The government guidance gave a steer to only cancel events on the day of the funeral, which would be a good respectful gesture.
This premier league move seems to go to far imo. Is everything in limbo for the next week or so?
It really gets my goat that it’s only ever sport, and especially football, that gets treated like this. Clothes shops will stay open (perhaps not on the day of the funeral), sex shops will stay open selling giant dildos and what have you, pubs will be open, parliament will sit, tv stations will broadcast (albeit endless guff about HM, but also repeats of Star Trek), kebab shops won’t shut, airports will stay open full of people flying off on holiday, we’ll all still go into work, the only thing that’ll get stopped outside of the actual day of the funeral is major sporting events.
It’s like taking the knee, football did that for over a year. Parliament did not start with all MPs taking the knee, newsreaders didn’t start their broadcasts with a knee taking, working days up and down the country didn’t do it. Only football. And here again, the same shit. It seems to me that football supporters are regarded as some kind of subhumans that need messages beating into their simple brains to improve them.
Sorry for the rant, I forked out £20 for a NowTV pass that’s now going to waste so obviously I’m upset, and the queen is dead too which only makes things worse.
