England show their true colours with meek surrender in armband fiasco | Jonathan Liew

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The threat of ‘sporting sanctions’ from Fifa was enough for England and other countries to abandon their principles

Meanwhile the time-honoured rainbow design of traditional LGBTQ+ allyship was eschewed in favour of red, black, green, pink, yellow and blue stripes, which is the sort of rainbow children draw when they don’t know what colours are.

And yet given English football’s predilection for fixating on nothing, perhaps it was no surprise that OneLove became something of a cause célèbre among the English media in Qatar, particularly when word got out that Fifa was thinking of banning it.

Iran’s players stay silent during the national anthem in defiance of their country’s brutal crackdown on protesters.Not all of Iran’s players have spoken out against the violence. But those who have, including the star striker Sardar Azmoun, do so in the knowledge that sporting sanctions are the least of their worries. And really the true measure of activism is in what you are prepared to give up.

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