I respect everyone's opinion on what is clearly an emotive subject, however, as I said on another forum, Gary Speed's death touched almost everyone who follows football because nobody saw it coming in any way, shape or form. Doubly so, because he was fully in the public eye less than 24 hours before he was found dead.
This isn't Gazza we are talking about (and I certainly do not wish him an early death despite his well publicised personal problems or his performance against us in February 1996). Gary Speed was someone who was a member of those ever reducing bunch of individuals who play our favourite sport for the love of the sport itself. He certainly was not a mercenary, and the universal reaction to his death speaks for that.
If Jaggymac saw fit to mark it with yesterday's silence then good on him for having insisted on it.