Wonder what others will do?

Wonder what Benteke will do? Go haring down the pitch again?

Hopefully what ever they think is best and not what they are told to do.

Well done Wilf.

Quite. I hope Wilf's strong enough to withstand the online battering he'll inevitably receive.

The message can be reinforced without such theatrics.

Be nice if Wilf now concentrated on getting fit and earned his £140k (or whatever) a week.

The rest of the team can do likewise.

At the end of the day they are footballers carrying out their jobs on match days. Leave politics and indiscretions by the public for the government and authorities to deal with.

Edited by Henry of Peckham (19 Feb 2021 3.10pm)

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Well done Wilf.
This started in the USA and has now gone full circle and although a good idea should be put gently to bed.

Enjoying getting up later and not having someone who knows better than me (apart from the missus of course).

it's become a bit token - I have the utmost respect for army veterans but I don't wear the poppy - these things get over-simplified to pro and anti and bullsh*t runs riot. I'd like to see a genuinely intelligent debate on the subject, but it won't happen. I've heard 'bleeding heart liberals' describe their own personal battles against 'their own racism' - they mean they have to rise above the instant judgements we tend to make, but there is an element of truth to stereotypes and that's where it gets awkward trying to break it down into what is 'racist' and what is joining the dots about someone prematurely. I had a run in with a big fat greedy lawyer a few years back, he conformed to the 'Shylock' stereotype, I hated him purely on grounds of his vile character, but honestly and privately I understood then that these stereotypes have a history and go deep, exclusivity develops over generations and gets reinforced, but it's impossible to tackle these issues without being accused of being racist or 'hard left' - it turns into a shouting match - anyway good on Wilf for being an individual.

Well said.

I keep seeing people saying statements like that but I'm not sure what they mean? Do you mean by taking the knee it is an attempt to derail the imbalance of power and return the means of production to the proletariat? I can see the argument for saying it is in fact those in power trying to give the illusion of giving a rat's arse about equality when all they really want is to sustain their eye-watering profits...but obviously that isn't Marxism, that would be capitalism adapting (as it generally does so well) to the zeitgeist.

Interestingly, Zaha speaks about Rashford and efforts at real social change which do in fact align more with Marxist sympathies, that being a redistribution of wealth. Maybe in fact Zaha, Brentford and QPR are the real Marxist threat