The Tigers will be honouring and remembering all those that have sacrificed their lives for our freedom at next Saturday’s home game against Middlesbrough. please log in to view this image Coming just a day before Remembrance Sunday, the afternoon will give fans, players and staff the opportunity to remember all those who have lost their lives in conflicts past and present, thank those who have served in the Armed Forces in the past and support those who currently serve to maintain our freedom. Members of The Royal British Legion will be the Club’s special guests on the day and will hold a bucket collection before the game, while the players will proudly wear a special poppy on their playing shirts. As in previous years, the shirts will then be auctioned off to raise funds for the RBL. The Last Post and a period of silence will also be observed ahead of kick-off. There will be plenty of other activity on the day, too, so please join us in remembering and supporting our brave troops. A reminder that tickets for Saturday’s home game against Middlesbrough are currently on sale online and from our self-service ticket machine in Tiger Leisure (KC Stadium), with adult prices from £30 and under 13s from just £9. http://www.hullcitytigers.com/news/...armed-forces-2780320.aspx#XYKo13MLRM3xWlXl.99
The Last Post and a period of silence will also be observed ahead of kick-off. Will people please do this instead of that bloody idiotic clapping.
^ This! Will the stadium announcer please emphasise the "silence" so people don't join in clapping half way through because they think that's what they're supposed to be doing?
Clapping on stuff like this is a ****'s trick. I will be silent no matter what. Even if all around me is clapping. The only clapping I condone is someone clapping the head of James McClean.
I always think football should keep to football, so honour a player or loyal fan for something perhaps (though do applause rather than a morgue silence).
Obviously wars effect everyone. However a football stadium for me is for football and things directly connected to that. There's always other events directly created for other remembrances or celebrations. People pay to go and watch football.
I'm genuinely struggling to see the problem with remembering those who gave their lives to keep our country safe en mass. Probably because there isn't one. Like I said, you're coming across as incredibly ignorant IMO.
You are talking shyte. Very nearly all clubs do the silence on the Saturday nearest to Remembrance Day. As do shopping centres Railway stations and many more public areas so what the hell is the difference with football stadiums ffs.
Do you not think a small part of the respect being shown is for the players of clubs who sacrificed their lives during the World Wars? Have a look at this, I hope it helps in changing your opinion. http://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/footballers-killed-first-world-war/
Whatever, you obviously don't want to see my point. So we'll just get the usual crap. I'll leave it to others to talk crap, so my final word... I haven't been in a railway station or shopping centre during some memorial, memorials are mainly done for a meeting of people who are setting their time aside to do such a thing and not just on anyone, as there's no way everyone at one moment in such a place will just stand still and be silent or they could simply leave if they are in a rush. Believe it or not but on Remembrance Sunday many will not stop doing what they are doing for a silence. I don't think that necessarily reflects people's beliefs in anyway they simply don't think it's necessary to do it, and I bet many people here don't as well. I really have to explain? I'd also say Hull City represents the local football supporters of that club and not the whole community anyway, not everyone likes football.
Gets right on my tit end when people clap a minutes silence. You know damn well that some buffoon will though. Always do nowadays.
This clapping bollocks all started because some ignorant bastards didn't have the respect to keep quiet during the minutes silence. Clapping is a poor substitute for quiet contemplation and the show of respect that all our Armed Services personnel both past and present so rightly deserve. I will personally remain silent whatever happens. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
Remembrance Day should be a silence, when it's a club paying respect to its own player or a fan then I'm ok with clapping as its celebrating someone's life but it should be upto the families to decide and pass this information onto the club!
