Everyone Is Entitled To How They Feel About Players Taking The Knee – Mings

Aston Villa defender, Tyrone Mings has come out to back England players taking the knee during matches. He recently revealed that he cannot understand British home secretary, Priti Patel’s lack of support for the protest.

According to him, Patel once invited him to a Zoom call where she seemed really interested in their fight against racism, so he cannot understand her current stance.

Mings added that in the end, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so the disagreements are unnecessary.

His words, “To the Home Secretary, I don’t really have a direct message,”

“I mean we spoke, actually she invited me onto a Zoom call once, where she seemed interested and engrossed in the players’ point of view and what we could do more to tackle these sort of issues.”

“At the same time, everybody is entitled to their own opinion and the home secretary is one of many, many people that oppose us taking the knee or refuse to defend it.”

“So, we have our own set of beliefs and what we think we can do to help and there will be players that can be influential and can stand up for what we believe in. Understandably, when you have such strong beliefs there will be opposition to that.”

“We spoke about it a lot, we spoke about trying to educate or trying to inform the minority who refuse to acknowledge why we’re taking the knee and want to do it.”

“At the same time, at Wembley, there was a hugely positive reaction to us taking the knee as well and I don’t think that should be overshadowed by the minority that refuses to accept what the reasons are or don’t agree with them.”