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Millwall fans boo kneeling players during first weekend fans are allowed back at English soccer games (video)

English soccer fans were allowed back into stadiums for the first time in almost a year on Saturday, but Millwall supporters didn’t even make it to kickoff of the second-tier club’s match against Derby County before lustily booing both teams for taking a knee to call attention to systemic racism.

Millwall fans boo their own players for kneeling

Ever since English teams returned to the field last summer after an unplanned, months-long break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, players, coaches and have been taking a knee before games in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.