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Bournemouth will NOT take the knee before kick-offs in the Premier League this season - as Cherries decide to stick with their stance from February 2021 after feeling gesture had 'run its course' and was 'no longer having the effect it first did'

Bournemouth's players will stand by their decision not to take the knee as they prepare for their first game back in the Premier League.

The Cherries squad stopped making the pre-match gesture in February 2021, while in the Championship, and will not change their stance regardless of their return to the top flight after a two-year absence.

Led by captain Steve Cook at the time, Bournemouth announced: 'Fighting all forms of discrimination and creating an equal, inclusive society is something that we feel very passionately about.

'But that is defined by much more than a gesture, which we feel has run its course and is no longer having the effect it first did eight months ago.