Coventry v QPR

[BennyD]

Has sanity returned to football or has racism won? Discuss.

[Bordeauxclaret]

You mean QPR deciding not to take the knee?

They didn’t do it last week either, I’ve not been able to put on the news this week without hearing about all the condemnation.

[ClaretTony]

I don’t know the story to this but we’ve got the likes of Les Ferdinand and Chris Ramsey at QPR along with Lee Hoos who I know very well and I know he would not accept any form of racism at his club.

[conyoviejo]

Deciding not to take the knee.. Is that deemed as racism .?

[Wembley09]

I still think they should be pushing the 'Kick it out' program which has been running for far more many years in Football. Than all this BLM.
Yes it was tragic, but football has been fighting racism for years with the kick it out project.. but it jumped on the band waggon.

[Wellsy1882]

Good. Its done now is all that

[Ashingtonclaret46]

QPR need to be concentrating on their defence to the exclusion of everything else. Theyare going to leak goals just as they did last season.

[Billyblah]

So is 'taking the knee' a pre-requisite for each and every football match in the future?
Any team who choose not to 'take the knee ' is therefore deemed as 'being racist '?

[dermotdermot]

Enough is enough.

[Vegas Claret]

Good. Its done now is all that

wow

[Quicknick]

wow

Wow what?

[Vegas Claret]

Wow what?

if you have to ask.......

[superdimitri]

Looking forward to the result of the captains meeting the sooner you can disconnect politics from sport the better. The kick it out campaign should be emphasised to eradicate racism from the sport. BLM itself has no place in sport.

Since John Terry retired there's no racist players in the league any more, taking a knee is pointless and forced.

Formula one and it's we race as one campaign was a much better idea than the FA backing BLM. If some players feel compelled to do it then fine, but making tradition if it is just stupid.

Sport has a role to bring people together. It owes nothing to global issues created by politics.

[AndyClaret]

So if you don't take the knee, then you're automatically branded a racist ?

Well done everyone.

[Top Claret]

I personally would feel very uncomfortable takin the knee for a cause that is just as racist as the EDL

[BenWickes]

I think it's quite telling that QPR, which has a fairly even share of black and white players; has taken this approach.
Re-focusing on Kick it out rather than BLM.
Taking the knee for the first game after lockdown sent out a powerful message and a correct message. Continuing that thereafter sent out a forced message that moved away from it's original point.
I certainly cannot believe that every player at every club supported taking the knee at every game. More likely they did it out of fear they'd be vilified and labelled a racist for having their own opinion.
I think the fact that QPR has such a proportion of black players and as a team they've decided to abandon taking the knee. Opens up the opportunity for it to come to an end.

[SalouClaret]

I personally would feel very uncomfortable takin the knee for a cause that is just as racist as the EDL

[Wellsy1882]

wow

Why wow?

Theyv done ther bit for the cause. Cant keep carrying it on

[ClaretTony]

I think the fact that QPR has such a proportion of black players and as a team they've decided to abandon taking the knee. Opens up the opportunity for it to come to an end.

Warburton said last night: "There's no guidance, it's a choice for clubs. There's no directive. "What are we doing? Last week we played Nottingham Forest, no one took the knee. There's no lack of respect, there's no lack of awareness of the cause, there's no lack of awareness of the importance of the cause, and how the game needs to change going forward. Give us some directive - are we doing it for the first four games, the first eight games, the first away game? We don't know. We have to avoid this uncertainty and this confusion.

"QPR will fight against any form of discrimination and to suggest otherwise would be outrageous."

[LeadBelly]

It's about time they stopped all the misplaced virtue signaling.

Is there even one person who was previously a racist who is not now a racist? NO
Have the sporting authorities tried hard enough to distance themselves from the extreme political BLM movement? NO
Has it brought people together more or caused more division and made people more aware of differences? I think the latter.
Do the majority of people who pay to watch sport want politics brought overtly into sport? I think not.

[ClaretMoffitt]

wtf i love qpr now

[Top Claret]

The BLM movement has set this country back decades and needs to be hit on the head immediately before the damage to racial harmony in the country is unreverseable.

Well done QPR for doing what the vast majority of football wants to do, but doesn't have the balls to do

[Spijed]

The BLM movement has set this country back decades and needs to be hit on the head immediately before the damage to racial harmony in the country is unreverseable.

Well done QPR for doing what the vast majority of football wants to do, but doesn't have the balls to do

So what do you say to those who still support it such as Raheem Sterling and Lewis Hamilton who displays his support for BLM on the F1 circuit?

[Top Claret]

So what do you say to those who still support it such as Raheem Sterling and Lewis Hamilton who displays his support for BLM on the F1 circuit?

They should be ignored and not given media coverage

[jrgbfc]

The problem with doing it for so long is that it's become completely meaningless now, an empty gesture.

[aclaretinstevenage]

So what do you say to those who still support it such as Raheem Sterling and Lewis Hamilton who displays his support for BLM on the F1 circuit?

Maybe I'd ask Hamilton if it's only Black Slaves that he remembers with his padlock nonsense. A quick bit of research of both Mercedes Benz and Hugo Boss will show their use of Nazi Concentration Camp "slave labour" in their businesses. Hugo Boss himself was a card carrying paid up member of the Nazi party and his company made the Black SS uniforms worn by their officers. Bit of a hypocrite is Hamilton but that might cost him some money if he protested against them eh?!!

[Rileybobs]

Maybe I'd ask Hamilton if it's only Black Slaves that he remembers with his padlock nonsense. A quick bit of research of both Mercedes Benz and Hugo Boss will show their use of Nazi Concentration Camp "slave labour" in their businesses. Hugo Boss himself was a card carrying paid up member of the Nazi party and his company made the Black SS uniforms worn by their officers. Bit of a hypocrite is Hamilton but that might cost him some money if he protested against them eh?!!

Is the current Mercedes ownership in any way responsible for their activities some 80 years ago? It’s akin to saying that we’re responsible for the actions of the British Empire.

[aclaretinstevenage]

Is the current Mercedes ownership in any way responsible for their activities some 80 years ago? It’s akin to saying that we’re responsible for the actions of the British Empire.

To me the whole point of these protesters seems to be to shame our History, surely the same then should apply to Mercedes and others No?

[Rileybobs]

To me the whole point of these protesters seems to be to shame our History, surely the same then should apply to Mercedes and others No?

I don’t think the whole point of these protesters is to shame our history. If the protests raise awareness of the bad parts of our history then that’s surely a good thing, nobody is asking anyone to be ashamed or take ownership of those bad things.

I’m sure that a lot of companies had links with the Nazi party - that doesn’t necessarily reflect on that company today considering it will be in totally different ownership.

[Devils_Advocate]

Everton and West Brom take the knee. Have to hope with knowing how strongly Ben Mee feels about fighting racism that the Burnley players show the courage to continue to do the same #BLM

[conyoviejo]

Everton and West Brom take the knee. Have to hope with knowing how strongly Ben Mee feels about fighting racism that the Burnley players show the courage not to continue to do the same #BLM

Hmm.

[Quicknick]

if you have to ask.......

Fan of the BLM movement, are you?

[Vegas Claret]

Fan of the BLM movement, are you?

sounds to me like you don't understand what it is about

[Quicknick]

sounds to me like you don't understand what it is about

Don't patronise me. You're not as clever as you think.

[Vegas Claret]

Don't patronise me. You're not as clever as you think.

nothing to do with me purposefully patronizing anybody, I can only go off what you display on here.

Let's stick to the footy Nick because we clearly don't agree on other things !

[Quicknick]

nothing to do with me purposefully patronizing anybody, I can only go off what you display on here.

Let's stick to the footy Nick because we clearly don't agree on other things !

Good idea. I don't doubt you're a good lad.

[wilks_bfc]

QPR/Les Ferdinand have released a statement on reason why they have stopped taking the knee prior to games

[evensteadiereddie]

And Ferdinand's statement is the perfect response to the BennyDs of this board.
You've not won, you never will - the gesture has run its course. That's it.