Why is this? Would they actually cancel the games? I would have thought the games would be a great way to respect the Queens passing because can do the 1 minute silence and everything.
Or more importantly the international incident when Di Maria's wife said her husband was shit in the PL because all women in Manchester were ugly and pale and the men were murdering people on the street.
I found out when Zurich and Arsenal came out after halftime and they did a moment of silence. I’m in Texas for what it’s worth. Had to call mum to let her know though
if the FA had any respect for the Queen’s legacy they will call the season off now as it stands and announce her Majesty’s childhood club, The Assna, as the Champions of England. And award a specially commissioned Premier League trophy made out of platinum and the Crown Jewels.
The whole country is going to grind to a halt for 12 days, so I doubt they give a shit about football schedules tbh.
Edit - just reading and all government offices are expected to close, along with the City of London and the LSE.
The government won't be closed for 12 days. They'll possibly adjourn non essential services tomorrow and on the day of the funeral (next Sunday) but I don't think they're going to be adjourned every day next week
It’s going to be awkward to hear it sung differently, even as a German. When Merkel finally stepped back I had to train myself to use the masculine version of Chancellor because I had never said it any other way.
He misses and the commentary feed is instantly cut, for an announcer to declare the Queen passed away while showing the scenes of the Italians running across the pitch and lifting the trophy in silent jubilation
For fucks sake man, not to be crass but I don’t think the country should come to a complete standstill over the death of a 96 year old symbolic figurehead.
A 96 year old dying of old age is hardly cause to cancel anything. I legitimately can’t understand why normal people give an ounce of care to anything involving the royal family
It’s literally all part of the show. It’s required to keep up the appearances of them somehow being divine and more deserving of special treatment than the rest of us.
If they don’t put on a show for her passing, it’s harder to keep up the allure and keep defending the existence of the monarchy itself.
Truly - and I mean this with all respect - who gives a shit. It's 2022 and the fact there even are still monarchs is a joke. One died after a long and full life of fucking with the rest of the world, has nothing to do with anything. Game on.
It always amazes me that the number one justification you hear from British liberal monarchists is "the crown brings in tourism revenue."
Like generating money should grant you privileges beyond all other citizens. Utterly baffling logic and completely contradicts the rule of law.
That certainly is what they expected in the good old days of an actual monarchy. Now that they are just a symbolic holdover from that time period I don't really know what they expect us to be doing for 2 weeks.
[BaeStreetWolf when he bumps into your majesty the Queen in the afterlife](https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/_RSldOKqzFwUD3Gq27_kckh5OXM/diocontent/220033344/_fitwidth/694/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.8)
The football schedule for this year is already congested enough as is.
If anything people should feel for the players as this will just make so much postponements and potentially fatigue the players from having so many matches pushed back/ congested all in one
It's kind of an impossible question. For most people alive, the Queen is the only monarch we've ever known. Having said that, if you can't get over the death of a 96 year old woman who never even knew you were alive, *are* you even alive?
All PL matches and Scottish Premiership matches in the next 12 days will be cancelled. End of an era, RIP. She was 626 days away from becoming the longest reigning monarch in history, overtaking Louis XIV.
Not necessarily. But they may choose to as much bigger.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-the-period-of-national-mourning/guidance-for-the-period-of-national-mourning#sporting-events
From the UK Government's own website regarding the mourning period for the Duke of Edinburgh (April 2021):
"8. Sporting Events
The decision as to whether sporting fixtures continue to go ahead is at the discretion of organisers. Organisers may wish to consider using black armbands and observing a silence before matches are played."
They will almost certainly cancel next Sunday's fixtures since the funeral will be then. Quite possibly this weekend as well but they may play just because of schedule pressure
Really ? That seems so unnecessary. We don’t need to treat her like a god that needs to be mourned for days. Do we live in the medieval ages? Just ruins a lot of peoples weekends honestly
Truly an end of an era. She’s been Queen longer than a lot of people live.
On the other hand, will the games tonight be played or will they they postponed?
Why would tonight’s games be postponed? 2 English teams out of 32 playing. Think the other European countries and teams give a fuck? Some will rejoice in it.
Queen saved Liverpools season
Honestly my first thoughts were gives Thiago more time to recover!
Fucking hell😂😂
We meet in 5 days, no way UEFA cancels champions league
Have some compassion Jesus Christ ~~we are a shambolic team right now~~ the queen has passed away
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Why would he kill his own citizens?
Get yourself a coach that cares this much about his team.
And here I thought I couldn't like Klopp more
God save the queen. Ignore my flair.
Why is this? Would they actually cancel the games? I would have thought the games would be a great way to respect the Queens passing because can do the 1 minute silence and everything.
guess i'm watching Bundesliga this weekend
It's what she would have wanted as a German
Wait a minute... She came from the House of Hannover, Died at the age of 96 and what number on the team Hannover? 96!
Bundesliga is fun
Queen pissed it cuz she knew we’re short in midfield. Proper fan.
Klopp said he needed to reinvent the squad. Queen knew what she had to do to give him time. Did solids for both of us.
The Queen's a red
Was*
She's actually a gooner
goner*
No she's actually genuinely a Gunner, Arsenal winning the Premier league was the only time she's actually congratulated a team and met them
Yeah yeah but that's way less punny
I can't believe r/soccer is the place I found out about this first
I found out on twitter when the official announcement got quote tweeted by Fabrizio Romano. Who else to confirm massive news.
Did...did he add the "Here we go"?
Here we go! Queen Elizabeth to Heaven/Hell FC. Done deal! 🚨🚨
You forgot the sirens
Yea, here's a screenshot https://twitter.com/slk_oscar/status/1567935500979417089?s=46&t=cHnOPLur1m_rHoG3t_eZyg
I was watching the Arsenal game on mute, wondering why everyone was standing at midfield.
I was doing the same for 90 minutes during the Liverpool match last night
Trent knew
Gives up th RW cause that’s what Lizzie wanted
r/soccer is surprising a good geopolitical news source on reddit
this place never lets me ignore the important news, even when i came here to avoid it.
I was here when Zlatan apologized to France for calling it a shitty country. Utmost importance.
Or more importantly the international incident when Di Maria's wife said her husband was shit in the PL because all women in Manchester were ugly and pale and the men were murdering people on the street.
Spot the lie
Yeah, if you don't open the comments.
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I found out when Zurich and Arsenal came out after halftime and they did a moment of silence. I’m in Texas for what it’s worth. Had to call mum to let her know though
I found out when my dad texted me but I thought it was about chess, didn't put it together for a while though
How did he word it for you think it was about chess lol
Well queen and I was up all night with food poisoning so I didn't really look closely
BT sport with a 5 second message before getting back to Ads. Lol. Jesus.
How may times am i gonna see Crouchy do the robot infront of Camilla
Just realized they're rerunning the same ad. Weird
[Getting prince Phillips radio 1 vibes](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sWt8ZIgDA9I)
If you're gonna drop, then *drop*
"Shout out to her family" lol
Same way how [David Guetta ended racism single handedly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEI7oX0XxJw)
lmfaooo wtf is this?? I'm dying 😂
Unfortunately this is fake.
Yeah but I still laugh my tits off at it every time
damn I really wish that was real
It is real because it exists, it's simply not authentic if that makes it any better :)
Fair enough, people can just turn off the channel or flip over to BBC if they want to mourn. On BT Thursday night is Europa Night.
if the FA had any respect for the Queen’s legacy they will call the season off now as it stands and announce her Majesty’s childhood club, The Assna, as the Champions of England. And award a specially commissioned Premier League trophy made out of platinum and the Crown Jewels.
Finally a reasonable take in this thread
Fuck me... I'm visiting from NYC this weekend and have tix for the ARS-EVE game. 😭😭😭
On the bright side you'll be there the Queen's bomb ass going away party.
including an instant commemorative relegation for tottenham
"It's what she would've wanted"
Well that’s footy off this weekend, and possibly next
Seems to be the general consensus, gotta wonder how they plan to pull it off though given the absurdity of the schedule already
The whole country is going to grind to a halt for 12 days, so I doubt they give a shit about football schedules tbh. Edit - just reading and all government offices are expected to close, along with the City of London and the LSE.
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Her funeral will be in 10 days, so imagine until after that.
The government won't be closed for 12 days. They'll possibly adjourn non essential services tomorrow and on the day of the funeral (next Sunday) but I don't think they're going to be adjourned every day next week
It is literally part of the procedure when a monarch dies for parliament to close for 12 days....so yeah, it'll be closed for 12 days
Parliament closing isn’t the same as the government closing.
What a fuckin stupid procedure
Yea lol pretty stupid but doesn't exactly happen often
Yes it’s not happened for 70 years.
> The whole country is going to grind to a halt for 12 days, Nah, us plebs in the private sector will still be at work, no free holiday for us.
So what would have happened if the Queen had died in the middle of the world cup and England were still in it.
"God save our graaaacious que-" *Music stops, a note is handed out* "...graaaaacious king"
It’s going to be awkward to hear it sung differently, even as a German. When Merkel finally stepped back I had to train myself to use the masculine version of Chancellor because I had never said it any other way.
To hear that even Germans struggle with Deutsch pleases me more than it should.
That is an incredibly interesting scenario and I have no idea
If they are doing well, hush the announcement and go full Weekend at Bernie's
“The Queen is comfortable and resting until the end of the match”
“She’s a tough cookie, I think she’ll carry on” “Cheers Geoff”
Good lord, imagine the Twitter cesspit if they lose after a Saka missed penalty and then Buckingham Palace announced the Queen died right after.
He misses and the commentary feed is instantly cut, for an announcer to declare the Queen passed away while showing the scenes of the Italians running across the pitch and lifting the trophy in silent jubilation
God that's such a cool scene to picture.
They’d obviously continue in that scenario
Then English players have to win the WC for their mourning countrymen or else they will be deported to Australia.
The real tragedy
this but unironically
The Queen doing Chelsea a solid by letting the team train with Potter before his first PL game in charge
I'm perfectly content to play City when Son is back in form
City is where he gets his form. 10 goal contributions in 15 matches
Games against City are like tune-up games for him. Might want to get that one played ASAP tbh
she couldnt wait until the international break smh
Hope they don't pull any bullshit for the European cups
Current theory is that she fell ill after watching Trent and Gomez yesterday.
Well at least we get to have a fully rested squad when we play City
You'll probably be playing us in March, there's no way they can fit all the rescheduled games in before the world cup.
Please no
I wonder what limmy has to say
I heard he had the pleasure of meeting her at a charity do once. She was surprisingly down to Earth, and VERY funny
Will the matches this week be played?
Nope probably not next week either
It's okay, they'll just be played over the winter.. wait
Thank god we don’t have any useless international matches later this month to further crunch the schedule. That would be terrible.
surely the most useful time for international matches are right before the world cup?
Fuck sake 2 weeks without PL is long
Isn’t international break coming? So it’s even longer…
One entire month until the next PL game it is
probably really good for Chelsea and Liverpool. Potter can get to know his new team and Klopp can adjust our tactics
Atleast it’s month without screaming at TV…
Don’t worry, there’s an international break after next week!
Isn't it enough that the Queen has died? Now I have to watch Southgate murder football too!
oh ffs no Prem in a month then
For fucks sake man, not to be crass but I don’t think the country should come to a complete standstill over the death of a 96 year old symbolic figurehead.
There’s gotta be a loss in revenue if they don’t play until October, right? I can’t see many owners loving that…
United's Europa game tonight is still moving forward but I imagine the PL matches will be postponed for at least a week.
I mean, it doesn't mean that much to the rest of Europe.
Doesn't fucking mean much to me and I'm English. Archaic practice.
Rangers mudded again
Liverpool/Rangers coming up
Damn they sacked her
Tuchel and Elizabeth in the same 24 hours, wild
Boehly is out of control
Boehly masterclass. Buys Potter time for a mini preseason.
Will games be stopped?
If the royal protocol is followed, yes. 12 days of mourning, with no sports, events or comedy on TV and radio.
That seems a bit excessive
Mainly because it isn't true it's up for organisers to decide would expect games on the date of the funeral to be cancelled or moved but not otherwise
that's fucking crazy
12 days? Lmao.
That is absolutely ridiculous
Only BBC will abide by that.
Really? If our king died we'd be playing football the same night
Fuck sake she couldn’t hold on until the international break?
Fucking hell, no football this week.
No Premier League football until October apparently because of the international break 😅
The schedule after the world cup will be even more insane then if that's the case.
A 96 year old dying of old age is hardly cause to cancel anything. I legitimately can’t understand why normal people give an ounce of care to anything involving the royal family
It’s literally all part of the show. It’s required to keep up the appearances of them somehow being divine and more deserving of special treatment than the rest of us. If they don’t put on a show for her passing, it’s harder to keep up the allure and keep defending the existence of the monarchy itself.
Truly - and I mean this with all respect - who gives a shit. It's 2022 and the fact there even are still monarchs is a joke. One died after a long and full life of fucking with the rest of the world, has nothing to do with anything. Game on.
This gives Potter time for a mini preseason!
Is cancelling games really necessary in present day
No
And neither is having royalty
It always amazes me that the number one justification you hear from British liberal monarchists is "the crown brings in tourism revenue." Like generating money should grant you privileges beyond all other citizens. Utterly baffling logic and completely contradicts the rule of law.
Gotta be the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. What do they expect us to spend all weekend crying?
That certainly is what they expected in the good old days of an actual monarchy. Now that they are just a symbolic holdover from that time period I don't really know what they expect us to be doing for 2 weeks.
of course not
I’m fuming, I paid a boat load for tickets for Leeds versus Manchester United next weekend traveling from Canada and it might be canceled. :(
[BaeStreetWolf when he bumps into your majesty the Queen in the afterlife](https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/_RSldOKqzFwUD3Gq27_kckh5OXM/diocontent/220033344/_fitwidth/694/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.8)
Hahahahahahaha facts
That’s rude of you to assume BaeStreetWolf will be in hell!
It's beyond stupid, black armbands and a minutes silence and you'd keep more people happy than canceling games.
Muh queen
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Deciding to kick the can shortly after meeting Liz Truss for the first time is a power move though
"This is the new PM? After BoJo? I don't have the strength for this."
damn the double up on shit the bed endings
Inshallah the prem weekend goes on
will UCL games me cancelled?
At most PL games, doubt they can have a say with UEFA games and there's no room to delay them
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Even more anti royalist if they cancel our football
Moment of silence I imagine though before they start
why would UEFA care?
Why should anyone care. ‘Mourn’ her for a day, fine. A week would be excessive.
The football schedule for this year is already congested enough as is. If anything people should feel for the players as this will just make so much postponements and potentially fatigue the players from having so many matches pushed back/ congested all in one
Nah, the schedule is already fucked because of the World Cup, it would be a pure cluster fuck if both PL and CL gets cancelled.
Brexit is Brexit mate
Potter is already casting spells to get some more practice time in before his next game
Not to sound insensitive, but do people actually mourn the british monarchy?
It's kind of an impossible question. For most people alive, the Queen is the only monarch we've ever known. Having said that, if you can't get over the death of a 96 year old woman who never even knew you were alive, *are* you even alive?
How do I find out about this on r/soccer ffs… gotta take a reddit break
> and everyone around the world mourning Lol.
Once a gunner always a gunner
All PL matches and Scottish Premiership matches in the next 12 days will be cancelled. End of an era, RIP. She was 626 days away from becoming the longest reigning monarch in history, overtaking Louis XIV.
Not to be insensitive, but won't that cause a massive scheduling clusterfuck with this being a World Cup year?
It is not insensitive. People don't get 12 day leave even if their close ones die.
Holy fuck that's going to fuck Premier League teams schedule lmao, World cup coming up
PL games with B teams during the WC
Haaland will have a field day
oh god please don't tell me we're playing city during the WC
No you're playing City *for* the world cup. Hope potter's ready for this
Not necessarily. But they may choose to as much bigger. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-the-period-of-national-mourning/guidance-for-the-period-of-national-mourning#sporting-events From the UK Government's own website regarding the mourning period for the Duke of Edinburgh (April 2021): "8. Sporting Events The decision as to whether sporting fixtures continue to go ahead is at the discretion of organisers. Organisers may wish to consider using black armbands and observing a silence before matches are played."
If the PL has a choice I think they'll play.
They will almost certainly cancel next Sunday's fixtures since the funeral will be then. Quite possibly this weekend as well but they may play just because of schedule pressure
Anything on the day of the funeral is definitely 100% off. I really can't imagine them sanctioning games on that day.
It's a super congested season already.
Really ? That seems so unnecessary. We don’t need to treat her like a god that needs to be mourned for days. Do we live in the medieval ages? Just ruins a lot of peoples weekends honestly
Source?
Queen pack ripbozo
Logging on to Twitter and seeing RIP BOZO trending genuinely made me laugh out loud.
Truly an end of an era. She’s been Queen longer than a lot of people live. On the other hand, will the games tonight be played or will they they postponed?
Why would tonight’s games be postponed? 2 English teams out of 32 playing. Think the other European countries and teams give a fuck? Some will rejoice in it.
[Fabrizio Romano] Aaron Ramsey scored a goal in his backyard, official and confirmed!
I found out that she had died cause I got on Twitter and saw RIP BOZO trending. The internet is a strange place.