Is it time to end One Minutes Applause for supporters who have passed.

[Alex the Blue]

I've never been keen on the one minutes applause for supporters who have sadly passed away for whatever reason. However for personal reasons perhaps and because I truly believe he was an exceptional case I thought it would be right for a good friend at Saturday's game against Middlesborough.

The minutes applause prior to the game was well publicised on social media and elsewhere. However come the 60th minute which was the time for it nothing happened and I felt a bit daft clapping away all by myself.

I get the impression most supporters are not in favour of this minute's applause.

We do have the minutes applause at a game over the Christmas period for supporters who passed during the previous year. I think that is sufficient. We are after all attending a football match and not a memorial service.

 

[ell]

Minutes silence every year at Christmas, job done.

 

[Mike N]

Always amazed at how people get so bothered about this. Wouldn't mind if it happened most games . It's a minute and fans can choose to clap or not.

 

[Why Always Ste]

An actual memorial event pre-match at around Christmas time for all fans who have passed during the year would be more adequate in my view.

With former players/staff deserving of a minutes applause when they pass due to their match contribution.
So its more suited to say clap when a former player who would of contributed to fans cheering for city sadly passes away.

With there being so many of us (fans) we'd be having a full on silence thoroughout the whole match (oh wait we already do this, that's why atmosphere is shit haha)

When I pass on I don't want fans sat there all quiet with my name on the screen and whatever else.
Everyone should be cheering and forgetting about death :)

 

[quiet_riot]

Definitely time to sack it.

It's happening more or less every game, and who exactly decides which blues are worthy of a minute's applause of which aren't?

The minute's silence (let's make sure it's silence and not applause) around Christmas is the time to do any reflection, IMHO.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Always amazed at how people get so bothered about this. Wouldn't mind if it happened most games . It's a minute and fans can choose to clap or not.

They'll problem is that it IS starting to happen at most games. I'm pretty sure there have been requests to do one at our last 3 home games and I've already seen one starting to appear on social media for one in the 19th minute of our game at Palace.

 

[cibaman]

They'll problem is that it IS starting to happen at most games. I'm pretty sure there have been requests to do one at our last 3 home games and I've already seen one starting to appear on social media for one in the 19th minute of our game at Palace.

Not surprising really. If you were to estimate the size of City's fanbase and divide it by average life expectancy, then a surprisingly large number of fans (active or previously active before old age and illness) die between every home game.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Definitely time to sack it.

It's happening more or less every game, and who exactly decides which blues are worthy of a minute's applause of which aren't?

The minute's silence (let's make sure it's silence and not applause) around Christmas is the time to do any reflection, IMHO.

Agreed.

Its a relatively new phenomenon anyway,which has 'coincided' with the prominence of social media/faux outrage/professional grief monkeys and chav society in general - its almost become a competition who can display the most sympathy.

I fully support a moment of reflection and respect but id like a return to the days when it was kept more personal and dignified.

 

[Machiavelli]

Agreed.

Its a relatively new phenomenon anyway,which has 'coincided' with the prominence of social media/faux outrage/professional grief monkeys and chav society in general - its almost become a competition who can display the most sympathy.

I fully support a moment of reflection and respect but id like a return to the days when it was kept more personal and dignified.

Perfectly summed up, it's becoming a grieving competition.

 

[wolfie1988]

We'll be clapping through the entire game if some of our fans had their way. Too many grief mongers in society these days. I've no issue with people paying respect, but for all home games this season we've had a prompt for a minutes applause.

It's in danger of becoming tacky. We'll be like the candle bearing dippers soon, grieving the death of a chicken.

The club have always done the minute silence around Xmas and they even list the names of former blues and fans who have passed in that year. Let's leave it like that