The K's In Point
Newest article: Re: Margate away travel December 16th
by John BangsYesterday 23:40Yesterday at 23:40:37
1 personview thread
Oldest article: Mini Bus to Home matches 17 & 20 August
by John Bangs24/7/2022 09:53Sun Jul 24 09:53:03 2022 5 people
1 personview thread
Next thread: The Queen by K's196014/9/2022 12:16Wed Sep 14 12:16:05 2022view thread
Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 9777
The FA has taken the decision to postpone all football following the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II
Read the full news item at https://www.kingstonian.com/news/weekend-fixtures-postponed/3581
reply to this article | return to the front page
2 people 9 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4777
Wrong decision for me, I think stadiums singing the anthem and observing a silence would have been better than not playing, but also understandable.
reply to this article | return to the front page
8 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4369
Good for you.
reply to this article | return to the front page
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4567
Anyone who saw the minutes silence, followed by the (new) national anthem at the beginning of today's test match at The Oval, would probably agree that football has made the wrong call in postponing this weekend's fixtures.
reply to this article | return to the front page
7 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4571
Agreed Rex - even kids first Saturday back is stopped. Strange.
Maybe they had 1 eye on Celtic, Hibernian, Liverpool etc?
reply to this article | return to the front page
1 person
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4532
The local football club shares a sports ground with cricket club. F A Trophy game called off, swiftly arrange cricket match taking place there.
Ksuals
reply to this article | return to the front page
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4527
Celtic and Hibernian aren't even under the FA's jurisdiction.
Agree with Rex and a lot of other commentary today, it's a missed opportunity for communal commemoration and is really ill-judged. Any arguments about policing resources or fan behaviour fall apart when even grassroots has been called off.
It's hard to imagine The Queen herself, who loved sport and usually embodied a spirit of keep calm and carry on, would have approved of the decision.
But clearly a lot of organisations being overcautious in fear of a backlash from the tabloids. It seems even more bizarre that Last Night Of The Proms, which more than pretty much anything else you can think of embodies celebration of the monarchy and the British establishment, has made the same decision.
reply to this article | return to the front page
2 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4501
Alternatively...
The FA probably called off this weekend's fixtures for fear of football supporters singing songs about Nonce Andrew and that time the Queen paid £12m of our money to hush up his accusers.
And sorry but Last Night of the Proms is NOT a celebration of the monarchy or the establishment. Yes, they sing the national anthem at the end but the whole purpose of the Proms is to make music accessible (tickets started at £7 for every concert this year), no member of the royal family attend, and Blake's Jerusalem is a socialist anthem, the rights to which were once owned by the suffragette movement. Indeed for many people, Jerusalem is the preferred alternative to the awful dirge that is God Save the Queen King.
reply to this article | return to the front page
6 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4318
So your a leftie are you and it was her own money not ours ,well reported if you read something other than the Beano .
reply to this article | return to the front page
5 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4260
Last year the public gave her £85m in Sovereign Grant, £350m in policing & security costs, plus the £650m Duchy of Lancaster passing from mother to son without Inheritance Tax. And the rumoured £200m cost of a new Floating Gin Palace (aka the Royal Yakult).
Tell me again how this is "Her own money"...
reply to this article | return to the front page
4 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4463
The FA would have to have a depressingly dim view of football supporters if that's true, particularly when the games at West Ham and Man United went off fine afaik. And that wouldn't justify stopping grassroots and even kids' football either. But yeah it's the FA, so you're probably right.
reply to this article | return to the front page
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4523
but they are under the SFA's and they made the same decision.
reply to this article | return to the front page
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4531
I didn't see it but think the games should have gone ahead.
Ksuals
reply to this article | return to the front page
1 person
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4742
What happened to Ks in 1952?
reply to this article | return to the front page
1 person
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4345
In what respect?
reply to this article | return to the front page
1 person
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4447
The archives: Saturday Feb 7th 1952 Ks played Ilford winning 5-1
reply to this article | return to the front page
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4787
We lost at home to Woking three days later
http://www.kingstonian.net/search.jsp?season=66
Edit -
And lost to Carshalton five days after George V died in 1936
http://www.kingstonian.net/search.jsp?season=34
Edited by The.Cat at 14:24:10 on 9th September 2022
reply to this article | return to the front page
2 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4285
At Hastings away to that list now
reply to this article | return to the front page
1 person
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4182
It seems we also lost to Casuals the day after Edward VIII abdicated (or was forced to abdicate)
Changes in heads of states don’t suit us
Casuals - pre- CC days
reply to this article | return to the front page
1 person
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4322
Well let's hope Saturday proves to be a turning point.
reply to this article | return to the front page
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4326
Tuesday actually
reply to this article | return to the front page
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4311
Bxxxxxxs
reply to this article | return to the front page
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4239
Please keep up at the back
We are playing today (Tuesday) but not Saturday (we got dumped out of the FA Cup
reply to this article | return to the front page
3 people
Re: Weekend Fixtures Postponed
Views: 4675
Sounds like the correct decision in that case.
Swift guidance for the trip to Hastings would be particularly helpful given the journey involved.
reply to this article | return to the front page
2 people
Previous thread: Hastings United 1-0 Kingstonian by www.kingstonian.com13/9/2022 22:35Tue Sep 13 22:35:47 2022view thread