Ian Jacques: 30-minute delay to Sheffield United v Sheffield Wednesday derby on Armistice Day derby ‘laughable’
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00:00I've got my heart and I've got my soul. I've got friends that serve my dad, everybody, all my brothers, my brother tried to get it near me. It's just not right, there should be no matches on Armistice Day.
00:17It's meant as a day of remembrance for people who fought in two world wars and other wars and they should be remembered with respect and not have a football match against them.
00:30And what was your take when you saw that they moved it by a half hour?
00:36Laughed, completely laughed. The match was organised to go on the Saturday at 12 o'clock. Sky intervened or the police intervened and said let's move it to Sunday at 12 o'clock.
00:55So now you've got an hour in between Armistice Day and a football match. It's not right.
01:03Anything could happen, anything could happen. It's just more respect for this day than anything else.
01:09You've got families, kids, older people that's coming down here and paying respect. And then you've got some footballing rivalries, I should say, that's going to be doing the same thing on the same day.
01:29They could be fuelled by booze.