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Paris Tribute
This morning I watched a French guy called Antoine Leiris send a video message to the people who murdered his wife in Paris on Friday. If you haven't watched it I beg you to do so, you can't fail to be moved by it. It is available on Facebook and also the BBC News website.
Anyway, it got me thinking if there was anything we could do to show our support for the people of Paris. I think getting the travelling Bogenders at Faversham to sing 'La Marseillaise' might be a bit of a tall order, especially in the absence of a giant screen to display the lyrics. But I remember a few seasons ago when we had just signed French striker Laurent Hamici, Tim Marcus showed up at an away game sporting a French football shirt in his honour. Trying to organise us lot to do anything is an almost immpossible task but as a gesture of my sadness for the Parisians I shall be going to Sports Direct tonight to purchase a France football top. Allez Les Bleus !
All together now......" ALLONS ENFANTS DE LA PATRIE,
LE JOUR DE GLOIRE EST ARRIVE !"
" Allez Les Lavenders " 
See, I do have a sensitive side.
- alanj
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Re: Paris Tribute
Good for you buddy! 
- alanj
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Phew! just listened to him buddy, what a brave and strong man, so eloquent with his refusal to hate, If only the world had more people like him, instead of the murderer`s who hide under the banner of Islam, they are not fit to be on the same planet as him.
I do not think I could forgive, as he has, which makes him a very special man.
Let us hope the rest of his life will be full of happiness, to make up for the dreadfull sorrow he must be feeling now.
- Bog End Ultra
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Re: Paris Tribute
The guy ought to be awarded two Nobel prizes, one for Peace and the other for literature.
"Monsieur Leiris, I salute you. When I pull on my France top on Saturday I will think of you and your little boy."
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Could not agree more.
- Johna
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I agree with both of you. An extraordinary speech from someone who has suffered a loss in that way.
Here in Dubai the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, has been lit in the colours of the French flag to show that ordinary Muslims separate themselves from the perpetrators of the Paris atrocities. All the Muslims I have spoken to about it here say that it wasn't the work of those whose faith is Islam but of crazed criminals.
But hey! Another match tomorrow...life goes on.