{"id":510984,"date":"2026-03-01T03:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:33:11","slug":"leeds-v-man-city-boos-heard-during-ramadan-pause-at-elland-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510984\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds v Man City: Boos heard during Ramadan pause at Elland Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramadan – during which Muslims abstain from food and drink from dawn until sunset – began on the evening of 17 February and lasts for a month.<\/p>\n

With sunset in the UK ranging from about 17:00 to 19:00 during this period, the only games that could feature a break in play are Saturday’s 17:30 kick-off and Sunday’s 16:30 kick-off between Arsenal<\/a> and Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Manchester City<\/a> manager Pep Guardiola said: “We took on a little bit of vitamins because [Rayan] Cherki, [Rayan] Ait-Nouri did not eat today.<\/p>\n

“It is a modern world, right? [You see] what is happening in the world today. Respect religion, diversity, that is the point. <\/p>\n

“The Premier League says you can have one or two minutes, you can have for the [fasting] players to do it [break their fast]. It is what it is, unfortunately.”<\/p>\n

Anti-discrimination group Kick It Out said the booing was “massively disappointing”.<\/p>\n

“Pausing the game to allow Muslim players to break their fast during Ramadan has been an agreed protocol for several years now,” it said.<\/p>\n

“It’s an important and visible part of making the game welcoming for Muslim players and communities.<\/p>\n

“But as tonight’s reaction shows, football still has a long way to go in terms of education and acceptance.”<\/p>\n

Club captains and match officials find a natural pause in the game<\/a> to allow Muslim players or match officials to break their fast.<\/p>\n

In 2021, an agreement was put in place to allow Muslim players to break their fast during a Premier League match.<\/p>\n

Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson said on BBC Radio 5 Live: “I think it’s very good for the players. We talk about the athletes and how fine-tuned they are at the moment.<\/p>\n

“To go that long without food and drink, it is vitally important that they have that break.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ramadan – during which Muslims abstain from food and drink from dawn until sunset – began on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-510984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}