Pretending booing England has something to do with ‘keeping politics out’ is cowardly | Barney Ronay
This shameful and hurtful act in response to taking the knee before the game only adds to the fraught buildup to Euro 2020Romania’s players agreed to take the knee for the first time at the Riverside Stadium as a gesture of solidarity with their English hosts. As loud, angry boos rang out around the ground the Romanians must have wondered what they’d stumbled into here. What kind of weird, contorted, backwards kind of country is this England anyway? Didn’t they used to be someone? Welcome to England 2021. Divided, belligerent, set against itself – and reduced now by the formalities of a football match to debating the idea of “Englishness” until it falls apart at the seams. Related: Ernesto Valverde:...