Linesman killed by teenagers

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I was at the Ajax-Groningen match last Saturday and they had a minute of silence before the match in rememberance of the linesman. It is pretty remarkable to see a stadium with about 30,000+ people be completely quiet for one minute. Strange feeling.

Do they not often have minute's silences at football grounds in the Netherlands?

It's quite common in Britain if a famous player or manager dies. And there's a nationwide minute's silence in the games before or on November 11th. Or national tragedies like this.

But I agree with Dennisch, if they're going to cancel the football, cancelling the pro leagues would have made a better statement.
 
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Youre correct, I've experienced it once before. I believe someone close to the team (Ajax) died that time, but also a minute of silence was done. Like I said, it is a strange feeling to witness it with your own eyes :)

As for canceling all pro league matches too... I have kind of mixed feelings. I can totally agree that it would have been the better gesture as a whole, but I think the commercial interests (sponsors) were put ahead of that in this case. :)

Also all players had a black mourning armband on and there was even a player from Willem II (Gaby Jallo) who starting yelling at the ref because of a call and realized right away this was not the time to do so, stopped and walked off. I thought that was pretty cool to see on the pitch because you don't see that often.
 
Also all players had a black mourning armband on and there was even a player from Willem II (Gaby Jallo) who starting yelling at the ref because of a call and realized right away this was not the time to do so, stopped and walked off. I thought that was pretty cool to see on the pitch because you don't see that often.

That was indeed something. That really showed this has hit so many people.
Now all we need is that Opstelten (Minister of Justice) shows his strength and stays behind his words to look at this case as if they were adults.

Give them 10 years, minimum, without the chance of parole.
 
Seems like a typical Alex p. post to me. And I'd assume Alex is serious, though he just condemns the US system then doesn't really offer a solution besides "fix the environment" which is probably the most vague and open ended response one can give. And completely ignores that these kids deserve a very, very severe punishment for brutally murdering someone over a game.

Or the kids could just be mild sociopaths. Then the environment has far less to do with anything.

Yes, typical for me. No, I don't "condemn" the US system, or any other related system, which punishes murderers. No, I don't ignore the fact, that these kids deserve punishment, you didn't read my post properly. I would like to say, that only punishing is not enough, and very rarely has been.
Yes, I did not offer any examples for solution, thus, I'll do it now: I would like to propose that parents and school should spend much more time and money on educating children on important moral/value teachings. One example for a possible somewhat solution. There are more, I'm sure. And since when is condemning people, devaluing them, punishing them only, the better solution anyway? Pretty hypocritical your post.

What really dissapoints me, is that my post gets called silly, while I try to propose a positive solution without completely devaluing the murderes, but here's the problem, if you talk about basic human value of everyone, you're called naive or whatever, because people LOVE to judge, just so that they can feel better (than someone else). Ego. Always the same. Oh well.
 
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Regardless of what constitutes justice to everyone, I just hope that one day, while they are sitting in that cell of theirs', that they realize that they have ended another man's life in cold blood, and that society will look at them as scum for the rest of their lives. Nobody really forgives a murderer until they are dead.

That is a guilt that I'm sure no sane person would want in there minds while they grow old.
 
The Dutch football association, KNVB, has imposed a new, very harsh, very tough rule to prevent this sort of action ever to happen again...

If a Pro footballer reacts in any way to a decision of the referee he will receive an instant yellow card. Only the captain is now allowed to show any emotion. Take that, violent morons!

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...Footballing solution genius in action as always I see. :dunce:

Why are the majority of people who 'run' football morons?
 
Every word or gesture will be seen as disrespect towards the referee, unless it is functional...

So, from now on every game will end before the final whistle as one of the teams will not have the required amount of players on the pitch. They are such a bunch of idiots at the KNVB. I really hope some of the players, or clubs speak out against this idiotic behavior. This is an issue concerning the society, not the football players.
 
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