NFL owners will meet next week to consider changes to a game manual that says players “should” stand during the national anthem, a guideline the league has left to the discretion of players who kneeled in large numbers after President Donald Trump called for protesting players to be fired.

Commissioner Roger Goodell told club executives on Tuesday in a memo seen by the Star that the anthem issue is dividing the league from its fans. He said the NFL needs “to move past this controversy.”

NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart said the guidance will be “front and centre on the agenda” when owners meet in New York next Tuesday and Wednesday.