*OFF* Charlton Athletic V Exeter City Sat 10th September 2022 Discussion and Prediction thread

[Grecian2K]

Bit miffed at this, tbh. It would've been an oasis amidst the wall-to-wall televisual coverage.

Don't you mean "wonder-wall"-to-wall there Rae?

 

[DawlishBouy]

Football — England weekend fixtures cancelled all the way down to grassroots. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland postpones all professional football.
Rugby Union — Two Premiership matches scheduled for Friday are switched to Saturday and Sunday.
Championship matches scheduled for today go ahead and all matches thereafter unaffected except teams who have large numbers of miltary and police amongst their ranks can call games off (but only if their opponents agree).
Rugby League is postponing nothing.
Cricket is postponing nothing.
Horse racing — On Thursday the meet at Southwell was abandoned whilst in progress and all other evening meets were cancelled. Meets on Friday and Saturday cancelled.
Athletics — Great North Run goes ahead on Sunday.
Boxing — women’s world title fight postoned until October. All BBC tournaments postponed for the weekend.
Golf — PGA Championship. Friday’s round cancelled.
Ice Hockey — continues unaffected.

Struggling to see any respect or common sense.

 

[SEA Grecian]

Football — England weekend fixtures cancelled all the way down to grassroots. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland postpones all professional football.
Rugby Union — Two Premiership matches scheduled for Friday are switched to Saturday and Sunday.
Championship matches scheduled for today go ahead and all matches thereafter unaffected except teams who have large numbers of miltary and police amongst their ranks can call games off (but only if their opponents agree).
Rugby League is postponing nothing.
Cricket is postponing nothing.
Horse racing — On Thursday the meet at Southwell was abandoned whilst in progress and all other evening meets were cancelled. Meets on Friday and Saturday cancelled.
Athletics — Great North Run goes ahead on Sunday.
Boxing — women’s world title fight postoned until October. All BBC tournaments postponed for the weekend.
Golf — PGA Championship. Friday’s round cancelled.
Ice Hockey — continues unaffected.

Struggling to see any respect or common sense.

Exactly - it's the inconsistency that's so frustrating. If cricket can say it's showing respect by continuing why can't football.

 

[Sexton Blake]

I am generally a supporter of our constitutional monarchy and have the utmost respect and affection for our late Queen. Your proposal for expressing respect is exactly the way I feel about this matter.

Pedantic warning the National Anthem is “God Save the King” and it would now be inappropriate to sing anything else.

 

[Grecian2K]

Pedantic warning the National Anthem is “God Save the King”

Even more pedantically I suggest not until tomorrow, after the accession committee has met?

 

[Sexton Blake]

It's just how the French Revolution started.

And “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition”

 

[tonykellowfan]

It seems the decision to call off the football matches is not popular, if the comments under this piece are anything to go by:

Football isolated after cancelling weekend games while other sports resume

The Queen was a long-standing patron of the FA with chief executive Mark Bullingham advocating postponements in cross-sport talks

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[S1mg1bb0]

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[Sexton Blake]

Even more pedantically I suggest not until tomorrow, after the accession committee has met?

Charles as heir to the throne became King the moment his mother the Queen died……that is an indisputable fact.

The accession committee cannot change anything and is merely a rubber stamping exercise.

 

[Sexton Blake]

Exactly - it's the inconsistency that's so frustrating. If cricket can say it's showing respect by continuing why can't football.

Agreed I am surprised that the various sporting bodies do not have appeared to have acted in liaison with each other…..which would have avoided any unnecessary unpleasantness and helped to keep anti-monarchists quiet under their stones.