I guess they see it as an opportunity to specifically mourn those related to City who died in the wars. Literally every other club does it as far as I know. Christ, can you imagine the grief we’d get in the media if we didn’t?! Tbh, think it’s a bit weird that you’re questioning it.
Whats odd is having a remembrance day on what is not remembrance sunday (or weekend) and them some folks complaining that some fans didn't adhere to it or behaved in a way that wasn't acceptable to them.
As you say, each to their own.
No it is'nt.....Getting like the famous Monty Python sketch "Is this the right room for an argument?"
He shouted “we will remember them” to be fair.Who was the prick who shouted out in SS3 just before the last post?
We are at Anfield next week so expect quite a fewI'm not on about remememberence sunday in this quote or the brave men and women who have died during conflicts involving our country i always buy a poppy and go to the cenotaph to pay my respects.
My personel issue is we have a minutes silence for everything now. Joe bloggs he played in 1926 or the tea ladys cat died last week etc etc. WE SHOULD hold and observe a minutes silence for remembeance sunday, tragedies like emiliano sala" etc, otherwise it loses what it's supposed to be about, my personal opinion but every week there seems something we need to observe
Jonny Prick.Who was the prick who shouted out in SS3 just before the last post?
Yes it goes wrong every year because the announcer never tells the crowd beforehand that the silence commences immediately after the Last Post finishes. Same as last year certain parts of the crowd began to clap as if applauding the bugler for his playing and the moment lost. A correctly observed silence is extremely poignant.We didn’t have a silence today, everyone in the stands started clapping after The Last Post when that’s not what you’re supposed to do as that’s when we’re supposed to have a two minutes’ silence.
But I do agree, people should be in their seats earlier for these things in general.
Perhaps he's questioning it because these things these days grow arms and legs, it's become Remembrance November and drags on for weeks. It should just be held on the weekend of Remembrance Sunday and if we are not at home then so be it, we would likely be at home for the next one the following year.
What has it got to do with football anyway?
I because of the all the footballers that took part joined up and fought in both World Wars. A bit like my works will hold a remembrance silence on the 11th for all the bus company employees that died in the wars .
You are fortunate that those who died didn't fight to a strict timetable. Grow up and stop being a dick.Well do it at the away game then ?
Correct. The names of Blues who have died that year shown are flashed on the scoreboards and some are even mentioned over tha PA such as Alan Henning a taxi driver from Salford helping others and beheaded by ISIS for his troubles.Load of bollocks.
We have always, same as every club, recognised the "fallen" on the nearest day to November 11th (today in our case).
We also don't "remember all those loved ones who have passed" at the end of the season, we do it at the nearest game to the end of the calendar year.
Quicker to say scouserJonny Prick.
Lives at number 12 Prick Rd in Prick town, Prickston.
I made a comment about it being a bit early when it got announced. But then realised it was last home game before 11th . Not sure how many others only realised the minutes silence was happening after getting insidenot sure if fans on the concourse having a pint realised it was the remembrance before KO.
perhaps club should have turned off sky report on tv screens and put a note on there, also shut the bars down 10 minutes early. A full stadium without noise from the concourse would have been far better
We didn’t have a silence. It was the last post then everyone wrongly clapped for about ten seconds then the game kicked off.Some people have taken my thread out of context , it has nothing to do with the date of the silence etc., it was the inability of our stewards to make the late comers aware of the silence ,we as a club were superb on Saturday against Southampton , maybe i am being pedantic but i believe we could do better to stop the noise on the concoures / bars etc when a silence is taking place
Would they be the same two faced Littlewoods fans that booed during the silence for George Best at our place? We spent days afterwards listening to rags in the media wrongly blaming City supporters for the disrespect.Sadly, we haven't always respected silences.
I was at Anfield sat in the Liverpool end with my missus when Carl Griffiths scored in the opening minute?
It was the silence for the passing of Matt Busby and it's fair to say it wasn't respected by plenty of our knuckle draggers.
The Liverpool fans all booed us, quite rightly, and it was shameful to be a blue.
I remember how outraged we all were when Everton fans disrespected the silence for Joe Mercer, a former player for them, too.