PL clubs will NOT take knee before games after captains decided against gesture

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PREMIER LEAGUE clubs will NOT take the knee before matches next season following a meeting between all 20 top-flight clubs.

Since the restart of the 2020-21 campaign, teams have supporters the anti-racism gesture as a direct response to the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Premier League captains have agreed not to take the knee before games next seasonCredit: AFP

But according to the Daily Mail, club captains have agreed that taking the knee prior to kick-off would only be taken in selected matches in the upcoming camapign.

It has been said that all 20 skippers have agreed that the gesture ‘lost its gravitas’ at a meeting last week.

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