SOME England fans will never accept players taking a knee, Emile Heskey has warned.
The Three Lions stars took the anti-racism stance before friendly fixtures against Austria and Romania.
However, they faced jeers from a vocal minority of supporters at the Riverside Stadium.
Gareth Southgate has said his players had “had enough” of being asked to explain an action that should speak for itself.
And Heskey, who was capped 62 times for England, believes a small section of supporters are being willfully ignorant.
He said: “They don’t really want to know.
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