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Talk Sport only turned up there today because they knew or suspected it was going to happen. And then express faux outrage when it does.
Personally I don't think politics and sport mix. But it has become the norm.
Their right to act like assholes, our right to call them assholes for it.
Yep.
The Twitter reaction is funny though. Usual stuff about banning them from football for ever. On what legal basis I'm not sure.
Troy is on for the wall
Totting up process should cover it
Private companies (i.e. football clubs) can ban whoever they want for whatever reason they want.
Totting up what exactly? What is the legal case for saying that booing taking the knee is racist.
Genuine question.
Difficult to enforce I imagine.
Valid point, there is no case whatsoever, but the totting up process over the last 50 years should have been enough
To make any conversation in 2920 redundant
I mean, I'm sure it's hard to enforce any sort of stadium ban. You asked for a legal basis though, and the legal basis is that private companies can run their business in whichever way they see fit (obviously there are some legal protections for things like discrimination). But if a football club doesn't want people booing players for taking a knee, they are well within their legal right to do so.
Oops 2020
Fair enough. I would suggest Millwall fans would claim freedom of speech which used to be one of the mainstays of our democracy. The booing would have to be deemed 'hate speech' and I don't know how they would prove it.
Ah yes, BLM. The most uncorrupt organisation there is.
I'd wager the select Millwall fans aren't booing the corruptness or "defund the police" part of the movement however...
I'd wager the select Millwall fans aren't booing the corruptness or "defund the police" part of the movement however...
Probably. But that is speculation.
Champo looking very tight this season, test of battle and endurance more than ever.
The point is they don't have the "freedom of speech" at a private company's location if the company decides they don't want to have freedom of speech there. If I run a cafe and someone comes in saying they hate black people, I can kick them out of my cafe (not saying that's the same as what the MIllwall fans are doing) and not be violating their freedom of speech because they're in MY cafe.
I would have booed myself. Happy days.