Given football’s unchallenged position as the world’s favourite game, perhaps it is surprising that there have not been more major on-field protests by footballers and football teams in the history of the sport. Certainly, there are few, if any, footballing protests that are as iconic as the Black Power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Mexico Olympics in 1968, or Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War a year earlie…
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