Kick It Out chief backs knee decision but stresses ‘racism has not gone away’

Premier League players will no longer take the knee ahead of matches on a regular basis (Nick Potts/PA)

Kick It Out chief executive Tony Burnett has backed the decision of Premier League players to stop taking the knee ahead of every match, but he wants the conversation around racism to continue.

Premier League captains decided that the gesture, which started in June 2020 in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, will now be used only on specific occasions.