The real victory for England was not the football but taking the knee against racism
The England team in my view lost to the better side at Wembley on Sunday and the only flag I ever wave is a red one.
However football is only a game and Gareth Southgate and the England players have scored a far bigger victory off the pitch in taking the knee against racism. You can almost hear the tectonic plates shift as hard right Tory MPs begin to realise that perhaps cheering racist knuckleheads is not electorally popular in Britain 2021
My Guardian fletter which briefly (less than 280 characters) sums this up is here:
“Gareth Southgate and the England team took a knee against racism, even when criticised by government ministers. That will be the enduring legacy of the European Championship, and a good one. They can be proud of what they did”
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