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Premier League drops Black Lives Matter slogan from players' shirts ahead of 2020-21 season amid criticism of movement's UK branch... with top flight opting to have No Room for Racism on sleeves instead

Premier League clubs' shirts will not carry the Black Lives Matter slogan in the coming season, the league has announced.

Shirts will instead feature a patch promoting the league's own anti-discrimination campaign No Room For Racism.

The BLM slogan was adopted during the restarted 2019-20 campaign over the summer, following on from global protests in support of the movement sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States while in police custody in May.

Premier League clubs are set to replace the Black Lives Matter slogan on players' shirts
It will be replaced with a patch promoting the competition's own anti-discrimination campaign

Premier League captains were consulted over the change during a conference call on Thursday.