World Sports News - Tuesday 2 August by Chili Radio

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Football - English  Premier League captains are in talks over the future of the pre-match anti-racism gesture of taking a knee before the new season begins on Friday. The captains have already held one meeting on the subject without reaching a resolution. 

 

Another will take place when they have consulted with their team-mates. Players have been taking a knee before kick-off since the league restarted in June 2020 following the initial shutdown due to the Covid pandemic.

 

F1 - Two-time champion Fernando Alonso is to drive for Aston Martin from  next year on a multi-year contract.The 41-year-old Spaniard, who has raced for Alpine since 2021, will replace Sebastian Vettel following the German's retirement at the end of the season. Alonso, F1 champion in 2005 and 2006, returned to the sport last year after a two-year hiatus racing elsewhere.

 

Golf -  Luke Donald has pledged loyalty to Europe after being appointed Ryder Cup captain, replacing Henrik Stenson who was sacked for defecting to LIV Golf.  

 

The Swede was stripped of the captaincy after only 127 days because he signed a reported £40m contract with the Saudi Arabian-funded LIV series. Englishman Donald, a former world number one will lead Europe's quest to win back the trophy from the United States in Rome next year.He was passed over for the role when Stenson was appointed in March.

 

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[JonnyF]

Let's hope this "taking a knee" nonsense stops. It never should have happened but it's sooooo played out now.

 

Supporters go to matches to see the team play, not to be lectured to by a bunch of clueless millionaires who dropped out of school at 16 to play football.

 

Keep politics and activism out of sport. It is deeply divisive as we saw with the Manly Sea Eagles debacle last week re. the Pride jersey, resulting in them losing 7 key players for the match and hence getting smashed in a critical game against Sydney ????.

[JonnyF]

Great news. The pushback is continuing. No longer do poor,  working class fans need to boo the largely uneducated, privileged, multi millionaires trying to preach Critical Race Theory to them before their local team plays a game of football.

 

The fans point has been made, received and acted upon.

 

Hopefully Southgate sees this and stops embarrassing the English national team with this misguided and inappropriate virtue signalling.

 

https://www.sportsmax.tv/football/international/item/103582-premier-league-players-to-stop-taking-a-knee-before-every-game