[Official Site] QUEEN ELIZABETH II - UPDATE ON WEEKEND FIXTURES

What on earth is "official mourning guidance"?

 

It's where you're told you have to grieve as a matter of duty.

 

Honestly feel really sad for her passing especially for the family but why do we need to call football games off surely a minute’s silence before this weekend’s games would suffice.

 

What throwing one's self off it?

 

Absolutely barmy, we’re turning into North Korea.

 

You'd have thought it had long been planned what would happen with Football for when this day came. That the governing body have given two updates in the space of a few hours but still haven't told anyone what's happening this weekend is pretty bad. It makes them look like amateurs.

 

People should be able to ring work on Monday and say they're grieving at the loss of their weekend and they're taking two days back.

 

To he honest I thought the same. However, I'm seeing some genuinely upset folk tonight. Especially ex service men. So I'm kind of getting it.

I also get life goes on, and certain policies at some companies for example only allow day of funeral off for such as grandparents, never mind the day they pass.

So I'm in the middle. More of a common sense type.

But when did common sense ever prevail in anything these days

 

I believe it's said to be a long-standing tradition that sporting events are cancelled during a 10- day mourning period.
Trouble is we haven't experienced this situation for so long that hardly anyone was around last time it happened, so nobody's quite sure.
Added to which, of course, things change as time moves on...

 

Correct. We live, thankfully, in a very different world to the one when the previous monarch died. There are plenty of ways for respect to be shown without grinding aspects of the life of the country to a halt for 10 days.

 

I thought the above was true too, the Mirror are saying it is upto individual relevant sporting bodies though?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/everything-cancelled-closed-after-queen-27941592?int_source=nba

 

I had a dream last night I was at work, I’m calling in sick today, not doing 2 shifts.

 

Part of the protocol, as well as sports fixtures being postponed for 10 days, is that there will be a bank holiday on the day of her funeral. Will everyone want that scrapping too?

 

I think if someone you know and love dies you’d probably need 10 days to organise funerals and begin to process what’s happened. There’s no linear or common grieving process - everyone reacts differently. But as 99.9999% of the country did not know the Queen to force everyone to stop going about their business is just plain weird/cultish - something I’d expect from China.

 

I think it would be the wrong decision to stop all sporting fixtures this weekend' whilst the queen was an iconic figure and a national treasure we are in the middle of a cost of living crisis and there are people depending on an income to buy bare essentials' think about stewards' programme sellers' hospitality staff etc at all the football matches' race meetings' and all other sporting events it will amount to thousands' would her majesty want that?' I don't think she would. Black armbands 2 minutes silence and a rendition of "god save the queen" at all venues would be the way to go i think and it would give a platform for people to publicly pay their respects..