La Marseillaise to be played before Premier League games

The French national anthem - La Marseillaise - will be played before this weekend's Premier League matches.

yeah it's overkill. We already invited France to Wembley, we don't need to hear their national anthem in our country for a while. Of course there's like a proportion of Frenchmen at all 20 PL clubs but that's nothing compared to the number playing in Ligue 1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34872166

RIP to those who were killed, but seriously, is this not becoming too much now? How about remembering those who were killed in Beirut on the same day or even remembering those who are dying every single day but the media just isn't reporting it?

Nobody cares about people in Beirut, Lebanon, Nigeria etc being blown up every day but when a police DOG gets killed in Paris everyone loses their ****. Just about sums up the media in this country really.

yeah it's overkill. We already invited France to Wembley, we don't need to hear their national anthem in our country for a while. Of course there's like a proportion of Frenchmen at all 20 PL clubs but that's nothing compared to the number playing in Ligue 1

Nobody cares about people in Beirut, Lebanon, Nigeria etc being blown up every day but when a police DOG gets killed in Paris everyone loses their ****. Just about sums up the media in this country really.

Plus dogs > people.

Western readers identify with people close to their shores and not thousands of miles away shock horror.

It has been like that since the dawn of time.

Arabs are the 'other', whereas the French is drastically close to our border - and we share culture, demographics and politics with them. We're bonded by the EU, as well as geographical and historical ties.

The Paris attacks were more relevant in terms of news. By the way Nigeria is a commonwealth country so they do have ties to UK, as well as there being quite a significant minority of Nigerian people or those of descent living in the UK.

But if you're going to honour victims then have the decency to honour everyone who has fallen victim to terrorism. French lives are not more important.


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Of course French lives are not more important, but you're making the mistake of thinking the British media - who are largely caucasian, middle-class and Conservative - care about black Africans as much as they do white, middle-class, bourgeoisie Europeans.

Lots of people who died in the Paris attacks were either Black or North African, it was in one of the most mixed areas.

Just making the point.

But these things happened in a concert hall, like many of London's, and rows of restaurants, like many of London's.

I'm not saying it's right, but the media OBVIOUSLY think this is different to Nigerians dying in Nigeria. Because it is.

Even though I agree the premier league is really sentimental (and it doesn't get worse than Liverpool FC...) it makes no sense to say it's racist because many of the people who died were non-White.

I agree people dying in wealthy, peaceful countries is treated as being much more severe, but this is largely due to how much more shocking it is when it happens here. A parallel example is how much more shocking the war crimes of the Nazis were than the Japanese during WW2. Germany was one of the most developed countries in the world at the time, whereas Japan wasn't.

Heck why did Islamic State take such pride in Jihadi John? It was because he was a product of the West, rather than someone they found in a refugee camp somewhere