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Why football fans are still booing players taking the knee

30 August 2021

3:52 PM

30 August 2021

3:52 PM

On the opening day of this year’s season, I went to see Chelsea play Crystal Palace. The match programme featured an article on Paul Canoville, Chelsea’s first black player. I remember watching him in the 1980s when he was racially abused by his own fans. Large sections of the crowd taunted him with monkey chants and racist slurs.

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