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Premier League CEO backs ‘Black Lives Matter’ on team shirts

17 June 2020, 5:00 AM  |
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The Premier League resumes on Wednesday, and teams will have logos supporting the National Health Service on the front of their shirts and the words Black Lives Matter replacing their names above the number on their backs.

The Premier League resumes on Wednesday, and teams will have logos supporting the National Health Service on the front of their shirts and the words Black Lives Matter replacing their names above the number on their backs.

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The Premier League resumes on Wednesday, and teams will have logos supporting the National Health Service on the front of their shirts and the words Black Lives Matter replacing their names above the number on their backs.

The Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Masters, said he supported the move to have the slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’ on player’s shirts in this week’s games, saying it represented an ethical stance rather than a political one.

The Premier League resumes on Wednesday, and teams will have logos supporting the National Health Service on the front of their shirts and the words Black Lives Matter replacing their names above the number on their backs.

“I support them in using their platforms to push good causes. The messages you are going to see coming through the Premier League matches in relation to thanking the NHS, with the ‘Heart NHS’ logo on the front of shirts and also the anti-discrimination messages coming forward, are issues that all players feel,” Masters told Sky Sports on Tuesday.

“I think it is a good thing that players are using their voices to make what I think are ethical value judgments rather than political statements. They are supposed to be unifying messages, and we support them and so do the clubs,” he added.

Masters said backing Black Lives Matter needed to be followed up by concrete policies – but he added that the Premier League has no plans to introduce a US-style rule to ensure members of minorities are interviewed for any vacant coaching positions.

In this video below, shows UK demonstrations in solidarity with protests in the US and further afield following the murder of George Floyd:

“Whatever the campaign messages might be, the promotion as it were, there needs to be significant policies and programs behind it that are making a difference. There is a strong and long-standing commitment from the Premier League and all our clubs to anti-discrimination. We are going to continue to listen to players,” he said.

But asked about the “Rooney Rule” operating in the US National Football League (NFL) stipulating that members of minorities be interviewed for vacant coaching positions, he said: “We haven’t discussed that, and we haven’t got any plans to do so.”

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