Villa - Postponed

[st albans fox]

35 minutes ago, Otis said:

What????

Why would there be baying mobs?

 

31 minutes ago, los dedos said:

Sounds like something the Daily Mail would write about football fans .😅

the rhetoric was a tad overdone 

 

but if we’d gone 3-0 down then we would certainly have had a baying mob at the KP ! 
 

and football fans are not known for their self control when singing about their opponent etc etc 

[Rossiter]

1 hour ago, Footballwipe said:

Absolute sack of royalist crap.

 

When can we smile again, Mr Weller? After the funeral? How long after the funeral? Please can I smile and enjoy my life?

 

I've been to work today, I managed to emotionally manage that, would you be able to tell me why I can't emotionally manage a football game?

 

Horseshit from the royal bunch as usual. Jesus Christ.

Chill 

[iancognito]

They've missed a trick here. At a time of national mourning, to see both football fans honouring a silence in her memory and then breaking out into God Save The King, would be a real uplifting moment and a break with the doom & gloom.

I get it, they're trying to avoid criticism from the "disrespectful" crowd who want the nation to wear black for a week and not go into work but it's an opportunity missed, let alone hiow they think they'll fit even more games into a now tighter schedule

[st albans fox]

15 minutes ago, BeaumontFox said:

Jesus, I came on here expecting chat about the Villa match… 

What villa match ?.

[Smudge]

18 hours ago, inckley fox said:

Unless I'm mistaken, they didn't stop the football when the last monarch died. And he was in his fifties at the time, so there must have been a greater sense of shock, in some senses, than there is now. Alternatively, you could say that seven decades of service, right to the end, is quite exceptional, but it's not like that hasn't been, and isn't going to be, amply recognised.

 

I'm not sure why a period of mourning for the passing of a monarch is incompatible with people enjoying sport, or enjoying anything else. Mourning in general doesn't mean that the clocks have to stop, the shadow has to fall, and that life has to be re-dedicated to grief. I fully appreciate that whether people are monarchists or not, it's right to be respectful that a significant national servant, and symbol, has passed away, and that there will be solemnity and remembrance. But I'm not sure, as a rule, that it's necessary for sports not to happen when bad things happen. From what I understand, that idea seemed a bit old-fashioned and over-the-top back in 1952, so I'm not sure why it's doing the rounds now.

 

And, to be quite frank, if people aren't going to see the Villa game on Saturday because it's postponed, then I doubt very much they'll return home to listen to patriotic music and weep either. They'll just head down the pub a few hours earlier. And I suspect a dignified tribute to the Queen at the game would be more fitting than whatever people get up to on their eighth pint.

Thats well written, are you sure you're from Hinckley? 

 

I appreciate your opinion. I was brought up by Edwardian parents and Victorian grandparents. None of them were much fun but they did teach me to have respect for what was customary. 

As to the football games being postponed, on reflection, I could really care less. It was a decision made by each sporting authority and not a part of the national mourning.

 

Edited 9 September 2022 by Smudge

[Super_horns]

12 minutes ago, iancognito said:

They've missed a trick here. At a time of national mourning, to see both football fans honouring a silence in her memory and then breaking out into God Save The King, would be a real uplifting moment and a break with the doom & gloom.

I get it, they're trying to avoid criticism from the "disrespectful" crowd who want the nation to wear black for a week and not go into work but it's an opportunity missed, let alone hiow they think they'll fit even more games into a now tighter schedule

It has been said other sports were off today so maybe the football authorities wanted to have a day of respect too but so teams didn’t have to play when most aren’t cancelled the whole weekend.

 

Or didn’t trust fans to behave themselves but there will have to be a minutes silence at the matches eventually and sure 95% of  fans would be respectful .

[Footballwipe]

Just a little thought, and I apologise if this has been said...

 

If you're so sad and mournful about the Queen's death you could've, you know, stayed at home, rather than thrust your weird grief upon us.

 

Let the vast majority of the people get on with their lives, and you'd draw your curtains and cry for QEII.

 

Now everyone who was originally going to the football is going to do something equally as ungreiving for the Queen. What is that genuinely going to achieve?

[Arriba Los Zorros]

2 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

Just a little thought, and I apologise if this has been said...

 

If you're so sad and mournful about the Queen's death you could've, you know, stayed at home, rather than thrust your weird grief upon us.

 

Let the vast majority of the people get on with their lives, and you'd draw your curtains and cry for QEII.

 

Now everyone who was originally going to the football is going to do something equally as ungreiving for the Queen. What is that genuinely going to achieve?

FFS all the inflexible routine driven cretins getting salty because they're going to have to do something else with their weekend 😂😂😂

[BeaumontFox]

24 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

What villa match ?.

The one that’s been postponed. It’s in the title of the thread. C’mon man, keep up 😂😂

[Otis]

39 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

 

the rhetoric was a tad overdone 

 

but if we’d gone 3-0 down then we would certainly have had a baying mob at the KP ! 
 

and football fans are not known for their self control when singing about their opponent etc etc 

But no one is going to be singing about  the queen or blaming her for being 3 down. 

 

 

[AyewJoking]

Not to make light of the reason it's off..

 

But I'm glad.

Could do without another shitshow followed by a week of "will he be sacked?" when it's painfully obvious he won't be

 

 

[squidsworth]

59 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

FFS all the inflexible routine driven cretins getting salty because they're going to have to do something else with their weekend 😂😂😂

FFS why should they cancel something people have planned for and paid for up and down the country 24 hours before, when there was no reason other than 'respect' to which 90% of the 'stakeholders' IE fans are opposed to such a decision.  The funeral is the only 'state' day that needs such respect, everything else is 'media' orientated and getting supposedly good 'air' on the BBC!

 

Those that are so inclined could have stayed away. Just total crap from the footballing bodies shitting on the fans it's supposed to be representing. Sorry but a really really bad decision and comments like yours are very much in the minority, who once again triumph over all.

Edited 9 September 2022 by squidsworth

[squidsworth]

PS for anyone losing out financially, send you bill to the premier league this was their decision.

[Rossiter]

8 minutes ago, squidsworth said:

PS for anyone losing out financially, send you bill to the premier league this was their decision.

Ok dude. Thanks for the sound advice. You got an address? 😃

[Rossiter]

1 hour ago, Footballwipe said:

Just a little thought, and I apologise if this has been said...

 

If you're so sad and mournful about the Queen's death you could've, you know, stayed at home, rather than thrust your weird grief upon us.

 

Let the vast majority of the people get on with their lives, and you'd draw your curtains and cry for QEII.

 

Now everyone who was originally going to the football is going to do something equally as ungreiving for the Queen. What is that genuinely going to achieve?

No football fans had input into the decision so none of us are thrusting anything really.

[Heathrow fox]

I think the football authorities were in a lose lose situation.Cancel they get criticised.Go ahead and the crowds are visibly down,then it looks awful.

With the mood last night and this morning. I expected nothing else but mass postponements.

 

[Bob Farley]

28 minutes ago, squidsworth said:

FFS why should they cancel something people have planned for and paid for up and down the country 24 hours before, when there was no reason other than 'respect' to which 90% of the 'stakeholders' IE fans are opposed to such a decision.  The funeral is the only 'state' day that needs such respect, everything else is 'media' orientated and getting supposedly good 'air' on the BBC!

 

Those that are so inclined could have stayed away. Just total crap from the footballing bodies shitting on the fans it's supposed to be representing. Sorry but a really really bad decision and comments like yours are very much in the minority, who once again triumph over all.

You do sound like Squidward. 

[Staffs Fox]

I think the Football Authorities thought they’d set the precedent and postpone the fixtures and thinking other sport would follow suit therefore looking like the good guys 

 

Turns out the other sports actually thought logically and went ahead. Now Football looks stupid because not only professional leagues but grassroots games and non league are also cancelled whilst International Cricket Matches will go on 

[Scotch]

3 hours ago, Footballwipe said:

Absolute sack of royalist crap.

 

When can we smile again, Mr Weller? After the funeral? How long after the funeral? Please can I smile and enjoy my life?

 

I've been to work today, I managed to emotionally manage that, would you be able to tell me why I can't emotionally manage a football game?

 

Horseshit from the royal bunch as usual. Jesus Christ.

I'm not sure that you are as emotionally sound as you think you are. 

 

Ravings of a fvcking lunatic right there. 

[Sharpe's Fox]

1 minute ago, Scotch said:

I'm not sure that you are as emotionally sound as you think you are. 

 

Ravings of a fvcking lunatic right there. 

It's perfectly coherent to not want your plans to be messed about with by a load of sycophants just because something happened to the lady with the magic blood.

[Scotch]

2 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

It's perfectly coherent to not want your plans to be messed about with by a load of sycophants just because something happened to the lady with the magic blood.

Nah. Someone who gets angry over missing a weekend of football is not an emotionally stable person. Imagine something worthy of being angry happened? What would that reaction be if something so insignificant sets you off...

 

I'm disappointed there won't be football thos weekend and I don't really understand the reasons for it it but its hardly an excuse to soil yerself. 

[Fear Of The Fox]

15 minutes ago, Scotch said:

Nah. Someone who gets angry over missing a weekend of football is not an emotionally stable person. Imagine something worthy of being angry happened? What would that reaction be if something so insignificant sets you off...

 

I'm disappointed there won't be football thos weekend and I don't really understand the reasons for it it but its hardly an excuse to soil yerself. 

I don't think anybody is upset because they won't be able to attend or watch the football matches this weekend. The issue is the decision and the dynamics behind the postponements. Postponing from top to bottom every single football event while all other sports and aspects of life continue as normal is at least strange. Also while I'm writing this there are 6 PL players streaming their FIFA videogame...

[ARTY_FOX]

Some of the rage is really bizzare. 

[Gary Eatfood]

5 minutes ago, ARTY_FOX said:

Some of the rage is really bizzare. 

I don't see any rage, bizarre or not. I see bemusement at why the FA/PL/EFL & NL would issue a blanket postponement for football when virtually every other aspect of life continues unabated, including other professional sports.

[CosbehFox]

4 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Why is it about your emotions ?

 

it’s about showing respect 

 

the football authorities have decided that baying mobs of football fans over the weekend don’t reflect that respectful image 

 

Other sporting bodies have decided that their fanbase don’t risk that image 

 

who is right ?  Who is wrong ?

 

 

There were no baying mobs on Thursday evening - why think it’s going to be any worse tomorrow ?!