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Telegraph Sport
8 JUNE 2017 • 12:52PM
The Saudi Arabian football team were booed by Australian supporters after they failed to properly line up for a minute's silence in honour of the victims of the London Bridge terror attacks.
Saudi Arabia were preparing to play Australia in a World Cup qualifier at the Adelaide Oval when the stadium announcer called for a minute's silence to begin.
The Australia team linked arms in a line on the centre circle while the Saudi Arabia team stood in random formation as the silence began.
Saudi Arabia
A number of Saudi Arabian players stand still without lining up on the halfway line CREDIT: YOUTUBE
Australia
Australia's players link arms during the minute's silence CREDIT: YOUTUBE
Australia
Australia's substitutes bench stand to observe the silence CREDIT: YOUTUBE
A number of Saudi Arabian players stood still with their arms behind their back while others appeared to continue their warm up.
Reports suggest that the visitors' substitutes bench also failed to stand to observe the tribute.
Eight people were killed when three men attacked pedestrians with knives on London Bridge and in roads around Borough Market.
The Socceroos beat Saudi Arabia 3-2 to keep touch with Japan at the top of their World Cup qualifying group.
Jun 9, 2017 -- 5:33PM, horusisis wrote:
wtf were they having a minutes silence at a football match in Australia, do they have a minutes silence at every Australian match for the people killed daily in Syria. or do their lives not count
Perhaps a few of the reasons are there are multiple ties, countless treaties, we are both members of the Commonwealth, our military units have associations with each other.
Many people hold dual citizenship in both nations; something like 60% of Aussies trace ancestry to the British Isles, this will go up, not down, every generation, as we intermarry. etc, etc,
Your question seems deliberately miss-framed, to enable you to introduce a Syrian agenda rather than question our relationship with the Saudis.
Saudi...not many suicide bombers in Riyadh.
