10 Aug 2025 16:26:51
That booing at Wembley today during the minute's silence for Messrs Jota and Silva - vile.

What a bunch of revolting pondlife, what great examples to kids. ?.

1.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 16:42:06
It’s disgusting.

It doesn’t matter what you think about Liverpool, as a club. This was about showing some empathy for the family. Obviously that’s beyond some people.

2.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 17:22:18
Liverpool boo the national anthem as usual.

3.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 17:23:04
Trouble is, Liverpool fans won't forget today, which just compounds the problem.

4.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 18:00:01
Supasub, Liverpool boo the national anthem for deep rooted reasons. I'm not a local lad and don't have the ill feeling they do towards the country. But I do understand why they do it. Personally I'd rather they just sung over it, but it is what it is at this point.

However, making noise through a minute silence is just moronic.

I can accept people not liking Liverpool for various reasons, but for one minute you should be able to stay quiet to honour someone's memory. Hopefully it changes to a minutes applause moving forward.

5.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 18:08:18
Booing the national anthem is completely different, and rooted in Liverpool supporters rejection of the political values espoused by the national anthem.

What Palace fans did was motivated by nothing more than the desire to pile even more pain on grieving families.

6.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 18:45:53
Supasub

There's lots of booing for the anthem from supporters of many other clubs - including United, that's irrelevant to the point.

Booing during this minute's silence is no different to the classless mocking of the Munich and Hillsborough disasters.

Some football fans clearly lack the IQ to conduct themselves properly - what a shame they felt so emboldened to spoil a football event with 'Community' at it's core.

7.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 19:27:48
I understand why Liverpool fans boo but why not just stay silent?
And it was a minority of Palace fans after the booing of the national anthem. Same as minority group of supporters sing munich songs or throw paper aeroplanes onto the pitch at United games. There will always be the few who try and ruin it for the many.
There are probably some more patriotic Palace supporters who may take offence to booing the national anthem. They are both wrong. Do I need to explain further.

8.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 19:55:34
Because of what it stands for Supasub. They can boo it all they want. Nothing wrong with it.

But booing a minute silence for a player that has lost his life? Poor form.

9.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 20:14:41
Exactly angel.

It is perfectly acceptable for anyone, even Liverpool fans, to exercise their right to politically protest against the state.

It’s not thing remotely equivalent to boo a minute’s silence for two young men that died in a tragic accident.

They are not the same thing in any shape or form, and the idea that booing during a minute’s silence is motivated by patriotism is laughable.

10.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 20:47:37
Liverpool booing the national anthem i thought was going back to the 80's Thatcherism and politics and then poverty. What does that have to do with the then Queen or King? To boo a national anthem for those reasons also shows a low IQ and is mmoronic.
And no the palace fans shouldn't be booing either. Hopefully that gives a little clarity on my behalf? Both actions for their reasons are a bit uneducated.

11.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 21:25:23
It’s not simply to do with Thatcherism. It is also directly related to Liverpudlian opposition to monarchy, rejection of empire, and the common thread of wealth generation by the rich derived from the oppression of ordinary people central to both Britain’s Monarchical Empire, and Thatcherism.

Saying it’s all about Thatcher demonstrates exactly the type of “uneducated” reasoning that you’re, incorrectly, criticising Liverpool fans for.

Regardless, it is not “wrong” to boo your nation’s national anthem. The ability to criticise your nation is a fundamental right in every functional democracy.

Booing a minute’s silence for the tragic death of two young men is not the same thing. It’s not a moral equivalency. Or even an understandable tit for tat between two sets of misguided fans. One is legitimate protest, the other is completely unjustified, outright rubbishty behaviour.

12.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 22:04:52
Supasub

Liverpool had a vibe of resentment for the monarchy and the established order long before Thatcher was born, she and her gaggle simply exacerbated the ill-feeling.

It's not simply the monarchy that's represented historically by the anthem, it's the wider spread of wealth and legacy that, for centuries, has funneled all the happy pounds to London and the Home Counties.

Liverpool - port city - saw lots of 19th Century investment geared towards having the local labour pool putting in the sweaty graft while seeing the establishment-appointed people and companies drawing the real money away from those who put in the real work.

The modern wealth of London would not be so extreme were it not for port cities like Liverpool being used to tap into the expanded transatlantic trade boom of the 19th Century. A segway on this is why there's some resentment felt towards Manchester because, after the opening of the canal and port, Liverpool saw more investment wave at them as it passed by.

That, in a nutshell, is how the disdain was borne - nothing has changed since so the people still feel betrayed.

In every sense, by actually knowing what you're talking about, the two reasons for booing are very different. I don't partake in any booing, but I fully understand the reasons for the anti-anthem vibe - the Palace booing though, irrespective of how few were doing it, is utterly reprehensible.

13.) 10 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 22:07:31
And I'll just add that I do find it offensive when our own national anthem is booed for my own deep rooted reasons, family military members for instance. Liverpool couldn't even manage a minutes silence when the queen died that they had to have a moments silence, erm they called it a moments silence, and the reduced 30 seconds sections still managed to boo and even some cheered. A life was lost was it not? A family member?
Empathy Danny? They are also a revolting example to kids Ork? Thought just post this for some of the righteous. Gain respect by giving respect. You reap what you sow and so on. Both acts of booing are disgusting imo and even when for once in a lifetime to show some respect on one occasion, a minority showed none.

14.) 11 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 22:53:38
You’re doing false equivalency again.

Every club was required to give a minute’s silence when an old lady died of natural causes. They were required to do this because (and this is the foundation of British monarchy) her family has been chosen by God to rule over everyone else. Liverpudlians, by and large, reject this, and refused to be compelled to show tacit support for a system of archaic rule that they don’t agree with.

Forcing clubs to hold a minute’s silence was a political decision, and the decision to boo was clearly a form of political resistance - i. e. we don’t believe that a singular bloodline has a god given right to rule.

The minute’s silence today was for the tragic death of a player who played for one of the clubs playing today. It had no political connotations, or anything ideological attached. It was simply to express sympathy to the grieving family and friends.

You can dress it up in any way you like, but the actions of Liverpool fans are a democratic right. The actions of Palace fans were mean spirited without any reason or justification beyond trying to hurt people.

15.) 11 Aug 2025
10 Aug 2025 23:22:06
How long does one hold a grudge? Especially one which actually originated decades of not centuries before you were born?

There is a time to let go

More importantly there is a time to put aside tribal or political loyalties and see rhe bigger picture.

The current King and Queen are not responsible for the past. Whether you think there should or should not be a monarchy the undeniable fact is that it brings in far greater money to the country than is expended on the royal household. Secondly the political influence that rhe Royals have today is minimal. Booing them achieves nothing and reflects badly on those who boo.

With regards to the lack of respect shown by some fans to the memory of Diego Jota well unfortunately that is just symptomatic of a lack of education and basic good manners that increasingly pervades society.

16.) 11 Aug 2025
11 Aug 2025 00:10:04
Supasub

It was disgusting when the boos rang out during the silence for Queen - I completely agree.

It's good that you should mention the military though - how many of the social elite have served as non-commissioned front-line personnel (Privates, Corporals/ Bombardiers, Sergeants, etc)?
I'll tell you, none. Even their idiots were either commissioned or protected.
Why? Because the ruling elite wanted class of education to be the primary determining factor of a commission - thus historically seeking to prohibit the working classes from retiring from service with wealth and status.

No disrespect to your family members who served - they absolutely have my respect, but the military is a shining example of the favour afforded to privilege.

Is it such a great example for kids to force upon them an anthem that reflects a culture where privilege and wealth are reminded at every opportunity as more important than anything else?

Yes, you should reap what you sow, but booing an anthem and the legacy it represents is different to booing the death of a footballer or a monarch. The premise of reap and sow in terms of wealth and opportunity is so imbalanced that, imo, it actually vindicates the booing of the anthem and all that it represents.

Anyhoo, I have opined too much on this now, I'll get my coat.

17.) 11 Aug 2025
11 Aug 2025 00:45:38
Liverpool did alright out of the Empire, including the slave trade.

Got a bit sniffy when the ship canal opened up, though.

Anyway, booing the deaths of two young footballers in the prime of their lives and leaving young families, is a scummy thing to do regardless.

18.) 11 Aug 2025
11 Aug 2025 06:37:04
Sadly it’s a sign of the times, respect for anything and anyone is sadly departing culture.

19.) 11 Aug 2025
11 Aug 2025 08:30:58
I think the booing of both is disgraceful. However, look at the locations, Liverpool and Croydon. I need to say no more!