Hungary's Orban 'agrees' with fans booing kneeling Irish footballers

BUDAPEST: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday defended his country's football fans who booed the Ireland team as they took a knee before aBefore the game on Tuesday, sections of the crowd at the Szusza Ferenc Stadium in the Hungarian capital booed the Irish players for kneeling to highlight the issue of racial injustice.

The fiercely anti-immigration leader said that he"agreed" with the Hungarian fans who booed, and that kneeling in protest"has no place on a sports field". "We can't interpret this gesture in any other way, looking at it from our cultural point of view it's an incomprehensible thing, a provocation," he said.

"The fans reacted as fans generally do if they are provoked, they don't always choose the most elegant way to do it, but you have to understand the cause."Premier League players in England have been going down on one knee before kick-off since George Floyd, who was black, was killed by a white police officer in the United States last year.

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