Author: SHANNON NAJMABADI
Why wearing a poppy and taking a knee in football should not be dismissed as ‘gesture politics’
At the London Stadium on Sunday, November 7, the players of West Ham United and Liverpool football clubs gathered around the centre circle, arms interlinked. Falling poppies filled the big screen as former England team captain Trevor Brooking read John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Field, and a trumpeter played The Last Post. Such remembrance ceremonies […]