The problem with the minutes silence was that the fans didn't know it was happening. In England the teams come out and line up and the silence starts with the referees whistle, so it's obvious what is going on - on Saturday that didn't happen, it was just part of the pre-match announcements. There were lots of those and it was very noisy in the 'barmy army'. In fairness to them, when people around them realised what was hapening and told them to shush then they did - by then though there were only about 10 secs left.

I feel I must get involved with this subject. I did not go to Perpignan this year, but have been 3 times and never have I heard an announcement made in English, this has been a bone of contention with me and have said many times that if there is ever an emergency the Visiting fans would be in trouble. When Catalan visit Warrington although they only bring a handful of fans they are given the curtesy of announcements in their own language. I am sure that there is someone in their organisation that can speak English. I intend to e.mail League Express to voice my thoughts on this. I Have never known Warrington fans to disrespect a minute silence home or away.

Public announcements made at Perpignan are usually in french when things like "badly parked cars" or similar when the subject matter is clearly to do with french people - announcements are made in english when required ie. "lost child can been found at Red Cross hut" or "Mr Robinson has lost his wallet which can be retreived at the office" etc

the teams are announced in french ,english and catalan

I agree more announcements in english would be better if / when required but the problem is the same as it has been at Toulouse,the french announcer has such a bad english accent it's impossible to understand him anyway ! I did offer my services to Toulouse (no charge !) to read the english announcements in english but was politely turned down.

There was no announcement in English re: the minutes silence. As someone else said, the only English announcement all evening was something about winning lottery/raffle ticket numbers. I was sat quietly taking it all in, no singing or shouting, and I had no idea about any minutes silence until other fans around me started 'shushing'. Seeing as every home game is against an English (or Welsh!) club, Catalan really should employ an announcer with better English skills.

As for no whistle to start the silence, I could be wrong, but as I remember it the players and officials weren't even on the pitch during the silence.

of course,the best alternative would be to employ an native english speaker to do the job - payment would be a season ticket,for example

I can't recall a whistle at the start of the silence but there was at the end and the teams and officials were lined up during that minute - they were facing the main stand as usual.

correct the winning lottery ticket was announced in english along with the teamsheet but that's all as far as I can recall.

as I have said a few times when the vast majority of Wire fans realised what was happening (along with some Catalan fans) 99% respected the silence,only a handful felt the need to be disrespectful probably due to the excess of alcohol etc ? it's not the crime of the century,just an observation

look i'm locking this cos its going round in circles now, some of us cocked up, it wasn't deliberately disrespectful,we just didn't know and as you've seen we're very apologetic.