Beautiful video shows thousands of people singing French national anthem as they exit the Stade de France in Paris pic.twitter.com/QayDIXCnud
— BreatheSport (@BreatheSport) November 14, 2015
This morning I woke up, looked through my Twitter timeline and shed a tear. This morning, we are all French. We imagine if we had been at the France v Germany match and we imagine the thoughts of those who were. We think of those who lost their lives, not just at the match, but at the other incidents in Paris. We think of the hundred or so people slaughtered at a concert venue, whose only crime had been to go out for the evening.
The world changed last night. I feel the same this morning as I did the morning after the 7/7 attacks. As I wandered down the Embankment to my office in the House of Commons, almost directly under Big Ben, listening to the police sirens and the helicopters overhead, I remember thinking “This is not the London I love. Things will never be the same.” I imagine that’s how many Parisians are thinking this morning.
A friend of mine tweeted this, and it reflects how many feel this morning…
What kind of person must you be, and what kind of god do you serve, to believe that massacring innocents finds you favour in the after life?
I imagine that the FA is thinking of cancelling Tuesday’s international friendly match at Wembley against France. Obviously they will be consulting their French colleagues but I really hope they don’t. We simply cannot give in to terror. If we do, the bastards win. Sport is something people that can unite people across borders.
The show must go on.
