Indeed, in fact one could argue it's almost at that stage now. So now of course the tributes have to be 'ramped up' and instead of Rangers holding a respectful minutes silence for the chairman of a football club they've postponed a game.
it died
rip dog
[/QUOTE]Depends on what type of "sacrificing" we're talking about
, but Eddie Thompson was so much more than "just another chairman". If every club chairman was like him, football would be a far, far finer world. It's not just the way in which he was intrumental in setting up a fans' trust which is now the second-largest share-owner of the club, and his putting of fans on the board, it is the general way in which he behaved - he believed completely that club owners and chairmen are custodians (his word) of the club and that the fans are absolutely the most important thing. And it was not only within his own club that he argued for this, for he tried to spread that gospel - he was the conscience of Scottish football, as far as I am concerned, and the whole of football is far poorer for his loss. You can't even begin to imagine to love the club's fans have for him - I certainly have never come across such chairman-fan rapport and mutual respect anywhere else - and you can't even begin to imagine the respect in which he is held even by fans of other clubs.
I'm as unhappy as the next man at the profusion of one-minute silences, and don't even get me on to the topic of two-minute silences
For the record, I don't think the game should have been cancelled - I think it should have been played as a celebration of the man and his approach to football. But don't go thinking that Eddie Thompson is *just* "the opposing team's chairman". That is to fail to get the measure of the man.
I'm as unhappy as the next man at the profusion of one-minute silences, and don't even get me on to the topic of two-minute silences
For the record, I don't think the game should have been cancelled - I think it should have been played as a celebration of the man and his approach to football. But don't go thinking that Eddie Thompson is *just* "the opposing team's chairman". That is to fail to get the measure of the man.
True, he was a good chairman, one of the old school, and by football standards a great man. Consequently an impeccably observed minute's silence at Ibrox (if it could be done which is moot) would have been a fitting tribute. And you do admit that postponing the match was a tribute too far.I'm as unhappy as the next man at the profusion of one-minute silences, and don't even get me on to the topic of two-minute silences
For the record, I don't think the game should have been cancelled - I think it should have been played as a celebration of the man and his approach to football. But don't go thinking that Eddie Thompson is *just* "the opposing team's chairman". That is to fail to get the measure of the man.
