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Raheem Sterling welcomes ‘massive step’ after players take a knee before Premier League restart
Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling says players taking a knee before the Premier League restart was a “massive step” in the fight against racism.Players, coaching staff and officials all got down on one knee at the start of both matches on Wednesday as England’s top-flight division returned from a 100-day hiatus.The powerful images paid tribute to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement which has grown in prominence since the death of George Floyd.“I see it as a massive step for the Premier League to allow something like that to happen and it shows we’re going in the right direction,” said Sterling, who scored the opening goal in his side’s 3-0 defeat of Arsenal.”Little by little we’re seeing change. It was natural, it was organic. We saw the teams do it in the earlier kick-off and thought it was something we had to do as well.”
