Pubs open til 5am, children encouraged to miss school by the England manager.

Sure am

What's wrong with watching it recorded anyway? Providing you avoid hearing the score it's surely the same match, presumably watched with the same people who also won't know what happened?

Mainly though, why is this in AIBU and not the section which was created for it?

So protestors are idiots too?

What has a pre planned and organised march have to do with the police criticising the late timing of this announcement?

Weird to shoehorn that into a football thread.

Great point.

what do you say when all the police have to attend protests? Especially the pro Palestine ones?

Have you actually heard the press conference with your own ears or are you just basing your opinion on a few headlines?

Because I suspect the latter.

Thomas Tuchel was ASKED by a journalist to give a message to parents who had children who wanted to stay up.

His reply was light-hearted and tongue in cheek. Context matters.

When you live in poor countries and you see the kids paying with nothing on their feet and having the time of their lives - you get it.

I don't give a sht about football tbh, but I am a working class woman whos husband and son are OBSESSED. Flags, shirts (DH has every one since he was 4 all in a pile for guests 😂) beer, screaming, they love it. I love them loving it. When this bigoted "I am a middle class person and I despise those oiks" nonsense starts it makes me strongly dislike the people doing it and feel they hate my family.
It might be irrational but a lot of working class people feel that way. Why do you want to take away or reduce something so many men enjoy?
They are not to blame for those who behave badly and the England team are a group of mostly working class men who worked extremely hard as children to get where they are now. Your hatred says a lot about your bigotry imo.

Faces like Dot Cotton licking piss off a nettle

My work have announced an 11am start on Monday to allow everyone to enjoy the football. I was going to go to bed but feel contractually obliged to go to the pub with my son now.

A load of nonsense pearl clutching from football haters.

Mischance Saying that its just some guys kicking a ball around.misses the point ,it brings kids together and makes for some sort of unity.same as tennis or whatever as Nelson Mandela said "Sport has the power to change the world" esp football as it is something all classes of kids can do

The pursed lip crew. Always ready to put a downer on anyone having fun.

She's right though.

If she's like me she can picture all of the pursed, cat's anus mouths as they're writing their righteous posts

For those who can't stay up to watch the match, the BBC will be launching a special 'Stay Up or Catch Up' offer for its live coverage of England's game against Mexico at the 2026 World Cup.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce8ml7jv1g1o

I can’t bear the air of superiority- always the same in these football-related threads.

As if everyone who wants to watch the match is some sort of wife-beating, flag-bearing thug.

I don’t doubt there are problems surrounding it, but when you’ve got what 15-20 million? football fans, there are bound to be some wrong-uns.

Holier-than-thou attitude for saying parents should boundaries in place fir their dcs??

I’m getting very confused here. Isn’t that …. normal???

They also nap in the afternoon and have very different working hours.
Dont compare what isn’t comparable

This is the way

You just said what everyone else wanted to…

If mine wants to watch I think we will send to bed as usual , then wake up at 5am (with no access to spoilers) then watch before school so she can go to school having watched it without being over exhausted.

Might not be the right decision for everyone, but that would be the right decision for us

Maybe teachers want to watch it too. They could just open the schools for the afternoon - maybe later hours of starting and finishing.