Black Lives Matter. So can football do more?

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Times Chief Football Writer Henry Winter joins Nat & Gregor to explore the need for football to lead from the front in the battle against racism across the globe.

More vocal players, fearless protests and stronger sanctions are all up for debate as they ask whether football needs to be more proactive rather than reactive.

All this plus more from Mark Noble and Jack Grealish, who Henry has been speaking to this week as we countdown the days to the return of The Premier League.

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0:00.0	Hello this is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer.
0:06.3	Joining Gregor Robertson and I today it is the Times Chief Football writer Henry Winter.
0:11.3	Henry great to have you on board. How are you keeping since we last spoke to you?
0:14.7	Good absolutely good I'm looking forward to the games returning trying to stay in shape
0:20.1	looking just looking forward to getting back. Yes, getting back to normal business as much as normal can be.
0:26.0	Speaking of which, I know you've been speaking to a Premier League star today,
0:30.0	what can you tell us about that?
0:32.0	Yeah, Mark Noble, I mean he's he's great Mark I mean he's
0:36.6	just such a voice of sanity in a time when probably the world needs leaders he's involved with the
0:45.0	Premier League captains they've got this WhatsApp group and they've been contacting
0:49.8	each other for the last or 10 weeks in lockdown on how they can generate money for the NHS.
0:57.0	They had the players together initiative and as part of that they've got shirts for heroes so each one has provided a signed shirt and they're now
1:08.1	You can bid for them for a Fiver a pop on on eBay and I just had a look on there and Virgil is easily the most sort after of the 500
1:20.9	Premier League players I think it was about, there been about 800 separate bits for his shirt and then
1:26.6	and then obviously Mo Sala, Marcus Rashford, Sergio Aguero and Mark himself. So yeah,
1:32.4	I know it's yeah it's it's good to see I mean
1:34.9	Gregor knows this well but it's good to see the the players contributing so
1:40.2	substantially despite what some politicians may think.
1:42.8	Yeah, absolutely.
1:43.8	Greg, in that centre, you're not surprised when you hear what they're doing.
1:47.8	No, no, I mean, we've having conversations over the last 10 weeks or so, Henry said with some of them and yeah they have to you
1:56.2	know I had a chat with Wes Morgan and he was kind of saying these ears were on fire because
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