
The questions we should really be asking about remembrance
Monday marks Armistice Day, but you could be forgiven for thinking different if you attended a British football match over the past two weeks
Scoring political points off the back of a newspaper article about the symbolism of the poppy is (I think?) exactly what the writer is highlighting as an issue.Lefties in being disrespectful shocker.
Don’t forget most of these clubs will have lost players during the wars and 100’s / 1000’s of fansIs that news paper taking the piss? Just because they are oversized poppies and people dressed up does not take away from the fact all the clubs involved are supporting those who have fallen and served, what do they want clubs to do? Remember those pictures from Liverpool would be going all over the world yesterday, what do the independent paper want clubs to do?
the Germans were rather fond of football so not sure that’s true.Never ever forget, being able to go to watch a football match with your family on a Saturday afternoon would probably not have been option had those heroes not made the ultimate sacrifice!
the Germans were rather fond of football so not sure that’s true.
Not sure about then, but before that in the 60s and 70s, there wasn't anything. Remembrance then was for Remembrance Sunday, simple as that.Out of interest, what was the protocol with the closest home match to Remembrance Sunday in say the 1980s at Roker Park?
I don’t buy a poppy and never have, it I don’t see what’s wrong with going over the top if the money is going to the correct placesWhat was wrong with a minute or two minute silence each season?
Now we have clubs flogging "limited edition" poppy shirts and some people (generally, not just in football) trying their best to outdo each other in how much they respect the fallen.
Quietly showing respect means so much more to vets and serving soldiers than buying a git big poppy or arguing why someone doesn't have one on their shirt
I totally agree with this.What was wrong with a minute or two minute silence each season?
Now we have clubs flogging "limited edition" poppy shirts and some people (generally, not just in football) trying their best to outdo each other in how much they respect the fallen.
Quietly showing respect means so much more to vets and serving soldiers than buying a git big poppy or arguing why someone doesn't have one on their shirt
Although the younger generation probably won’t believe it they never used to be a game on a Sunday, now it’s common place. If one of the early televised matches fell on Remembrance Sunday it would have been appropriate to have the silence and I guess it has just escalated from there, not a bad thing mind as I find it touching every year.Not sure about then, but before that in the 60s and 70s, there wasn't anything. Remembrance then was for Remembrance Sunday, simple as that.