Premier League and EFL make decision on tributes for 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

English football will not hold league-wide tributes for the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks this weekend. The Premier League and EFL are not expected to ask clubs for blanket minute’s silences or black armbands for victims, including 67 Britons killed in the attacks. Friday marks a quarter-century since terrorists hijacked four US passenger planes, with nearly 3,000 deaths worldwide: two struck New York’s World Trade Centre, one hit the Pentagon and another crashed in Pennsylvania after attempts to regain control. According to the Daily Mail, there are no plans for coordinated tributes across Premier League and EFL fixtures. The decision follows changes last year after a working group found automatic silences risked losing meaning due to their frequency, reserving competition-wide commemorations mainly for incidents with a clear football link.