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"@johnlucasNQE Your article re Southend United fans and the 2 dead lads is mis-leading. Suggested by a friend but not supported by most fans"
mcnasty - a man with clout!!!
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"@johnlucasNQE Your article re Southend United fans and the 2 dead lads is mis-leading. Suggested by a friend but not supported by most fans"
Can someone with clout call the Echo and ask them to remove their website article about Southend United fans supporting the applause, because clearly we don't.
To be fair, we don't know that they were. Their two friends in the car would definitely seem to have been but that is nothing to say that the two who died were by association.I'm not applauding criminals
Regardless of the consequences of their deaths, it's very sad, but this is the key. It is a memorial event for the club today for fans who have supported the club for decades, why should two 17 year olds with no connection to the club get special treatment?The poster on the Southend United Facebook page who first suggested this appears not to have known originally whether the boys were even fans, which indicates he was not much of a friend of theirs. It's an odd one
Given today is the annual memorial game, an extra minute of applause is bordering on disrespectful for those being remembered before the game
Two things you should never mention in Liverpool.......Work and Heysel
To be fair, we don't know that they were. Their two friends in the car would definitely seem to have been but that is nothing to say that the two who died were by association.
The whole thing seems very odd considering the circumstances though. I understand that a lot of young people have lost two friends but their deaths being given the kind of profile they are seems very odd to me. There was a commemorative "service" on the seafront the other night where they let off loads of Chinese lanterns, now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought these had been restricted because of the damage to wildlife, farmstock, buildings etc?
No, I don't think so, just saying that people can get caught up in stuff when they are actually no part of it - guilt by association. I doubt it will come out if they were wrong 'uns, tend not to speak ill of the dead in these cases.Respect your view, but are you looking at this through a mothers eye?
I find it really strange that whenever people die through whatever circumstances, they were "Angels " regardless of any dubious action.
Given they were under 18 they would be protected by anonymity even if things did emerge when the case goes to court, wouldn't they?No, I don't think so, just saying that people can get caught up in stuff when they are actually no part of it - guilt by association. I doubt it will come out if they were wrong 'uns, tend not to speak ill of the dead in these cases.
To be fair, we don't know that they were. Their two friends in the car would definitely seem to have been but that is nothing to say that the two who died were by association.
The whole thing seems very odd considering the circumstances though. I understand that a lot of young people have lost two friends but their deaths being given the kind of profile they are seems very odd to me. There was a commemorative "service" on the seafront the other night where they let off loads of Chinese lanterns
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"@johnlucasNQE Your article re Southend United fans and the 2 dead lads is mis-leading. Suggested by a friend but not supported by most fans"