We play Reading at home on the 13th April, the day before the ship sunk 100 years ago As it is such a big part of the city's history, I think it would be only fitting to have some sort of memorial for the game, possibly a minutes silence? Names being paraded around the pitch at HT of all those who lost their lives from the city? I think as a football club, we should be using our links with our history and a mermorial of some kind would be greatly appreciated by all I'm sure! Thoughts?
Hmm, not sure a football match is the best place to commemorate a disaster from a century ago, although no doubt some of the crowd will have had ancestors who died on the Titanic. Perhaps it's just a black armband occasion and no more. The significance is lost on many people, for example the post below the OP.
Not a bad shout, it has never to my knowledge been properly recognised that many working men from Southampton died on that ship (my fathers Uncle for one) in any such capacity as you are suggesting, and it is certainly our part of our history. Perhaps Secondstain is right, a black armband occasion as a respectful aknowledgement of those lost.
Did you know that when the Titanic sank, the Company stopped paying the surviving crew, on the grounds that they were no longer working on the ship!
And working women too, cooks and domestic staff. There was a thread about this a while back, something like 538 of the crew were from Southampton.
No Pompey are doing it on our behalf. As an act of rememberance for the Titanic they are about to sink with out trace. Very thoughtful of them I must say. Not the sort of generous act I would have normally associated with them but very civically responsible of them. People all over the country appreciate their very kind gesture.
When the post opened I was going to say that PFC were doing a reenactment, but thought it might be construed as bad taste. Should have known we could rely on you, Godders
I just could not resist although I had the same thought as you. The very lovely Mrs Godders always says I have no will power.
So having made the obvious gag, does the Pompey obsessed knight have an opinion on the original post? My own feeling is that a page in the programme acknowledging the anniversary would be a nice touch, but it is perhaps a bit distant to so many who will be there. (it's ok, I don't need the tall ladder this time, as I chose the shorter horse..........)
It has raised an interesting point though. How much time has to pass before a tragedy becomes just an historical event? There are still a few people alive from WW1 so there is a poignancy about the terrible loss of life, but does anyone think about the loss of life when Trafalgar and Waterloo are commemorated. A third of Europeans were wiped out by the Black Death and that's really treated as a 'wow' fact in history books. Perhaps we can learn from history, but we can't carry the pain forever.
