Overview
- The Premier League’s No Room For Racism round runs from October 18 to 26, marking the first league-wide kneeling this season.
- Sections of the Turf Moor crowd booed as Burnley and Leeds players knelt, while Leeds striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin chose not to participate.
- Leeds said players decide individually whether to kneel, with manager Daniel Farke reiterating that the choice rests with each player.
- Reactions varied across other grounds, with applause at Brighton and Fulham, a mix of light applause and jeers at the Stadium of Light, and near silence at the Etihad and Selhurst Park.
- At Nottingham Forest’s match against Chelsea, all players appeared to kneel except goalkeeper Mats Sels, who seemed distracted, as the league again urged respect for the gesture as a statement of unity and equality.