Petty or standing up against ‘Marxism?’ either way one Tory MP didn’t watch a team blessed by immigration comprehensively beat the Ukraine 4-0.
Gareth Southgate’s side will take on Denmark at Wembley on Wednesday evening and the winners of that game will face the victors of the Italy v Czech Republic match held at the same ground on Tuesday.
Lee Anderson said the national team’s decision to take the knee was supporting a ‘political movement’ and risked alienating ‘traditional supporters’.
‘For the first time in my life I will not be watching my beloved England team whilst they are supporting a political movement whose core principles aim to undermine our very way of life,’ the MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire declared in a Facebook post.
Well as you can imagine the folks on social media had to say about it?
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Or was it Marxism that won?
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