Maggie Thatcher.

Love her or hate her and I am afraid I am in the latter group we cannot deny that she was influential in transforming the fans experience of watching football.

She may have destroyed British industry and cultivated the selfish me, me, me, culture as well as laying the foundations for the banking crisis while denying children a glass of milk at school in the morning but for football she gave us all seated stadia and trouble free crowds.

Is going to a football match a better fan experience today than in the eighties thanks to her?

Should we thank her and show her respect by holding a minutes silence for her this Saturday as they plan to do at Reading and if we do will you be like me and arrive after the game has started?