More sports stars getting political

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

This is great.

If enough of those with a platform keep on shouting, their voices have to be heard.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53936569

[PoliticOs]

Makes me so angry. Why can't they stick to sports? You'd never have seen the greatest sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali, do this.

[Currywurst and Chips]

Makes me so angry. Why can't they stick to sports? You'd never have seen the greatest sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali, do this.

Not even the greatest boxer of all time

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Glad to see people who have an audience already, use it to highlight injustice.

Disappointed that music used to be at the front of all this but is so diluted now, no one would dare.

[Long slender neck]

Never heard of her

[Ornchurch]

Never heard of her

She's no Martina Navratilova or Billie Jean King

[Sailor]

I would ask her " who are you ?"..

[Thor]

Makes me so angry. Why can't they stick to sports? You'd never have seen the greatest sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali, do this.

Not even the greatest boxer of all time

So who do you think was then?

[Currywurst and Chips]

Makes me so angry. Why can't they stick to sports? You'd never have seen the greatest sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali, do this.

Not even the greatest boxer of all time

So who do you think was then?

By Ali's own admission Sugar Ray Robinson was

[AckneyAwks]

This is great.

If enough of those with a platform keep on shouting, their voices have to be heard.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53936569

Naomi Osaka..prize money 17 million US dollars does she protest about the butchery and murder of POW slaves in World War 2 that her country Japan inflicted or does she wait until she has a nice nest egg and then jump on the band wagon of the in-theme of today protest. You know "look at me" i'm a sports star and people follow my example.
Not one sports star could make or influence me to follow thier lead in fact they would be the last i would look upto.

[faldO]

Makes me so angry. Why can't they stick to sports? You'd never have seen the greatest sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali, do this.

Not even the greatest boxer of all time

You could make a case for him being the greatest sportsman of all time even if he wasn't the greatest boxer of all time.

Wonder who's going to be the first major sports star to get cancelled over this issue?

[spen666]

Makes me so angry. Why can't they stick to sports? You'd never have seen the greatest sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali, do this.

Really?

https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-i ... -induction

[tuffers#1]

Makes me so angry. Why can't they stick to sports? You'd never have seen the greatest sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali, do this.

Really?

https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-i ... -induction

I think Politicos was being a little sarcastic spenny

[EastDerehamO]

I normally take views on politics from sports stars, actors etc with a yawn and pinch of salt. They’re as entitled to their opinion as anyone else of course, but at times it can come across as somewhat arrogant to pronounce with seeming authority in an area where they aren’t experts, merely on the back of their fame and skill elsewhere. Flipping it around, I just can’t any much maligned politicians telling them how to box or act!

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

They’re as entitled to their opinion as anyone else of course, but at times it can come across as somewhat arrogant to pronounce with seeming authority in an area where they aren’t experts, merely on the back of their fame and skill elsewhere.

I'm guessing this young lady knows a thing or two about racism.

[tuffers#1]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... DseKbX4D24

Go on Nev

Trump, Robinson, kim jong , Johnson
Put em on a boat that gets sent around the world for the next 25.years

Quality

[EH16]

Never heard of her

She's no Martina Navratilova or Billie Jean King

Both of whom did something to advance womens issues!

[EH16]

This is great.

If enough of those with a platform keep on shouting, their voices have to be heard.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53936569

Naomi Osaka..prize money 17 million US dollars does she protest about the butchery and murder of POW slaves in World War 2 that her country Japan inflicted or does she wait until she has a nice nest egg and then jump on the band wagon of the in-theme of today protest. You know "look at me" i'm a sports star and people follow my example.
Not one sports star could make or influence me to follow thier lead in fact they would be the last i would look upto.

I suspect she'd make a better role model than you.

[EH16]

I normally take views on politics from sports stars, actors etc with a yawn and pinch of salt. They’re as entitled to their opinion as anyone else of course, but at times it can come across as somewhat arrogant to pronounce with seeming authority in an area where they aren’t experts, merely on the back of their fame and skill elsewhere. Flipping it around, I just can’t any much maligned politicians telling them how to box or act!

What a ridiculous comparison. the way someone boxes or acts or plays tennis doesn't really impact on politicians lives. Politicians and the way they act has an impact on all our daily lives (Yes, it does)

[AckneyAwks]

This is great.

If enough of those with a platform keep on shouting, their voices have to be heard.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53936569

Naomi Osaka..prize money 17 million US dollars does she protest about the butchery and murder of POW slaves in World War 2 that her country Japan inflicted or does she wait until she has a nice nest egg and then jump on the band wagon of the in-theme of today protest. You know "look at me" i'm a sports star and people follow my example.
Not one sports star could make or influence me to follow thier lead in fact they would be the last i would look upto.

I suspect she'd make a better role model than you.

Why's that?

[Oiram]

Sport is no place for politics.

[Orient till I die M]

Oh bore me later

[tuffers#1]

Sport is no place for politics.

Shame nobody told the boo boys when they were
making monkey chants to black players in the 70s .

Its crept back in a bit lately to .

Do the D.F.L.A agree with you about
Sport & politics being seperate ?

[Oiram]

Sport is no place for politics.

Shame nobody told the boo boys when they were
making monkey chants to black players in the 70s .

Its crept back in a bit lately to .

Do the D.F.L.A agree with you about
Sport & politics being seperate ?

Best thing happened is more black and ethnic players. They can change within the game. White people going around in replica shirts with the names of black footballers, is positive change and integration. This is why the police want more representation from the BAME community
BLM are as anti white as the racists you refer to in the 70’s and those creeping back. Blatant ‘messages’ on shirts and gestures have no place in sport in my view. If that kneeling stuff starts over the O’s I’ll be off.

[tuffers#1]

Sport is no place for politics.

Shame nobody told the boo boys when they were
making monkey chants to black players in the 70s .

Its crept back in a bit lately to .

Do the D.F.L.A agree with you about
Sport & politics being seperate ?

Best thing happened is more black and ethnic players. They can change within the game. White people going around in replica shirts with the names of black footballers, is positive change and integration. This is why the police want more representation from the BAME community
BLM are as anti white as the racists you refer to in the 70’s and those creeping back. Blatant ‘messages’ on shirts and gestures have no place in sport in my view. If that kneeling stuff starts over the O’s I’ll be off.

Id agree with you about the Black Players coming thorough has been a very good thing .
I really cant understand why taking a knee would bother anyone .

More of it id say .