Time To Stop, '' Taking The Knee?''

[Theland]

Now that the point has been made, should politics be taken out of sport, and sportsmen and women should now stop, '' Taking The Knee?''
(And especially when accompanied with the clenched fist power symbol!)

[brainiac]

We've done this

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1731386.html

[Old_Geezer]

It was time to stop shortly before they started it.
Especially so in the UK.

[Canary42]

Now the point has been made, should religion be taken out of sport and players stop crossing themselves when joining the match or scoring a goal (especially when accompanied by a look up to Heaven)

[bobbinwales]

one's a voluntary signal that a few choose to use, the other seems to be a compulsry act

[bobbinwales]

^ thats to canary

[Sqad]

I was never a supporter of "taking the" as I felt it was subservient and I don't feel subservient to any race of whatever colour.
I would NEVER" take the knee" probably because I would never get up again.
Politics should never be a part of sport.
Zola Budd was treated appallingly over Apartheid when in the U.K

[dannyk13]

Politics should never enter into sport.

[Untitled]

I do not understand why some people get so bothered about this. It is free expression.

[MallyJ]

People should continue to protest about serious issues that they feel strongly about because,if they stop making their feelings heard and seen, then nothing will be done. Black people (along with other groups around the world and including the uk) have been appallingly treated for many many years. Attention needs to be drawn to this and other issues. Taking the knee keeps the issues re the police, for example, out there. Why would you argue against attempting to protect people from racism (for this example) ???

[jno]

what business is it of yours what sportsmen do?

[ToraToraTora]

yes.

[ichkeria]

“If I took the knee I’d never get up”

That’s why it’s fine by sportspeople and as long as they are happy with it it’s not up to is to tell them what to do.
It’s not really politics anyway but saying that, politics and sport, top level sport at any rate (if not always top level politics) are tangled together and it’s hopeless wishing it otherwise

[zebo]

//I do not understand why some people get so bothered about this. It is free expression.//

It should be but some have been judged by expressing their free will not to participate, assumptions have been made and abuse hurled.

[weecalf]

As long as they don’t take diving out of football as it great watching these cheaters making a fool of them selves .

[ichkeria]

“ but some have been judged by expressing their free will not to participate, assumptions have been made and abuse hurled”

Unfortunately that the modern world and instant social media comment. It’s the same with people who refuse to wear poppies. James McLean for example, who I don’t agree with, has had dreadful abuse. As have people who have made the gesture, as we’ve seen recently

[Mozz71]

//one's a voluntary signal that a few choose to use, the other seems to be a compulsry act//

It's not a compulsory act though. Many players, and indeed teems, have stopped doing it. Middlesbrough made a press statement to say they will not be taking the knee anymore, and stood while their opponents did it last night. When QPR director of football Les Ferdinand, one of the most famous black players of his day, urged the act to stop as it's meaning had become diluted, his players asked to be allowed to continue.

It seems to be a purely voluntary act, and considering the OP recently began a thread about freedom of speech, I'd suggest freedom of expression also be a basic right for all.

[pixie374]

Yes. It should never have started in sport. Freedom of expression is good, but... time and place...

[Mozz71]

What is the correct.time and place to make a statement then Pix?

The footballers have the perfect platform to express their beliefs. Their actions do not hurts or inconvenience anybody.

[Spicerack]

It annoys the hell out of me, mozz. But I expect that's why they're doing it.

[ichkeria]

Sport was where it started did it not?
Or have I got it wrong?