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Got to say I agree with this. Finney was one of those ones who merited a dignified and thoughtful silence. Applause perhaps more relevant for those of less significance, or on those occasions where there's a concern somebody trying to be controversial might spoil a silence (sad to give in to...

Unfortunately I can't remember how Ken Bigley was described, as I was too busy looking around thinking "why on earth are we having a minute's silence for this bloke?" :) I take your point about flowering things up, but you know, it's just the way it was expressed. Doesn't really seem worth...

The most inappropriate minute's silence ever was held during a home game at Withdean, and was for Ken Bigley, a civil engineer from Merseyside who'd been working in Baghdad when he was taken hostage and subsequently beheaded by his kidnappers. My thoughts on matchday tributes like that are that...

What a strange thing to get wound up about. Jeez. I never saw Tom Finney play, but I'm quite willing to accept that many who did, considered him to be on of the best. They didn't say he was "considered the best of all time", they said "considered by some to be...". That said, he's clearly a...