Middlesbrough playing in all white on Saturday to highlight knife crime

Knife crime isn't punished heavily anywhere near enough.

I do respect 'Boro for doing this. But more needs to be done, by those who are higher up, in power and can create change.

Knife crime doing just happen in Middlesbrough (although we're very high up in the statistics), but it happens all over the country.

Anyone found with a bladed weapon should do time, regardless of whether they used it or not. And if they did use it, then the sentence needs to be very very heavy.
 
Are they gonna be wearing black shorts and black socks? Because if they do.. it will just look like they’ve forgotten their kit and been made to play in the lost property bin stuff.. something which I predicted quite recently.

Raising awareness to lost kits?
 
Would be great if the kit is auctioned by the club (signed or unsigned) and the money given to local charities.
That is what is happening.
Is it only Boro doing this this weekend?

We originally did play in white shirts. Does anyone know why and when we switched to red shirts?
Go to the Boro Shirt Museum this Saturday before the game and you will see the Boro Minute Book opened at the page where Boro opt to change for a red strip.
Read Anthony Vickers excellent book and you will see it is not entirely clear when that first match was but basically at the end of the Victorian period clubs were told to have unique identities and colours. For obvious reasons - so every team was easily identifiable. The amazing thing I was told last week in the Boro Shirt Museum is that clubs actually started selling their colours at this point. Something that then would stop for many years. But in Victorian and Edwardian times gradually clubs started to opt for the colours that they have today.
Go to Boro Shirt Museum and view the last time Boro wore a white home shirt - the oldest football team shirt in existence - dates from 1890s.

But hats off and red shirts off to Boro - this is a fantastic campaign. It is really tragic that it is needed but speaking to Theresa cave from the Chris Cave Foundation - started after her son was killed in a knife attack in 2005 - she is in absolutely no doubt that Saturday will be HUGE for the campaign against knife crime.
 
Knife crime isn't punished heavily anywhere near enough.

I do respect 'Boro for doing this. But more needs to be done, by those who are higher up, in power and can create change.

Knife crime doing just happen in Middlesbrough (although we're very high up in the statistics), but it happens all over the country.

Anyone found with a bladed weapon should do time, regardless of whether they used it or not. And if they did use it, then the sentence needs to be very very heavy.
Marvanelli - I interviewed Theresa Cave - along with lots of other media yesterday - she has obviously suffered immeasurably and directly from an unprovoked knife crime murder of her son - but she wants an emphasis on prevention.
 
And QPR renamed their stadium for 3 years in memory and awareness of a promising young player on their books killed as an innocent victim of knife crime.
- Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium.
Boro are doing this to raise awareness of just how serious the situarion has become here now. Not just in London or a big city.

If the whole community leave their Boro red at home for one day then it is surely a very powerful statement. The football cklub through the Foundation and working with partners including the police is working hard to take kids off the streets and give them safe and exciting actrivities after school in Premier Kicks. There need to be more positive actions like this.

I am going to think of it in these terms - it all starts with the match on Saturday and if it somehow, somewhere saves one family from heartache and possibly saves one young life then what a success No More Red will have been for that family and taht community.
 
We could take a new song for the day by a local band.
I’m thinking
Free’s ‘All Wight Now’
 
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