Tottenham Hotspur's Premier League campaign kicked off on Friday night and both sets of players continue the powerful statement of taking the knee before kick-off.
It's a gesture that will be repeated across the top-flight this weekend while 'Black Lives Matter' will replace player names on the back of shirts for the first 12 matches of the restart.
However, Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford diversified his stance, lifting his fist up in tribute to the 'Black Power Salute' ahead of the game at Tottenham.
The stance first originated at the 1968 Olympic games Mexico City, when two black U.S. medallists, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, took to the victory stand with their heads bowed and eyes closed, their hands raised with black gloves, and fists clenched.
Their 'Black Power Salute" during the playing of the American national anthem was a silent protest by the athletes against racial injustice.
At the time, their act was deemed highly controversial, wit sport and politics often kept as two separate entities.
Of course, in today's world and in line with the 'black lives matter' campaign, supported by the Premier League, Rashford's act was very much in keeping with the ongoing fight against racism.
However, 'taking the knee' hasn't been entirely supported by the UK government.
On Thursday, the UK Government's foreign secretary Dominic Raab responded to the powerful scenes by declaring he would not take a knee in solidarity with Black Lives Matter as he thinks it's a "symbol of subjugation and subordination".
He also claimed the gesture against police violence was "from the Game of Thrones" TV series during a live radio interview with TalkRadio.
He said: "(I) take the knee for two people - the Queen, and the missus when I asked her to marry me."
The comments by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's deputy risk sparking a fresh row over the government's response to the protests.
Asked if he would take a knee, Mr Raab said: "I understand this sense of frustration and restlessness which is driving the Black Lives Matter movement.
"I've got to say on this taking a knee thing, I don't know, maybe it's got a broader history but seems to be taken from the Game of Thrones, feels to me like a symbol of subjugation and subordination rather than one of liberation and emancipation.
"But I understand people feel differently about it so it's a matter of personal choice."
