http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34872166 What's everyone's thoughts on this? Premier league is seen round the world so has to be good publicity against the c***s
Couldn't disagree more. Great idea. Need to do whatever we can to get in the faces of those murdering B******s
Not really bothered by it, though i feel the friendly was enough, especially seeming it was in England.
I'm for it ... a football match was amongst the targets in Paris plus there are a lot of French origin players over here who hopefully will appreciate the sentiment ...
Let me make myself clear first - I 100% condemn the ****wits that committed this atrocity and am in no way against any form of action to support the people of Paris but as we don't play the GB national anthem at the beginning of matches I don't think this is a good idea - have no qualms with the players having French flags in where we had poppies for example but this is going to set an unfortunate precedent. More **** is happening in Mali atm - if god forbid things go wrong, would we play the Mali national anthem next? What happens if we don't, are we saying that they are worth less then France? This has the potential to become ugly.
No real strong opinion either way Don't really feel it is necessary Yea it shows solidarity. What effect will that have on future terrorist attacks??? Absolutely none!!
Le Marseillaise is a good anthem to represent this moment in time; personally, I'd rather it not be a national anthem representing us as I'm uncomfortable with any of them (don't get me started on God Save the Queen), but as a show of solidarity against murdering terrorist arseholes, there are few tunes better.
I don't really see it as any use really. They have my full support and the England game was necessary but I think this is a bit of a 'faff' in my opinion
Not sure what the point of it is. More publicity for ISIS. Singing a song is a bit of a Neville Chamberlin comeback versus multiple senseless killings.
I'm sure the families of the dead, the injured and their families, the French people (including premiership players) would be overwhelmed by your show of support! It's 2 minutes to show a united defiance against the greatest threat Europe has seen since Hitler. We thankfully live in a free society but if Isis had their way we wouldn't and neither of us would be able to express our views or have a football team to support. Have a nice day.
I took my kids to an Imagine Dragons concert in Brum last night.. increased security and band made point of thanking the packed house for turning up in light of last weekends events etc ... I see this issue similarly.. terrorism seeks to stop people going about their normal lives .. a united front from normal people shows demonstrably that it won't...
