The Irish and Welsh side all stood during the event last weekend. 14/30 English lads with the Big Billy V (no8) not kneeling and being a critic of BLM for their espoused values conflicting with his own values.
The rugby associations had to release press pieces as a result, whereby the basics of it is that it is their habit to stand and not to kneel. They will keep with their tradition and not submit to the demands for new habits. Billy V a more vocal critic.
It's an interesting book, I read it when I was 13 or so, doubt many people today are too aware of how he described himself as living like a N and how he viewed himself as a proud black man and the ways he carried himself then.
I never did get the matchbox of nutmeg to work iirc.
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