Chelsea-Liverpool, United-Leeds, Brighton-Palace all off, rest of the games on (pg 128)

Citizen of Legoland said:
Yes, those games are part of the same round of games, though, although actually the football authorities have just said games won’t go ahead from 9th - 11th so they can resume Monday onwards.
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Unlike the horse racing and cricket then,poor from the football authorities no matter which way it’s looked at,ah well gonna be a longer season than we’d all expected
 
The Northern Baptist said:
It’s actually mad the amount of grown men in this thread moaning about a weekends football being cancelled. Is your life that dumbed down and devoid of anything else that a game being postponed affects you so much?
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Kicking off good style in my house, her indoors going apeshit with no Corry, Emmerdale or Eastenders.
 
meeesh said:
Unlike the horse racing and cricket then,poor from the football authorities no matter which way it’s looked at,ah well gonna be a longer season than we’d all expected
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The cricket season is nearing its end and is difficult to rearrange games due to weather issues in September, can’t speak for racing but I guess the horses are prepared for races weeks in advance so that’s an issue. I don’t think comparing what each sport chooses to do is the correct way to look at it. Also, the football authorities did canvas opinion from the clubs and went with the majority view, I understand. Seems fair to me.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
The cricket season is nearing its end and is difficult to rearrange games due to weather issues in September, can’t speak for racing but I guess the horses are prepared for races weeks in advance so that’s an issue. I don’t think comparing what each sport chooses to do is the correct way to look at it. Also, the football authorities did canvas opinion from the clubs and went with the majority view, I understand. Seems fair to me.
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Said the same. Cricket has 2 weekends left no alternatives.
I genuinely understand the Prem and the EFL cancelling fixtures but not sure why they've cancelled junior football.
 
At first I thought it was the correct thing to do.

But thinking about it now I think it's the wrong decision and was taken in hast.

All football postponed, so no kids grassroots football. Smaller clubs will have to cancel their food orders, meaning the suppliers lose money.
The part time stewards, bar staff etc all lose money.
Alot of people down the 'food' chain will be hit financially just as the cost of living is on the up.

Fans will lose £100's on travel and possibly hotels.

It seems to me that the fa and premier league didnt think about the costs to the normal working people employed in football or the fans.

Is this how the queen would want the general public to suffer on her passing ?

Makes you wonder if the decision was based more on the fact that William prince of Wales is their president.

I feel that football fans have missed out on showing their respect to the queen. No point doing it next weekend some 8 days later.

Football should be going ahead this weekend.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
She gave us 70 years.

The least the public can do is give up a weekend of football.

I don't think many can quite comprehend what a huge moment in time this is, irrespective of your own viewpoint.

It's bigger than any sport, stuff our great grandchildren will be reading about in school 100 years from now.

Certainly not did City fuck up again at home to Spurs this weekend.
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If people have to keep explaining why it's such a big deal, then maybe they're not realising just how much things have changed. It quite simply isn't a big deal for many, many people, myself included. Historically I get why it is, I suppose, but it absolutely doesn't feel like it's something I'll ever care about because there is simply no emotional attachment to the royal family for lots of people.

This is nothing more than the passing of another famous person for many of us. Admittedly an ultra famous person, probably the most famous person in the world, but still just that. She did her job very well and many people obviously love her, but I don't think it's unfair to say that the overriding feeling for an awful lot of people is that her passing will not change their lives in any way at all. A trending news topic, 'aww that's sad, she seemed nice', and that's it. Life cracked on almost immediately

She didn't 'give' many of us anything. At least that's how it feels. The monarchy feels incredibly antiquated, out of touch, and basically unimportant, for many people these days. Lots of the younger generation just see it all as tourism boosting, and vaguely know about her knighting people etc, and maybe the queen's speech (which I've genuinely never watched, because why would I? There's good films on and it's Christmas day...) - none of these things are going to particularly inspire passionate feelings are they?

To me, and I'm genuinely not trying to be disrespectful, because fuck me I can't be arsed with a cancelling, City finally beating Spurs would be a more memorable day. It really would. Because City have a direct impact on my life and football is something I think about every day. I think of the Queen absolutely never, unless she was all over the news, because she had absolutely no bearing on my day to day life in any shape or form whatsoever. At very least that's the perception for many. If people want to argue that isn't true, then go for it, but that isn't my fault. It's a result of the increasingly detached relevance the royal family have to modern society.

To be honest, maybe you're right. Maybe it is a big deal, but not in the way you think it is. Maybe it's real significance is that her passing will slowly signify the end of the monarchy as something of any relevance at all in the modern age. Historic, yes, but particularly emotional and pertinent to many of us? Nope. I think it's quite telling how many people are upset over football being cancelled. If this really had shook the nation, no one would be arsed about it being off, but ultimately it just hasn't. Vast majority cracked on with their day within half hour I'd guess. Sorry if this bothers anyone. Just trying to explain what it feels like on the other side.
 
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