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Taken at the Watford v Millwall game yesterday. #lestweforget.
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Taken at the Watford v Millwall game yesterday. #lestweforget.
nta73
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well done
richart
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Excellent. Much prefer the old Watford strip as well.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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but Remembrance Sunday is 9th November not 2nd?
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Our (Watford) closest *home* date to Remembrance Sunday.
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Many clubs recognised Remeberance this weekend due to it being the nearest home game to the date
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Why do they do this? My workplace doesn't do a minute silence closest working day to remembrance Sunday - though will respect it on an 11/11 working day
Actuly I know that they do it for pretty obvious reasons but each year at this time I am struck by how important football clubs believe that they are. Anyway they can get on with it - but 9 days before 11/11 I rather wonder about the real relevance.
Actuly I know that they do it for pretty obvious reasons but each year at this time I am struck by how important football clubs believe that they are. Anyway they can get on with it - but 9 days before 11/11 I rather wonder about the real relevance.
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Because they want to offer and show their respect as well as giving an opportunity to thank their local military establishments
As for yiur update - to attack football clubs for showing respect is a new low
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:mmm::angry:
davidy233
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Was your workplace in existence 100 years ago? The club I photograph will have poppies stitched on their shirts tomorrow and will have a minutes silence - next year they are likely to do more (in September) as it will be the centenary of the battle of Loos where many of the people who played/worked for the club/supported them lost their lives.
http://www.fdca.org.uk/Loos01.html
snell
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Wow......this forum has hit a new low...
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I think he realises how low he went hence why he has avoided coming back to the thread
I'm hoping he didn't mean how it came across
snell
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Hopefully Phil, but i couldnt read this thread and NOT post a reply unfortunately.
Blue in Munich
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MOTD 2 on Sunday listed in the end credits the professional footballers who died in World War 1. It wasn't a short list.
My club, Chelsea got off relatively lightly: Max Seeberg was interned simply because of his German surname, Vivian "Jack" Woodward was wounded in action but recovered; George Hilsdon was gassed; coach Harry Brown and board members Parker, Palmer and Mears all lost immediate family; while Bob "Pom-Pom" Whiting, Arthur Wileman, Bob Atherton, George Kennedy & George Lake all died of wounds suffered in the conflict.
Kennedy, a half-back during the 1908/09 season who emigrated in 1914 and was a Company Sergeant Major in the 42nd Canadian Highlanders died during the capture of Passchendale on November 16th 1917. He was Chelsea's most decorated former player, receiving the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal earlier that year. Most poignantly, Lake died just four days before the armistice of November 11th 1918. He was the only serving first team Chelsea player claimed by this most brutal of conflicts.
Their workplace wasn't open today, Remembrance Day, so the club and the fans took the opportunity at the nearest available date to pay their respects when the workplace was open. The shirts worn during the games that bear the embroidered poppy are auctioned off to raise funds for charity. Is this really such a bad thing?
SILH, perhaps you could enlighten this football fan as to the reasons that you claim the clubs do this, because to be frank, I'm not seeing it.
richart
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The minutes silence at the Reading Charlton game was impeccably observed. No the game was not played on 11th November, but that did not make the slightest difference. The silence said so much more than words.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Sorry I was misguided - and forgot that footballers and football clubs are the upholders of all that is honerable, good and decent about present day society. If I feel that there is just a little bit overweening self-importance with football clubs these days - especially the EPL - then I'm sorry - but that's how I feel. No complaints about them doing whatever they want but I'm not going to be gushing with my praise. Maybe I'd feel different if I felt part of a football family. Sorry- though it is moving that a silence can be observed - that's decent people.
richart
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Sorry but you have taken a positive thread, and tried to sour it. Perhaps keeping your thoughts to you self in this instance would have been a better option ?
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Sorry - I never meant to upset. The joint acts of remembrence by supporters at games are indeed very moving in their silence - I hope I didn't suggest I thought otherwise and if I did I apologise
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Football is only doing what other parts of society are already doing in paying their respects. Nothing more or nothing less.
Watford had 12 serving players who fought in the Great War. I believe that 10 made it home. Our tribute and choice of black and white away kit shown in the OP was for them, together with paying our respects to all that served.
