This was about respect. You can be divided in your beliefs and views, and you can certainly be divided in what football team you support, but there were thousands inside Tottenham Hotspur looking to respect that moment at 5.25pm.
It was Tottenham's first home game since Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away nine days previously. The players came out six minutes before kick-off and went straight to the centre circle. Once there, ambassadors from both clubs, Ledley King for Tottenham and Emile Heskey for Leicester, laid floral wreaths on the pitch.
Then came the minute's silence which began with a few isolated early shouts, which were met with angry retorts with some choice language from others calling for respect. After that, it was well observed from those inside the ground before the silence was eventually ended with a nod to the new era of the British monarchy and that ever so slightly tweaked, yet so dramatically different feeling national anthem to accompany the reign of King Charles III.
