Ms Patel came under fire herself for speaking out against the players when they took the knee before matches – a protest against racism in sport and elsewhere.

The Prime Minister’s comments were dismissed as “hollow” by Labour MPs who said he was responsible for sewing seeds of division.

Tory peer Baronees Warsi said those who “booed and failed to condemn the booing” of players taking the knee were “feeding a culture where racism thrives and shames our nation”.

It is a relief the euros are over and Johnson and Patel can creep back into the slime they created.

Actually, Baroness Warsi is a tory peer.

Bringing mass-immigration into football isn't political then is it? Ok.

That's becaue you have big blinkers on.

Condemning the knee is not racism. Muslim women and letter boxes is .. I think many aspects of religion are repressive and ridiculous .. RELIGION not race. Piccannies its was a point about how Countries were being used as Piccannies not populaces.

You chose to enter a picture into the thread to be divisive, the picture divided players into a racial grouping and you have made facile political points about immigration.

This is displaying your prejudice.

Evidence after evidence base, you gov poll after you gov poll, fact after fact, millions of immigrants living in the UK proves that this Country is not perfect but it leads to a conclusion that we are a tolerant nation. We, the WE that is 99/9% of us are not racist.

There is a percentile of a percentile who are truly prejudiced, your posts indicate you occupy that group.

Then it's down to you to stop laughing and try to go and understand it.

I haven't seen anything but support on social media for the players and if it wasn't for SSN and Talksh1te having it as their main news headlines (as if nothing is more important than giving a few vile keyboard warriors notoriety) then I would be none the wiser to any of it.

So in a country that is 99.9% not racist, black players recieve large volumes of racist abuse? Does that seem logical?

So in a country that is 99.9% not racist, black players recieve large volumes of racist abuse? Does that seem logical?

It isn't sensationalist posturing when it's actually happening. I challenge you to have a 10 min break from here and have a look on twitter for yourself.

BLM matters? Black Lives Matter Matters? Never heard of them. I posted a picture of black players, making the backone of the England team. Do you watch football or are you that thick that you've forgotten the rest of the players that make up the team? Thus making it a diverse football team.

This is a racist country, certainly not the most racist in the world, but racist nevertheless. It's a country I've lived in for 36 years and I'm telling you, it is a problem in society which is reflected and amplified in football. Our own PM has gone on to condemn the racism, however not long after condemning taking the knee for racial equality (+ dismissing Britain's role in slavery, comparing Muslim women with letterboxes, calling black people piccannies etc).

Above all, I AM AN ENGLISH PERSON. So what part of pointing out racism in my own country is offensive to me?

I think black people are racist too, though I've no idea what the relevance is.

By the way, as someone pointing out edits and typos on posts, it should be 'or'