OUFC staff and players.....

[Northstandboy]

.... stand in unity with Tiger and the people of Thailand to mark this event..

An odd and unnecessary Tweet and Facebook post :s

 

[brassmonkey]

Love the replies on twitter.

 

[Yellow River]

A bit weird in my view, and not particularly appropriate for an English football club to comment on, let alone claim to be speaking on behalf of all the staff and players.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Peculiar.

 

[Northstandboy]

Love the replies on twitter.

Especially

 

[radicalox]

Weird for us I suppose, but the King is a massive massive deal in Thailand and largely revered.

 

[AbbeyOx]

King Maha Vajiralongkorn stadium?

 

[LeftSideBoy]

Mị̀ s̄āmārt̄h yon dị̂

 

[Dolly]

It's a bizarre post by OUFC!

 

[Sarge]

Seriously strange

 

[MJB]

It was very odd and particularly to declare as such on behalf of the club (and specifically players and staff). Even to use the club’s account to make a political gesture on behalf of Tiger would be worrying, but to involve to whole club is strange - even if it is on largely safe ground and unlikely to offend.

Would love to know the Communication Team’s reaction to being asked to schedule such a Tweet. They were delighted I’m sure!

 

[Whingit]

Long live the king. Be a laugh if he showed up in one of the boxes next season.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Long live the king. Be a laugh if he showed up in one of the boxes next season.

As long as he pays for his ticket.

 

[Bacon]

don’t see nothing wrong with it myself...

 

[Northstandboy]

I couldn't see the club doing similar for a new queen or PM. Was far too political for my liking.

 

[Berliner]

Football is football, keep politics out of it!
Especially when the message is from one person only...use your own (or your missus's) Twitter in between posting pictures of first-class air travel if you want to pay tribute.

 

[Big Ronaldo]

As long as he pays for his ticket.

That’ll be £14million please?!??

 

[Deleted member 142]

Unusual thing to do.

Just checked to see if Leicester had made a similar statement. I couldn’t see one on their website but didn’t check other social-media channels.

 

[MarkG]

Unusual thing to do.

Just checked to see if Leicester had made a similar statement. I couldn’t see one on their website but didn’t check other social-media channels.

https://www.swfc.co.uk/news/2019/may/owls-mark-new-king-coronation/
Or maybe not so unusual. (Spotted on Rage Online).

Perhaps it’s like Americans playing the national anthem before sporting events.

 

[beyondthefourth]

Unusual thing to do.

Just checked to see if Leicester had made a similar statement. I couldn’t see one on their website but didn’t check other social-media channels.

They definitely were active around the death of the previous monarch:



Can imagine if you are a Thai businessman abroad, if they want to reach out to this market, providing these courtesies are more essential than we realise.