Silence for Robert Sebbage?

[Royal1983]

I know this may already be a post but has there been any news on if there will be a mins silence or applause from the supporters before kick off? I've looked on the RFC site and also on the Facebook page but the only thing that has been said is that Sir John has written to the family and that they are going to be his guests for Saturdays game. Would it not be a great way to show respect to the lost life of such a young person who was a season ticket holder if the fans all did something?

[Mr Angry]

Is this the lad who was pi$$ed up whilst on holiday, had a go at a taxi driver, who stabbed him to death?

[Wax Jacket]

yes, yes it is

[Svlad Cjelli]

Sad as this is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a football match.

[Mr Angry]

Sad as this is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a football match.

+1

[alderdude]

i would imagine there will be

[Maguire]

Sad as this is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a football match.

Reading ST holder gets murdered

More appropriate than having one for Bobby Robson or, even worse, 9/11

[Svlad Cjelli]

Sad as this is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a football match.

Reading ST holder gets murdered

More appropriate than having one for Bobby Robson or, even worse, 9/11

Agreed, but I didn't agree with them either.

is it just because he was murdered you want a silence, because we must lose scores of reading STHs each season. Should we have a ceremony for each one?

[Royal1983]

Sad as this is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a football match.

Reading ST holder gets murdered

More appropriate than having one for Bobby Robson or, even worse, 9/11

Agreed, but I didn't agree with them either.

is it just because he was murdered you want a silence, because we must lose scores of reading STHs each season. Should we have a ceremony for each one?

It's because it's a sign of respect that a lad who was 18 was murdered and that he was a season ticket holder.

[glenroyal]

Sad as this is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a football match.

+1

+another

[Bandini]

Football clubs have such little respect for their supporters that I'm afraid I can't see this worthy campaign getting off the ground.

[Tredder]

His funeral was today



Very sad.

[Tails]

Is this the lad who was pi$$ed up whilst on holiday, had a go at a taxi driver, who stabbed him to death?

Pathetic - you are an absolute idiot. I hope it never happens to one of your family members.

If the club want to show any kind of gesture then I would gladly accept it. If they don't quite see it as appropriate, again, that is their decision.

In a time when people moan about football clubs forgetting their roots, I think its ironic that possible acts like this are dismissed as inappropriate.

[Tredder]

Is this the lad who was pi$$ed up whilst on holiday, had a go at a taxi driver, who stabbed him to death?

No, this was the lad that was stabbed because he happened to be in the area where people were playing with laser pens.

Dick.

[No Fixed Abode]

Is this the lad who was pi$$ed up whilst on holiday, had a go at a taxi driver, who stabbed him to death?

No, this was the lad that was stabbed because he happened to be in the area where people were playing with laser pens.

Dick.

Do we know all the 'real' facts though Tredder? I mean, I not making assumptions here, but was he really that innocent?

[Tredder]

Funnily enough mate, yes i do, it may seem a new concept to the stereotypical posters on here, but there can be a case whereby, and i won't write it in bold to make the point, people do go on holiday abroad and don't cause mayhem, sometimes innocent people get caught in the crossfire because of the actions of others.

I would hazard a guess that Mr Angry has no children, as his widesweeping generalisation, shows little or no resepct.

[alderdude]

why anyone seems to have a problem with this i don't know, he was a young lad on his first holiday away from home and he gets murdered no disrespect to anyone that has lost family members and there has been nothing done by the club infact my uncle was a season ticket holder and died the season before we were promoted to the prem and there was nothing done. But this is different, young lad with his whole life ahead of him and it's hardly a disruption to the match in any way shape or form is it so don't be so disrespectful

[Maguire]

Sad as this is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for a football match.

Reading ST holder gets murdered

More appropriate than having one for Bobby Robson or, even worse, 9/11

Agreed, but I didn't agree with them either.

is it just because he was murdered you want a silence, because we must lose scores of reading STHs each season. Should we have a ceremony for each one?

You won't be surprised to hear that i'm actually ambivalent about it (and not just because I won't be there), but given what we have had silences/applause for I don't think it's that out of line.

Now that i've seen the RFC coffin I think at least some gesture from the club would be appropriate.

[Ian Royal]

Sad as anyone young dying is, I don't really think it's appropriate for a minutes silence at the game, and if I was the family I wouldn't want that either

I don't want to use the slippery slope argument, but why is a young person who's murdered any more worthy of recognition by a football club than an old person who dies of natural causes, if both were STHs?

note in the programme would seem reasonably appropriate though.

[floyd__streete]

What is it with people so desperate for something to mourn that they start threads demanding a minute's silence in memory of someone that (presumably - apologies if I have this wrong) they didn't even know. Macabre, really, that folk are so keen to infringe on other people's grief.