Pep Guardiola marked football’s return to centre stage by saying he was ‘embarrassed and ashamed at what white people have done to black people over 400 years'.
As the Manchester City and Arsenal players took a knee ahead of the first game back at the Etihad, Guardiola was equally passionate in his support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
He said: “All gestures are good and we have to deal with facts that in the 21st century this has been happening not just in the USA but everywhere in the world. “Racism is a problem everywhere.
Maybe for our generation, it is too late but hopefully the younger people understand. "We are human beings, not a skin colour.
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