55th minute applause at tomorrow’s game

[Zacman2]

The wolves one was for a young lad who passed away at  a young age he was my brothers friend as for Daz he was a life long Leicester fan .my son lost his friend the other year & we organised one at the Leicester vs Everton game it went really well & meant so much to his mum & dad if you don’t want to clap don’t join in are you being callous you decide but I know it helped a family of a young lad who at 16 & had been given the all clear a month before to tragically die from a brain hemmorage .a lot of people find comfort in the little things maybe one day that will organise one for yourself & nobody will clap or care who knows  .m, I know I will be clapping twice as loud now .

[Dr The Singh]

When I die, I want a minutes clap for every.minute I lived, hopefully I will live till 96.

[kyleolly]

3 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

When I die, I want a minutes clap for every.minute I lived, hopefully I will live till 96.

I will clap for a minute for every time you’ve had the clap hopefully it’s a cup game that goes into extra time 😂

[NFPOUT]

its nice to know who and what the applause is for, Daz was a freind of mine so hopefully it will take off tomorrow.

[Voll Blau]

28 minutes ago, MPH said:

you bunch of miserable buggers.

 

 

 

clap if you want to, don’t clap if you don’t want to. if you’ve not lost a loved one  who you went to games with on a weekly basis for many years and are not going through some grief then you probably won’t understand will you?

 

 

 

no need to be arsoles about it.

Oh here we go. Most people on this forum have probably lost someone close to them who they went to games with.

 

Not wanting to get involved in gestures like this doesn't mean you can't empathise with people going through grief FFS.

[HighPeakFox]

Nobody is being an arsehole - I see all sides of this. Condolences to the OP and all concerned.

[kyleolly]

3 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Oh here we go. Most people on this forum have probably lost someone close to them who they went to games with.

 

Not wanting to get involved in gestures like this doesn't mean you can't empathise with people going through grief FFS.

I think the grief is very raw Daz was a great bloke and his passing has hit our local community quite hard with the suddenness of his death this post wasn’t meant to be about my mates death is worse than your mates death I just wanted people to be aware of the situation. I was at the the wolves game and didn’t know what the minutes applause was for so realise that a lot won’t join in that’s fine but the people who knew Daz and loved him will applaud and if anybody wants to join us they’re more than welcome to do so 💙

[Voll Blau]

Just now, kyleolly said:

I think the grief is very raw Daz was a great bloke and his passing has hit our local community quite hard with the suddenness of his death this post wasn’t meant to be about my mates death is worse than your mates death I just wanted people to be aware of the situation. I was at the the wolves game and didn’t know what the minutes applause was for so realise that a lot won’t join in that’s fine but the people who knew Daz and loved him will applaud and if anybody wants to join us they’re more than welcome to do so 💙

I don't doubt it mate. Please don't get too disheartened if it doesn't take off - like you say the main thing is the people who knew and cared for him remembering him in their own way.

[Guest Manini]

I think it’s unfair to call people arseholes for providing valid points as to why they disagree with something. That’s not what this forum is about in any way shape or form. 

 

Deepest condolences to the OP. I won’t be at the game on Saturday so I can’t join in (or not join in for that matter), but I’ll have a thought for you and your mate Daz whilst I have a beer whilst watching the highlights. 

[MPH]

1 hour ago, Voll Blau said:

Oh here we go. Most people on this forum have probably lost someone close to them who they went to games with.

 

Not wanting to get involved in gestures like this doesn't mean you can't empathise with people going through grief FFS.

 

 

it’s the insensitive need to point out in here how miserable you are that’s the unnecessary part.

[Manwell Pablo]

2 hours ago, MPH said:

you bunch of miserable buggers.

 

 

 

clap if you want to, don’t clap if you don’t want to. if you’ve not lost a loved one  who you went to games with on a weekly basis for many years and are not going through some grief then you probably won’t understand will you?

 

 

 

no need to be arsoles about it.

 

Absolutely embarrassing and condensing post. No one has been an arsehole about it at all. All I can see is reasonable points as to why they think it’s not something they can get on board with. This is a forum and people are entitled to their opinion.

 

They’re are plenty of posters on here who have lost loved ones, friends, in fact a few of us on here have been around long enough to remember losing a very prominent poster on here who many knew in person die at a much younger age leaving behind a very young family. Amazingly, no one asked for a standing ovation at a home game.  

 

Out of order my friend, I thought much better of you than that. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Danno]

8 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

Absolutely embarrassing and condensing post. No one has been an arsehole about it at all. All I can see is reasonable points as to why they think it’s not something they can get on board with. This is a forum and people are entitled to their opinion.

 

They’re are plenty of posters on here who have lost loved ones, friends, in fact a few of us on here have been around long enough to remember losing a very prominent poster on here who many knew in person die at a much younger age leaving behind a very young family. Amazingly, no one asked for a standing ovation at a home game.  

 

Out of order my friend, I thought much better of you than that. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who was this out of interest? 

[Manwell Pablo]

14 minutes ago, DanNDH88 said:

Who was this out of interest? 

 

No offence intended but  none of your business and not something I’m going to post about on a public forum now full of people who don’t know him from Adam  out of respect for his family,

 

 

[kyleolly]

2 hours ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

Absolutely embarrassing and condensing post. No one has been an arsehole about it at all. All I can see is reasonable points as to why they think it’s not something they can get on board with. This is a forum and people are entitled to their opinion.

 

They’re are plenty of posters on here who have lost loved ones, friends, in fact a few of us on here have been around long enough to remember losing a very prominent poster on here who many knew in person die at a much younger age leaving behind a very young family. Amazingly, no one asked for a standing ovation at a home game.  

 

Out of order my friend, I thought much better of you than that. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t even think it’s something that people need to get on board with even if our fans were in their seat and knocked a clapper against their leg on the 55th minute to create a noise that would be nice

[Guest Cujek]

It's one minuete out of your miserable existance, to help some fellow human beings through a hard time, at a place you should be making noise anyway. 

 

Get over it and just clap. 

 

And yes just clap anything else in the future as well, we are all on this earth together in the same situation just trying to get by, scraping a living, under constant attack from people who want to bleed us dry. 

 

If we was all a bit ****ing nicer to each other then perhaps it would be easier. 

 

Just look at what is going on in the world at the moment and think to your self, is clapping for a minuete for fan of the same club I have love for such a bad thing, really? 

[Gordon the Great]

14 hours ago, AKCJ said:

Would be a nice idea if the club could add something into the remembrance day fixture where fans names are perhaps read out with their pictures on the big screen or something?

That`s a Great idea ,or maybe the last game of every season as a background to  Birches run, though I know that cannot go on much longer.I  would imagine someone from the club will pick up the mantle.

[CosbehFox]

Out of interest here, in your own circumstances what would you think of strangers clapping in your memory? 

 

Personally I would find it a bit hollow. The only connecting thread being we support the same football club. 

[Guest Cujek]

21 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Out of interest here, in your own circumstances what would you think of strangers clapping in your memory? 

 

Personally I would find it a bit hollow. The only connecting thread being we support the same football club. 

You would be dead so what would it matter to you? 

 

To the people left behind its comfort and support. 

 

I don't understand this, well I didn't know them attitude. 

 

So what?

 

Just do something nice for someone else, it don't cost owt. 

[CosbehFox]

4 minutes ago, Cujek said:

You would be dead so what would it matter to you? 

 

To the people left behind its comfort and support. 

 

I don't understand this, well I didn't know them attitude. 

 

So what?

 

Just do something nice for someone else, it don't cost owt. 

It’s a theological question and I haven’t said what I’ll choose to do in the ground today. 

 

People deal with grief in different ways and it’s personal to individual people.

[Guest Cujek]

26 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

It’s a theological question and I haven’t said what I’ll choose to do in the ground today. 

 

People deal with grief in different ways and it’s personal to individual people.

It's not theogical it's humanist, someone asks for a small from everyone which turns into a massive gesture from the whole crowd. 

 

Everytime this subject turns up it triggers people, you say the only thing connecting you and the person is the football club. 

 

Well isn't that a pretty big connection to have? I know Leicester City is a massive part of my life that I like to share with as many as possible. If we look to shut ourselves off from each other just because we perceive to not know them then we have already lost. 

 

I'm not bothered who claps and who doesn't all I'm saying is, why be against it? Many at the ground won't even know what they are even clapping for but it will create an energy that someone else can take comfort in. 

 

I would clap and whoop and holler for the entire 90 mins, but I look like a werdo and people wouldn't be able to hear them selves moan about that iancho waste of money (or what ever they are moaning about behind me) 

 

I just wish we were all a little kinder to each other, perhaps then the world wouldn't be in such a mess and we could get one with dealing with the real problems, not fighting each other and worrying what Kim Kardashion has on her feet. 

[lcfclcfc1]

15 hours ago, Xen said:

Condolences to OP and Darren's family.

 

However, I'm with those who think a minutes applause isn't entirely suitable. For me, it's something that should only be reserved for those very special circumstances - such as when someone close/integral to the club passes (i.e. Vichai, an esteemed club legend, or even in rare cases notable fans like Bradley Lowery), or potentially if a fan tragically dies at the match, as has happened before.

 

 

I'd rather see us turn the last home game of each season into a 'remembrance' fixture, with a minute or two of applause whilst the names of Leicester fans who left us during the season are displayed on the big screens. (Edit: Good timing, @AKCJ, just beat me to the same suggestion, almost word for word  )

I seem to remember WBA do a roll of honour once a year with fans names mentioned and also and ex players. Condolences to the family

[shade]

8 minutes ago, Cujek said:

It's not theogical it's humanist, someone asks for a small from everyone which turns into a massive gesture from the whole crowd. 

 

Everytime this subject turns up it triggers people, you say the only thing connecting you and the person is the football club. 

 

Well isn't that a pretty big connection to have? I know Leicester City is a massive part of my life that I like to share with as many as possible. If we look to shut ourselves off from each other just because we perceive to not know them then we have already lost. 

 

I'm not bothered who claps and who doesn't all I'm saying is, why be against it? Many at the ground won't even know what they are even clapping for but it will create an energy that someone else can take comfort in. 

 

I would clap and whoop and holler for the entire 90 mins, but I look like a werdo and people wouldn't be able to hear them selves moan about that iancho waste of money (or what ever they are moaning about behind me) 

 

I just wish we were all a little kinder to each other, perhaps then the world wouldn't be in such a mess and we could get one with dealing with the real problems, not fighting each other and worrying what Kim Kardashion has on her feet. 

people aren’t against clapping for this particular gentleman at all, but surely you can see the potential issues with the idea? what if during an international break four or five fans die in their 80s, then we just clap for most of the end of the game?

[Guest Cujek]

Just now, shade said:

people aren’t against clapping for this particular gentleman at all, but surely you can see the potential issues with the idea? what if during an international break four or five fans die in their 80s, then we just clap for most of the end of the game?

Sure, if their families ask, why not?

 

Should be making noise the entire game anyway.

 

 

[Footballwipe]

I think the issue here, @MPH & @Cujek, is that people are there for the football. I'm sorry, I might be miserable, but I'm not there to applaud people who I didn't know, especially when it's selective for those who have families to ask (what makes them more deserving over those who don't?) and consistently dilutes the whole premise of it? There is a vast difference between the slow, bemused clapping for a minute and chanting fervent support all game.

 

To reiterate, we're there for the football. Honestly, could you imagine five solid minutes of applauding deceased fans? I absolutely love the idea of the final home game, or a selected home game being a remembrance game for those we've lost. Families can submit photos, they can be displayed on the screen at half time. Maybe an applause in the 60th minute for everyone who have been submitted.

 

Why are people so insistent on turning the game we love into corralling 29,000 others to clap for someone they didn't know? I'm so glad @kyleolly has taken this well. It's genuinely not on you or the chap you're looking to applaud for, it's the whole situation.

 

Finally, thanks @MPH, like most of us on here, my dad was the reason I supported Leicester. I spent my formative years going to the football. I remember his stories of going to away games in the 1970s and my reaction when he bought me my first season ticket. In later years, when he got ill, I'd go to games on my own and tell him how we played when I got back. When he was in hospital and I struggled for conversation, I bet you can guess what I talked to him about. So don't you fvcking dare tell me or anyone else who has lost a loved one who supported the club that we don't understand loss or grief. Ever. Many thanks.

 

[NaijaFox]

FTers will start a fight in an empty room. 

 

OP is NOT asking anyone to clap or join in, just letting us know why the would be an applause in the 55th minute. Accordingly, the debate/discourse about how best to honor (or not honor) recently-deceased fans may be intellectually interesting but frankly IRRELEVANT to this particular post.

 

RIP to the dearly departed.