Brok
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And the difference between (£34M, £12000 per week) Benteke, and Murray is.... one is a cock that can't score a goal, the other can score a goal with his cock.
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[Albion] Minutes silence before every game?
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Gritt23
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I got the initial "applause" because it was spontaneous - Old Trafford when a minutes silence for George Best, became a minutes applause and just seemed right - but it has now almost become the extension of true grief, a halfway house if you like. If something happened, that would have always got a minutes silence, then it still does - eg Remembrance Day, or the response to the helicopter crash at Leicester. But it just seems to me, that now we have this option of a "minutes applause" it seems to be used just in case someone thinks we're being insensitive if we don't mark the passing of someone.
"Should we mark this in some way? Maybe a minutes silence."
"Hmm, dunno really, they're nothing to do with the club are they."
"They did play against us twice."
"Hardly gone down in our history though, have they."
"How about a minutes applause then?"
"Yeah, ok, shows football is all 'one big family' I suppose".
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Gritt23
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And what will we celebrate in the 69th minute
The year he won his 50th cap, obviously.
Brok
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And what will we celebrate in the 69th minute
Linda Lovelace?
studio150
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I assume we are holding a minutes silence ahead of our home game against Southampton, to mark the death of our country at 11pm 29 March 2019
On a serious note, the number of times we are being asked to remember or celebrate someones life at kick off or during the game is getting silly.
I didn't join in the applause on Saturday because I didn't believe it was warranted given the player had no connection with the Albion or was a national legend
The problem no doubt is if the club hadn't held the applause on Saturday PBs inbox would be stacked full of people demanding to know why the club hadn't held such a mark of respect.
I would prefer if we just left it to Remembrance Day and the last home game of the season (or year) for other associated with the club.
On a serious note, the number of times we are being asked to remember or celebrate someones life at kick off or during the game is getting silly.
I didn't join in the applause on Saturday because I didn't believe it was warranted given the player had no connection with the Albion or was a national legend
The problem no doubt is if the club hadn't held the applause on Saturday PBs inbox would be stacked full of people demanding to know why the club hadn't held such a mark of respect.
I would prefer if we just left it to Remembrance Day and the last home game of the season (or year) for other associated with the club.
studio150
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Did you get that from your deepthroat sauce
gripper stebson
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- Jul 27, 2004
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Maybe they should do the minutes applause at the end of the game when the team have left the pitch. That'd separate the genuinely grieving and those wanting to get a train.
Bold Seagull
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Judging from your posts, the minutes silence it's your happiest minute watching the football. I feel you'd be better served with a minutes silence after the final whistle?
I may be wrong but I think Southampton have an 'All Saints Day' where all saints fans and passings for the year are remembered on that one day only, however I expect they also now partake in all these other out pourings of grief.
I have to admit I didnt take part in the applause befoe the game on Saturday and have question Cardiffs out pouring of grief over the last few weeks and would suggest we wouldnt have seen anything as great if the Leicester Helicopter incident had not happened earlier in the season and Cardiff had to follow suit.
I have to admit I didnt take part in the applause befoe the game on Saturday and have question Cardiffs out pouring of grief over the last few weeks and would suggest we wouldnt have seen anything as great if the Leicester Helicopter incident had not happened earlier in the season and Cardiff had to follow suit.
Bod
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On Saturday didn't RR just make an announcement before the players came out that the clubs thoughts were with our friends from Cardiff accompanied by a picture of Sala on the screen. There was then a spontaneous applause until his picture was taken off the screen. It seemed a bit more informal/half-arsed than normal.
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darkwolf666
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Shouldn't that be clapping on the 19th minute and a repeat on the 66th minute, just to really cover it!
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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Judging from your posts, the minutes silence it's your happiest minute watching the football. I feel you'd be better served with a minutes silence after the final whistle?
How odd.
Tom,
I think you're an excellent poster on here but I disagree. It's winter where tragedies, illnesses and generally more deaths occur. Tributes should always be paid to famous footballers. I'd clap until my hands were sore or silence for however long. No worries mate.
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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But what about national tragedies/disasters? We’ve marked them in the past. And why not the Thai chairman (Hugh investor, life cut short etc) versus someone who dies of old age after a good career decades ago that didn’t play for club or even country? You can’t just discriminate like that, it then becomes offensive if you ignore someone or something that isn’t marked in comparison to someone or some event that is. That’s where we’re at currently which is why I’d advocate a BAFTA type marking / or do one every week where fans can nominate / club can choose according to national and international events. There’s a lot to grieve about and we need a new approach to public displays. That at least we can all agree on. The need to display or show grief. To not do so is disrespectful.
The Queen Mum silence was a bit irrelevant. Yes, she liked the gee-gee's but I don't think she ever attended a football match?
I advocate 30 seconds silence, followed by 30 seconds applause, before every single match to cater for both schools of thought and the passing of everyone in the period up to the match.
The Queen Mum silence was a bit irrelevant. Yes, she liked the gee-gee's but I don't think she ever attended a football match?
She was a Millwall supporter.
"Just taking a trip down to the Den, dear Elizabeth. I've got my knuckle dusters with me".
