Did anyone watch the Burnley v Leicester game on Sky today? If you did what did you think of the of the minutes silence before the game? Apparently this is something they do every January, and the reason they do it is to commemorate the memory of anyone to do with Burnley FC who have passed away in the previous year. This is players, staff or supporters, in fact anyone connected to the club, and they put their names up on the big screen for all to see and remember. I think this is an excellent idea and that maybe we should consider doing something similar at WFC, in fact maybe it could be done at all Football clubs? What do you guys think?
Seems unnecessary to me. Why pretend that you care that a load of strangers died? People die all the time, I don't pore through the obituaries every week in case some Watford fan died and then sit in silence over my cereal to honour them if I find one.
It’s a nice touch. Do they bother to wear black armbands and honour anyone that would normally get recognition through the season ? If not and they just do it once a year it might become a thing across the board Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The minutes silences we generally hold are either when someone connected to the club passes away, important to the town, world of football, or a national disaster recently occurred! Yes a very good idea for supporters to reflect for a minute on their loved ones who have passed away in the last 12 months!
Good god no. We still haven't been able to fully let go of Taylor yet, we'd end up flooding the ground.
I think it's a good idea to remember supporters, some of which would have given a lot of years of support to the club, in a way like this rather than just people who worked for the club. Why shouldn't we remember fans as well as staff. Once a season like Burnley have done is a nice touch
Can't people remember by themselves then? Why do they need a football club to remind them their loved ones are dead? I guess it would be a good idea for people who die utterly alone with no friends or family, but everyone else? Why?
I like Burnley's idea but wonder if it would be more inclusive and diverse if they extended their minute's silence to the memory of everyone who has died since the beginning of time - not just people connected with Burnley FC who have popped their clogs in the past 12 months. I think that would be a real statement
They did everyone since the beginning of time in the first one I imagine. Then the last 12 months each year since then.
And to answer the OP, no, not for me. There are already too many minute's silences at football matches. The answer is to get rid of almost all of them, not add more.
Not sure the screen would cope. They’d have got to Barabbus or something when the game would have to kick off.
At Sheffield United they have a list of 'Blades lost along the way' as the players do the end of season lap of honour after the last home game. My wife was quite choked when her dads name appeared on the screen, but I did think that was a nice and suitable nod to the fallen without making it too big a deal.
I think that's a better idea than a minutes silence which seems a little disingenuous to me. Seems more fitting to put it at the end of the season when the feeling is about reflection on the season
We're getting to the stage where there's less matches without a minutes silence than with. Whilst it's a good idea, if everyone did it, it sort of takes the shine off of what Burnley do, so it's a no from me. If it's done too much, it loses its significance. Remembrance Sunday (or as close to as possible) and if someone significant to the club passes only.
Nope. I go to football to watch football and enjoy it. I am not interested in depressing myself thinking about everyone who's passed away that year. They are dead they will not gain anything from my "thoughts". Specific events are enough.
Agreed. A minutes silence is on everyone and seems disingenuous as mentioned elsewhere. A scroll of names on a screen is nice for those to watch and give thought to if they so wish.
The first thing I read in the Rothmans/Sky/whatever Football Yearbook is the obituary section to find out which of the players of my youth have left us. The scary thing will be when I find that most of the players who have died I remember from my middle age.
Me at 14:55; ‘Wheeeeyyyyy I’m a bit drunk, Football! Football! Football! At 15:00 ‘I never got to tell my grandad how much I loved him.... Oh have we scored? He’d have loved that.....’ Don’t see the point personally.
Make sure the Daily Heil and Express know about this so they can run a campaign so that every club can do this. TBF we'd have to go some way to 'beat' Hearts's commemoration.
I've contacted Burnley, whilst it was hard to understand a word they said on the telephone I got the general message. Also something about n'owt owt barn cake bob on duck. Quite simply, they'll go down a tier to find a supporter and then if that fails, a supporters cat or dog. If they cant find that they pick at random, someone from the crowd and hang em on the spot. Doris on the phone was keen to stress this hasn't occured since Jack Claret in 1907, which is where the nickname comes from. In 2017 they last commemorated only a cat. Dychey the ginger Tom who lived in the offices at Turf Moor.
