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Spanish populist VOX party leader Santiago Abascal criticised the BLM-associated knee gesture at the Euro 2020 tournament and wanted the Spanish national football team not to do it.

While the MSM has been bending over backwards to rehabilitate Shamima Begum, it has been less forgiving towards fast bowler Ollie Robinson.

England’s national football (soccer) team remains “totally united” on kneeling for Black Lives Matter going into the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, but are being met with boos by fans.

It’s time to party like it’s 1983. According to an announcement on Thursday, the USFL will return to the American gridiron in 2022.

A video of a youth football player taking a ferocious helmet-to-helmet hit has sparked tremendous backlash on social media and led to calls for the adults involved to be fired.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) – In an unprecedented moment for the world’s richest soccer competition, the Premier League was forced to abandon one of the biggest matches of the season after an invasion of Old Trafford by Manchester United fans.

Texas is one of more than two dozen states with proposed legislation to protect female athletes from transgender competition as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) threatens to remove sporting events from states if these bills become law. As Breitbart

The Norwegian national football team donned shirts for their first World Cup 2022 qualifying match to criticise host nation Qatar over alleged human rights abuses, as Norwegian clubs call for a boycott.

NEW ORLEANS — The Drew Brees era with the New Orleans Saints — marked by a Super Bowl celebration, raucous record-setting nights in the rebuilt Superdome and the undersized quarterback’s outsized role in a historic city’s rebirth — has ended.

Nottingham Forest footballer Lyle Taylor has said he will no longer be “taking a knee” for the Black Lives Matter movement before matches, branding it a “Marxist group” that pushes “racial unrest”. 

Former football player Dylan Duby has admitted to Belgian police that he was paid €10,000 (£8,645/$12,115) to murder entrepreneur Frank Goes, who was stabbed to death in the street last year.

English football club Brentford FC have decided to give up kneeling to Black Lives Matter before games, as players “no longer believe that this is having an impact”. 

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Barcelona’s presidential elections have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the club said Friday.

Colombian soccer fans took to the streets of Cali on Sunday evening to celebrate their team’s success in violation of the country’s latest lockdown measures in response to the Chinese coronavirus.

The Texas School for the Deaf’s (TSD) football team is eager to play against its rivals on Friday night in hopes of winning a state championship.

A female football star in Utah has shifter her focus from the gridiron to the courtroom, in her quest to force school districts to offer a girls only football program.

“It’s great to be back in Ohio to celebrate the return of Big Ten football with a big victory today for the Buckeyes,” Trump said after taking the stage.

The chairman of a Welsh football club is launching an investigation into why players did not kneel to Black Lives Matter ahead of a match.

A family in Stow, Ohio, got the surprise of a lifetime during a high school football game over the weekend.

The Swedish women’s national soccer team took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement during a European cup qualifier match with Hungary this week.

A German soccer team has been thrashed 37-0 because its players insisted on observing rules about ‘social distancing.’

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the Pac-12 college sports conference to reopen football. “Open up, Pac-12. Get going,” he said.

President Donald Trump celebrated the news Wednesday that the Big 10 college football conference had decided to play games in October.

English Premier League (EPL) footballers obeyed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on the launch day of the 2020/21 season, with players taking a knee in all four of Saturday’s top-flight fixtures.

“We want a governor that’s going to let Michigan play Big 10 football this year,” Trump said, referring to Whitmer.

“We have looked at Lou’s life and his career and what he’s done for charity, and the football is obvious,” Trump said. “He was a great coach, but what he has done beyond even coaching.”

Democrats abandoned John F. Kennedy’s “what can I do for my country?” theme, said Lou Holtz, former football coach, during his RNC speech.

LONDON (AP) – Players in English football will be banned for six to 12 games for discriminatory conduct under new Football Association sanctioning guidelines.

Kelly Stafford, wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, blasted the NFL for making her family’s life a “nightmare” over the last few days after the league publicly placed her husband on the COVID-IR list after testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus — a result that later proved to be false.

For the first time in 75 years the Rose Parade is canceled because of fears that the coronavirus will still be a threat on the first day of 2021.

Phillip Blanks, a former college football player and ex-Marine, made the greatest catch of his life when he saved a child thrown from a burning building over the weekend.

A month ago, you could scarcely move for politicians, sportsmen, luvvies and other assorted wankerati flaunting their allegiance…

England’s Premier League Football has attempted to distance itself from the “political movement” of Black Lives Matter, after the sporting body had devoted games to the far-left organisation by taking the knee and wearing shirts that replaced players’ names with ‘Black Lives Matter’.

A Cambridge University professor has boasted that she was promoted after tweeting “White Lives Don’t Matter” — after a man who flew a banner saying they do matter over a football match in the wake a suspected terrorist attack was fired.

Lancashire police have said their investigation into the flying of the banner over a football match has found “no criminal offences”.

Burnley Football Club has condemned an “offensive” banner saying “White Lives Matter Burnley!” which was flown over a match after three white people were stabbed to death in Reading, and vowed to “work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible”.