Aside from the fact that I was right, I disagree that silence has gone. Only recently we have seen perfectly observed silence before the last post. I think that football supporter behaviour has improved hugely over the years :shrug:
By supporting a minute's applause for the reasons you give you are indeed supporting the idea of a minute's silence, since you are saying the former is a 'football safe' version of the latter. Innit.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/treatments/implantable-cardioverter-defibrillator#:~:text=An%20ICD%20is%20a%20small,and%20cause%20a%20cardiac%20arrest.
I am not sure why Eriksson was able to receive an ICD whereas Mwepu (apparently) is not. I suspect your explanation may well be...
I just shed a few tears.
If it is any consolation (and I think it is), he now has the luxury of life, enjoying his family, and new adventures, and not the sudden cardiac death that would likely have occurred had this not been picked up.
This. Fifty years in my case. Unthinkable, even 3 years ago. It would have been called suicidal football. To get to this level takes time, incremental changes in the way players are asked to play, incremental upgrades in players recruited, incremental improvement in the coaching of individuals...
Quite.
There were two spotty 15 year olds seated behind me, experimenting with the volume of their half-broken voices and the in parento-absentio effing and jeffing opportunity. "Touch-tight FFS" was one hilarious bit of Playstation gobbledygook one of them vented (tag Leicester tight and they...