Why would the Premier League ‘strongly suggest’ clubs mark the coronation? It’s all part of the eternal struggle for power
, the Liverpool players arrayed around the centre circle found themselves trapped between two equal and opposing forms of awkwardness.
Different players reacted differently. Mo Salah, game face on, staring flintily into the middle distance, utterly unmoved. Fabinho: just baffled. Andy Robertson: gaze fixed firmly downwards, as if trying to laser-burn a hole in the turf through which he could mercifully plummet. Trent Alexander-Arnold trying, John Redwood-style, to mouth the anthem without singing it.
Shilton was speaking to Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News, and lest anyone accuse the former England goalkeeper of simply being an unthinking servant to ceremony, be assured that his views on public gestures at football matches are in fact heavily nuanced.
Of course, to anyone with even a passing familiarity with fan culture, the fact that Liverpool fans booed the anthem is neither surprising nor – really – all that interesting. But there is a wider issue at stake here, at a time when the sporting arena is increasingly being used as a theatre for protest, in an age when the very right to express oneself in public is being questioned, often suppressed.
For all the contemporary distaste, there has in fact long been a rich tradition of anti-establishment protest in British sport, from the suffragettes to the anti-apartheid movement. In many ways the efforts of
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