BLUEBIRDS MAKE SPECIAL REQUEST TO PL FOR SAINTS GAME
Fri Feb 08, 2019 5:45 pm
Emiliano Sala: Cardiff make special request to Premier League after Sala’s body found
By Jack Wilson
CARDIFF CITY have asked the Premier League to allow them to once again wear shirts with a yellow daffodil on them in respect of Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.
The striker’s body was formally identified by the Dorset coroner on Thursday night, a day after it was recovered from underwater wreckage in the English Channel, and Cardiff are now planning another tribute to their £15million record signing.
Warnock expects Southampton and Cardiff players to wear black armbands too at St Mary's on Saturday and a minute's silence to be observed in honour of Sala, 28, before kick-off.
"You've seen tributes from all over the place, from little clubs in the fourth division to the top clubs," Warnock said. "When something like this happens it brings all the football family together.
"It's a loss to everyone in football. I know we're the closest, but when you see the response from world-class players and the amount of money they were able to raise (for the recovery process) in the space of a few hours was amazing."
The flight carrying Sala from Nantes to Cardiff following his transfer to the Premier League club two days earlier crashed into the sea near Alderney on January 21. Pilot Ibbotson remains missing.
"While everybody expects the worst when it happens, and I got a phone call last night, and it was strange," Warnock said.
"It brings the family peace and offers them comfort - that's what (Warnock's wife) Sharon said from the start."
Nantes and Cardiff are involved in a dispute over the Sala transfer, with the French club having demanded that the first £5.27m instalment be paid within the next week or so.
Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they have clarified the facts surrounding the documentation of the transfer.
"The least of my worries is the record signing, finance does not come into it from my point of view," Warnock said.
"I couldn't be more grateful to Ken (Choo, chief executive) and Mehmet (Dalman, chairman), they are keeping everything away from me.
"Off the field they are dealing with all that, and that's the way to move forward. I've got enough on my plate dealing with the football on the field."
By Jack Wilson
CARDIFF CITY have asked the Premier League to allow them to once again wear shirts with a yellow daffodil on them in respect of Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.
The striker’s body was formally identified by the Dorset coroner on Thursday night, a day after it was recovered from underwater wreckage in the English Channel, and Cardiff are now planning another tribute to their £15million record signing.
Warnock expects Southampton and Cardiff players to wear black armbands too at St Mary's on Saturday and a minute's silence to be observed in honour of Sala, 28, before kick-off.
"You've seen tributes from all over the place, from little clubs in the fourth division to the top clubs," Warnock said. "When something like this happens it brings all the football family together.
"It's a loss to everyone in football. I know we're the closest, but when you see the response from world-class players and the amount of money they were able to raise (for the recovery process) in the space of a few hours was amazing."
The flight carrying Sala from Nantes to Cardiff following his transfer to the Premier League club two days earlier crashed into the sea near Alderney on January 21. Pilot Ibbotson remains missing.
"While everybody expects the worst when it happens, and I got a phone call last night, and it was strange," Warnock said.
"It brings the family peace and offers them comfort - that's what (Warnock's wife) Sharon said from the start."
Nantes and Cardiff are involved in a dispute over the Sala transfer, with the French club having demanded that the first £5.27m instalment be paid within the next week or so.
Cardiff have withheld the first scheduled payment until they have clarified the facts surrounding the documentation of the transfer.
"The least of my worries is the record signing, finance does not come into it from my point of view," Warnock said.
"I couldn't be more grateful to Ken (Choo, chief executive) and Mehmet (Dalman, chairman), they are keeping everything away from me.
"Off the field they are dealing with all that, and that's the way to move forward. I've got enough on my plate dealing with the football on the field."
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Re: BLUEBIRDS MAKE SPECIAL REQUEST TO PL FOR SAINTS GAME
Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:49 pm
Would be nice to some how get a few shirts sent to sala's mum with the daffodil because it also has his name above the daffodil.
Re: BLUEBIRDS MAKE SPECIAL REQUEST TO PL FOR SAINTS GAME
Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:34 pm
Southampton fans forum not to serious about sala' s mourning, somebody they did' nt know etc, my cat died can we have a moment silence for that etc.
Re: BLUEBIRDS MAKE SPECIAL REQUEST TO PL FOR SAINTS GAME
Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:41 am
montyblue wrote:Southampton fans forum not to serious about sala' s mourning, somebody they did' nt know etc, my cat died can we have a moment silence for that etc.
Only to be expected from some but we've also had a bit of that one here (sadly)
