Should We Keep Politics Out Of Football?

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3 жыл бұрын

From Marcus Rashford's campaigning on free school meals to the support for Black Lives Matter and of taking the knee, footballers have become a lot more outspoken on a number of issues over the last 12 months.
Unsurprisingly, this has prompted support in some quarters and backlash in others, typically depending upon whether a person or organisation agrees with the sentiment being expressed at any one time.
So, in this opinion piece, HITC Sevens ponders the 'keep politics out of football' and 'stick to football' debates, and takes a look at the history of politics and activism particularly within the English game.

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@marthasolomon7997 3 жыл бұрын

remember when pep wore a yellow ribbon for catalonia and fined 20,000$....the FA is quite subjective is all i am saying

@VishTheF1Guy 3 жыл бұрын

The only thing I know about UK politics is that Boris Johnson looks like he hasn't slept in 5 days

@Haywired1 3 жыл бұрын

Nike are so woke that their factory workers are allowed a day off on their 10th birthday.

@russellliban76 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: in the malaysian league, a player from Myanmar scored and shows the three finger sign showing his protests against the Military takeover in his country. Few days later, his club (Selangor FC) received a "love letter" from the Junta Military warning the club to take actions against him or the club will get whats coming by them. In the end, the Malaysian Football Association gave the player a 3 match ban for his protesting against the violence happening in his home country by the Junta Military.

@element7448 3 жыл бұрын

Organized political stuff - NO

@siugaourcGOIUBGUSOCA 3 жыл бұрын

The picture of the Nazi salute gave me a video idea, to talk about the one player who refused to do it, Stan Cullis. Unless you've already covered this

@steven_uk 3 жыл бұрын

I think it's the double standard that people have a problem with. Pep was fined for wearing a yellow ribbon indicating support for Catalan independence. Why was that political gesture worthy of a fine, but others are not?

@dinosikic8803 3 жыл бұрын

Let's be honest, it's impossible. When you find out how many clubs were founded by political parties and have far-right or far-left ultras you will understand that politics is stuck under our skin and in our brains.

@dvdv8197 3 жыл бұрын

6:23

@Elliot-T 3 жыл бұрын

The answer is to stop caring about the opinions of public figures. Appreciate their skill at their trade and ignore anything else they do.

@nikantavakoli 2 жыл бұрын

I love how these european/american people change their view about this in the past few days. maybe showing palestine flag is worse and more political than banning a whole country from any professional sports competition.

@mwallace997 3 жыл бұрын

I do love it when people telling footballers to “stick to football” whilst themselves not “sticking” to only talk about their own line of work. In that example a builder is only allowed to talk about the construction industry and if he discussed a fireman’s job he would have to “stick to construction”. Footballers much like any of line of work can share their views as much as Bob (the builder of course) on Twitter.

@rudysanchez822 3 жыл бұрын

Football always has been and always will be political. Without politics, there are no rivalries, no World Cup, no money, etc. Without politics, all we have are 22 people kicking a ball around for no reason at all. Everything is political whether you like it or not.

@thejamesonthestreet 3 жыл бұрын

When people saw a football player do something that conformed with their own view, they gonna say "how brave, outspoken, etc". But otherwise they gonna say "keep politics out of football.

@luivchris 3 жыл бұрын

You should look into the backlash of Özils post about the genocide in Xinjiang, and especially the way Arsenal handled it!

@TheFlyingV 3 жыл бұрын

"Keeping politics out of sports" is simply choosing the political stance that the status quo must be upheld at all times.

@Reynolds69er 3 жыл бұрын

There's some irony in wanting to give your political views whilst wanting social media companies to silence others

@taufiqutomo 3 жыл бұрын

Most people's opinions boil down to "keep politics out of sport

@johnmurphy5161 3 жыл бұрын

Asking players to keep politics out of football is ironically a political agenda , motivated purely by political views. Telling someone what they can and cannot do, is in itself rudimentarily political.

@jcxkzhgco3050 3 жыл бұрын

Taking a knee is probably the most useless thing in support of campaign against racism. How many racists gonna stop after the footballers took the knee