{"id":44558,"date":"2021-03-13T20:31:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44558"},"modified":"2021-03-14T05:01:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T05:01:32","slug":"strikers-sad-snub-for-epl-anti-racism-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44558","title":{"rendered":"Striker&#039;s sad snub for EPL anti-racism gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilfried Zaha became the first <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\" title=\"Premier League\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier League<\/a> player not to take a knee before his Crystal Palace team beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Milivojevic scored with a first-half penalty which Zaha had won.<\/p>\n<p>Zaha was back in the starting XI after an injury and it gave him the chance to stand at kick-off. He said last month that taking a knee has lost meaning after being brought in by the Premier League in June as an anti-racism message when football resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Zaha, who is black, said in a statement on Saturday that &quot;it doesn&#x27;t matter whether we kneel or stand, some of us still continue to receive abuse&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The 21 other players on the field took a knee.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7c0684b5-011b-4197-af69-5b3fd1da41df\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7c0684b5-011b-4197-af69-5b3fd1da41df\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zaha was central to the goal in the 37th minute. He saw a cross blocked by the arm of defender Darnell Furlong and following a lengthy VAR check, referee Simon Hooper pointed to the spot after using the pitchside monitor.<\/p>\n<p>West Brom is second from bottom while midtable Palace has 37 points \u2014 a sufficient total to avoid the drop in each of the last four seasons.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wilfried Zaha became the first Premier League player not to take a knee before his Crystal Palace team beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 on Saturday. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44558\" title=\"Striker&#039;s sad snub for EPL anti-racism gesture\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44560,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558\/revisions\/44560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}