All fair points, but do you truly think 20,000 blokes chanting 'you're 5hit and you know you are' is how we want to show the world what her Maj meant to us?
Fair enough, but not sure 4pm at a test match after 10,000 blokes have been drinking since 11am is much better!
I had to leave Chelsea and go to Peter Jones on Kings Road to buy myself a new set of clothes to change in to in the shop this year! It's a long story!
Apparently they’ve banned fancy dress tomorrow at the cricket. Can’t have that during a national mourning period…
I’m pondering how far the inflation on the one minutes silence will go to . We had two minutes silence at the football for 9/11 massacre . Obviously the Queen dieing is far worse than several thousand people burning and being crushed to death to the point tat some threw themselves out of a window half a mile up with nothing but a mattress to protect them . So I’m putting my money on 3 minutes silence .
98 overs per day. So 3 days plus (near enough) one session if the light/weather holds. Saffers are flying home on Tuesday, apparently.
What a disgusting lack of respect! Communist! Traitor to the Union Jack! It's half an hour silence and then another half hour of clapping before ANY match or I'll have the mob round to put your windows through.
Extremely strong irony in whining about non-existent 'bedwetting' on here whilst being so triggered that not everyone has exactly the same devotedly subservient relationship with the idea of monarchy as you do that you cannot stop yourself producing this twaddle.
This is where lots of people get misled - you're looking at income, and income is often a drop in the ocean compared to wealth.
I’m quite surprised rugby was not called off but things like golf and cricket would not be postponed, they would be cancelled as it’s almost impossible to get all the players back due to other matches and tournaments. I understand people wanting football but comparing her passing to Prince Phillip or Di just doesn’t work. The Queen was one of a kind who put an enormous amount of effort in to many things and was still working two days before her death. There are millions who wish to mourn her and with that comes a police operation which will be huge and maybe that affects football. The game will still be played though for me the correct decision. Just my opinion though
Of course you are entitled to your opinion and, if there are genuine operational and security issues with policing the top games, then it is certainly a valid one. But that does not explain the decision to postpone amateur and youth football. Kids running around on a football pitch is not disrespectful to anyone imho. I think it's a knee jerk reaction from the football authorities that has been ill thought out and looks bizarre when compared to the choices of other sports bodies and the entertainment business in general.
There will be tributes at some point so they will have to take the risk someone might be disruptive eventually if that is what they are concerned about .
It does look awfully like the Premier League wanted to be first with the big announcement and fully expected everyone else to fall in behind them, only to find that rugby, cricket, golf and horse racing authorities thought differently. We're now in the very odd position where there's the possibility some, if not all, Premier League games are postponed next weekend because of the proximity to the funeral and the potential strain on emergency services. Then there's an international break and so the first chance some clubs might have to show their respects with a silence or applause won't be until October.
Lucky we don't have a winter international tournament like AFCON forcing the schedule to be condensed. Oh wait
Just listened to the preliminaries to the Test Match. I’m no monarchist but the silence and then the anthems, followed by about 2 minutes of applause, was quite moving. Football really has dropped a bollock here.
As I said a bit earlier, surely the PL would be the least likely to want it given the vast majority of their audience any given weekend is abroad? Smacks of old buffers at the FA to me.
Just been watching on Sky. Packed Oval and as you say, the formalities were perfectly judged and impeccably observed (I think that's the required phrase for such occasions?). Sensible of the cricket authorities to prevent people attending in fancy dress and I suspect they may close the bars in the afternoon, as they do sometimes when they sense the atmosphere is getting too raucous. But it seems like the cricket-watching public have been trusted to mark the passing of the Queen appropriately.
The Royal Family is kindof a low level cult that at least 40% of the population are opposed to. That's why we have all this exaggerated fake grieving, cancelled football matches, pomp and ceremony: to try and keep the other 60% towing the line to protect the British elite's centuries old iron grip on the nation Im on the fence really, I despise the monarchy, the British elite, the class system, the public school system and the lack of meritocracy whilst at the same time recognising that having a head of state in any way connected to politics would give even more power to our corrupt, self-serving political class. Having the army and secret services pledge allegience to the monarch rather than the government is an important distinction. But I've still never forgiven the Queen for not going into mourning when Tupac died.
