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

give it to gordon said:
You arent suggesting ALL football in this country is postponed this weekend due to the dippers !!






PS I agree with you I think the fact that the dippers are at home has influenced this
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It's certainly plausible.

I think at any club there could be a few idiots but any club worried about it could do applause instead of silence. The majority would behave well and drown out or silence the few. Everywhere but....
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Social media expert in full sight.

I saw a site interviewing people outside of Buck Palace about their thoughts about football being cancelled.

One woman said is was right as Selfridges had closed for a day, so football should do the same.

As good a reason as anyone else has come up with.

What would Selfridges do?
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I get the feeling some of those outside the palace are there for the Grief Olympics and are hoping their crying gets them caught on camera.
 
twosips said:
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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That's a very good and well thought-out post. The only thing that spoils it slightly is that yesterday your key complaint seemed to be that the cancellation of the game would involve the loss of some of your income, at a time when you need all you can get with the birth of a little one imminent.

There is a tendency in these days of social media and 24-hour news coverage, to indulge in mass grief over people we never knew and whose death won't impact us in the slightest. Obviously it's different when it's very personal to you but I think the death of a long-serving head of state is something a bit different.

But having thought about it, I'm not sure that cancelling the weekend's football games, when other sports didn't feel the need to do this, was the right thing. But when did the FA ever do the right thing?
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
That's a very good and well thought-out post. The only thing that spoils it slightly is that yesterday your key complaint seemed to be that the cancellation of the game would involve the loss of some of your income, at a time when you need all you can get with the birth of a little one imminent.

There is a tendency in these days of social media and 24-hour news coverage, to indulge in mass grief over people we never knew and whose death won't impact us in the slightest. Obviously it's different when it's very personal to you but I think the death of a long-serving head of state is something a bit different.

But having thought about it, I'm not sure that cancelling the weekend's football games, when other sports didn't feel the need to do this, was the right thing. But when did the FA ever do the right thing?
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I am not sure why another equally valid concern spoils a separate valid concern?
 
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