A caller to WIN moments ago described the pride she felt at seeing this flag unfurled. She identified herself as not being a football person. She saw it as an example of sports rallying people together.
I suggest that there be an exploration of whether the flag can be unfurled for more than the brief period of half time. What other options are available?
It was also displayed during the playing of the national anthem. If we score a goal, it is also unfurled. The main problem is dat a lot of non-footballing people does be out there and does ketch ah horrors when we bring it out. Dey does start tuh get on and ting. We eh want to get into de confrontation business.
Then whappen during the women's home game v. Ecuador? I recall only seeing it at the half.
Tuesday when the anthem was playing I still hadn't 'surfaced' yet. I was too busy trying to evade the hundreds of patrons trying to geh een. Frankly, if there was an occasion or cause for misbehaviour by fans, I thought it would have been Tuesday.
From the lil snippet I saw, the fans might have been better behaved than one segment of the protective services. Just one policewoman alone was carrying on bad. In 5 minutes she threatened to arrest a soldier
and proclaimed to have taken off her weapon because she was being "nice".
She by herself was playing badjohn. SM frigging H.
Despite de fact that she end up 'darlin' me, it was exclusively her ignorance that caused me to miss our opening attempt on goal.
Once again, the TTFA failed at event management and protocol. It really should NOT be that hard. As a starter, doh vest the police with discretion that impacts fundamental constituencies. There should be organisational decision-makers, at the points of entry, who deal with protocol. If a problem of conduct or safety arises, then that should rightly become the province of Babylon, but failing that ... oh gorm! What is the benefit of having police behaving in an arbitrary and capricious manner?