Why were the players and referees wearing black armbands? I only saw the last two minutes and missed whatever explanation they might have given.
Two girls were killed in the UK-rememberence for them, moment's silence before all matches this weekend in England (and I believe, the UK overall).
I was in Ireland when the 2 girls disappeared (we stayed in hotels and all tv news was English -- BBC and Sky) and it was a bigger story there than anything here since JonBenet. Both girls were wearing Beckham Man. U. jerseys when they were last seen, and Beckham even made a public appeal for their safe return. Their bodies were found in woods outside their town on Sunday.
i wondered about that...the radio broadcast brought up a moment of silence, and i heard it, but they didn't really elaborate on what it was all about. how sad.
These are a few articles on the story from the BBC if you are interested. These are from the beginning and go to the present. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2176489.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2175995.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2182702.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2208097.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2211087.stm
I remember the story, and even saw on one newscast that Alex Ferguson had made an appeal as well. Good for the EPL. Nice gesture. I'm not pro-death penalty, but at times like this I waver. Bastards. Thanks for the info.
No I'm not for the death penalty either and in a case like this I think we need to remember that we can be civilised unlike the perpetrators of this crime and we don't want to descend to the level of these animals... It'd be so easy to just say hang 'em, but I would just like them to be locked up for life where they can never do anything like this again... It's actually quite rare in The UK to have a child kidnapped but it doesn't detract from the seriousness of this tragic incident...
Agreed. I didn't even want Tim McVeigh to be executed and I'm from Oklahoma (suburban Oklahoma City). If ever a man needed a long time alone to learn to accept responsibility for his crimes, it was him. Is the death penalty even an option in the UK? Oklahoma has been on an execution spree the last few years, and I can't help but believe that certainly some innocents have been killed in the name of the citizens of this state. I'm not sure how morally responsible that makes me, but I don't like it.
Re: Re: Chelsea v ManU - Black Armbands So we should pay for the rest of his life to to keep him alive?
Re: Re: Chelsea v ManU - Black Armbands No. Toned down over the years. Used to be for murder; then murder of a police officer, then got rid of in the mid-60's. But some remained until relatively recently. Such as, arson in Her Majesty's ship yard (burning ships and stuff I should imagine). High treason (killing the monarch, not sure if it went further down the royal lines, probably did). And piracy (with violence), not really a common occurence round these parts anymore. Officially got rid of a couple of years ago. http://www.ask.co.uk/answer.asp?qCa...3F1&aj_rank=3&aj_score=0.65&Ask.x=22&Ask.y=13
Re: Re: Re: Chelsea v ManU - Black Armbands That's the price of living in a civilized society. It is also a legitimate expenditure of tax revenues, unlike most of what our money is spent on.
Me, I’m just a scuzzy scouse. And the father of two girls. I’d just disembowel them and then hang them. Only thing worse than a child murderer is the bleeding hearts that’ll have us provide for them and help them write their best selling book, serialized in the Sun of course.