Premier League players began taking the knee in 2020 following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests.<\/p>\n
The campaign was limited to selected matches following an agreement by club captains<\/a> before the 2022-23 campaign.<\/p>\n This season, captains agreed to take the knee during October’s No Room For Racism fixtures, which coincide with Black History Month in the UK.<\/p>\n The other five players who did not take the knee this weekend have not publicly commented, but Leeds<\/a> manager Daniel Farke explained Calvert-Lewin’s position.<\/p>\n “Dom is more or less like, ‘no, I don’t go down. I show my respect by standing up’. Every individual is different and shows respect for this campaign in a different way,” said Farke.<\/p>\n “It’s definitely a good campaign and a good topic that football and sports, in general, support situations like this because a dressing room is a perfect example of how we should all live together.”<\/p>\n Former Crystal Palace<\/a> forward Wilfried Zaha became the first Premier League player to stop taking the knee<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n “I feel kneeling has just become a part of the pre-match routine and at the moment it doesn’t matter whether we kneel or stand, some of us still continue to receive abuse,” he said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League players began taking the knee in 2020 following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-888016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}