Lags Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Should we or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonesyOAFC Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 No. She splits opinion too much, it's needless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A minutes silence for Margaret Thatcher, no. A minutes silence for the anniversary of Hillsborough, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshgaz Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 100 per cent no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Difficult question this. If they had a minute's silence, I'd almost certainly go along and ruin it with vile chants and abuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 No, because it wouldn't be respected. That is the decision of the FA and Football League, no need to consider a unilateral decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stargazer Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 No , it would not be respected by some people I imagine. The problem is some people did very well under her government .... others did not. Mind a lot of our crowd are very young , and I doubt most of them will know anything about the Winter of Discontent , Poll Tax Riots , Hunger Strikers , Privatisation of nationalised industries , miners strike etc etc. Her family deserve to mourn their mother without the possible images of cheering crowds at football and elsewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ritchie Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Thatcher never loved football. Football never loved Thatcher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Pesky plural nouns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamjonesyyoafc Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 (edited) "@joshuapsjones: I think there should be a minutes silence for Thatcher at Bury on saturday, purely so we can all boo through it. #oafc" Edited April 10, 2013 by iamjonesyyoafc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Pesky plural nouns. One minute's silence. Two minutes' silence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 (edited) I would think that even the biggest supporter of Margaret Thatcher has to admit that she had no love of football. The push for ID cards alone was a poor way of trying to deal with the hooligan problem. Regardless of your view of her achievements or otherwise, football grounds are not the place to show respect to her. That's before you consider the likely response of a not insignificant number of fans at any ground. She will have her funeral. Parliament will sit. People can pay their respects in other ways. Football should carry on without acknowledging the event. I'm sure she wouldn't care. A minutes silence for Margaret Thatcher, no. A minutes silence for the anniversary of Hillsborough, yes. We should never forget Hillsborough. It is an event that, even though I wasn't there, has marked me deeply forever. I don't think the 24th anniversary of that dreadful day should be marked up and down the country though. Liverpool FC should do their own thing for it. Bury v Oldham really isn't the place for it. I'm not averse to something next year. 25 years is a key landmark. The football fan should never forget this one. Edited April 10, 2013 by opinions4u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I would think that even the biggest supporter of Margaret Thatcher has to admit that she had no love of football. The push for ID cards alone was a poor way of trying to deal with the hooligan problem. Regardless of your view of her achievements or otherwise, football grounds are not the place to show respect to her. That's before you consider the likely response of a not insignificant number of fans at any ground. She will have her funeral. Parliament will sit. People can pay their respects in other ways. Football should carry on without acknowledging the event. I'm sure she wouldn't care. The queues outside town halls up and down the country to sign books of condolence are amazing. I was about to send flowers, but the Thatcher family (the gun-running fraudster and the racist) said they didn't want them. Fair enough I reckon. Each to their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewBlue Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 (edited) A state funeral would be an insult to her. She'd have loved nothing more than a privatised funeral. In the same way that a minute's silence at a football ground would be something she'd despise, she'd probably like to be booed as it would make football fans look worse, something she always wanted. Edited April 10, 2013 by NewBlue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 One minute's silence. Two minutes' silence. Damn you grammar, damn you all to hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A minutes applause Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhamains Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 No! Great to see at least one labour PM doesn't change her opinion just because she's dead! Sick of seeing all these crocodile tears! Glenda Jackson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A minutes applause A minute's applause. FTFY. Thanks for the downboat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Og Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A minutes silence for Margaret Thatcher, no. A minutes silence for the anniversary of Hillsborough, yes. Why Hillsborough if not Bradford, Ibrox, Burnden Park? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 A minute's applause. FTFY. Thanks for the downboat. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Let's not bother with her any more. http://donthatedonate.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy_Fent Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 no wonder Dave Whelan wants a tribute, going off this picture she's clearly a Wigan fan.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Why Hillsborough if not Bradford, Ibrox, Burnden Park? Because the Hillsborough anniversary is on Monday, wouldn't have a problem commemorating the others. Although Bradford would be problematic as the season has often finished by then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancy lad Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Difficult question this. If they had a minute's silence, I'd almost certainly go along and ruin it with vile chants and abuse. Wouldn't a simple no have sufficed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laticdickovarmy Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 If me or you die would we get one.... No! All the more reason why she shouldn't is the football ID card idea. I don't understand the idea you can talk bad of her when she is alive but don't when she has died. Id rather we all went in Liverpool shirts as a mark of respect to the 96 over her and I really don't like Liverpool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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