The PL deserve everything they get on this. In a way I can understand the players getting conned into it. They see things on a day to day basis as the game itself is massively multi cultural and they experience first hand that racism is still an issue, hence the kick it out campaign. However, the league should have done a lot more investigation into the BLM movement before jumping onto the bandwagon. It wouldn’t surprise me if FIFA get involved now, after all there is an existing instruction that there should be no political affiliations in football.

Only way FIFA gets involved is to ramp up the connection. All part of the same s***ty globalisation BS.

What I have found interesting though is the amount of people who have given up watching the games now because of this BLM s***.

I must admit that I watched the first half of the Burnley game and did not bother with the rest, only finding out the result the following day. Perhaps if more had been at stake for Palace I might have stuck with it but I just felt weary at it all.

And talking around others, it seems it is a genuine feeling out there. Was speaking to somebody I know this morning over coffee who is a Palace nut. Home, away, reserves, knows players, the lot. They never even bothered watching on Monday night. Said it was all too depressing to even contemplate now.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

They are only footballers bless em, they are not that bright.

You good well be right about the subtext.

I am not denying that racism didn't exit or still does in football. I was just making the point that Leslie was not that good a player and not getting an England call up could be applied to dozens of other journeymen strikers.

On the subject of the BLM and Football with all the backtracking going on it just highlights the stupidity of the decision to sideline Kick It Out which has an excellent reputation and is non political. I wonder how the people who work for that feel about all this.

Kinda like the husband who leaves his wife and then comes crawling back when he realises his new partner is a bunny boiler.

One more point

So the premier league back peddle on BLM yet a guy flys a banner "white lives matter" to high light how rediculas it is and Burnley ban him.
They should now apologies to him.

Does this backtracking mean police will be allowed in the ground,and we will continue to have preferential pricing for nuclear families?

It's so confusing, the clubs and players aligned themselves so quickly to Marxism that I am having trouble remembering what we support.