One Love, the least offensive, most ambiguous, deliberately enigmatic, pointedly meaningless, decided-by-committee slogan ever minted was way too much for Qatar and the gladiators caved. The threat of a yellow card for One Love and commitment buckled.
Taking the knee is no longer the inflammatory action it was when Colin Kaepernick first took it. The normalised knee has evolved into a salute of solidarity, agreement, unanimity and has stopped being subversive or incendiary. The tournaments now permit it, the teams allow it and the individuals who wish to take part, do so.
In 1981 as captain of the Trinity men’s hockey team, we were drawn to play against the RUC in the Irish Senior Cup at their grounds in Newforge Lane in Belfast. I was told by some friends not that I should play in the match, but as captain that I had to play in the match. That the university would probably have no sympathy with the protest view never came into the thinking.
Apartheid was still a central part of the South African political system and rebel tours in cricket and rugby were common place throughout the 1980s. The sport didn’t have rugby’s profile and very few people knew about the trip. An easy decision to make, that was a “no, thank you”.
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