THE DECISION TO BRAND our new age the CAROLEAN ERA in preference to the Caroline will have disappointed football fans who sang in anticipation for a couple of years about how sweet it was going to be. Perhaps that is why the Football Association cancelled all matches after the Queen’s death, fearing crowds would use the wrong adjective.
It was rather different when her father died and football was about the only sport to continue. All rugby matches and horse races were cancelled between 6 February, 1952, when George VI died,
