Minute's applause for Mandela ?

[T soprano]

I won't be banging my Drum

 

[Icy Gull]

I'll live with it it it happens but quite what it has to do with Brighton and Hove Albion playing a football match against Leicester is beyond me.

 

[Machiavelli]

Fair point. In many peoples eyes she was a great leader of this country. Would have made more sense than one for Mandela.

She called Mandela a terrorist. I think Mandela was a little more careful in the terms he used to describe her. As Herr Tubthumper and Albumen have pointed out, he was one of the -- if not the -- most important and universally admired politicians of our lifetime. In the 20th century, arguably only Gandhi and -- granted this one's more debatable -- Gorbachev have garnered such respect. Worthy of acknowledgment I'd suggest, if we're going to do such things.

 

[lawros left foot]

Fair point. In many peoples eyes she was a great leader of this country. Would have made more sense than one for Mandela.

Yeah, and she really, really loved football fans

 

[worthingseagull123]

WHY ........nothing to do with football NOT EVEN THIS COUNTRY
regards
DR

Agree. He is not a British head of state.

 

[Machiavelli]

But why an applause? Why not silence?

You might be on to something here HT. It always used to be silence, now it's applause, perhaps because it's easier to disrupt the former.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

I won't be banging my Drum

So, you've had it extracted again then

 

[Machiavelli]

Agree. He is not a British head of state.

There aren't any hes that are the British head of state. There is a she, but she seems to like to refer to herself as one.

 

[lawros left foot]

bring your clacker along then and make the most of it

Why no regards?


Regards
LLF

 

[El Sid]

I think a minutes dance would be ok.

 

[jakarta]

She called Mandela a terrorist. I think Mandela was a little more careful in the terms he used to describe her. As Herr Tubthumper and Albumen have pointed out, he was one of the -- if not the -- most important and universally admired politicians of our lifetime. In the 20th century, arguably only Gandhi and -- granted this one's more debatable -- Gorbachev have garnered such respect. Worthy of acknowledgment I'd suggest, if we're going to do such things.

I presume from your posts you come from a rather left wing viewpoint?

I can't think of any other reason you haven't mentioned Winston Churchill as being an 'important and universally admired politician' of the 20th Century. I think he garnered quite a lot of respect, seeing as he fought against both Communism and Fascism, the two scourges of the 20th Century.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Might be more than a minutes silence from the home support from the 80th minute if we play as badly as tuesday..most will have legged it

 

[Frutos]

quite what it has to do with Brighton and Hove Albion playing a football match against Leicester is beyond me.

This.

I have nothing but respect for Mandela's achievements, but I really struggle to see the point of this.

 

[T soprano]

We,ve lost him...?

I,m not applauding unless somebody finds him before 3.00pm tomorrow.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

It's up to the individual if they applaud or not. I just don't want to see all the threads started Saturday evening bitching that people chose not to applaud a converted terrorist

 

[Machiavelli]

I presume from your posts you come from a rather left wing viewpoint?

I can't think of any other reason you haven't mentioned Winston Churchill as being an 'important and universally admired politician' of the 20th Century. I think he garnered quite a lot of respect, seeing as he fought against both Communism and Fascism, the two scourges of the 20th Century.

I like what Churchill did in WW2. Maybe he should make such a list.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I think we should all wear a LOUD Nelson Mandela type shirt to the match and bring South African flags.

 

[Machiavelli]

I think we should all wear a LOUD Nelson Mandela type shirt to the match and bring South African flags.

but perhaps not vuvuzelas

 

[The Fifth Column]

Well if they do a minutes applause tomorrow, I've no interest in it at all so I shall use that time to go and get a pie.

 

[Dandyman]

WHY ........nothing to do with football NOT EVEN THIS COUNTRY
regards
DR

It's massively to do with this country, cretin.