Forest Green Rovers owner Dale Vince has apologised for the club's failure to mark Remembrance Sunday and has explained why the day was not commemorated at the New Lawn Stadium.
Clubs often mark Remembrance Sunday -- November 8, this year -- with a minute's silence during their home fixture nearest to the day. For Forest Green Rovers, their home match nearest to Remembrance Sunday was last weekend -- on October 31 against Harrogate Town.
But the club did not hold a minute's silence or mark the occasion during that match.
On Saturday November 7 -- the day before Remembrance Sunday -- the club did observe a minute's silence before their 2-0 FA Cup defeat to Luton Town at Kenilworth Road.
Following discussions with Forest Green Rovers' Fan Advisory Board, Vince said that the lack of commemoration at the New Lawn was due to "human error."
"The lack of Remembrance at a home game is simply down to a human error/mistake on the club," Vince was quoted in the Stroud Times as saying.
"It didn't help that we had a sizable number of games in a small time frame [including the FA Cup replay] beforehand; albeit that isn't an excuse, we should have got this right."
Vince explained that Forest Green Rovers use a matchday planning sheet to coordinate special events throughout the season, including Remembrance, Non-League Day and Veganuary.
The club, according to Vince, focused on the planned Remembrance commemoration in the Luton match on November 7 but overlooked the chance to mark the occasion at home against Harrogate.
Vince also said that Forest Green would contact the Royal British Legion for advice on future commemorations to avoid a similar incident in the future.
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Forest Green Rovers made the unusual move earlier this season not to appoint a new manager after parting ways with Robbie Savage. Instead, a trio of coaches are at the helm at the Gloucestershire club -- with no one manager leading the way.
In October, Vince said that the club were trying "something new" by not having a manager.
"The thing I see in football is, teams are led by big ego managers, and I'm not sure that they always make the best decisions.
"We're going to try something different to see if we can get a more balanced outcome, decision-making wise. And we're going to run without the big ego manager for a while and see what happens."
According to Vince, Forest Green Rovers is the world's first vegan football club.
Forest Green Rovers are famous for pursuing environmental sustainability within football and were described by FIFA in 2017 as the "greenest club in the world."