The Premier League has said its anti-racist Black Lives Matter campaign does not endorse any organisation or movement with a political agenda.has been cause for some concern after it posted on social media about defunding the police, calling for the dismantling of capitalism and issues regarding Israel and Palestine.reaffirmed its commitment to its anti-racism campaign, although it was"aware of the risk posed by groups that seek to hijack popular causes and campaigns".
Some players have begun distancing themselves from BLM UK, with former Stoke City midfielder Karl Henry saying that there needs to be a"politically-neutral anti-racism movement"."I think the majority of the UK have now had enough of that organisation," he tweeted.A new inclusive and politically-neutral anti-racism movement to follow and get behind is much needed.
Oh yes it is
Remember the pep thing with his catolonian yellow ribbon. They banned it because it was political. Funny how the Premier league declare BLM isn't political when they have to protect there image and revenues.
All this is an excuse, trying to repair the already done the damage. Too late.
It's very political
Then it should say ALL Lives Matter...
Support is support.
Clearly the footballers have suffered concussion or have been kicked in the head - no understanding of what “politics” is!
Blm is racist . It offends me
Robbo1992x NSM...NO SPORTS MATTER
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But black lives matter movement is political or am I wrong 😳
Your presenters speach certainly was. Unsubscribed.
It's amusing that footballers have discovered that they have been kneeling to left wing extremists & anti-Semites who wish to destroy the capitalism that pays their wages & the police that protect their homes. The rest of us knew this while they were kneeling. Arseholes
Sky and prem league...Liars and racists
Yes it is!
I really dont know what SkySportsNews defination of political is. When a organisation declares that its goal is to eradicate capitalism and openly declares itself Marxist then I think that's a political statement. I get it, you messed up and now you're trying to make good!
If that’s the case get that slogan off their shirts and get up off their knees. Stick to counting the cash and be thankful their plying their wares in a country where they can be paid so much for doing so little. If that Marxist shower take over they’ll soon see the difference.
Oh yes it is!!!
Why couldn't they just show support through their 'Kick It Out' programme? By misguidedly backing BLM they have politicised football and alienated a mass of peripheral fans (those who go to a handful of matches a year). They've made a huge miscalculation and will be the losers.
Robbo1992x BLM is political... do some research 🙄
Neither is wearing a poppy, but you had no problem banning that then issuing fines
Bol**cks of course it is as is sky news to supporting these racist neo-marxists anything to try and undermine the government 🤬
It is.... And it will cause more dislike and hatred and division because people are getting pissed off with it all.... Which I supposed the powers that drive this shyte want...
They might be able to control celebrities and professional sportsmen/women but they will never be able to control the public..... 🖒
Isn't it an anarkist and marxist movement?
Really BLM is a Neo Marxist black supremacist anti Jewish organization, the only question why sky among others are falling over themselves to support it
Can the premier league then tell me what it is? . This great cause for social justice and equality was hijacked from the start. BLM does matter.
It is
'BBC, Channel 4, hold my beer'
For anyone confused about what's going on here, meet the Motte & Bailey trick.
Any parallel to saying 'Hail Victory' was not political in the 1930-40s?
Yes it really is........ 🤦♀️
Liars they put a statement out yesterday
What a load of rubbish. Of course it is.
It is.
You literally have their name across the backs of all the players shirts 😐
From the pandemic to the riots, everything has been orchestrated. Due to the lockdown and fear mongering, you are aiding and abetting crimes such as murder, rape, child abuse, suicide, mental health illnesses, domestic violence and the list goes on. How do you sleep at night?
This is so boring now and how they can say that support of a political movement, “Is not political”, is simply moronic.... Time for sky to do a program on how many people have died, as a results of “Black Lives Matter” over the last month and ask the question why they didn’t?
So who are the premier league planning to have police their games? Some guys from a youth centre? Are Jewish players aloud to play anymore? By all means support black lives matter, but don’t support the BLM U.K. political movement. Get behind your own “Kick it Out” charity.
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They are a lot of not very bright and highly paid people that got involved in politics without taking advice first. Football has a perfectly good anti-racist platform with 'Kick it Out' and they should have stuck with that.
Always be careful of rushing when band wagon jumping.
Yeah how can anyone say this is political 🤣🤣
Yes It is.
So why was mattletiss7 asked to wear the BLM badge 🤔
You keep telling people that racist, biased Sky
Yet we all know it is. They wish to destroy the capitalism that pays their wages. Too late to back pedal now.
Yes it is.
Yes it is
Gutless pathetic prima Donna's who have not won a world cup in 54 years . Who cares what they think
It is political !! All because a known criminal in America had a altercation with the law in that country So this Organization distruct and cause mayhem and try to delete history in this country not acceptable .. some so called celebrity and sport stars with short memories
I think the saying goes SkySports, think before you speak. .
Sky, BBC, Premiership, Starmer and Yorkshire Tea. Just a few of those conned by BLM. I bet they're all feeling a bit stupid at the moment !
premierleague you’ve been had
Yes it is
If BLM is funded by rich white politicians, which it is, then support for it is absolutely political. boycott
Footballers should endorse things on their own, when the entire league does it by having it on their shirts, it is political
You sure about that 🤔
Premier League jumping on the bandwagon.
It's a racist organisation everybody knew that apart from shame on the Premier league gmb piersmorgan GaryLineker Break Bbc
Trying to overthrow the government is not political 🙄
Why have it emblazoned on their shirts then
Not political, just Racist.
Really? Of course it is political. I think you should do some homework.
The Poppy symbol is not political. That’s something you should have allowed. The simplistic idea of BLM is good but the political organisation sadly is not.
Well if premierleague doesn't support the political aim of BLM, it must therefore support the ideological aim or the terrorist acts, or the racism? 🤔
I have not watched a game since BLM words were put on every shirt & when players started2 take the knee2 a terrorist group.I wont watch another game until premierleague remove& ban all political statements from stadiums. We come together in grounds we don't need dividing
Can anyone give me evidence that it is a political movement, sources would be helpful as well ✌️
You're going to see how 'Not political' it is when fans don't turn up to all your games.There's a national boycott on the cards among the football lads alliance.The matter is being discussed on Saturday during the get together.
Why won't they remove the anti semitic organisation from the shirts? How could SpursOfficial kneel for this, for example? Its a disgrace they ever kneeled and put this on the shirts.
BlackLivesMatter is a racist, terrorist group..
By supporting BLM premierleague BBCNews and all the other organisations are endorsing ukblm which is the driving force behind BLM in the Uk. You're backing their core values & aims, which have been shown, to be anti-semitic, anti-police and anti-capitalist. Shameful.
Okay
Yes it is sly news
Yes it is. premierleague is alienating players who don’t want to take a knee. North Korea tactics. It’s a game of football and no one should be left out to dry if they choose not to be a sheep. If a white player stood up (for their own reasons) the MSM would vilify them.
I predicted this would happen as soon as it was announced. Too late to flap now Premier League! 🤬
It most certainly is.
BLM is a political movement. Simple as.
I think there will be a lot of people back peddling who have supported this.
Yes it is !!!
I think it is
Of course it’s political you numptys
Sky have become the BBC Mk11 . Non stop patronising left wing shit rammed down our throats. As for the Marxist BLM, if ending capitalism and defunding the police are not political policies I don’t know what are. Sky have become toxic
They deliberately supported a anti Semitic Marxist political movement. This feeble attempts at back tracking is laughable. Only a full apology to everyone for this horrendous error of judgement is required. Not this mental gymnastics
'Equipment must not have any political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images...For any offence the player and/or the team will be sanctioned by the competition organiser, national football association or by FIFA.”
premierleague Black Lives Matter is a group set up to benefit only black people that in itself is racist. It has become what it claims to hate, it also has a marxists agenda. Asking people to bend the knee to its cause is far to similar to supporters saluting for Nazism.
BLM movement is causing more racism and resentment. The small minority are falling into type.. people who no respect for authority, any excuse to riot and are racist against white people.. look at the clashes with police in Brixton. We need to tackle racism for all..
Let's hear the PL come out and say to the players. It's ok to stand whilst others take a knee. 🤔
Check out the people sponsoring it, then tell us it’s not political 🤔
The premier league supports Marxism therefore is supporting a cause that would destroy it. Just goes to show how stupid people are to what marxism is and what it stands for.
Yes it is.
What planet are you people on?....'not political' ? .skynews
This has put race relations back 40 years Go figure!
It is , and Sky News has supported the Black Lives Matter activists/organisation!!
This what a former black player who is able to speak out thinks👇🏻 SkySports needs to drop the black lives matter tag off the screen during matches.
They would’ve been better using their usual slogan “kick racism out of football”, not jumping on the blm bandwagon, that has turned out to be a racist organisation themselves.....
totally disagree of course its political and no respectable company would have anything to do with politics especially one in sport,the two should always be kept a part.
The Premier League must have people who can use the internet & do a touch of research, if they take the time to find BLM is a Trojan horse for a ultra far left communist movement with some very nasty people.
It ... is ... political ! The two are inherently entwined. Basic research would have shown the stupidity of using the name and logos of a Marxist organisation. And lots of people told them (and you) not to. Should have stuck to ‘Kick it out’.
Seeing the players on one knee before a game is so so embarrassing, It’s definitely an own goal by the premier League, It’s done more harm than good, Stop it now
Yes it is
What is it then? Bloody naive
Fuck Premier League
The players and pundits have made themselves look very foolish supporting an organisation that wants to destroy capitalism & their own wealth. Once they’ve realised they seem happy to ditch BLM.
They all seem to know now what sensible people have known from the start. Time to stop all this kneeling nonsense and get back to sport.
But it is....
YES IT IS ScumMedia
Yes it is, Its one rule for one
Bull💩.
Bullshit, by that standard nor is the poppy. BLM is a marxist organisation.
Why move from show racism the red card 🤷🏻♂️
Still losing subscribers?
Perhaps do a little more research Into Black Lives Matter.....It’s a Hard left political movement.....HELLO!! why do you think a lot of celebrities are suddenly distancing themselves from it? Why has Boris not “taken the knee” ffs wake up.... kickitout
Rubbish
The BLM’s intentions were well publicised from the start, before they even tweeted the latest nonsense. The premierleague were too quick to jump on a virtue signalling bandwagon.
Yes it is and it’s not right. Keep sport out of this shambles.
As PT Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute.
Or how a few nutters have turned pple off from a cause we should be supporting.
It so is
It is and, still not watching any games until its off...
It is though isn’t it. It just also happens to be the right thing to do like Celtic fans supporting the Palestinians
Keep the anti racism message, get up off the knee, remove BLM from the shirts and concentrate on sport.
Yes it is. 👀 The premier league went into this head first not actually taking time to understand what BLM stand for. Now they are back tracking abit like Keir_Starmer is.
Tell the footballers who face racism every time they take to the pitch with a crowd that it's only political. Just ask IanWright0
Yes it is.
It’s time to red card politics in sports. Many athletes want nothing to do with these agendas.
Really! Come on skynews you know as well as the next person that it is and feed the opposite.
The campaign funding goes to the political movement.
So are you saying Capitalism and Israel should be destroyed or not? premierleague Please clarify as we are getting conflicting messages
You really need a reality pill. Your statement makes as much sense as me saying I support the conservatives and it not being political. Can you hear yourselves.
BlackLivesMatter is definitely political... I will return to watch football when politics is taken out of sport I will not watch SkySportsNews until they stop wearing those political badges... I suspect there are thousands like me
luciabinding Awkward backtracking. 😂 😂 😂 😂
😂😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡it is, wrong answer, try again you terrorist sympathising tw&ts. All so quick to jump on the wagon. Not one of the thick tw&ts had the knowledge or balls to stand up and be proud of it. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
no it’s not political it’s just bloody annoying!! And if you dare say you think it’s bloody annoying your racist 🤷🏼♀️ The commentators on bbc sport have now stopped wearing there BLM pins
Big mistake putting that on the back of their shirts. Lost a lot of fans. Hope the badges have come off now! Disgraceful.
But it is though
*coughs* bullshit *coughs*
Players are too dumb to realise that it is Political. all donkeys will follow a carrot.
Just mandatory.
it is
cause it fookin is and you'll find out when no one buys your subscription 🤡😂😂😂😂
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