Keir RADNEDGE

Players take the lead in fighting racism FIFA president Gianni Infantino, like other sports supremos in general, comes in for continuous fire, but he has probably not been given enough credit for a highly unusual response to the Black Lives Matter activism: removing the risk of disciplinary action over any player’s gesture in support of protests after the killing of George Floyd.

Floyd’s death under police detention in Minneapolis sparked a wave of street protest in the United States and elsewhere in the West.

For football, that was initially adopted by four players when Germany’s Bundesliga resumed. Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho and Achraf Hakimi displayed undershirts bearing the message, “Justice