From a personal point of view im happy as a mate had a spare ticket for West Ham but I couldn't go, hopefully I'll manage the rescheduled date. Apart from my personal situation I think it is ridiculous, life moves on
Personally think the games should have gone ahead and a massive celebration took place for the queen. Broadcast all over the world to show our solidarity. A trick has been missed. Now that the football is cancelled. Other sports are taking the opportunity to promote themselves by keeping things live. No football means maximum exposure. Fair play. Not a Royalist by a long shot but I reckon the queen would have wanted everyone to carry on and celebrate her life.
I think the FA jumped the gun thinking all sports would cancel and have been blindsided by the cricket and golf continuing on tomorrow amongst others, as you say there could have been a massive show of respect broadcast around the world, they dropped the ball.
I do wonder why they made the call. It’s actually good news for us because it gives an extra week for the injured lads.
From BBC NEWS "The government's national mourning guidance advised that cancelling fixtures was not obligatory, leaving the decision up to individual sports."
I just don't see a good reason to just flat out cancel the games, just stupid and unnecessary move imo.
Does seem like FA got worried about backlash of not cancelling the games. Jumped the gun thinking has to make an announcement and have then totally read the room wrong and looked a bit silly after other sports said will carry on as usual. Have backed themselves into a problem now. Already busy schedules. Now no games this week. Likely to be cancellations next week with police needed in London. Need to hope games aren’t called over over winter due to weather or league is going to become a bit of a joke with teams playing every couple of days. Only positive for lfc is at least will be out of europe by then way things are going
Totally agree. I can see why maybe they might have more to think about in London with police resources etc but there is no need to blanket cancel the games. There's going to be a big problem fitting these fixtures in now.
I am thinking this has more to do with the way Liverpool and Celtic fans in particular have shown disrespect towards the national anthem and would no doubt behave in such a manner now.
Liverpool fans just like being different and difficult. I was raised on Merseyside, they're politically ******ed in Liverpool. There is a bubble so thick that most haven't got a ****ing clue what it's like outside Merseyside or the little spots of Spain they visit on their holiday's. For them booing the anthem is something this generation of Liverpool fans have just decided is funny, there's no deep political meaning behind it at all, anyone who tries to give it one is just trying to romantise it. Just live there, try and chat to people there about anything. They haven't got a clue. It's vote Labour, because that's what they've decided they do, walk around with a Soviet union stylised commie shirt, which I saw last week in Liverpool and pretend that your voting pattern or opinions are NOT because everyone else around you think's the same thing. It sounds dismissive, but we're chatting about a city where Primark has about 55 security guards and a 10 year old girl was gunned down. Barely a woke, with it society with it's finger on the pulse. And that's coming from someone who think's its a ****ing wonderful city. I btw, was walking around Liverpool in an England shirt and not a single soul even gave a ****. Their fake disgust at NOT being English is, again, a load of old bollocks.
I lived and worked in Liverpool for two years from 1989, I've worked all over the UK including Manchester for 6 years, London, Surrey, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Devon and many other places over the last 44 years in the hotel and pub industry, I've never worked anywhere that I had to take personal abuse from staff, have my car vandalised to the point that I got rid of it and used public transport or feel that I couldn't leave any personal items in a locker other than Liverpool. My abiding memory is of a quiet Sunday evening just after 6pm, we often had problems with kids trying to get through the front doors of the hotel, along with two of our front desk porters I was clearing a group out of the front portico when the lad I had started to move out produced a hammer and tried to smack me in the face with it, he must have been all of 12 years old and I managed to shove him away from me without any contact, only in Liverpool.
It's improved greatly since the 80s and the 90s. Now it's a capitalists wet dream. Which is ironic because it's the heartland of Labour these days. The entire city centre and all the historic docks are just massive stores and restaurants now, there's nothing else there. Liverpool is a city that hates everything Britain but was built on the British cotton trade. The contradictions and lies are rampant.
