Helicopter crash involving Leicester City owners

bobmcfc said:
Maybe, just maybe there are more important things in life than a football match.

Not being insensitive either but this comment is just not needed now or ever.
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Oh, but it is...NOW MORE THAN EVER!

There are more important things in life, like the health and welfare of one’s children, but people die in accidents every day. Should we not celebrate life and walk around with our heads bowed for the rest of our days? Isn’t every life sacred? What of the faceless names that die every day?

As I said, it is tangential, at best, to the rest of the games, but I expect a show of respect. Do we do the same if Hoddle dies of a widow maker? What about Ferguson? Would we have all had to suspend the League for a weekend if he died? Where does it end? Who is too low down the totem pole of moneyed influencers to get a weekend off football...or anything else, for that matter?

This is getting a bit like the clapping at every fucking game because a supporter died. Hypersensitivity gone mad. Everyone trying to “out sensitive” each other.

I feel very badly for everyone involved in EVERY DEATH that takes place, but, seriously, where does it all end? Grief theatre is becoming the norm and everyone has to have some ridiculous fake outpouring of sentiment for someone they couldn’t give a fuck about until they died, then the waterworks get turned on and everyone has to stop what they are doing and genuflect in the general direction of wherever they died.

There are REAL problems in the world and regular people dying horrific deaths, often at the hands of evil people, and we turn a blind eye every day, or turn the channel so we don’t have to see the pictures, or ignore the news reports because, well, it seems to happen every day and you’re having your tea, right?

A Premier League owner dying in his private helicopter crash on his way back to his palatial home after the match isn’t exactly a mournful experience in my life. Certainly wouldn’t wish it on him or anyone else, and I’m sure his family and friends are devastated, as would yours or mine if it were you or me, but it wasn’t. This is a private matter. When did death suddenly come with a healthy dose of tabloid news and faux public outcry?

Let his family take care of their needs, which I’m sure they are more than capable of, and let the rest of the world show respect by leaving them to it and giving them the time, space and lack of public spectacle that might actually show them the respect we all claim we want for them.
 
FantasyIreland said:
Has there been confirmation?

I also find it odd you are singling out an individual for extra sympathy in such a multi casualty incident.
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Tbf probably don’t know any of the others that were on it, makes a difference when you know who the person is.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Oh, but it is...NOW MORE THAN EVER!

There are more important things in life, like the health and welfare of one’s children, but people die in accidents every day. Should we not celebrate life and walk around with our heads bowed for the rest of our days?

As I said, it is tangential, at best, to the rest of the games, but I expect a show of respect. Do we do the same if Hoddle dies of a widow maker? What about Ferguson? Would we have all had to suspend the League for a weekend if he died? Where does it end? Who is too low down the totem pole of moneyed influencers to get a weekend off football...or anything else, for that matter?

This is getting a bit like the clapping at every fucking game because a supporter died. Hypersensitivity gone mad. Everyone trying to “out sensitive” each other.

I feel very badly for everyone involved in EVERY DEATH that takes place, but, seriously, where does it all end? Grief theatre is becoming the norm and everyone has to have some ridiculous fake outpouring of sentiment for someone they couldn’t give a fuck about until they died, then the waterworks get turned on and everyone has to stop what they are doing and genuflect in the general direction of wherever they died.

There are REAL problems in the world and regular people dying horrific deaths, often at the hands of evil people, and we turn a blind eye every day, or turn the channel so we don’t have to see the pictures, or ignore the news reports because, well, it seems to happen every day and you’re having your tea, right?

A Premier League owner dying in his private helicopter crash on his way back to his palatial home after the match isn’t exactly a mournful experience in my life. Certainly wouldn’t wish it on him or anyone else, and I’m sure his family and friends are devastated, as would yours or mine if it were you or me, but it wasn’t. This is a private matter. When did death suddenly come with a healthy dose of tabloid news and faux public outcry?

Let his family take care of their needs, which I’m sure they are more than capable of, and let the rest of the world show respect by leaving them to it and giving them the time, space and lack of public spectacle that might actually show them the respect we all claim we want for them.
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You may be correct, but the timing of your post is very insensitive. We still don't know who was on board for Christ's sake
 
Dreadful, sad news for everyone involved and LCFC as a club. Condolences.

Having seen that helicopter take off, theyre not meant to go up like that are they? It was swinging around in the wind, sad to think there was a possibility to just put ther thing down.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Oh, but it is...NOW MORE THAN EVER!

There are more important things in life, like the health and welfare of one’s children, but people die in accidents every day. Should we not celebrate life and walk around with our heads bowed for the rest of our days? Isn’t every life sacred? What of the faceless names that die every day?

As I said, it is tangential, at best, to the rest of the games, but I expect a show of respect. Do we do the same if Hoddle dies of a widow maker? What about Ferguson? Would we have all had to suspend the League for a weekend if he died? Where does it end? Who is too low down the totem pole of moneyed influencers to get a weekend off football...or anything else, for that matter?

This is getting a bit like the clapping at every fucking game because a supporter died. Hypersensitivity gone mad. Everyone trying to “out sensitive” each other.

I feel very badly for everyone involved in EVERY DEATH that takes place, but, seriously, where does it all end? Grief theatre is becoming the norm and everyone has to have some ridiculous fake outpouring of sentiment for someone they couldn’t give a fuck about until they died, then the waterworks get turned on and everyone has to stop what they are doing and genuflect in the general direction of wherever they died.

There are REAL problems in the world and regular people dying horrific deaths, often at the hands of evil people, and we turn a blind eye every day, or turn the channel so we don’t have to see the pictures, or ignore the news reports because, well, it seems to happen every day and you’re having your tea, right?

A Premier League owner dying in his private helicopter crash on his way back to his palatial home after the match isn’t exactly a mournful experience in my life. Certainly wouldn’t wish it on him or anyone else, and I’m sure his family and friends are devastated, as would yours or mine if it were you or me, but it wasn’t. This is a private matter. When did death suddenly come with a healthy dose of tabloid news and faux public outcry?

Let his family take care of their needs, which I’m sure they are more than capable of, and let the rest of the world show respect by leaving them to it and giving them the time, space and lack of public spectacle that might actually show them the respect we all claim we want for them.
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Excellent post
 
Armaan said:
Tbf probably don’t know any of the others that were on it, makes a difference when you know who the person is.
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Do you know him? I’m sorry for your loss. I agree it is very different when you know someone personally.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
More hypersensitivity.
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Pigeonho said:
Why are you being an idiot? You know what he means.
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Oh, so he doesn’t know him?

Oh, you mean he has seen him in Telly and now feels some kind of kinship with him? Fuck, he must absolutely be gutted when they do the In Memoriam at the Oscars every year!

This is what I’m talking about. The cult of grief and celebrity meet and we all have to stop what we are doing and shed a tear for people we have no connection to whatsoever?

As I said at the outset, I’m gutted for his family and friends, because I’m sure they are going through a very bad time, but seriously.....
 
As ridiculous as it sounds from what I've read this was actually incredibly lucky. It seems as though it went down in the staff car park where nobody was as most staff were still working.
Thinking about how busy the general public car parks are half an hour or so after the game at The Etihad it doesn't bare thinking about if it had come down in one of those.
 
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