Were Millwall fans wrong to boo players taking the knee before a match?

I SEE everybody is up in arms regarding the booing at football matches when players take the knee after Millwall played Derby County at the weekend (Mail). But I don’t think that these people get it — in fact, the booing is because of what the players are representing. The UK arm of Black Lives Matter is a subversive and divisive movement, whose aim is to get rid of the rule of law and bring down elected governments. While the Kick It Out campaign is an excellent scheme to rid football of abhorrent racism, I feel that BLM is having a negative effect, as we have seen on the first match day back with fans after such a long absence. It will gain momentum when all fans are back and the people of this country will make their voices heard. Plenty of teams and players have been booed over the years and they just get on with it.

IAN TUCKER, seaton Carew, Hartlepool.

AFTER ten weeks, it was decided that Clap for Carers should end. Isn’t it now time that the football authorities

determine that taking the knee should end?

PAUL SIMPSON, Lewisham, London Se.

SHAME on the Millwall fans for booing their players taking the knee. However, I do wonder if it is partly a protest against ‘wokeism’ that seems ever more intrusive in our lives.

ALAN STACKMAN, Calne, Wilts.

I FIRMLY believe in the right to free speech. The Millwall fans had paid to watch a football match. They did not go to watch another load of political gesturing. I thought it was our right to voice our displeasure at something we don’t like. The take the knee movement owes its origins to a distressing incident that took place in another country — America — where the police do not seem to live under the discipline of our police.

TED SHEPHERD, Windsor, Berks.

IT WAS no surprise that when fans were allowed into grounds, they would react and not be impressed with spoilt, egoistic footballers playing politics.

Players should stop making gestures and put some of their inflated salaries into practical solutions to stop racism — not taking the knee, which means nothing to many fans, the great majority of whom haven’t a racist bone in their body.

HARRY SMALLSHAW, Atherton, Manchester.

FIRSTLY, let me state I do not like racism of any kind. As a descendant of an African slave, I’d like to say that the sooner we separate sport from politics the better. To suggest that teams are going to walk off the pitch if taking the knee is booed is simply an invitation for misguided people to take up this challenge and boo at the start of every match, which would result in chaos for the football programme. let’s forget about these political gestures and get on with the football.

TED COOKE, Templepatrick, N.ireland.

AT THE risk of being labelled ‘racist’, I think that Millwall FC fans should be thanked for their reaction on Saturday. It brought into sharp focus the antipathy many people feel towards the virtue signalling in support of a U.S. political movement that has little relevance in this country.

N. J. WOOTTON, Wallasey, Cheshire.