Wilfried Zaha has vowed to stop taking the knee before matches as he believes the gesture has lost its meaning.
The Crystal Palace forward, 28, believes taking the knee to show support for racial equality — as players, official and staff in the Premier League and EFL have done since Project Restart — is becoming ‘something we just do now’.
Several clubs, including Brentford last weekend, have stopped making the gesture.
Zaha, speaking at Thursday’s Financial Times’ Business of Football summit, said: ‘I’ve said before that I feel like taking the knee is degrading and stuff because growing up my parents just let me know that I should be proud to be black no matter what and I feel like we should just stand tall.