If society is carrying on as normal, from shops to factories to theatres, as well as numerous other sports, you might have imagined football would feel comfortable doing likewise. This feels like an opportunity missed. 📝 OliverKay
decision. This is the whole game, right down to grassroots level, where, to use one example, volunteers in south London have expressed dismay at the need to cancel a junior tournament involving 30 teams and more than 600 youngsters.
As the Football Supporters Association put it in a statement on Friday afternoon, “We believe football is at its finest when bringing people together at times of huge national significance — be those moments of joy or moments of mourning. Our view, which we shared with the football authorities, is that most supporters would have liked to go to games this weekend and pay their respect to the Queen alongside their fellow fans.
And that makes it all the stranger to follow the opposite course now, at a time when society and sport seem more comfortable with the approach football took back then.For one thing, they feel they would have been criticised no matter what decision they made — and they are probably right. For another, they point out that the Queen was patron of the FA and her grandson William is its president.
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