Premier League matches postponed.

But what about people like myself who have paid for travel and maybe accommodation also.

My return train fare was £45.40 and the train company probably will not refund me anything as their journeys will still run. Nonetheless I have already emailed them asking the question!

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Think the funeral’s on Monday 19th isn’t it?

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Think so.
If matches go ahead next week with armbands and a minutes silence, then why couldn't that be done this weekend?

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Absolutely pathetic decision - have a look at the last paragraph of this piece;-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/62846756

I wrote in another thread about the precedent of the Queen’s Father’s death where there were games played three days after his death. Yes, it was a long time ago, but how can you justify the change of heart from then? My view is that there seems to be a desire to show that the current UK “cares” more than past ones did - why is there a need for two minutes silences for some things now when one was always considered enough? It’s the gesture that counts, not that it goes on longer than anyone else’s does.

To repeat myself from another post, we’ve got unions cancelling strikes and telling their members they have to work and bosses at the Premier Leagues and EFL telling the workers that they’re cannot work this weekend - this country can be ridiculous at times!

I hope other sports will decide to go ahead and show football how wrong they’ve got this, but I’ve not much hope that they will.

Are we all going to be forced to wear sackcloth and ashes for getting on for three weeks because the head of an institution that significant numbers of the population think should not exist has died?

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Let’s all go up to Doncaster on Sunday have a betting spree, get p*ssed up. Horse Racing is the sport of Kings and Queens. .

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But what about people like myself who have paid for travel and maybe accommodation also.

My return train fare was £45.40 and the train company probably will not refund me anything as their journeys will still run. Nonetheless I have already emailed them asking the question!

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In a few words “tough s**t”. :sherlock:

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But what about people like myself who have paid for travel and maybe accommodation also.

My return train fare was £45.40 and the train company probably will not refund me anything as their journeys will still run. Nonetheless I have already emailed them asking the question!

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Tough. They don’t care about regular people. Never have and never will.

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Think so.
If matches go ahead next week with armbands and a minutes silence, then why couldn't that be done this weekend?

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Agreed.

So basically only spectator sports effected by this? Everything else is still going on as normal?
Absolutely furious about the game being called off, pathetic decision!

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All UK racing off tomorrow. However St Ledger meeting moved to Saturday.

I think Shields and Marshall are still punching lumps out of each though.

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Hope so. Really looking forward to that. Gonna be one hell of a scrap. Surely they wont postpone it. Both fighters will have made the weight, and will be primed for tomorrow evening.
On a side note, this nonsense of the whole country is in official mourning is doing my nut in.
I’m no Royalist, but she was good at what she did, and it’s sad that she’s gone, and 96 yrs is a good bat, but that’s about it for me.

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But what about people like myself who have paid for travel and maybe accommodation also.

My return train fare was £45.40 and the train company probably will not refund me anything as their journeys will still run. Nonetheless I have already emailed them asking the question!

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Try emailing Chuck.

Seems that the test match may go ahead tomorrow.

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Seems that the test match may go ahead tomorrow.

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Bloody madness.

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Hope so. Really looking forward to that. Gonna be one hell of a scrap. Surely they wont postpone it. Both fighters will have made the weight, and will be primed for tomorrow evening.
On a side note, this nonsense of the whole country is in official mourning is doing my nut in.
I’m no Royalist, but she was good at what she did, and it’s sad that she’s gone, and 96 yrs is a good bat, but that’s about it for me.

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FFS. The fight is off now as well.

Saying on TS now, that next weeks games maybe postponed as well due to the funeral.
Countries gone mad !

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Saying on TS now, that next weeks games maybe postponed as well due to the funeral.
Countries gone mad !

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if you're going to postpone any, then the day of the funeral is understandable

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Will you eat the month old pie?

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But but but what about the pies? Lol

https://i.imgur.com/GK3ghoB.jpg

Saw this picture on Twitter and it turns out the whole Premier League has black & white profile badges so I thought I'd check us out.

https://i.imgur.com/vPMFjdJ.png

It seems the entire Championship also has black & white profile pictures... except Cardiff and Swansea. :hehe:

This seems to be one occasion when this board is in perfect harmony on a subject

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FFS. The fight is off now as well.

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It’s all absolute bollox!
As usual “Her Majesty’s subjects” have just got to bow down. Even after she’s thrown a 7!

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Saying on TS now, that next weeks games maybe postponed as well due to the funeral.
Countries gone mad !

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No it’s all very normal here https://twitter.com/mentalheadline/s...V3g175d5m_1TmQ

Local games off as well:shrug: Perhaps Charles had something to do with it, I can imagine him, “Camilla, that fecking Bridgend Street had better not be playing on Saturday, I’ll be straight down Fleurs to sort them out if they are”.

The EFL have postponed the fixtures.Not the Royal Family.

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No it’s all very normal here https://twitter.com/mentalheadline/s...V3g175d5m_1TmQ

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This one FFS mun https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/...pOXPubtR2mG73A

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The EFL have postponed the fixtures.Not the Royal Family.

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You think they wouldn’t have cancelled without The Firm’s say so.

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This one FFS mun https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/...pOXPubtR2mG73A

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Underneath that one :hehe:

https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie/s...gJS17qkFS3YKmg

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In a few words “tough s**t”. :sherlock:

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That was harsh, it's not this poor chaps fault this woman died. How about Buck House doing the decent thing and at least refund his expenses?

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I’m glad it’s off, we would have made tits of ourselves during any minutes silence.

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Something like that has become more likely when we play again I’d say following the ludicrous decision to effectively ban football this weekend.

https://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

I see the English rugby is going ahead. All games in Wales cancelled. Senghenydd rugby club will lose £4,000 today as a result of not having a game. Ludicrous!

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https://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

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Great piece Bob 👍

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https://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

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Probably as good a blog as you have written.
Agree wholeheartedly about the pointlessness of calling football off.
My view is that the authorities were leaned on by a Government which has a visceral dislike of football, the UK'S highest profile sport, and what it stands for.
Perhaps, on reflection for the best. Imagine if the boos started at Liverpool or Cardiff. Would be massive news and detrimental to the game as a whole, whatever over feelings on the Monarchy.

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Probably as good a blog as you have written.
Agree wholeheartedly about the pointlessness of calling football off.
My view is that the authorities were leaned on by a Government which has a visceral dislike of football, the UK'S highest profile sport, and what it stands for.
Perhaps, on reflection for the best. Imagine if the boos started at Liverpool or Cardiff. Would be massive news and detrimental to the game as a whole, whatever over feelings on the Monarchy.

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Yes im watching the cricket now. Good tribute before, not to over the top but all done and now on with the game. SA 32/5 so its a good watch if anyone likes cricket.

However the only reason football is off is surely as Liverpool and cardiff are at home. They can trust a test match crowd or an English rugby crowd but Liverpool and cardiff always boo GSTQ, they just decided it wasn't worth the risk.

Of course its just delaying it but the news will have moved on by then.

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Yes im watching the cricket now. Good tribute before, not to over the top but all done and now on with the game. SA 32/5 so its a good watch if anyone likes cricket.

However the only reason football is off is surely as Liverpool and cardiff are at home. They can trust a test match crowd or an English rugby crowd but Liverpool and cardiff always boo GSTQ, they just decided it wasn't worth the risk.

Of course its just delaying it but the news will have moved on by then.

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Moved on to what? I don’t think so.

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Probably as good a blog as you have written.
Agree wholeheartedly about the pointlessness of calling football off.
My view is that the authorities were leaned on by a Government which has a visceral dislike of football, the UK'S highest profile sport, and what it stands for.
Perhaps, on reflection for the best. Imagine if the boos started at Liverpool or Cardiff. Would be massive news and detrimental to the game as a whole, whatever over feelings on the Monarchy.

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Celtic also

It wouldn't be just Liverpool and Cardiff fans booing. Support for the monarchy isn't unanimous outside of the 2 cities. During the jubilee a YouGov poll had 22% of respondents who supported abolishing the monarchy. During the jubilee is when you'd imagine support would be at it's highest too.

It would only take a handful of people to voice their opposition for the minute silence to descend into chaos. Just look at what happened at the Hearts game on Thursday. One person shouted "**** the queen", they got booed, then in retaliation people tried to sing GSTQ, then that got booed all culminating in the minute silence being cut short by the ref. Behind Rangers, Hearts are the most royalist/unionist club in Scotland.

Utter rubbish.

We wont boo.

All football and sport should have gone ahead. Our fans would have been respectful im sure.

Dont mix Cardiff with certain fan bases.

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Utter rubbish.

We wont boo.

All football and sport should have gone ahead. Our fans would have been respectful im sure.

Dont mix Cardiff with certain fan bases.

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I don’t think a minute’s silence would be booed, I 100% think GTSQ would be

The football authorities are being a tad precious about all this. People may boo yes, that's life. Sooner or.later it will happen; they can't shut football down forever.

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https://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

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Shops, pubs, cinemas, restaurants, cafes etc all open but football is postponed. Idiotic.

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I don’t think a minute’s silence would be booed, I 100% think GTSQ would be

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100% it would be booed in my opinion.

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https://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

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Great piece Paul.
Utter disrespect for the majority.
No change there.