putting itno perspective

As far as I'm aware the tragic events of Norway have nothing to do with football so how does it put things into perspective?

comment by celticmindedubet (U1165)

posted 8 minutes ago

strange how some won't put that into persective athiest, should we in the football worls not mourn as well ?

It's not about that mate. I think that every human being on here will be upset about what happened. But if I want to discuss current affairs or politics or whatever online, I'll go to a forum that is relevant to the subject I wish to discuss, I come here to talk about football and only football, it's just my view, maybe I'm wrong, idk

establishment

id have to agree with u there. Without speaking ill of the dead or coming across the wrong way, minute silences, armbands etc should be kept for people who have passed that were involved in the game in some capacity. Massacres, etc should be recognised by governments and councils who should arrange tributes to these people killed.

For me football (watching or playing) is an escape from the events of the world.

We should try to leave minutes silences and minutes applause to footballing people who have died.

There are exceptional circumstances though.

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It's tragic, and so is the 5 dead in Texas and the dozens killed in China in the Bullet train collision and i coul;d go on and on but they are nothing to do with football,

Please don't cheapen those events or the lives taken in them by discussing it on a football forum

even then, id feel a minutes applause for these footballing people is more of a tribute than silence. after all, these people have worked in the game to hear the fans cheer them. that to me is more fitting

CDP

i agree. With the murder rate in west scotland we could have minute silences at kick off, half time n full time in every game played for the amount of people killed on our streets that week. But its place isnt at the football

comment by Laffavic - we are all champions (U6279)

posted 47 seconds ago

CDP

i agree. With the murder rate in west scotland we could have minute silences at kick off, half time n full time in every game played for the amount of people killed on our streets that week. But its place isnt at the football

I couldn't agree more

As much as it was a terrible thing to happen having a minutes silence is inapropriate i believe. Lets face it, that amount of people killed on that scale is a common occurrence in the likes of Africa and other third world countries on a regular basis. I mean, a million were slaughtered in Rwanda and I dont recall everyone rushing to have a minutes silence then.