North_Stand_Ram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 View Results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Blackburn will probably market it as a minute's silence for Colonel Sanders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnieronalde Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 If true, this will be a test of young Nigels "diplomatic" skills. There is no way on gods green earth we'd have a minutes silence if it were a home game. Not a chance in hell. I cannot see our players wearing a black armband, it would go against everything Clough and his family have stood for for decades. I hope no-one even asks him his views on the subject and the weekend passes without football fans being held up as disgraceful for NOT observing a silence that is doomed to failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbobram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 i can garuntee she wont get silence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I don't think a football match is the place to remember the former prime minister. I don't think it will get the respect from the fans. Football a politics don't mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcnram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I don't think a football match is the place to remember the former prime minister. I don't think it will get the respect from the fans. Football a politics don't mix. Why ever not? Do you just mean this particular ex-Prime Minister or all ex-Prime Ministers. I can remember standing in silence for Winston Churchill when he died. I hope that the 'loud mouths' don't spoil it just because they are left of her politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanterburyRam Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Why ever not? Do you just mean this particular ex-Prime Minister or all ex-Prime Ministers. I can remember standing in silence for Winston Churchill when he died. I hope that the 'loud mouths' don't spoil it just because they are left of her politics. Churchill was avery different PM and a minutes silence was carried out for very different reasons. What about Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, MacMillan, Douglas-Home, Eden, Atlee? It has to be one rule for all of them. She achieved something incredible in becoming the first female but she damaged huge parts of our country. I for one wouldn't keep quiet because I don't think that she deserves a minutes silence and I would be remembering the 96 people who lost their lives and were then blamed for the Hillsborough tragedy because of a cover up that she played a huge part in. But it would be a HUGELY irresponsible act if they attempted to hold one. Why? Because its incitement, you're leaving yourself open to abuse. People wouldn't observe it and it would have the potential to turn unsavoury. What is the point in that? Avoid that abuse and let the people who want to respect her now that she's gone do it in their own way and do not attempt to force people who don't feel the same to observe a minutes silence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A lot has already been said about this in the Thatcher thread but in terms of football she despised football and it's fans, so a minutes silence is never going to work. It will be interesting to see how Nige reacts if this goes ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozza Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Come to think of it , i don't think any politician deserves a minutes silence at a football match , dead or alive.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admira Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Of all the teams not to have a minutes silence against, it would be Derby. The anti-Thatcher feelings there after what she did to the miners are very high. It's a bit of a lose-lose situation for any Rams fans who are present. If they heckle, they'll be frowned upon by the press. If they don't, then many will be going against their true feelings. A minutes applause would be more appropriate as not clapping at all wouldn't be met with the same displeasure. Personally I couldn't stand the woman and hope she rots in hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 No chance bcn. It won't happen and it's just asking for trouble. I wouldn't stay quiet, if I did it would make me a hipocrit and bloody disloyal to my family. No way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoneedshuls Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Can we play this instead as the two teams walk out? Dropkick murphys The workers song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North_Stand_Ram Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 Can we play this instead as the two teams walk out? Dropkick murphys The workers song Ding dong the witch is dead? No chance of silence from either fans i don't think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notts_ram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Stupid idea, all it will do is encourage the uncouth element from both sets of supporters. Thatcher hated football supporters anyway, they personified everything that she thought was wrong with the British culture in the 80's - hooliganism, drunkenness, dragging the countries name through the mud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoneedshuls Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Is this a venkys idea or the fans and club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butthead Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Completely agree that politics and football don't mix, it's just asking for trouble and will lead to bigger disrespect for someone who had died Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcnram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 No chance bcn. It won't happen and it's just asking for trouble. I wouldn't stay quiet, if I did it would make me a hipocrit and bloody disloyal to my family. No way. I think I agree with you in that it would be asking for trouble. Personally I had nothing against her politics but that's another story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcnram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Stupid idea, all it will do is encourage the uncouth element from both sets of supporters. Thatcher hated football supporters anyway, they personified everything that she thought was wrong with the British culture in the 80's - hooliganism, drunkenness, dragging the countries name through the mud. She wasn't really wrong was she. It was good to rid ourselves of that nonsense at football matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Whilst everybody has a right to voice their opinion, I would hope that if it was to take place they just didn't go to their seat until after the silence. But I suppose if it makes people feel better even though she is no longer with us, then each to their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notts_ram Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 She wasn't really wrong was she. It was good to rid ourselves of that nonsense at football matches. Totally agreed, there was no way I would have ever contemplated taking my family to a football match in the 1980's. Thatcher did have some strange ideas mind like the Football Membership Scheme which thank goodness never saw the light of day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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