jimsleftfoot Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) We're having a minutes applause tommorow - Fair play. Edited December 6, 2013 by jimsleftfoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 What does it say? I can't view a couple of the OS's stories at the moment for some reason. There will be a tribute for Nelson Mandela at Boundary Park tomorrow, which for fans, will hopefully mean free Maluti and bunny chow all round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Minute's applause possible tomorrow. BBC plans say is being looked at for all FA Cup ties this weekend. I respect the bloke immensely and all that, but this is getting silly now. Agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mullet Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Thanks all. A strange thing to do at an Oldham v Mansfield match in 2013, but I'm happy to clap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukka Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) I wrote this about Thatcher. Obviously I feel vastly different about Mandela as a person, but the principle is the same. Wrong time wrong place: Sports obssession for minutes silences winds me up. "It isn't the time or place. Unless someone connected to the club has died - there are much more suitable places. Rememberance day, why are football clubs taking it opon themeselves to do something? I'm not going to a game for that. On the sunday there is a service, I've been to that a few times. I'd be pissed off if a football match broke out in the middle of that too. Political figues should never be honoured at a sporting event. Especially divisive ones like Thatcher. It isn't the clubs / FA's job to tell you who to respect in that way." Edited December 6, 2013 by pukka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookersstandandy Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 As Singe points out, his release was 3 days before we beat West Ham 6-0. We can applaud for both....!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimsleftfoot Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) To the wider world he represented many things, not least an icon of freedom but also the most vivid example in modern times of the power of forgiveness and reconciliation. Back in the early 1990s, I remember then President, FW De Klerk, telling me he how he found Mandela's lack of bitterness "astonishing". That's why he's different to Bin Laden and Thatcher Edited December 6, 2013 by jimsleftfoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) I wrote this on my Facebook on hearing the news last night, whether people agree or not this is my own interpretation of a remarkable man...... Nelson Mandela was once tarred as a terrorist but rightly he will be now eternally held as an inspiration - a truly great man that gave hope to millions and United a continent regardless of colour and whose impact was such he brought the world together against the ills of oppression and prejudice. A true icon of humanity and the everyone man's right to be free, RIP.... Edited December 6, 2013 by oafcprozac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Going to deliver a lesson on this in the near future, NM & SA aren't in the syllabus (yet), yet MLK is. Which is the more important? Found this earlier today.... "No-one is born hating another person because of the colour of their skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 There will be a tribute for Nelson Mandela at Boundary Park tomorrow, which for fans, will hopefully mean free Maluti and bunny chow all round. Now yer talking, beats a Clayton Park kookaburra any day...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I found out he died in a thread about an English Division 3 football club planning to hold a minutes applause for him. I don't know what to make of that on several levels...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scratch2000uk Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Going to deliver a lesson on this in the near future, NM & SA aren't in the syllabus (yet), yet MLK is. Which is the more important? Found this earlier today.... "No-one is born hating another person because of the colour of their skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite" I don't remember MLK killing people for his cause... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mullet Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Going to deliver a lesson on this in the near future, NM & SA aren't in the syllabus (yet), yet MLK is. Which is the more important? That's because we're America's pet dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Going to deliver a lesson on this in the near future, NM & SA aren't in the syllabus (yet), yet MLK is. Which is the more important? Chuck D. Brother don't swear he's nice, he knows he's nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Agree you dont have to take part you can always go but a pie or go for a piss if your that bothered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I'm a human being, I'll applaud, whether it's warranted at football grounds in England is much more debateable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtimeblue Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Can see this ending badly. I''d expect there to be noise. Agree with others though, whatever your opinion, don't think it's appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtimeblue Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Just realised it's a minute's applause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disjointed Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 At some point we will all become apathetic to this, respect the man. but did he ever visit Boundary park? now that is suffering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_balls Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 A bit meh, don't think it's warranted, granted I don't have to join if I don't want to, but a third division sporting 'arena' isn't really the place, and where does it stop, jelly and ice cream when Gerry Adams dies???? Houses of Parliament lit up in the tri-colour??? Just leave all the politics out of the football and lets us crack on getting into the third round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beag_teeets Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 At some point we will all become apathetic to this, respect the man. but did he ever visit Boundary park? now that is suffering. First result he looked for was Latics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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