Football, cricket, Olympic gymnastics… no sport is now safe from woke politics.
In 2021, the culture wars thoroughly colonised all of our favourite sports.
Nowhere was this clearer than in football. The people’s game was rife with woke politics this year, as it was last year. Players are still ‘taking the knee’ before each game, more than 18 months after the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, which first inspired all the knee-taking. The kneeling still frequently features as a highlight alongside shots and saves on Match of the Day, in case we hadn’t got the message yet.
