Today's News: Potential Impact On Forthcoming City Matches

I think it also should be considered whether the players / management are in the right frame of mind to play less than a week after her majesty’s passing.

I’m sure many supporters, particularly those of an older generation, and Ex-service supporters, may not quite be ready to return to normality either and attendances will be well down.

No games should be played until after the funeral and then, only then, proceedings could continue on a case by case basis.

 

Of course they are, it's their job

Of course they are, we/they are over it now

Over reaction, life's too short..

 

If u16 matches at any level require a police presence at them there is something drastically wrong. None of it should have been cancelled last weekend, midweek or next weekend but just taking the juniors how long does it take to say that matches at a junior level outside the professional leagues can go ahead and send that out took me a few seconds to type that.

 

Well said.

For me, this whole season should be cancelled.

 

The telegraph and Argus report this morning.

Not necessarily confirming what we suspect but certainly leading that way.

"It is understood that next weekend’s fixture list, when City are due to host Stevenage, could be cancelled again in the build-up to the Queen’s State Funeral on the Bank Holiday Monday.

The decision will once more be made by the football authorities but they could be under pressure because of policing demands"

 

I think he's taking the p!ss Rod.

 

Maybe people in every day life don't want to go to work but we have to.

 

Watching BBC news last night many standing in the Royal Mile were not paying respect.
They were ensuring that they got a photo or film on their phones to record the fact that they were present as the coffin passed.

 

Sadly, I don't think he is.

 

Absolute rubbish. Older supporters and citizens want normal life as soon as they have paid their respects, I don’t want it ramming down my neck morning, noon and night. Last weekend , absolutely fine as a mark of respect and funeral day of course, anything else and parading coffins whatever is Victorian morbid overkill.

Seeing the “ family “ smiling and waving doing nationwide trips and now Truss has joined in to make political capital out of it is frankly sick. Remember they are supposed to be in mourning….?

 

Yes he’s been on it!

 

Once the faux mourning is over we will get back normality where for most of us the royal family is about as far removed from our lives as us living on Mars. All this tugging of forelocks and being subserviant toward an apparently higher class of human being is quite sickening.

 

I agree with his comment with regards the many of the older generation and those who have been in the armed forces having a different opinion on her passing, but not with regards not being ready to go back to work, especially in this present day and age.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/english-football-league-matches-to-resume-tomorrow-with-tributes-to-the-queen-12695667English Football League matches to resume tomorrow with tributes to the Queen

 

Everything else around the Queen's passing seems to have been meticulously planned and I'm left wondering why the same could not have applied to sports fixtures and other events. This way we'd have avoided the arbitrary confusion that we now found ourselves in whereby professional rugby/ cricket fixtures etc can continue whereas an amateur football one attracting probably no more than a dozen spectators couldn't.
Certainly not intended to be a political point but the government have taken the soft option by leaving it to each sports authority to make their own choice whether to postpone or continue in a respectful manner leading to the frustration that many of us feel.

 

I think the majority of the population wish to show some respect to a sovereign who has devoted her whole life to the country. That doesn’t mean life shouldn’t go on of course it should. There has been a little overkill with regards tv programming and the like but in my opinion football got it right with a one off show of respect.

 

Do you really think Potter has allowed the Chelsea players some head space? This hiatus in fixtures being played has fallen right into his lap in terms of time to work with his new group of players on the training ground and I bet he's taken full advantage. The break in fixtures has nothing to do with players who will be working as normal.