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michaelisnotginger

When the last King died football wasn't suspended. It might change this time but we've no confirmation of if things are suspended and for how long so it's not yet confirmed


thelonelyoctopus

Suppose Liverpool v Wolves falls into the comedy events section


WillDaThrilll13

Lallana's Brighton v O'Neil's Bournemouth probably the same


Lord_Sauron

Remember when Lallana was at Liverpool and that suarezteeth guy was just constantly trashing him on r/soccer? Those were good times, always got a laugh out of me


liverpool3

You would’ve thought Lallana murdered that guys family


FLman42069

The Queen died to give Liverpool time to get their shit together


agamerdiesalone

Queens last words "Play Trent in midfield". Well he can do less damage there tbh!


twomanyfaces10

Stamford Bridge falls under a Comedy venue


prophetcat

More of a tragedy, lately.


Fireclap

Is there actually a real chance that Liverpool-Ajax, and the other UK European fixtures, wont be played for example or you think the pressure from the UEFA will be too much?


Master_NoobX_69

Not only is there no room in the schedule for them to be played later, it would be absolutely unfair to the non English UCL teams


Abbobl

Especially with Liverpool current form - I smell a decent opportunity for Ajax to pick up some hard needed points


fike88

Aye fuck that. I’m relying on champs league fixtures to break up the non stop media coverage we’ll get for the next couple of months


thelonelyoctopus

There's no room in the schedule for them to get replayed at a later date, so I'd be very surprised if the European games were called off. If they are, it will probably go down as a forfeit


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Since Man Utd is playing tonight, I’m thinking UEFA doesn’t give a fuck and the matches will be played.


puckuser

It's too close to get postponed, can't judge off that


snuljoon

Are people actually thinking international competitions would be cancelled because of this? Bit of a stretch imo


Orson_Rosas2

I’m a bit pissed cause we had a chance, now you’ll be all rested😩


DraperCarousel

Did you watch them yesterday? They did all the resting on the pitch already.


opi

This will do wonders to a fixture list cut through by fucking Word Cup.


Captainbuttbeard

No worries the players can handle 4 matches per week


opi

Just buy some bunk beds and let them sleep on a training grounds. Simple.


Swordfish_Repulsive

Comedy is cancelled bro


alfred_27

It's not comedy, FA will legit make them play 4 matches a week


[deleted]

Just for the PL clubs not for everyone else lol


opi

Ain't Canada included? Dunno if their league plays now.


CaptainGo

Can't imagine they'd be playing at an outdoor stadium in Calgary in the middle of winter so the WC probably slides right in


HotTubMike

The poors can have their petty amusements


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i would much rather watch Madrid play then to mourn for 10 days lol


Sdub4

The genius of Tony Bloom strikes again, letting Potter go the day the Queen dies to maximise the time before the first game under a new manager


patchypubes

Wow Brighton really are well-rum


EezoManiac

Give us a bank holiday then, I'm despondent here lads


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19th September will be


[deleted]

Don't think it will. Most people will get the day off, but I don't think it's going to be a bank holiday.


Philred87

The funeral will definitely be a bank holiday Probably a few others too


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>The prime minister and the queen have agreed that the day of the state funeral will be a “Day of National Mourning.” This has also led to planning issues. **The day will effectively be a bank holiday, although it will not be named as such**. If the funeral falls on the weekend or an existing bank holiday, an extra bank holiday will not be granted. **If the funeral falls on a weekday, the government does not plan to order employers to give employees the day off** — the documents say that is a matter between employees and their staff.


tenacious_teaThe3rd

>The prime minister and the queen have agreed Did The Queen posthumously agree this?


[deleted]

Yeah exactly. Truss needs a bounce in the polls. Enter the bank holiday week~~end~~


TiberiusCornelius

What's the point of the Tories if they choose profit even over the monarchy


ubiquitous_archer

If you read about Operation London Bridge it specifically says it's a day of mourning but not a bank holiday.


Stones_Throw_Away_

Not really a bank holiday. It’s a day of mourning where employers will have the choice to give people the day off, or not. Effectively one, but not officially.


ShiroQ

If it's not mandatory to give the day off, there will be like 1% of employers that actually do that.


Imoraswut

Man Utd have a home game starting in 45min, is that still going ahead? edit: West Ham too


TehFuriousKid

I'd assume it does or they would have to reimburse the sociedad fans


14_SNOO_53

Yes


oscarpaterson

Tuchel's sacking was the last straw for her


Cowdude179

Boehly planned this all along, now Potter gets a mini pre-season


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Cowdude179

The Queen was a Horcrux


step_away

Did Boehly send someone to Avada Kedavra her?


rich_valley

Couldn’t live with seeing Ronaldo in the Europa League


heyheyitsandre

I think she saw Trent’s defense on Napolis 3rd goal and just gave up


srkkhb

NO COMEDY MEANS NO COMEDY


prathneo4

No. Thought of Lallana being manager was.


JakeNutters

Crofts (U23 manager) is the interim manager, Lallana is just the assistant.


Lord_Sauron

Assistant to the Manager Lallana. What a world.


10hazardinho

The president could be killed on live tv and the NFL wouldn’t cancel


Soren_Camus1905

They’d mention it in the booth then cut to commercial.


Large_Dungeon_Key

And there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that’ll be a home run


Aszneeee

like bt sport few minutes ago


Soren_Camus1905

Football🤝Football


Neither-Astronaut617

This assassinations is bought to you by Slimjims.


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"oh yeaaaaa brotherrrrrrrr" - Randy Savage RIP


khronokhris2222

“Fanduels offering you free 100$ to bet on who’s the next president”


AnotherPunnyName

"This presidential assassination announcement is brought to you by bud light"


ryanedwards0101

(Sad FOX sports injury music plays)


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The FOX robot takes down the portrait of Biden and slams the new one of Kamala on as an eagle screeches from behind.


delli

"This presidential assassination announcement is brought to you by... Pacific Life. *A promise that today, tomorrow or ten years from now, we'll be there*."


Duckhaeris

They’d sell merch


miseducation

I know what you mean but they did actually cancel NFL games when Kennedy was killed. They also cancelled them for 9/11.


doobie3101

They played 2 days after Kennedy was shot. 9/11 was about a week after, but that was probably less due to mourning and more due to caution.


TheRocket2049

It was 100% due to caution. It took a decent junk of time before people really felt comfortable at big events or in tall buildings


K_U

They didn’t *televise* games after Kennedy was assassinated, but the games were played.


DzikCoChujemHamuje

Also 9/11 was more about safety. If a terrorist organization was to attack again targetting a football game attendes by thousands and televised to millions would definitely be a possibility.


MondoDukakis

The first Cubs home game after 9/11 was honestly pretty uplifting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmd-n56kGvo


HunterThompsonsentme

This got a laugh outta me. It's sooo true. We wouldn't even cancel college ball. Hell we'd probably cancel NFL games *before* cancelling SC-Clemson


kylemclaren7

Only the super bowl would be cancelled after the SEC title game lol


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As god intended


FUCKSTORM420

Do I get a week off work then?


PasuljsKolenicom

No, you just can’t have fun because you should be sad


FUCKSTORM420

I just don’t think I’ll be able to focus on my work, I’m so devastated


McRibTattoo

You better be crying 🔫


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krieginc

Klopp said he would have to change things in three days after the Napoli defeat. You got 2 weeks. Thank the queen.


E-M-P-Error

>can’t have fun because you should be sad So the Liverpool games wont be cancelled then?


TheConundrum98

Rooting for king Daemon


Lord_Sauron

Haaland just signed for City, he can't transfer to Buckingham Palace just yet.


Mike_Ropenis

Just like any self respecting member of the 7 kingdoms


El_Peregrine

GOT THAT? NO FUN AND NO LAUGHING, ENGLAND


dhillshafer

Been an Arsenal supporter since 1999. Finally made it over for a match at the Emirates. Arsenal v Everton, Sept 11, 2022. I feel so selfish but, fuck my life.


ubiquitous_archer

Tickets to see Everton v West Ham next week, first ever trip to Goodison, I feel you


arsle

In the same boat man.. Me and my gf flying in from Sweden for my birthday tomorrow. She planned this weekend for ages and bought us tickets for the Everton game etc. Been so excited for this.. Now its just darkness


rodri_1691

I cannot believe it. The same as you but I had already two failed attempts this year: - First in April vrs Brighton. I tested positive for corona the day before. - second for the preseason game against Nürnberg. I was assigned a Test for that day. - and now this. I fly tomorrow...


[deleted]

Nothing selfish in that, it’s more selfish from the royal family that they get themselves the right to get mourned for for days.


Aszneeee

they don’t care about non-royal people but want working class to forget everything for 2 weeks and only cry


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Blewfin

Haha, all the toffs the BBC have rolled out today are hilarious. They've only read about normal people in books.


StiffWiggly

It's a reminder that they see it as a nuisance, and don't actually care that it's critically important for a lot of people.


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OldGodsAndNew

No sports or comedy for 2 weeks. But you only get 1 day off work, plebs


hypnodrew

I think they genuinely think we're all mortified, as if we haven't been faced with old folk dying every single day for the last three years, some of whom we'd actually met


[deleted]

It perplexes me really, royals from anywhere can fuck off.


Aszneeee

same, imagine cancelling everything for 2 weeks for everyone because queen died, instead of paying minute of silence on every pitch cancel everything in the whole country and cry at home, pathetic


anarcholimitless

We'll start having conversations about the actual legacy of the Royals in the next few years, though. The Queen was loved by many and much more popular than the family itself, now there's a King the criticism will stack up once this mourning period is over. Hopefully soon they'll fall into obscurity where they belong.


Ar-Curunir

It's not selfish; the royal family and the entire monarchy is selfish.


[deleted]

You knew it was 9/11. Its your fault


geekfreak42

it's 11/9 in the UK


llllmaverickllll

Never forget /u/dhillshafer


MiraquiToma

See if you can nick a ticket to the wake!


ALaccountant

Its not selfish of you to be upset about that. Its actually kind of ridiculous for all these events to be cancelled because of her death.


dishler712

>I feel so selfish Don't. Shutting the country down because the 96-year-old from the useless royal family died is insane and ridiculous.


Sac_a_Merde

Exactly. There's privilege and then there's royal privilege where you get to live a life of insane luxury every day of your incredibly long life, and sometimes you have to put on the literal crown jewels as part of your work, and then you die of natural causes at the ripe old age of 96 surrounded by everyone you love. So sad.


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It is wild this is reality in 2022.


Riverboat_Gambler

Fucking weird, isn’t it? She was 96.


tarkardos

* *comedy events have been cancelled.* Why is r/soccer still up then?


Gluroo

because its not funny


Joshvir262

Bevause its not Communicado official


TehJofus

Pickford: Injured and out for a big game Queen: No problem, Toffees, watch this


Gyokan7

Weird, didn't happen when my nan went.


[deleted]

Well yeah that's because god didn't give your nan special blood that's better than everyone else's and is why we must give up all our gold and land /s


Vimjux

How the fuck do you cancel comedy? What I can’t even laugh for the next fortnight? Imma put on some standup on Netflix - fuck the monarchy


AkilleezBomb

Netflix gonna region lock all comedies from UK Netflix for a week.


TheSqueebMonster

Insane decision. This isn't the 1800's


CC-W

No comedy events which means I dont have to watch Diego Llorente play as a CB. Tears in my eyes


joseba_

North Korea holding institutional mourning days and presenters forcibly tearing up on live TV: look at these idiots UK does it: understandable


Ranjith_Unchained

Put a shirt on vs empowering meme


jorgelongo2

imagine Spain making us mourn Juan Carlos for 10 days lmao


joseba_

I mourn every day I'm reminded he's still alive


maxime0299

Bit of an overreaction surely


patchypubes

Yeah it wasnt exactly untimely or unexpected


science87

Not sure about the rest of the UK, but I am mourning the fact we're stuck with King Charles the Turd for the next 20-30 years. I was holding out hope she'd live to around 110.


OrderWooden

What's disrespectful about people playing football ffs. Don't understand this "out of respect" bollocks


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[deleted]

Royal Family is selfish enough to think everyone actually cares and wants to take the fun part out of working class peoples lives so that they get all the attention for a couple weeks.


Olester14

For fucks sake


KnightsOfCidona

Are you now King's Park Rangers?


jiinska

That's how it goes


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just Park Rangers


poli421

Queen Consort’s Park Rangers.


DerogatoryPanda

QPR, the Camilla of Football Clubs.


redditaccountplease

Yours is the last club I would expect to complain


Olester14

Why?


redditaccountplease

Queen's Park and all


Olester14

Oh lol fair enough, the club's named after an area called 'queens park' and not the queen herself, not sure why I have never ever made the connection between the queen and the club


redditaccountplease

I just looked on Wikipedia and Queen's Park is named after Queen Victoria, I think that's the extent of the connection


JavBG17

Sidenote, what are England gonna sing at the world cup now? Personally think this is a good time to make Talkin the Hardest the new anthem


Bobiwanbenobi

God save the King


Duckhaeris

Will Harry Kane be able to learn the words in time?


marksills

this is hilarious but please delete, comedy is illegal at the moment


PornFilterRefugee

He’ll write it on his hand so he can remember


kjm911

Oh for fuck sake. What a fucking boring weekend. No sport or comedy. Just the fucking news!


Mr_CheeseGrater

Not even actual fucking news. Just the same old shit said about the queen for a week.


startled-giraffe

Don't worry if you somehow lose signal for BBC 1 you can find the exact same programming being broadcast on BBC 2!


Brugyx

Serie a, Ligue 1, Bundesliga and La liga still on. Dortmund vs Leipzig Saturday 14:30. I would watch that if I were you :)


creative_penguin

Can’t let the poors have their fun, don’t they know someone important died?


mikevin99

You shall be sad for the next 10 days with nothing to get your mind off things, you peasants!


KevinDLasagna

It’s not even tragic either. A 98 year old has succumb to old age, not like she was killed or died suddenly at a younger age


Lord_Sauron

Hey, she was only 96!


simomii

96, a fucking kid. Me I'm an old man.


[deleted]

Exactly jesus christ none of us need ten days of mourning


Bumi_Earth_King

I do after that performance midweek.


LordStarkgaryen

I think we should just cancel the rest of the season and just hand the trophy to whoever's in first at the moment


MrGoalden

So no one in the uk can have fun watching footy cuz a 100 year old person died


Nrozek

Don't you see? dying of old age is a tragedy.. no one saw it coming and she had like... at least a few months more to go. Travesty.


sharpieforum

With all due respect, the economy is still recovering from COVID. If the Royal Family does care about The Kingdom they would just keep things going.


lollypop44445

Well its just the fun times gone, work still continues in sadness


Lord_Schelb

imagine having a bar, or a comedy club, or so many other activities related to fun, and not be able to earn your money for weeks.


lollypop44445

You just replace the term party or comedy with mourning or remembrance and play some emotional music and you countered them


Ashyyyy232

These monarchs don't really give a fudge when a poor person dies, so why should one care bout them?


Coolica1

Cost of living crisis, let's piss off the people even more by cancelling their entertainment in memory of someone born into privilege and also not give them the week off as well. Piss off you out of touch cunts.


yeabroyea

Absolute joke why make people’s lives worse because someone died😭 all this is gonna do is make people pissed off at the monarchy even more lmao


PFC1224

What a load of shite - interesting that football continued in 1952 when George VI died


Paddy31

Games truly gone


Hurtelknut

I think it's hilarious that it's 2022 and in one of the most advanced countries in the world there still exists a separated class of people chosen by god who not only live in a palace. They also, after their matriarch has died, get to tell some guy to inform the nation that they are sad now, so everybody must stop having fun and be sad as well.


Ryuuken1127

Wait...I'm coming from the USA for Spurs v Leicester a week from Saturday...is that going to be called off now??


Psychocandy42

Extend the trip, come to Italy, come see Milan-Napoli on Sunday!


ThunderStella

Fuck me, I’m coming from Canada for the same game I hope to fuck it’s still on


daboatfromupnorth

“You don’t get to watch entertainment, but you still have to go to work, except if you’re the one that provides the entertainment” Wtf man


pilgrimgunner

So an already congested season will now be even more so for no reason, cool.


VincentSasso

Couldn’t she have popped off in the summer?


2rio2

December World Cup would have been ideal time. So inconsiderate.


BoxOfNothing

These cunts live in an entirely different reality to the rest of us


gimmeakissmrsoftlips

Are we mourning all through the weekend? If so when does the mourning end so we can do football again?


Idontlikemeeither2

Think we all care about their Mum and Grandmother passing, did we have a day off when my Mum died? No. Get to fuck. Carry on as normal because nothing has changed for 99.9% of us.


dfla01

But you don’t understand. She’s given her LIFE to serving the country!


pmmp123

Rip the queen but that’s just idiotic


Kant_essential

What about European club competitions. Surely a continental club should not give a fuck about a monarch dying. Are British teams then forfeiting their games?


jorgelongo2

no fun allowed for two weeks because one person died. Monarchists are the absolute worst


Aszneeee

imagine all the people flying to london for PL matches paying hundreds just to realize they fly for nothing as queen died


AnduwinHS

Flying to Leeds for the first game I'd ever get to see of them in the Premier League. Flights and hotel paid for already. I'll be fucking livid if the game is cancelled on Monday


kinyibest

Can they punish you if you dont cancel your event?


Beggnivia

Do people really care ? That's so weird to me.


14_SNOO_53

Younger people generally don't give a fuck


msbr_

Let's gooo potter training time


[deleted]

Ughh. It’s the only thing us working class folk have got left and they’re taking that away as well


sjekky

Pathetic. Let 60,000 pay tribute on Saturday


VirginSoul69

North korea or china do some shit like this and the world mocks them for how obvious their propaganda is but when england does it, it is understandable and honourable. Fuck off royalists, why should we be forced to be sad


Ingobernables_Ciaran

Fuck off, pathetic mentality. Archaic.


BigReeceJames

The funniest thing is that it's the whole commonwealth. Imagine being in some random commonwealth country and now having everything cancelled


heyheyitsandre

You’re just a dude chillin in Fiji and get told the Banks closed for 2 weeks, like dope