No I've not disregarded the Football associations statement. I've just focused on the words of the men kneeling Mings Henderson who have specifically referenced why they are doing it.The're not trying to change the world steeve, just their world. This to my mind is both pragmatic sensible and achievable. That the don't do something else about some place else also dose not make them hypocrites.The FA has issued a statement on the reasons for taking the knee but you have chosen to disregard it, which is your right.
However the FA, as a body, should boycott the World Cup if they believe in their own words.
As someone else alluded to, would the FA send a team to a country where black people were discriminated against by the laws of that country.
No they wouldn't, but because its "only" gay people being discriminated against, its OK to send a team.
As I said at the start it's hypocrisy of the highest order.
We clearly see it differently.
I've also stated why lecturing other people on social change however well intended can be problematic. Still lots men have called Saka Sancho and Rashford names worse than hypocrites, and lots of those men are guilty of something far more base and primal than hypocrisy motivating them. The England lads can take it.
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