1 minute silence tonight?

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BladeFisher said:
So that's not very long ago then, unless you meant the 19th century.
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Irving Patnick would like to say 'Hello'.

Any club attempting a minute's silence will show staggering optimism and amazing shortsightedness. I rather liked her, she made studying for my Political Science degree far more interesting.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Argentine Rear Admiral Allara sounds like a Tory cunt to me. Wibble.
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Here's some twats take on it.

Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the ivory trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out. She gave the order to blow up The Belgranoeven though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone—and was sailing AWAY from the islands! When the young Argentinean boys aboard The Belgranohad suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs-up sign for the British press.



Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes. She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women's movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a prime minister could actually be female. But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it.
Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity.









MORRISSEY.
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WalthamstowBlade said:
I seem to remember a minutes silence at Bramall Lane when Matt Busby died?
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I don't think there was. I am pretty sure our next game after he died was at the Sty and there was, a very badly observed, one there (especially on the Blades end). Ill conceived from the start as a minutes silence for a man with no connection to either side, held in such a naturally hostile atmosphere was never going to work.
 
I seem to remember there being an outcry after the minutes silence for Matt Busby was marked by the Leeds fans singing "there is only one Don Revie"
 
It seems that we have more and more minutes silences, can someone quantify? (ahem, Darren) Since Diana grieving in this country seems an increasingly public rather than private thing.
 
I heard her former Minister For Sport, Richard Tracey, yesterday saying that football should have a minute's silence because she enabled it to be the sport it is today. He even had the nerve to credit her with the outcome of the Taylor Report, despite the fact its conclusions ran directly contrary to her own ideas.

The sheer ignorance of the woman toward sport was no secret. The fact her minister has constructed his little myth about it which he peddles 25 years later is just staggering.

I'd resolved not to post anything Thatcher related, but that just had to be repeated.

#No minute's silence.
 
There was no bigger enemy of football in the 1980's than Margaret Thatcher. She deserves nothing from football fans.

Edit - Highbury Blade said it better.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
The hooligans?
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I've recently read somewhere that in the mid 80's after the Luton Riot, Bradford fire and Heysel disaster, Thatcher seriously considered outlawing football matches and the only reason she didn't go through with it was the adverse impact it would have on her chances of winning the 1987 election.
 
That's fair. Hooligans were a bigger enemy of football than Thatcher. She ranks second.

She'll have to be content with being the biggest enemy of the miners, the steelworkers, the North generally and the working classes generally in the 1980s.
 
Revolution said:
That's fair. Hooligans were a bigger enemy of football than Thatcher. She ranks second.

She'll have to be content with being the biggest enemy of the miners, the steelworkers, the North generally and the working classes generally in the 1980s.
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Not bad, Brassed Off did it better though.
 
It certainly did. One of my first thoughts when I heard the news was what the reaction would be in Grimethorpe and similar places.
 



Revolution said:
It certainly did. One of my first thoughts when I heard the news was what the reaction would be in Grimethorpe and similar places.
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My first thought was "Shit, Teri Hatcher's dead!" I suppose that's what happens when you find out via a text from a severely dyslexic friend.
 
Deleted Member said:
post: 488494, member: 875"]I seem to remember there being an outcry after the minutes silence for Matt Busby was marked by the Leeds fans singing "there is only one Don Revie"
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The idea occurs of a minute's abuse for both Thatcher and Revie at the same time but at different locations! Which to attend? Now that would be a real dilemma for me.
 
Highbury_Blade said:
The last word on the matter from the divine Marina Hyde

http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theg...hmpLoE/marina-hyde-minute-silence-fans-decide
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Very good but loses half a mark for 'formalised chance to pay respects' when actually it's a 'chance to pay formalised respects' but that's pedantry for you!

It's given me an idea, though. Remove the wretched formality! Who the hell are they to tell us how to use our precious minute? I propose, for future reference: a minute's anything. 60 seconds - it's all yours - do as you please!

A minute's malice for Thatch.
A minute's laughter for Eric Morecambe.
A minute's groping for Savile.
A mimute's corruption for Don Revie.
A minute's diving for Jacques Cousteau and Steven Gerrard.
A minute's silence for Marcel Marceau.
A minute's piss-up for Howard Kendall.
A minute's gurning for Jimmy Sirrel and Ian Dowie.

I could go on but I need a minute's rest.
 
Is she still dead? Fooking brilliant, hope she's burning in hell, that'd be even better. Soggy faced old bitch, best days work she ever did dying, she should have done it years ago :D
 
Princess Annes Dog said:
Is she still dead? Fooking brilliant, hope she's burning in hell, that'd be even better. Soggy faced old bitch, best days work she ever did dying, she should have done it years ago :D
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Not a fan then? Me? I had three people unfriend me on Facebook just because I posted that they'll have to install a turnstile in the graveyard due to the amount of people entering it with their dancing shoes on. I mean, it's not as if I danced the fucking Fandango on her naked corpse whilst poking knitting needles through her eyeballs. As it is, I will boo heartily through any minute's silence, but I really don't think it will be a decision I have to make.
 
I think it just goes to show how "out of touch" the f*cktards who run this country are with public feeling. MT is (was) the embodyment of all things Conservative.

If I was planning this funeral, I would be very worried for the amount of things that will probably "kick off", as a protest not for what she destroyed all those years ago, but for the current coalition and their cuts.
 
Pinchy said:
Very good but loses half a mark for 'formalised chance to pay respects' when actually it's a 'chance to pay formalised respects' but that's pedantry for you!

It's given me an idea, though. Remove the wretched formality! Who the hell are they to tell us how to use our precious minute? I propose, for future reference: a minute's anything. 60 seconds - it's all yours - do as you please!

A minute's malice for Thatch.
A minute's laughter for Eric Morecambe.
A minute's groping for Savile.
A mimute's corruption for Don Revie.
A minute's diving for Jacques Cousteau and Steven Gerrard.
A minute's silence for Marcel Marceau.
A minute's piss-up for Howard Kendall.
A minute's gurning for Jimmy Sirrel and Ian Dowie.

I could go on but I need a minute's rest.
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Don't forget a minute's selling for McCabe
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
"Opinion gradually becomes less positive as you go northwards, but not drastically so – even in the North 49% have a positive opinion of Thatcher, 35% negative. Only in Scotland is the balance of opinion negative."

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/7258?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: PollingReport (UK Polling Report)
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Yes, I read that. I found it quite surprising, though I think the score may have been skewed by the categories that were said to be positive - "great" and "good". "Great" can mean "significant" (as in "great dictator") as well as suggesting approval. I would say she was a great prime minister in the sense that she was a significant historical figure, though I think her influence was generally a pernicious one.

If they had asked the question "was Mrs Thatcher's period as prime minister good for people like you", I think they would have got a very different answer in the north.
 



Darren said:
Yes, I read that. I found it quite surprising, though I think the score may have been skewed by the categories that were said to be positive - "great" and "good". "Great" can mean "significant" (as in "great dictator") as well as suggesting approval. I would say she was a great prime minister in the sense that she was a significant historical figure, though I think her influence was generally a pernicious one.

If they had asked the question "was Mrs Thatcher's period as prime minister good for people like you", I think they would have got a very different answer in the north.
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The question was...

Thinking back to Margaret Thatcher's period as Prime Minister, do you think she was...
A great Prime Minister - 21%
A good Prime Minister - 28%

http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.ne...YouGov-Sun-results-Thatcher-legacy-130409.pdf

Greenwich Blade 's dancefloor might not need waxing too often.
 
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