Christian Eriksen

[bobby01]

I noticed how the tv commentators seemed to enjoy luxuriating and making the most of the incident. When really we should be grateful the player was helped so quickly and given the best medical care possible. Something that simply wouldn't happen if he was at home and collapsed suddenly.

Largely agree with your post. Particularly annoying to see Alex Scott welling up. Maybe she happened to be really good friends with him but I suspect they'd never met in which case, how can you get so sad? How many hundreds of random people died around the world during the course of those few minutes in the studio when they were talking about Eriksen - should we all shed a tear for them too? Fair play to Micah Richards for keeping his head together and calmly pointing out that he might actually be fine.

If you watch Alex Scott, most times I have seen her she likes to draw the attention to her.

[Somerset Fulham]

Not sure if it is a generational thing or just me.

It's not you. Everyone of a certain age group downwards seems to want to be one of life's victims and seek counselling every time their umbrella doesn't open when it rains. I've been at funerals where I see people who hardly knew the deceased in hysterical floods of tears and you can see the generational split in reaction. Those over 40 thinking "shut the fk up you hardly knew him/her and it's disrespectful to the family", those under 40 asking in an almost crying pathetic voice "are you alright?" to which the attention-seeker will reply "not really" and burst into tears again. So the whole day becomes about them. It's just attention seeking which seemed to start with all that OTT public crying over Diana's death which I assumed was just to try and get on TV.

Glad to see Christian Eriksen is now stable and wishing him a speedy recovery. Best wishes to his family and friends

Definitely post of the week 👍🏻

A little downheartened by this post, I do understand your viewing but dont think its fair or nice to give such blame to one generation, I dont think it is generational, I see it differently, death gives everyone different emotions and some people dont face a death until later in life, my first experience of death was at 20, no family member or friend had passed for that amount of time, since then theres been a lot and I'm sort of becoming use to having people around me fall off so it doesnt affect me as much anymore, people of the older generation have quite usually experienced more death around them and becoming a lot more use to dealing with this, these young people are just first learning how to deal and what to do to deal, it's perfectly understandable that some may cry even without massively knowing the deceased, it for all you know, might be the closest death they've ever felt, and someone dying can bring massive emotions about yourself and what your doing in life. Many of my friends started or at least tried getting clean off drugs at te death of a friend who overdosed at a party, that was a tragic experience that rattled a lot of people, he was well known around my city and many people felt his death tragically, it's been a couple of years and everyones still mourning.

Thanks for sharing this and I agree with you too.

I don't get why the older generation is so bitter toward the younger one.

[Lighthouse]

Not sure if it is a generational thing or just me.

It's not you. Everyone of a certain age group downwards seems to want to be one of life's victims and seek counselling every time their umbrella doesn't open when it rains. I've been at funerals where I see people who hardly knew the deceased in hysterical floods of tears and you can see the generational split in reaction. Those over 40 thinking "shut the fk up you hardly knew him/her and it's disrespectful to the family", those under 40 asking in an almost crying pathetic voice "are you alright?" to which the attention-seeker will reply "not really" and burst into tears again. So the whole day becomes about them. It's just attention seeking which seemed to start with all that OTT public crying over Diana's death which I assumed was just to try and get on TV.

Glad to see Christian Eriksen is now stable and wishing him a speedy recovery. Best wishes to his family and friends

Definitely post of the week 👍🏻

A little downheartened by this post, I do understand your viewing but dont think its fair or nice to give such blame to one generation, I dont think it is generational, I see it differently, death gives everyone different emotions and some people dont face a death until later in life, my first experience of death was at 20, no family member or friend had passed for that amount of time, since then theres been a lot and I'm sort of becoming use to having people around me fall off so it doesnt affect me as much anymore, people of the older generation have quite usually experienced more death around them and becoming a lot more use to dealing with this, these young people are just first learning how to deal and what to do to deal, it's perfectly understandable that some may cry even without massively knowing the deceased, it for all you know, might be the closest death they've ever felt, and someone dying can bring massive emotions about yourself and what your doing in life. Many of my friends started or at least tried getting clean off drugs at te death of a friend who overdosed at a party, that was a tragic experience that rattled a lot of people, he was well known around my city and many people felt his death tragically, it's been a couple of years and everyones still mourning.

Thanks for sharing this and I agree with you too.

I don't get why the older generation is so bitter toward the younger one.

Well they started it.  :005:       Seriously there is no bitterness just observation. I don't understand the over sentimentality or the need to play the victim even when you are not actually there. I don't understand the love of supporting a cause then going off on a tangent and thinking you are a hero by chucking a statue in a pond.  But I greatly admire youngsters today. Like any generation they have real heroes amongst them. However the media and the need to over simplify and over sentimentalise and hero worship people is just slightly annoying. But on saying that there are plenty of the younger generation that blame the older generation for the mess the World is in. So it works both ways.

[PaulJ123]

Harsh to comment on Alex Scott making it about herself, watching it yesterday does make you think how fragile life can be and no doubt would have made a lot of people drop their loved ones a message. Can't imagine how hard it would be to react to live in the studio.

[MartyFFC]

Just to clarify, I'm barely 40 so not exactly old. However, I see little to no resilience in most of those under the age of 30 nowadays. Perhaps they need to add some of Ant Middleton's books to the curriculum

[SP]

If I'd seen my mate's wife standing there crying like that, there's no way I'd have gone back on that pitch.

I know nothing about Alex Scott but I won't criticise her compassion, my wife is very easily reduced to tears.

[Penfold]

I was not watching when this happened.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of continuing the game, my main hope is that Christian makes a full recovery.