okay for england fans to boo players who were taking a knee and then wonders why the atmosphere is so toxic and players are getting abused on social media. if england had won, we might have not seen the public attacks of these players, but there s no doubt that the racist undertones would still very much be there. how can we more openly discuss the racism that exists in what we call here in the united states soccer, in europe football and in sports overall? what do you think is the right approach to this conversation? a big problem here is we ve kind of confused this open prejudice of using the n word or calling somebody a monkey and saying that s racism. just because people don t express it, it doesn t mean it goes anywhere. if england had won, everybody would be celebrating. it wouldn t have meant they