Club in mourning
Posted by: roversreturn on 
Feb 7th, 2010 | 
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Some things transcend football. Some things make people forget their petty rivalries.
Today’s news that John Steven Taylor, a 30-year-old Rovers fan, died in the concourse at the Britannia Stadium is one such thing.
Football fans have been in mourning, so I thought, as a tribute to John, who lived in Avallon Way, Darwen, I would post a few of the tributes left by fans across the world on Facebook at John Steven Taylor – 27/10/79 – 06/02/10:
*Just to point out there are hundreds more tributes on the Facebook page. This is just a small sample…*
Geoff Wrighty Wright – A True Rovers Fan…….R.I.P.John Steven Taylor……..
Ben Hoyland R.I.P from a Sheff utd fan
Andrew Huxley Rest in peace from a Doncaster Rovers fan.
John Guilfoyle Rest in peace, from an Accy Stanley supporter
Wayne Blundred Rest in Peace from a stoke fan.
Aaron ’smigger’ Smith R.I.P lad, from an everton fan x
Debbie Barcroft A senseless tragedy which has united football fans regardless of the colours they wear. My sincere condolences to all John’s friends and family. x
Gillian Pounder i dnt really follow football , but this should never of happened , R.I.P my thoughts r with ur family xx
Kev Taylor Rest in peace from a Sunderland fan
Jay Lucas make sure uncle jack gets the beers in bud… strugglin to come to terms with the fact your no longer here… keep the blue flag flying high!
Joe Collins Rest in peace from a Bolton Wanderers fan.
Andrew Dixon ive taken this off another forum, ut i think it is very fitting! We give to you this little rhyme. We will do our best… to say goodbye Some in the crowd will no doubt cry We’ll think of you when the whistle blows The flowers wrapped in pretty bows And whilst we’ll never have you back, You’ll be safe in the arms of our old mate Jack.”
Sharne Edwards R.i.P buddy from a man utd fan
x
Julie Redhead R.I.P. a tragic loss. My thought are with your family and friends. May God and Uncle Jack be with you.
Callum Snook RIP from a City fan.
Shaun Gill R.I.P mate. from a Stockport Rover – Darwen born. Thoughts with the family. Sleep tight pal.
Kim Parkinson Hmmm even though we hate each other u don’t wanna hear about things like this , got some gd blackburn m8s and we av gd banter but that is all… my thoughts r with his family so sad… RIP m8 Burnley Fan x
Glen W Lee Absolute tragic loss, thoughts are with his family and friends. RIP John – From a Burnley fan.
Josh Hall RIP john from a chelsea fan love too friends and family
Angela Fox rip thoughts go out to all your familey and freinds from a vale fan
Angela Windle RIP and God Bless from a North Ender
Ian Slevin R.I.P John still cant believe this has happened. Football is irrelevant now
Sam England R.I.P from a burnley fan…..people shouldn’t go to enjoy a football match and not get home, tragic !
Andrew Samuels R.I.P from a Burnley fan … thoughts for your family
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February 7th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
No doubt some sort of tribute will be arranged in mid week. A verbal tribute from the crowd (or minutes silence) and the floral/card tributes left will hopefully be of some consolation.
A lot of the tributes being left on forums are simply for the sake of political correctness. Not so much on the facebook group since you can put a name/face to it but a bunch of faceless tributes have no real meaning. Being politically correct is not genuine emotion in most cases. I’m sure some people are genuine for sure but a lot of it just seems for the sake of political correctness.
The real meaningful tribute will be at Ewood for the upcoming fixture. I think that will mean more to the family of the victim than tributes on any messageboard will. I could express my sympathy all night long (and I do feel some as well as anger at the stupidity of it all) but the best time to pay respects will be at Ewood in midweek as a crowd. I suppose a crowd is quite faceless but at least it would be a public mass tribute.
Some people (members of Rovers Mad for instance) have already tried to claim infiltration by supporters of another club as the cause of recent racist chanting and Saturday’s fatal accident. I think it probably was an accident as stupid as it was. The people who make those claims are simply trying to push forward their tedious obsession even if it means exploiting an incident like this to do it. You refer to comments by other supporters as petty rivalry being put aside (and I know we have had disagreements on rivals but that isn’t the point now) but some people still can’t put that type of thing aside. It was our own fans at fault end of story and we have to accept that hard as it may be to accept.
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