As they said they would, the England football team all took a knee prior to kicking off in a World Cup match against the U.S. Men’s National Team in Qatar. Several commenters noted that the U.S. team remained standing.
The England management team promised last week that players would get on their knees in a general non-specific “inclusion” gesture, despite the fact that taking the knee is directly related to the Black Lives Matter movement and the death of George Floyd.
England, supposedly one of the favourites to win the tournament, then failed to beat the USA in the match as it ended 0-0.
The England team also intended to wear LGBT ‘one love’ armbands in protest of both Qatar and Iran’s treatment of gay people, but were told no by FIFA, football’s governing body.
They became the latest high profile team to not score a victory after choosing to concentrate on virtue signalling, rather than purely on the game:
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