Sick of minutes silence/applause at football matches

Can anyone recall when it started that we as a nation would do a minutes applause instead of silence? Was it when George Best died?
 
But why? If you want to pay respects to those who've died in wars, there's an opportunity to do that on Remembrance Sunday, or at a local service. Do they have a minute's silence at the theatre, or at the cinema on Remembrance Sunday? I'm pretty sure they don't. So why at a football match?
Why not ?
 
Yet another thread for moaning Blues.

It’s about respect, usually for members of the City family. It’s not about ‘being told what to do’. You either take part or you don’t. Easy.

I’m well up for as many minute’s silences or claps, especially if it winds up some of the absolute lunatics on here.
Bang on mate, some right miserable fuckers on here, Victor Meldrew has got nowt on some of them.
 
I often wonder how long will rememberence day go on for.
I also wonder why the Crimean War, Boer War, Trafalgar and Waterloo battles were not included at the time? Interesting that the distance between Trafalgar and WW1 is the same (ish) as WW1 and now.
In 100 years time (assuming the planet hasn't blown itself up) will anyone care about wars in the 20th century?

Presumably WW1 was just so much bigger and worse than anything that had come before it, and involved the public at home in a way no war before had, that the whole Rememberance Day tradition started in 1920 specifically for it.

Then there's no point adding another day for WW2, so you just end up adding every subsequent conflict.

Maybe it's also to do with the change in perception of dying in a war? Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori and all that.
 
Can anyone recall when it started that we as a nation would do a minutes applause instead of silence? Was it when George Best died?
Can't recall exactly when but I'd say it was around the time thatcher died.
There had been a few silences around the country for various folk who had passed where disruptions occurred.
I think the applause was brought in because it allowed the dissenters to make a noise but they (it was to be hoped) would be drowned out by the majority clapping.
In thatcher's case I have no idea if tributes went ahead across the land. I'm sure the good people of former mining, ship building and steel towns would have loved the opportunity to "pay their respects".
 

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