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After 100-day wait, English soccer returns and takes a knee

by AP Global Soccer Writer
| June 19, 2020 12:03 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Players kneeled in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and victims of the coronavirus were remembered as the Premier League made a somber return on Wednesday from a 100-day shutdown that deprived England of its national sport.

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