By balance I meant for and against in situations when they is no ideal that pleases the whole country. Going ahead as normal when the UK's head of state has died after serving for 70 years is no ordinary event, to me anyway. Elizabeth Windsor was a high profile monarch and her death has affected millions of people, possibly tens of millions, certainly not a small minority of the UK population. Some people wanted to reflect on that and give respects by not doing what they would normally do. Ok others want things to stay the same and are maybe not bothered at all about her death.
Postponing professional football for 2 days (I am totally puzzled why totally amateur stuff was cancelled) could be seen as a balance, between postponing/cancelling it for 11 days and doing nothing different at all. As a keen supporter of the Boro I would have been OK for the game to go ahead today, with a minutes silence, but I take on board the views of people who don't regularly attend football games and people who maybe do go to a lot of games but have differing views to me i.e. wanted all sporting events cancelled for 11 days.
I don't like it when Sky cancel games and move them to other days (often at quite short notice) and my guess over 90% of Boro fans who go to games don't, but we have to accept it. The inconvenience is balanced against the revenue received by MFC from Sky (not a lot compared with audiences neither for our games).