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General Discussion / 856 Foundation
« on: September 11, 2021, 10:13:34 AM »
I'm assuming someone at the club will be mentioning the 856 foundation on camera today?
Yesterday was suicide prevention day. (according to twitter) and i see no better place than a football ground to highlight this cause that is so personal to so many of us.
Lee was my friend as well. From breakfast club at BNI, to a pint in the Nap many a year ago and a few away days when i first moved up here. Like you, I found friendship on the terraces at The Walks. Lee was one of the blokes in the group i made friends with when i first started going to watch King's Lynn. They turned out to be collectively called the 856, yes I had to ask.........
For many of you, it was for much longer and your friendships will be much stronger, but what i do know is that today could be an extremely fitting tribute to Lee and show the club and therefore the Town in an extremely good light.
The town has shown it's love for him in it's outpouring of grief when we lost him, today, the football family can show the football world not just what Lee meant to us, but also that's it is ok to be not ok. And it is, good to talk.
It is good to talk and talking with mates at football has saved many a soul over the generations. It's where we bond, we come together and get behind our team. We can forget our worries and let it all out for an hour or two.
I'm not sure what would look like at The Walks today, it could come in the form of banners at pitchside and a few words from the chairman in one of the televised snippets, it could at 8 minutes and 56 seconds, applause rings out throughout the ground....... It may come as a chant, in UNISON, all I know is that today is an opportunity to honour a friend and highlight a bloody good cause and the 856 foundation that has been launched in lee's memory.
Yesterday was suicide prevention day. (according to twitter) and i see no better place than a football ground to highlight this cause that is so personal to so many of us.
Lee was my friend as well. From breakfast club at BNI, to a pint in the Nap many a year ago and a few away days when i first moved up here. Like you, I found friendship on the terraces at The Walks. Lee was one of the blokes in the group i made friends with when i first started going to watch King's Lynn. They turned out to be collectively called the 856, yes I had to ask.........
For many of you, it was for much longer and your friendships will be much stronger, but what i do know is that today could be an extremely fitting tribute to Lee and show the club and therefore the Town in an extremely good light.
The town has shown it's love for him in it's outpouring of grief when we lost him, today, the football family can show the football world not just what Lee meant to us, but also that's it is ok to be not ok. And it is, good to talk.
It is good to talk and talking with mates at football has saved many a soul over the generations. It's where we bond, we come together and get behind our team. We can forget our worries and let it all out for an hour or two.
I'm not sure what would look like at The Walks today, it could come in the form of banners at pitchside and a few words from the chairman in one of the televised snippets, it could at 8 minutes and 56 seconds, applause rings out throughout the ground....... It may come as a chant, in UNISON, all I know is that today is an opportunity to honour a friend and highlight a bloody good cause and the 856 foundation that has been launched in lee's memory.