Rage Online Blog

Fed up with all the minutes of silence that take place before football matches these days, even for non-footy related events, even for events that took place many moons ago? Well, so is Steven Wells, who expresses his point of view quite forcefully in today's Guardian. The current Rage On has an article in a similar vein, and there appears to be a gathering momentum that these silences are happening too often, and that they're losing their import. Eventually there's going to come a time when supporters get fed up with yet another irrelevant remembrance and they're going to be irreverent, get a bad press, and generally upset people for whom these moments do actually mean something. Surely it would be better to allow people to express their grieving in their own ways, and not in contrived public displays that don't really do anyone any good anyway, unless they really are relevant to the game as a whole, or the club specifically.

Labels: Silence