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Yellow and blue will be the colours and ‘Football Stands Together’ the Premier League’s slogan across this weekend’s fixtures, as the English top-flight rallies behind Ukraine.
With Russia’s bloody invasion continuing to terrorise their neighbours, a league-wide effort to show solidarity with Ukraine will dominate the match-day.
The Premier League themselves will include pro-Ukraine and anti-war messages into TV coverage of the matches in Russia, and could prevent the nation broadcasting next weekend’s fixtures entirely.
In reaction to the Premier League’s pro-Ukrainian move, rights holders in Russian-allied China will not be showing this weekend’s matches.
Back in England, team captains will don yellow and blue armbands while plenty of Ukrainian flags will be visible in the stands, after the words ‘Football Stands Together’ are splashed across big screens prior to kick-off.
Here, Sportsmail details the support Premier League clubs themselves are providing to help the war-torn nation.
The Premier League is putting on a show of support for Ukraine as it send an anti-war message
Fans in the grounds have been handed placards and many have brought Ukrainian flags
Leicester
The Foxes were first out on Saturday to welcome Leeds United at the King Power stadium, as they added a splash of yellow to their blue ground.
Both sides gathered around the centre-circle at kick-off for an impeccably-observed minute’s applause to show solidarity with Ukraine, after posing with a ‘Football Stands Together’ banner.
Leicester are making a physical difference too, teaming-up with the British and Ukrainian Red Cross to raise funds and supplies to send to the besieged capital, Kyiv – where locals sheltering underground are running out of essentials.
Leicester and Leeds gathered before kick-off to hold up a banner to support the nation
Burnley
The Clarets welcome Chelsea to Turf Moor on Saturday, and chairman Alan Pace had some words on…
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