The FA their moral cowardice

Two competitions we should have won had the manager been a bit more adventurous . He really has been given all the tools he could have wanted to succeed but fails every time against the better sides .

Seeding teams in qualifying and then again in  finals group matches means we can now hardly fail to make at least the quarter finals of major competitions . Thats when the manager earns his wages and thats when Southgate's negative tactics get found out . We do now have the emergence of Bellingham though (an absolute god of a footballer) so we might see some progress but it will be in spite of Southgate not because of him 

In some ways things have moved forward. These days disasters like the Bradford-fire and Hillsborough are unthinkable.

Bradford especially beggars belief. Wooden stands and smoking wasn't forbidden.

Btw, as English clubs were banned for 5 years due to the Heysel stadium-disaster and that ban stuck why was the English NT allowed to participate in foreign competitions? Hooliganism was just as much of a problem with the NT as it was with clubs.

Spectators often believe they know best.

Not everyone agrees with that statement, so it isn't.

That's the way gestures, especially political gestures / symbols, work. This is one good reason why bodies like the FA should avoid political gesturing

The BLM movement is exactly that .... "A Movement", it exists all over the world, in a few countries there are actually organisations called BLM, as in the United States for example, mot of the different organisations have no connection to each other.

But in the most part, BLM is an unorganised movement with a slogan, a gesture, and a common thread which is that black people should not be singled out because they are black, and indisputable evidence says that it happens a lot in the United States, and to a lesser degree in this country.

SOME people have decided that one particular group in the United States ( but not here ), which has very militant views, is representative of everyone who either "takes the knee" or supports the cause of BLM. In which case would mean that the England soccer team support defunding the police, which is just plain and utter nonsense.

The England football team, are ONE team, the white team members, the Afro-Caribbean team members, and the British Asian team member(s), they stand together, and they have made it clear that, through a gesture, they will not tolerate racism. Its NOT political - its NOT a political gesture - and the team ARE NOT involving themselves in politics.

The English F A have no problem with the gesture (which largely does not happen now ) because it is not classed as political or controversial, they see it for what it actually is, and what it is supposed to be seen as, which IS NOT a Marxist organisation, or an organisation with militant views, or which is opposed the the police.

Here’s an idea . Let’s start a movement called ‘ let’s be kind to kittens ‘ and use the hitherto Nazi salute as a gesture .
No one can dispute that we should all be kind to kittens .

Nope. It WAS a political gesture . Now it can be a gesture for kindness to kittens .
Taking the knee was a gesture imported from the US about a problem in the US .
It was essentially a gesture supporting BLM .
Now the usual leftie suspects are gas lighting us believing that it wasn’t and not only that but it has nothing to do with the nasty BLM .
Maybe we should have a gesture for  ‘ all lives matter ‘ but that wouldn’t suit the leftie prejudice against white people.