Gunnersaurus Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 I dont personally agree with cancelling the games. I dont agree with a two minutes silence either. One minute is enough. I get that people like the monarchy but there are loads of people dying all over the world. However if there is a logistical reason for some games to be cancelled then that is fair enough. But I doubt they had to cancel all of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Ridiculous decision in my opinion. If people want to mourn then go ahead but the world stopping isn't going to help anyone. Just builds more resentment towards the monarchy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted September 9, 2022 Author Administrator Share Posted September 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, 6666 said: Ridiculous decision in my opinion. If people want to mourn then go ahead but the world stopping isn't going to help anyone. Just builds more resentment towards the monarchy. It's not the monarchy that have decided this, to be fair. So resentment in their direction is misguided/misplaced. Government were happy to allow organisers to decide. So this is on PL/FA and any club that voted for the postponements. My hunch is that those that did vote in favour, were worried about how it would look IF other sports cancelled and PL went ahead. As it is, cricket resumes tomorrow and rugby fixtures are being played. So PL have messed up here themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewolf Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Talk of cancelling next weeks fixtures as well now... That's really going to put pressure on the fixture list schedule that is already crammed due to the World Cup... they are saying that this weekends fixtures might not be played until January 17th/18th in midweek.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 17 minutes ago, Stan said: It's not the monarchy that have decided this, to be fair. So resentment in their direction is misguided/misplaced. Government were happy to allow organisers to decide. So this is on PL/FA and any club that voted for the postponements. My hunch is that those that did vote in favour, were worried about how it would look IF other sports cancelled and PL went ahead. As it is, cricket resumes tomorrow and rugby fixtures are being played. So PL have messed up here themselves. It is misguided but that's where the resentment will go as it puts out the message how the world needs to stop for them. Not really their fault but their name is on it. And I agree about the PL worrying about how it would look if they were the only ones going ahead with things. Shows that the people running things are cowards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 55 minutes ago, Bluewolf said: Talk of cancelling next weeks fixtures as well now... That's really going to put pressure on the fixture list schedule that is already crammed due to the World Cup... they are saying that this weekends fixtures might not be played until January 17th/18th in midweek.. There is going to be torn hamstrings galore come that period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 3 hours ago, Bluewolf said: Talk of cancelling next weeks fixtures as well now... That's really going to put pressure on the fixture list schedule that is already crammed due to the World Cup... they are saying that this weekends fixtures might not be played until January 17th/18th in midweek.. Given the amount of public resources that will go in to ensuring the safety of all these key world figures flying over for the funeral (that will be staying in different areas across the country) I think there's even less chance of football going ahead next weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N U F C Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 I agree that I don’t think it’ll be on next weekend either. Followed by an international break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunnersaurus Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 5 hours ago, 6666 said: Ridiculous decision in my opinion. If people want to mourn then go ahead but the world stopping isn't going to help anyone. Just builds more resentment towards the monarchy. Is there that much resentment towards the monarchy though? I think a huge majority of brits support the monarchy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted September 9, 2022 Subscriber Share Posted September 9, 2022 On 08/09/2022 at 20:13, Cicero said: Matches cancelled. That was the only way we were going to avoid defeat I think. I think Villa have their problems but we're in an astounding level of disarray I've not seen since... latter day Ranieri? It's arguably even worse than that. Tough for Villa that. We might be a totally different proposition by the time this is played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted September 9, 2022 Subscriber Share Posted September 9, 2022 30 minutes ago, Gunnersaurus said: Is there that much resentment towards the monarchy though? I think a huge majority of brits support the monarchy. It's very overblown by social media like most things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Gunnersaurus said: Is there that much resentment towards the monarchy though? I think a huge majority of brits support the monarchy. Huge majority don't care either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunnersaurus Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Just now, 6666 said: Huge majority don't care either way. I think it's something like 80% support the monarchy. But yeah I would imagine most dont really care that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted September 10, 2022 Subscriber Share Posted September 10, 2022 12 hours ago, Cicero said: I don’t get it. We’re all okay to go to work, but we’re not okay to enjoy football on the weekend. I'm coming round to this thinking. I think football went a bit early on this given the rugby and the cricket are still on. There's no obvious guideline but for me it should've been all or nothing - I think they assumed everyone would follow them and it hasn't happened. We're in for the fourth season on the bounce of silly fixture congestion. We probably were anyway with the World Cup but sheesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 5 hours ago, Dan said: I'm coming round to this thinking. I think football went a bit early on this given the rugby and the cricket are still on. There's no obvious guideline but for me it should've been all or nothing - I think they assumed everyone would follow them and it hasn't happened. We're in for the fourth season on the bounce of silly fixture congestion. We probably were anyway with the World Cup but sheesh. I dont see how they could have guaranteed the safety of matchday going fans to an adequate standard with the abstractions of all emergency services for their equivalent of Operation London Bridge. If football clubs are not in a position to have a sufficent emergency services response to a worst case scenario such as terrorist attack then it may be deemed irresponsible by the football governing body to go ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFCMike Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 The safety and emergency services thing would make sense if they hadn't cancelled grass roots football as well. Plus other sporting events are still going ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted September 10, 2022 Author Administrator Share Posted September 10, 2022 45 minutes ago, LFCMike said: The safety and emergency services thing would make sense if they hadn't cancelled grass roots football as well. Plus other sporting events are still going ahead. Those kids can get really rowdy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 Football has been humiliated by rugby and cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted September 10, 2022 Subscriber Share Posted September 10, 2022 7 hours ago, The Palace Fan said: I dont see how they could have guaranteed the safety of matchday going fans to an adequate standard with the abstractions of all emergency services for their equivalent of Operation London Bridge. If football clubs are not in a position to have a sufficent emergency services response to a worst case scenario such as terrorist attack then it may be deemed irresponsible by the football governing body to go ahead. I still think what I've said applies to a degree given rugby & cricket are still on - albeit I would also have them down as maybe less risky but do you draw the boundary of off and on between a football game and a rugby game? I expect next weeks to be off as well if this is the reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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