Leicester chairman's chopper crashes outside Stadium

A 17-year-old boy has died after being stabbed outside Clapham South Tube station in south London.

It comes less than 24 hours after a 15-year-old boy was also stabbed to death in southeast London.

Police were called at approximately 4.35pm on 2 November to reports of a stabbing outside Clapham South Tube Station.


Will anyone outside their family and friends be bothered? See my point/

 

I blame Diana, she started all this celebrity mourning shhite off

 

At least we all got a day of.

 

It's sad that he died as he seemed like a good guy who did a lot for charities etc but I have to say that I think the national coverage and grief has got a bit out of control because it's football and, specifically, PL football. It's a Leicester and Thailand story now as far as I'm concerned.

All the minute's silence and poignant images that will be displayed at grounds across the country tomorrow...sorry but I don't get it.

 

I'd just graduated. Every day was a day off. Bit like now except when I'm tidying the skip.

 

Exactly.

 

I think Mick has had a bit of an over reaction, partly because he isn't a regular on the Prem board and doesn't know Comm like I do ... hence a difference in reaction.

I also get what each of you are saying .. and Stan is spot on in that this really is a Leicester and Thailand story ...

That said, every now and then you do get exemplorary human beings ... those that choose to give back some of their 'good fortune' and don't seek publicity or acknowledgement in doing so ... and for me, this guy was one of those ... and, as such, a rather special human being ...

... so go **** yourselves you **** stains

 

Eh?

Aren't we all part of the football family?

 

I think the footballing family broke up when the Premier League was created. Even despite that, not sure why we need to have players wearing black armbands and supporters doing a minutes applause at quite a few games every season, just because another overpaid player or pundit has popped off and was worshipped by armchair fans throughout the country.

 

It’d be more fitting if it was done on the last game of the year and a list of those in the football world who’d popped their clogs throughout the year was read out and a minutes applause held. As it seems to be virtually every week these days.

 

Yup. I think Leicester was a tragic accident, so i don't mind so much for stuff like that. But when someone is knocking on 60+ did armchair fans think they were going to live for ever.

 

Good idea, like a remembrance game.

 

I totally get the reaction from Leicester fans - although the circumstances of death could not have been much different us Watford fans were in a similar place when Graham Taylor died last year. You choose to make an emotional attachment to your club and when s guy makes the size of contribution that those two did you will be sad. Of course in the case of Leicester the shocking way it happened would obviously make grief the overwhelming emotion ahead of fond remembrance.
I do think the coverage these days is a touch overblown - all down to 24 hour news and sports channels.

 

I said earlier in the week that had he passed of say a heart attack back in Thailand, the reaction from the football world outside of Leicester would be much more muted. I do think the extent of it has come about due to the circumstances not least the location. It’s also imo why the various stadium disasters from years gone by get a lot of publicity still, it’s the whole shock of going to a football match like so many others not to return home in horrific circumstances. Something everyone can relate to.

 

When we were having fights every week, you mean?

 

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I get why Leicester fans are emotional about this but the reaction elsewhere has been well over the top imho.

Watching the Sunday Supplement on Sky this morning and this was described as one of the greatest disasters in football.

The idea that this is on a par with Hillsbrough (96 dead and 766 injured,) The Bradford Fire (56 dead and 256 injured), Hysel (39 dead and over 600 injured), The Ibrox crush (66 and over 260 injured), Burden Park Bolton (33 dead and 400 injured), Munich (23 dead 20 injured), the first Ibrox disaster (25 dead and 500 injured) is plainly stupid.

This list just covers the ones involving British clubs.

There are worse ones in other parts of the world.

No one describes Matthew Hardings death a a great footballing disaster (quite rightly) ... this is a truer comparison.

I would not mock the sadness that Leicester fans feel or people in Thailand feel and can understand that they feel it is a disaster.

But the others that died seem to be forgotten about by most of the media which for me sums up their (the medias) lack of perspective and integrity.

 

Absolutely agree. I paid my respects on the Leicester board and at our home game yesterday but....

I just feel this all goes to show what i've always argued the power of the media, that was clearly evident at the death of Diana.

The guy had a lot of money and was kind with it and helped a lot of people, but is it really right that a nation mourns the death of one person to this degree, in what was a tragic accident!?

I wonder how many people in the UK have been killed/murdered or suffered on our streets since the tragedy, i feel it's sad indictment of the human race, when wealth makes the news over poverty in death.

As has been said, this is not mocking or belittling the death of the Leicester Chairman, I'm saying how i feel, and how other people feel, that's it wrong when the news outlets carry on their mourning to satisfy some strange psychological behaviours of people - that never even knew the man, or would not have even have known his name before the tragic accident.

 

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