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Pep Guardiola called for more action in the fight against racism after the Premier League returned on Wednesday night with a powerful message in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Arsenal and Manchester City players knelt in solidarity during the match and wore the name of the movement on the backs of their shirts.
Man City news: Pep Guardiola calls for more action in fight against racism (Image: GETTY)
Players also wore shirts embroidered with the words 'Black Lives Matter', in the first organised statement of its' kind in the league.
But Guardiola insisted that while the gestures made were good, they weren't enough.
Speaking after the game, he called on society to enact real change in order to fight racism and inequality, and said actions must back up the words and gestures.
“We should send one thousand million messages for black people,” Guardiola said.
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“It can’t be solved in a few days, but everything we can do, we can do.
"Everything we can do to make it conscious, it is not acceptable.
"We have to do a lot of things for the black people that we have not done so far.”
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