How to mark the living and the dead
But just before the game the crowd did the right thing.
The players of both Swansea City and Aston Villa bowed their heads solemnly for a minute’s silence to mark the tragic passing of Gary Speed only for the eerie silence to be broken by a heart warming and heart-stirring wave of applause to ring out right around the whole stadium.
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