Football must do more than just take knee to armed combat racism: Romelu Lukaku

Romelu Lukaku says football must take "stronger" sue in the struggle against racism, skeptical the affect of players fetching the knee before Premier League matches.

Lukaku's Chelsea team-mate Marcos Alonso this week explained his determination to stop qualification the gesture, determinative instead to point of view and breaker point to the "No To Racism" badge on his shirt.

Last season, Vitreous silica Castle low Wilfried Zaha stopped-up attractive the knee, labelling it "degrading" and opting to fend instead.

Belgium multinational Lukaku understands those opinions, pointing to the continued online ill-treat aimed at unfortunate players.

"I remember we can take stronger positions, basically," Lukaku told CNN Sport.

"Yeah, we are pickings the knee but in the end everybody's applause but sometimes aft the game, you see other insult."

Lukaku wants high-profile players to sit down with sociable media bosses and different stakeholders to help rig the emergence of racialism on their platforms.

"The captains of all team, and four or five players, like the big personalities of all team, should have a merging with the CEOs of Instagram and governments and the FA (Football Association) and the PFA (Professional Footballers' Association), and we should just sit around the hold over and have a big group meeting astir it," Lukaku said.

"I conceive all of us together, have a big group meeting and talk astir block that needs to be self-addressed to protect the players.

"If you want to stop something, you can really do it."

Lukaku was speechmaking to CNN Fun around the launching of Chelsea's "No To Hate" picture taking competition, which is heartening fans of the club around the planetary to send in their photos that show the variety within the Chelsea community.

"I cogitate honorable now, from the proprietor to us, the players, we as a club, we are really putt out a financial statement and winning a pose that farce like that should not be tolerated," Lukaku said.