We have the Boxing Day (or nearest to it) minute's silence every year - which has incorrectly been changed to an applause in the last few years - to remember the bad events from the year past.
We need to get rid of all these game-after-game applause and things from football and just use that end of year silence as remembrance
We didn't even remember to do it for Mike Doyle when he'd died one Summer and he was a City legend
Totally agree.I could understand applause for someone you'd applaud if they were alive but the idea of applauding because someone's been murderered seems frankly macabre.
Can we have one for my father in law on the 90th minute as he was 90 when he died? He hadn't been to see City for decades mind but now I've suggested it you'll all feel bad not to join in.
thought the tributes were brilliant tonight. very fitting and moving. dont look back in anger should be played before every home game imo and the bee flags/emblem looked class. well done city and a brilliant show of respect from the fans.
Agreed but believe it or not it's 20 years since Diana popped her clogs.I'm getting fed up of football matches being turned into remembrance ceremonies. When did football become the standard bearer for artificial displays of mass grief? What has football got to do with wars? What purpose does it serve? Do the police, paramedics, medical staff, stewards and those others who witnessed and dealt with the terrible events 3 months suddenly feel so much better because 50,000 football fans clapped for a minute.
It seems Diana's death ten years ago turned us into grief junkies, ready to weep and wail en masse for things we only saw on TV about people we didn't know.
I go to games to watch football. If I want to show my respects to someone who's died or the soldiers who gave their lives then I'll go to the funeral, write to the family or go to a Cenotaph ceremony. But nowadays every game turns into a mini-remembrance ceremony for someone most have never heard of or met.
Give it a fucking rest.