What a country
Is football cancelled for the next week? | Man United-Leeds & Chelsea-Liverpool postponed
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Our government and authorities showed more enthusiasm in getting people into stadiums at the height of covid waves but now we have to majorly disrupt the season which is already majorly disrupted with a largely meaningless gesture.
Play the games, have a minutes silence, blast the national and anthem and wear black armbands
Play the games, have a minutes silence, blast the national and anthem and wear black armbands
I think the problem lies in the fact that you are already going to have an extremely tight schedule this seasona and you're potentially going to have to squeeze two weekend games into midweek now which is going to be unfair to certain clubs.
Even dead she's ruining people's weekend.
Football is just a game not life or death, correct decision.
They are not going to invite you into the royal family, mate.
It's not just one game. Hundreds of teams are based in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has just lost it's constant, spanning generations.How many games are Utd supposed to be playing this weekend
How do you know about the opinion of 'most' of the UK?
Absolute joke. Forcing people to mourn and not have fun watching the footy. What are we meant to do all weekend? watch them repeating the same bullshit on BBC/ITV news?
I want to troll people on both sides of this so badly but I won't, because I am a nice person.
Not nice enough to not want to do it, but nice enough not to do it.
Not nice enough to not want to do it, but nice enough not to do it.
I'm from the UK. I quite liked the Queen. I think this is a mind-bogglingly dumb decision and makes me loath my country and the royals ever more.
Truly a pathetic decision.
Truly a pathetic decision.
Insulting another member
Idiot
I'm an AI hivemind.
Do not get the decision at all. The only thing this will achieve is doubling the number of people whose lives are affected - before it was only fans of the Royal Family, now a nation of football fans have their plans ruined for absolutely no reason.
Mourning the death of the Queen should be a choice, not forced on to everyone.
Mourning the death of the Queen should be a choice, not forced on to everyone.
They didn't cancel the game when my Grandad died and he had a ST.
Yes, that would be the sensible way of paying respect. Instead it's this.
Oh well, at least a bit more time for our injured players to recover so that they can get injured during the fixture congestion resulting from this decision.
I'm going to kick the next corgi I see.
Most people aren't mourning though, why can't the ones who want to mourn do so, and let the rest of people get on with their lives.
I don't really get how going ahead with football matches - that will have armbands, tributes, silences etc. - is disrespecting the Queen....but maybe that's just me.
It’s called respect. Not sure what’s so hard to understand.why?
Moaning is people's favourite past time. Sounds exhausting to live like that, to be honest.
What a pointless thing to do. Get over it
Sport not being play on the day of her funeral I can totally understand, but all this forced mourning is a joke. I'm sure even the Queen would of agreed with that.
Its frankly speaking a ridiculous decision. The Queen was 96 years old. Lived a full life and passed away after a bout of illness. It wasn't sudden. She didn't die tragically. Go ahead and pay your respect to her at the game. Wear black bands. Have a minute of silence. But to cancel the games altogether?
Astonishing.
And this is me without getting into all the atrocious acts carried out and perpetuated by the British monarchy for hundreds of years. We don't hear a peep about those parts, do we?
Shame.
Astonishing.
And this is me without getting into all the atrocious acts carried out and perpetuated by the British monarchy for hundreds of years. We don't hear a peep about those parts, do we?
Shame.
If she was already buried I bet she would be turning in her grave right now.
It isn’t even traditional to cancel the football during an event like this.
Fair play to everyone mourning, but I don’t see why they’ve had to ruin our weekends as well.
Fair play to everyone mourning, but I don’t see why they’ve had to ruin our weekends as well.
It'll just be more congestion down the line.
I'd scrap the league cup to allow a little wiggle room.
She was a queen for 70 years, its remarkable really.
As I said, likely to
Why does the whole country have to stop, costing everyone so much money in times where money is hard to keep hold of? Ridiculous. Do they want everyone to be faux miserable for two weeks rather than get on with life that will be very much the same as it was last week?
Just feels like an outdated decision. The kind of thing you’d expect in the 19th/20th century.
How is it disrespectful to kick a ball? If i decide on Sunday, when Everton were due to play Arsenal, to kick a ball around with my mates am I being disrespectful?
This is so annoyingly dumb, wow.
More like the people serving the queen.
People will just get pissed instead of involving football, is that more respectful then? It's not as if people will now sit in dark rooms reflecting on the death of the queen.
Suspending activities cause a 96 year old died in year 2022.
Haha, I can relate to that.
I'm not english but I can understand the decision to cancel it. Yes it was to be expected and not a very tragic death, but she was certainly more than your average royal or celebrity.
I totally understand the other side too, forcing people to mourn has a somewhat strange side to it.
It's not.
I'm still at work, pretending to work. People are milling about in all the shops outside. Hardly anything has stopped.
Right. Cheers!
I'm amazed that football might be going this way alone.