLM isn’t a political party, or a union or really an entity it’s a movement…
For example the majority of BLM followers did probably want colstons statue down, the MAJORITY, didn’t want Churchill’s statue down just an understanding of his frankly appalling colonial acts… the daubing of his statue was an individual thing… and had interestingly been done at multiple other rally’s over the decades (indeed Reuters made it clear that some of the photos used were from 2000, 2010 anti capitalist rallies).
And indeed if you continue the statue theme in relation to BLM, England taking the knee, and the ‘uproar over England’s political gesture’ - take a Newcastle BLM peaceful protest, where a group of right wing racist thugs turned up to disrupt and cause violence, all under the guise ‘of defenders of Newcastle’…. Much like the recent MPs drivel from the Austria game
BLM were never going to deface Greys monument as he was involved in abolishing slavery, they were meeting as a place to meet!!!
As a more sensible local MP said at the time:
“Newcastle's statues and monuments are not under threat from the Black Lives Matter movement which is about addressing structural racism not monuments.
"Newcastle prides itself on our warmth and community feeling, there can be no excuse for this kind of behaviour. We need to work together to build a better, fairer Newcastle for everyone."
Back Gareth, back the players, back taking the knee (as it will end this summer), back kicking racism out of football across Europe.
It’s coming home.
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| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 14:02 - Jun 6 with 476 views | noggin |
| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 13:03 - Jun 6 by brogansnose |
That made I laugh.
Honky has not been used in decades. |
Ok Cracker. |  |
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| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 14:04 - Jun 6 with 473 views | noggin |
| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 12:40 - Jun 6 by bluejacko |
Thanks for insight of how I think. TBH you haven’t got a clue what I think,
The fact remains there is racism going both ways but hey ho what do I know apparently. |
Correct, what do you know hey? Very little apparently. | |
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| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 14:06 - Jun 6 with 470 views | noggin |
| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 12:59 - Jun 6 by DanTheMan |
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where someone calls me a honky and I don't just laugh. |
I've been stopped and searched 200 times by black police JUst coZ Im wHiTE. | |
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| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 15:53 - Jun 6 with 403 views | bluejacko |
| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 13:03 - Jun 6 by brogansnose |
That made I laugh.
Honky has not been used in decades. |
Not quite right though are you! Apparently Oldsmoker knows lots of black people who call him that because they can’t remember his name. Mind you if lots of people can’t remember your name says it all really. |  | | |
| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 17:59 - Jun 6 with 360 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Listening to Southgate and Philips has made me even more concerned about booing on 10:39 - Jun 6 by Scuzzer |
Well there you go....you have just justified peoples reaction to the bending of the knee...as you have quite clearly revealed the politicization of the sport. People do not want that...they just want to watch 22 people kick a bag of wind around. |
I'm amazed how any Ipswich Town fan can read the reports from the trial of those accused of killing Dalian Atkinson and not want to back anything which highlights the ongoing scourge of police officers killing black people world-wide.
To be honest, any human being reading them should be sickened if they have the slightest ounce of compassion.
Look Dalian in the eye and tell him that your precious football time shouldn't be interrupted by thoughts of what is wrong in society:
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