{"id":235436,"date":"2021-06-06T07:35:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T07:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235436"},"modified":"2021-06-07T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:53:55","slug":"england-fans-boo-as-team-take-the-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235436","title":{"rendered":"England Fans Boo As Team &#8216;Take The Knee\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Thousands of England fans BOOED team for taking knee before Euro 2020 warm-up with Austria leaving BBC pundits stunned &#8211; as supporters fume over &#8216;politicising&#8217; of beautiful game<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>England players took the knee before their friendly victory over Austria\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But supporters booed the gesture at the Riverside Stadium on Wednesday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Manager Gareth Southgate and Jack Grealish both slammed the reaction\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-9639485\/England-vs-Austria-Euro-2020-friendly-Live-Result.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Some took to Twitter to defend supporters &#8211; claiming the gesture is &#8216;political&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-9639485\/England-vs-Austria-Euro-2020-friendly-Live-Result.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jonathan Spencer \u2013 Daily Mail June 2, 2021<\/h1>\n<p>Thousands of England fans booed the players as they took the knee last night before their match against Austria, leaving BBC pundits stunned amid growing supporter discontent at the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>After renditions of &#8216;Football&#8217;s Coming Home&#8217; and the national anthems, there were audible jeers as the players took the knee at Middlesbrough&#8217;s Riverside Stadium &#8211; the first time an England side have done so in front of a home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The boos were so loud that BBC Radio 5 Live commentator John Murray was left stunned, telling listeners: &#8216;Wow that was quite a reaction. There was a lot of booing there. I&#8217;m quite taken aback by how loud that was.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The stadium welcomed 8,000 fans for the match against Austria, with TV images suggesting a significant portion of several thousand were behind the booing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite cheers drowning out the boos soon after, the episode reflects growing anger among supporters who see the gesture as &#8216;political&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>England manager Gareth Southgate and TV host Piers Morgan led condemnation of the booing, but other supporters rallied to defend the fans on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>One fan wrote: &#8216;It&#8217;s nothing about the colour of anybody&#8217;s skin. You don&#8217;t have to get on your knees to be against racism. It&#8217;s about time footballers stopped getting on their knees for a political movement.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another added: &#8216;The boos are not in support of racism, but in the act of taking the knee, which has become a political statement. Political statements have no place in sport.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>While a third said: &#8216;Unfortunately taking the knee, whether it means so or not, is now associated by many with a political movement who run petitions off their websites calling for #DefundThePolice and educational movements which do not sit well with a large proportion of the population.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/gareth-southgate\/index.html\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/sportsnews\/article-9647627\/Thousands-England-fans-BOOED-team-taking-knee-Euro-2020-warm-Austria.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BLM is a political movement. They are not booing the black players they are booing what the knee represents. Easy to call English fans racist. Research a bit more and you will understand why. BLM was invented to cause division and it has done exactly that. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aLHqVBfMqk\">https:\/\/t.co\/aLHqVBfMqk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fred Wells (@travelgeezaffc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travelgeezaffc\/status\/1400367661280907266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players loudly booed by their fans as they show support for a thoroughly discredited political movement. While BBC reporters, as out of touch as ever, are \u201ctaken aback\u201d by the response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":235438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235437,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235436\/revisions\/235437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}