David Brent

A more recent moving moment was when Chelsea player Frank Lampard bravely stepped forward and scored a vital penalty against Liverpool in the Champions League semi-final - just days after his mother had died.

That game was beamed live around the world and hardened men everywhere shed tears for the lad's courage and his sad loss.
An unforgettable moment for all those that saw it.

Dave.

batman

I have been wanting to include Frank in this section but have resisted because among some of the posts (especially Aberfan and Dunblane) it may have seemed inappropriate.

Thanks David for including it.

I shed a tear that night for Frank and his Dad who was watching in the stand.

I also had a lump in my throat when Avram sank to his knees at the end of the match and was obviously praying. He later revealed that he was praying for his father who had survived the Holocaust and for his father's first family who hadn't. The match was played on Holocaust Day.

Daddy .... the frisbee has gone in the water .... what a finger puppet drama queen I am!

wadsy

I will never forget the day i was watching Grandstand (my mum was

watching as well), they cut to the fire at Bradford football ground.

The shocking sight of a figure head to foot in flames collapsing on the pitch.

The poor, poor man. Absolutely terrible!

penfold

Changing tack somewhat, the first time I saw the ending to the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, I was gobsmacked....British comedy, the best at least, has always had an undercurrent of tragedy....and here it burst the banks. The only similar moment I recall was in one of the missing-then-recovered Dad's Army episodes, The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage....in the middle of this farce you realise, as the characters realise and briefly discuss it, that they haven't a prayer of surviving a German invasion and the best they can hope for is to buy time for the regulars before being squatted like flies. And they pick up their rifles, Jones, Mainwaring and Wilson IIRC....and go off to get killed, they think.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

donna

the Queen with a tear in her eye at the Cenotaph after her mother died.

faginsgirl

I totally agree about Blackadder goes forth. After laughing throughout the series I sat in silence at the end of the final episode. A wonderful tribute to the men who fell, very sad indeed.

I also got emotional when Haigh gets a phone call from Blackadder to get him out of going over the top and Haigh sweeps his model soldiers up across the table into a dust pan, thinking nothing of it. MADNESS!

xx

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