Here’s a surprise:
Liverpool, Manchester City and Leeds United’s managers have expressed regret at the failure by fans at their games to observe a one-minute silence for George Best.
Calls from the Premier League and Football League for the silence in memory of Best, who died on Friday, were honoured by fans at virtually every professional game over the weekend.
But Leeds coach Kevin Blackwell was furious after his team’s fans, who have a longstanding rivalry with Manchester United, failed to respect the silence for the former Old Trafford idol in Saturday’s second division game at Millwall.
“We have got magnificent fans. They were let down by just a few, but it is always the few that seem to get all the headlines,” he told Sky Sports….
The silence was similarly cut short on Saturday at the City of Manchester stadium between City and Liverpool — to the disappointment of both managers.
Leeds, Liverpool, Man City fans failing to respect the silence? Oh yes, I’m really shocked. I mean, what did they expect? I can understand a minute’s silence at Old Trafford….but every ground?
Seems to me it’s another of those Princess Di moments, when everyone goes completely over the top. That, plus the fact that he’s been dying for so long that all the obituaries have been up and ready to roll for weeks (years?) and no one was going to let all that effort go to waste.
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