55th minute applause at tomorrow’s game

[lgfualol]

If I die I want everyone to dab on the 26th minute. Cheers.

 

Rip Darren

[Guest Cujek]

8 minutes ago, NaijaFox said:

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.

When I die I want the whole of the Ricoh to boo me, I hate the Coventry-London Wasps. 

 

Yes I agree 100% with you. 

 

Rip matey even though I didn't know you, we shared a love of Leicester City and football in general. 

 

I will be clapping I'm always clapping anyway, or shouting. 

[Guest MattP]

These have become so regular now they just carry no meaning. Societies shared grief obsession is one of the strangest cultural phenomenon of this century.

 

At the Man City v Newcastle game last season they had three of these in one match.

[Voll Blau]

1 hour ago, MattP said:

These have become so regular now they just carry no meaning. Societies shared grief obsession is one of the strangest cultural phenomenon of this century.

 

At the Man City v Newcastle game last season they had three of these in one match.

There were meant to be three at one of ours last season - one happened. Bet the families of the other two felt great after that...

[Vestan Pance]

How's about we all make as much noise as possible for 90mins for everyone that is no longer with us or can no longer attend. They'll be a time when we can't be there ourselves, I'd hate to think I've left any support in the locker when that happens.

[FoxInTheBirstallBox]

When I die I want everyone to 69 on the 69th min

[Mike Oxlong]

Just now, FoxInTheBirstallBox said:

When I die I want everyone to 69 on the 69th min

I have a woman sitting on either side of me so I’m not ruling it out

[UniFox21]

1 minute ago, FoxInTheBirstallBox said:

When I die I want everyone to 69 on the 69th min

Could get a bit dodgy in the family end lad

[HighPeakFox]

5 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Could get a bit dodgy in the family end lad

I've never heard it called THAT before...

[UniFox21]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

I've never heard it called THAT before...

ffs 

[Jacnah]

20 hours ago, Footballwipe said:

I'm gonna do it. I'm going to be the callous bastard.

 

How many of these are there going to be? There was one at Wolves for a fan who'd died. Has it become the default thing now that we have a minute's applause for anyone whose family put their head above the parapet and ask for one?

 

It's totally diluting the minute's applause to something where people sit and clap their hands when they have no idea what's going on, merely joining in with the crowd.

Completely agree. Its a dreadful thing thats happened and all sympathys are with family and friends but we'll end up doing this every ten minutes every game because ......well people die all the time.

 

That having been said, I feel, as im sure everybody else does, that I dont want to be disrepectful or in anyway hurtful to those suffering a dreadful loss. Those who say clap if you want and dont if you dont have a point on face value, but its shitty for a family expecting this gesture when half the stadium dont do it.

 

My suggestion, would be to have a couple of occasions a year (maybe the begining of the season, early new year and end of season) when before the game or at half time they put photos and messages on the big screens remembering fans who passed and we can all pay due and appropriate respect as a club 

[FoxInTheBirstallBox]

1 minute ago, Jacnah said:

Completely agree. Its a dreadful thing thats happened and all sympathys are with family and friends but we'll end up doing this every ten minutes every game because ......well people die all the time.

 

That having been said, I feel, as im sure everybody else does, that I dont want to be disrepectful or in anyway hurtful to those suffering a dreadful loss. Those who say clap if you want and dont if you dont have a point on face value, but its shitty for a family expecting this gesture when half the stadium dont do it.

 

My suggestion, would be to have a couple of occasions a year (maybe the begining of the season, early new year and end of season) when before the game or at half time they put photos and messages on the big screens remembering fans who passed and we can all pay due and appropriate respect as a club 

I remember at stoke a few years ago at the start of the season and before the game started they put a photo and name on their scoreboard of every fan that has passed away during the course of the season and the off season and it was quite touching and everyone stood and applauded. it was quite moving and i feel a lot more appropriate 

 

i think the problem now is when an applause begins all i hear around me is "bloody hell another one?" "who is it this time?" "ill clap but i dont know what for this time"

 

 

[FLAN]

Did this happen today?  I’m happy to join in if it provides any level of comfort for the family of someone who has died, but I didn’t notice anything happen 

[Vlad the Fox]

14 hours ago, Footballwipe said:

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.

 

This is moving to read as it resonates so much with myself and my mum. She was die hard Leicester, been to fa cup finals, travelled the length and breadth of the country to watch us when travel wasn’t so easy, even met my dad in the east stand at Filbo. He still sits in the same seat in sk4 where they sat, even 15 years since she passed and though he struggles up the steps and I suggest he should move somewhere more easily accessible I think he stays there in her memory. 

 

My mum would take me into town before matches, catching the bus, we’d go in the majestic cafe on high street, I’d have banana milkshake and a cake and then we’d walk to the ground where my dad would meet us once he’d finished work. My whole life I’ve been obsessed with Leicester like my mum, she really lit the fire in me, she brought me up well  

 

Sadly she passed away 15 years ago, but in the last hour of her life the only response we got from her was when I started telling her how well pre season was going and how I felt we were in for a good season (I was wrong ) With my dad we bought a brick with her name on which is situated in the wall outside sk4, I take my kids to look at it regularly and even went round the back of the stadium to see it the night we won the league. 

 

Sorry about the ramble but I enjoy reading other peoples memories of their family lineage regarding City and if my own memories warm someone else then that’s enough for me.

 

My thoughts go to Darren and his family and hope such similar memories will bring solace to them in the future.

 

[Wymsey]

1 hour ago, FLAN said:

Did this happen today?  I’m happy to join in if it provides any level of comfort for the family of someone who has died, but I didn’t notice anything happen 

Only heard a handful of people around me, in the West Stand.

 

If this persons' name was put on the scoreboard and the year he was born - 2019 at that minute, then imagine quite a few others would've joined in.

[Manwell Pablo]

1 hour ago, FLAN said:

Did this happen today?  I’m happy to join in if it provides any level of comfort for the family of someone who has died, but I didn’t notice anything happen 

 

Of course it didn’t. I didn’t see a single person clapping. You might of got a few pockets here and there and if they were connected with the guy and it meant something to them more power to them and I mean that.

 

I imagine the 3/4 of the dick heads on here who didn’t know the guy yet were still waxing lyrical about doing it either didn’t even go to the game,  forgot about it completely, were still down on the concourse supping a pint and decided to give it a miss, or had a look around saw no one else was doing it decided they didn’t want to look like an utter weirdo. 

 

Some of the posts in here have been embarrassing. “One minute of your miserable existence” is a personal favourite. 

[volpeazzurro]

1 hour ago, Vlad the Fox said:

This is moving to read as it resonates so much with myself and my mum. She was die hard Leicester, been to fa cup finals, travelled the length and breadth of the country to watch us when travel wasn’t so easy, even met my dad in the east stand at Filbo. He still sits in the same seat in sk4 where they sat, even 15 years since she passed and though he struggles up the steps and I suggest he should move somewhere more easily accessible I think he stays there in her memory. 

 

My mum would take me into town before matches, catching the bus, we’d go in the majestic cafe on high street, I’d have banana milkshake and a cake and then we’d walk to the ground where my dad would meet us once he’d finished work. My whole life I’ve been obsessed with Leicester like my mum, she really lit the fire in me, she brought me up well  

 

Sadly she passed away 15 years ago, but in the last hour of her life the only response we got from her was when I started telling her how well pre season was going and how I felt we were in for a good season (I was wrong ) With my dad we bought a brick with her name on which is situated in the wall outside sk4, I take my kids to look at it regularly and even went round the back of the stadium to see it the night we won the league. 

 

Sorry about the ramble but I enjoy reading other peoples memories of their family lineage regarding City and if my own memories warm someone else then that’s enough for me.

 

My thoughts go to Darren and his family and hope such similar memories will bring solace to them in the future.

 

And I enjoyed your memories also. It's important to us as supporters isn't it. At the Everton match when we lifted the trophy, where I sit there are a number of blokes of a certain age (like me 😂) and many had a tear in their eyes. One of the common things I heard from them was 'I wish my Dad could be here to see this' Those memories of parents,  bus journeys, banana milkshakes and cake are desparately important memories. It's those sort of memories that lead to these sort of requests regarding the acknowledgement of the passage of a loved one I suppose,  the feeling of being part of a much larger special family even though you don't actually know them. It may be getting impractical now as mentioned but the once a year idea would be a very good thing to do imo.

 

Today was my son's last game before he goes to Uni, a watershed for both of us. We've had our rituals every game since he was about 5yrs. It's going to be very strange on my own without him but as he gets older I'm sure the importance and memories of it all won't get lost. 

[Gamble92]

Knowing my luck, we'll have one of these planned for me when i go at 94. And they'll only be 3 minutes added on.

[Babylon]

2 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Knowing my luck, we'll have one of these planned for me when i go at 94. And they'll only be 3 minutes added on.

Aim to cop it before a cup game, you might get extra time.

[Wymsey]

On 31/08/2019 at 00:43, 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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's sad, to say the very least..Hope the family are ok now.

-

It's not the above poster, but does anyone remember stockyfox, from a few years ago?*

Used to enjoy reading his well-put and analytical posts, particularly in the post-match threads.

 

*When searching for something else on this forum recently, had came across a poignant thread made by someone else announcing his passing.

[jonthefox]

Wasn't 55 minutes when we were waiting for the VAR red card decision?. 

[Burgh foxes 01]

RIP Daz ,great memories on the zoonie bus away days 

[Lionheart10]

On 31/08/2019 at 08:45, Footballwipe said:

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.

 

This is definitely the right idea so everyone knows what its for and they could put up all names on the screen,it would be hugely successful I believe.