Applause vs. Silence

[British Bulldog]

Is it possible that the choice of a minute's silence or applause is offered to the family of the deceased in the case of it being an ex Albion player/employee?

 

[Jam The Man]

Is it possible that the choice of a minute's silence or applause is offered to the family of the deceased in the case of it being an ex Albion player/employee?

Great idea... their wishes should always be the way.

 

[Saint Lennard]

Oh........... i thought this was asking about the prefernce of fans in the North Stand during a game!

On the subject in hand i was wondering if anyone knows the criteria for who is selected for these marks of respect. ie had to have played a number of games for the club, been a top goalscorer in a season, played in a successful side...there must've been ex-albion players for which the death has passed by without any acknowledgement. Who decides and how do they?

 

[Mackenzie]

Silence is golden, the applause thing is only done because the 'authorities' are shit scared of some tosser singing/booing/laughing etc.

I can understand the applause but a well observed silence is much more poignant.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Silence is golden, the applause thing is only done because the 'authorities' are shit scared of some tosser singing/booing/laughing etc.

I can understand the applause but a well observed silence is much more poignant.

The last minute's silence held at Withdean had a programme seller bellowing all the way through it. PROGRAMMES!

 

[Acker79]

Depends on the situation.

The minute's silence allows people to remember someone, reflect on a particular incident (e.g. after Hillsborough, or 9/11) what it means, how we fill etc, what sort of impact, think about how we'd react in a given situation and so on. And is very sombre. Someone not taking part in a minute's silence stands out.

The applause is a celebration. It is a thank you and acknowledgement of achievements. Someone not applauding doesn't stand out so much. (i.e. people in the north stand can clearly hear someone in the away section break a silence, but they can't see a half-hearted applause).

I think the applause is more appropriate for people who's time has come. People who die because of old age, who have lived a long life and contributed. But I think a minute's silence is more appropriate when there is a disaster, or someone is taken before their time.

 

[csider]

Silence.

 

[The Spanish]

Depends on the situation.

The minute's silence allows people to remember someone, reflect on a particular incident (e.g. after Hillsborough, or 9/11) what it means, how we fill etc, what sort of impact, think about how we'd react in a given situation and so on. And is very sombre. Someone not taking part in a minute's silence stands out.

The applause is a celebration. It is a thank you and acknowledgement of achievements. Someone not applauding doesn't stand out so much. (i.e. people in the north stand can clearly hear someone in the away section break a silence, but they can't see a half-hearted applause).

I think the applause is more appropriate for people who's time has come. People who die because of old age, who have lived a long life and contributed. But I think a minute's silence is more appropriate when there is a disaster, or someone is taken before their time.

sorry mate a minutes applause is a recent phenomenon to cover up the embarassment of idiots shouting out, nothing more. A classic Diana Generation development rather than face facts that some people are c unts.

Perhaps you should write to the Royal British Legion to suggest that next remembrance day it should be an applause instead. I wonder what they reckon?

We are rapidly, it appears, losing our ability as a nation to grieve or pay respects with anything resembling dignity.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I know this gets brought up after every time we have one, but what are people's thoughts on the whole minute's applause/minute's silence thing?

Personally, although I can see the thinking behind the minute's applause, the silence is an infinitely better way of paying tribute to someone's life and achievements.

See, football grounds are, by nature, generally quite noisy places. If you take away every bit of that noise for one minute, then surely that's a far more powerful and poignant gesture than just having another minute of noise that just seems to blend into the time periods on either side of it?

I totally agree. I think staying silent for minute to gather thoughts on the player or players who have died, is a touching tribute.

 

[Acker79]

sorry mate a minutes applause is a recent phenomenon to cover up the embarassment of idiots shouting out, nothing more. A classic Diana Generation development rather than face facts that some people are c unts.

That's a very cynical way to look at things. And I disagree that that is why people started doing rounds of applause. The most cynical I will go is that lots of people were doing minutes silence for pretty much anyone, and the minute applause was something new and different.

Perhaps you should write to the Royal British Legion to suggest that next remembrance day it should be an applause instead. I wonder what they reckon?

Do you not think war counts as a disaster? Besides, I don't think they have as much trouble with the minute's silence as rival football fractions who have idiotic individuals within their ranks who think it's funny to ruin the respectful silence for their opposing team.