England take on Iran in their first encounter of the World Cup 2022 as Gareth Southgate’s men hope to qualify out of Group B.
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49 Comments
I doubt they want to kneel but they are told to do so and there is always criticism if you don't or you get dropped from the team.
This has nothing to with who they were playing …..this is to show solidarity to a Marxist organisation who's founders all live in mansions in the Holywood Hills.
Get the F up, sick of the woke crap, no bugger who matters give's a sod, how about donating all your wages from the World Cup, better headlines!
Apparantly the England team are here just to play football and don't get involved in politics 🤔 Absolute bunch of w⚓s 👎
RIP English football.
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Really wish politics would stay out of sport.
Im an Iranian. Thanks to England to defeat the Mollas Regime team. Thanks again
Shame on Islamic republic's national team .they didn't support their own people and gone blind what was happening at javanrud that day
No longer an England fan for doing this!
The virtue signalling is laughed at and cringed upon world wide. Kneeling down isn’t gonna stop the Islamic abuse of women… how braindead can you get
Kneeling down .. subservient sucking the dick of leftist wokism..😬
bollocks, its embarrassing
Weak men create weak countries that eventually collapse.
Just with Iran, not Pakistani 🤣
The dislikes are by basijis
@Hamidreza Amini
> "This is not Iran’s team attending the world cup. It is the team of Islamic Republic of Iran."
You are totally misguided. This IS Iran's team. So because Iran's government is a criminal theocratic dictatorship all Iranian athletes must give up their sports and sit at home and don't participate in any competition? Your statement is moronic. We should be cheering our athletes who despite the horrible circumstances and the pressure they are under are trying to bring some pride for the nation.
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Hope England go out of the World Cup in the preliminary stages. No interest in them and their behavior.
So, FIFA allow some political gestures. Black lives matter but gay ones don't?
Thank you England
Kneel for BLM and the coup rioters in Iran lmao
When the English team gonna stop this ridiculous kneeling? I guess they do not wanna do that, but was told to do so.
Kneel only before god
Love 🦁🦁🦁
Surprised they don’t put bum in air to support you know.
🤣🤣🤣
Why doesn’t the other team just start the game? Might get a goal and it would stop this nonsense immediately.
They kneel wear on love bands that's they only can do. They come here to do this not playing football.
They come south gate and will go back north gate.
If the world cup were held in England in 1952 any transdresser or openly queer person in the stands or street would have been arrested. Drinking in the streets would have been illegal as would the sale of alcohol outside of prescribed hours. Taking the knee by players representing our nation to make a political statement with a racist Marxist organisations gesture would have resulted in that person/people being thrown out of the team in disgrace. Players would not have been permitted to wear anything to make a political statement. Had foreign nationals come to our nation and not respect our laws and our culture they have been arrested and thrown out.
We live in a different world now and many in this country don't share the values of our oh so virtuous footballers. A few minutes after their staged virtue signalling the game starts. A game whereby its somehow acceptable to cheat, disrespect players and officials, constantly spit and clear the contents of each nostril out in turn out onto the pitch.
You’re actually kneeling to the new world order if we can cut through the BS and propaganda. Look who promotes and funds all this inclusivity nonsense. HAIL SATAN.
So they kneeled in Qatar because a black man died in America two years ago? Makes sense.
That's why you tied the US it did not beat them. Go USA!
Sheep
When people actually had a reason to kneel, they would've been instantly executed for it
THEY WEREN'T KNEELING FOR IRAN!! 🤦♂️🤷🏻♂️
ONLY THE WEAK BEND THE KNEE !!!!
Play Futbol. Not politics.
The English Team should be banned from taking the knee in my opinion. Politics should be kept out of sport.
Personally I don’t get involved in politics anymore but if the team wants to knee or do anything that’s not against the laws of the land then let them
BOO!!!!!!
BS, they have been kneeling for long time against Resisim. When would you stop laying? Don't you thing by laying people are not going to trust you, regardless of your points!? Or are you so desperate that you do it for rating! Shame on you!
What an embarrassment!
Captain should get a red card for this.
Huh!
Clown town
this does nothing, fixes nothing, improves nothing, helps nobody, and means nothing to anyone… just make them clowns think they’re good people.
Absolute clowns lol, even more hilarious is when they did it against the USA and the USA players were like "wtf that s*** ended like 2 years ago what are ya'll doing" lol
Cringe
Absolute jokes lmao