David Moyes’ tribute to Diogo Jota in #EFC programme notes:
"I must say how shocked and saddened everybody around the club was at the tragic news of the passing of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva.
"It was horrendous news but it not only brought the football world together, it brought the city of Liverpool together.
“Every Evertonian was as stunned as the Liverpool fans were at such distressing news. Our thoughts and prayers are with Diogo and Andre’s families, children and friends.”
A Crystal Palace fanzine has apologised and offered an explanation for the commotion during the moment of silence for Diogo Jota yesterday.
"A word on the Jota silence incident.
"A lot of our fans had difficulty getting into the ground. Stewarding was a mess. Some came into the concourse without realising what was going on.
"All we can do is apologise. It’s a disappointing thing to have happened and we’re sorry. We’ve had a good rapport with Liverpool fans over the years. We don’t do tragedy chanting, we care for our community. We have a lot in common as fans.
“We’re certain no one would have intentionally disrupted the moment of silence. Our thoughts are with Diogo, Andre and family.”
Much respect to Five Year Plan for this. It would have been easy to say nothing and move on so thank you. YNWA!
That was my impression as well. There were also some issue with the start of the silence too - The stadium announcement said it would start with the ref, who didn’t appear to have got the memo.
The biggest issue with situations like this is that when people make noise, the instinct others have is to pile in and tell them to shut up. But all that sounds like is more noise. So more people pile in to tell them to shut up, and it’s suddenly out of control.
A minutes applause is much better than silence. Then accidental or intended disruption gets drowned out.
