50 years ago, the very thought of interrupting a minute’s silence would have been abhorrent to football fans, but a lot has changed since the Munich air disaster.
The pleas this week for United to hold a minute’s applause instead of silence have been turned down, and rightly so, but the fact that some people could think to disrupt such an event is just wrong. It would be like some men shouting “F*&k off grandads” during a Remembrance Service.
The Munich chants are wrong. The Hillsborough chants are wrong. The Arsene Wenger chants are wrong. Let us not blame Manchester City, or their fans when it goes wrong. Let us blame all football fans and the culture we live in.
However, something could be done. In today’s CCTV driven culture, it would be easy to find out who was not observing the minute’s silence. There will only be 3000 fans going. Would a threat of a life ban from City and football have any effect of them ?
Today, the very thought of interrupting a minute’s silence is abhorrent to football fans, but do you let the bloke next to you doing it get away with it?
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The prospect of some scum not respecting the silence has raised the tensions for this game. They are two thick to realise a former City players was killed at Munich – Frank Swift.
[edited as requested] Top tip – don’t make comments on weblogs after a long day and red wine. Can you correct it or delete it – don’t wish to appear more stupid.
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I don’t think the morons actually care about Frank Swift. It is more important that they hate United.