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Crystal Palace will give full backing to Wilfried Zaha if he decides NOT to take the knee in comeback match against Tottenham... after winger urged fellow black players to abandon 'degrading' gesture which he feels has lost all meaning

Crystal Palace will fully back Wilfried Zaha should he decide to stop taking the knee when he returns from injury on Sunday.

In February, Zaha intimated that he would stop taking the knee and also indicated he was uncomfortable with wearing anti-racism slogans on his match jersey.

'Why must I even wear Black Lives Matter on the back of my top to show you that we matter? This is all degrading stuff,' he said.

Wilfried Zaha (right) has vowed to stop taking the knee before Premier League matches

'With taking a knee, sometimes people forget we have to do it. It is becoming something we just do.