This Thursday evening, Everton and Newcastle played their late match of the 20th day of the Premier League. If the Toffees won at the end of the night (90+9) thanks to a goal from Alex Iwobi, the match was generally boring. It was, however, marked by the appearance of an activist on the ground. Indeed, the 21-year-old clung to the goal post at Goodison Park to challenge the use of oil and to warn about the ecological situation, causing the match to be interrupted for 7 minutes.
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Member of the Just Stop Oil collective, Louis explains why he chose this action: “It’s 2022 and it’s time to look up, it’s time to act and not sit idly by. It’s time to act like it’s an emergency. Report after report tells me my future is going to be catastrophic, and my government tells me not to worry and contribute to a superannuation. But we have a choice. We can choose to highlight that our climate is collapsing, we can choose to stand up to this government that betrays us, we can choose to stand up and not sit idly by…”
This evening, Louis, a 21 year-old supporter of Just Stop Oil, locked on to the goalpost at Goodison Park wearing a Just Stop Oil t-shirt, causing the referee to briefly stop play. When explaining why he has chosen this action, Louis said: pic.twitter.com/XqjaYFIDyz
— JustStopOil (@JustStop_Oil) March 17, 2022
