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PoliticOs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:31 pm 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.

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:53 pm Never heard of her

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:48 pm

PoliticOs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:31 pm 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

Thor wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:15 pm

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:48 pm

PoliticOs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:31 pm 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?

RedO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:29 pm 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

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:48 pm

PoliticOs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:31 pm 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

PoliticOs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:31 pm 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.

spen666 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:43 pm

PoliticOs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:31 pm 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

EastDerehamO wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:55 amThey’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.

Ornchurch wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 5:06 pm

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:53 pm Never heard of her

She's no Martina Navratilova or Billie Jean King

AckneyAwks wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:31 pm

RedO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:29 pm 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.

EastDerehamO wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:55 am 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!

EH16 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:16 am

AckneyAwks wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:31 pm

RedO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:29 pm 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.

Oiram wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:55 pm Sport is no place for politics.

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:25 pm

Oiram wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:55 pm 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 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:07 pm

tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:25 pm

Oiram wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:55 pm 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.