To say the anti-football lot need to calm down a little?

I don't begrudge people being allowed to start later due to the football but next time Australia or another Southern Hemisphere country get the Rugby World Cup and the matches are at 1am I hope the same thing is done for us rugby fans.

Or if we have a Brit in the Australian Open tennis final or for the Ashes.

But you know it won't be because for some reason football gets pandered to even when we know we'll lose eventually.

Meh, people are allowed to whinge about the hype over the football, and football fans are allowed to bore on about football.

Mexico have lost at that stadium before tho.
Its just another stat people are throwing about to make it more than a load of blokes chasing a ball.

It doesn't really matter if you believe me, it's true. But forgive me for not liking your insistence that it's fine for everything to just stop for the football because it's such a big deal.

I work with rough sleepers, they will have experienced increased levels of violence over night and I'm dreading today as it's basically increased levels of violence to a population that are already excluded from our health care system

Thankfully some of the old timers said they would look out for the 'young uns' but it's still going to be a really awful day

Agree. And then invariably the endless rounds of “Its coming home,” ad nauseam and then the predictable bitterness and anger when we get beaten at quarter finals or semifinals with predictable violence, vitriol and over-drinking. The way we behave when we lose is pathetic. You would think we should be used to it.

Its fun to celebrate but a lot of us need to learn where to draw the line. And that its not life or death.

It's a football match. Nobody will die if they don't watch it.

Alternative view.
Its a football match. They happen frequently. OK, this one happens a bit less frequently.

Watch it if you want, sleep through it if you want. The whole "can my child be late to school" "outrage the fanzone will be shut" "will my local be showing the game" had been everywhere for days. Does it matter?? Do whatever you want. Im not fussed, but it's bern unavoidable - especially adding in potential thunder and changed starts.

I think it's the opposite. There's nothing wrong with enjoying the game or staying up for it, but all the hysterical over dramatic nonsense about it being 'historic' and the kids will remember it all their lives, etc. It's a tournament that happens every four years, it was only the final 16, which England have reached a few times.

Some of the carry on on the thread about whether or not her son should stay up (and I did think he should) was ridiculous. We don't get this silly about any other sport.

It's great that we are doing well and people like watching it, but there might be less vitriol if people didn't seem to have lost all perspective over a fairly regularly occuring sporting event at a relatively early stage in the contest. I could have understood it if it was the semis or the final, but at this stage it really isn't this massive historic never to be repeated moment.

Oh sure we aren't doing anything. Nothing at all. In fact it's a piece of piss we just chuck a couple of movies on and they all totally pay attention for those and then we order some dominoes!

Get a life. This is not reality. As for calling another woman 'love' and talking about her birth like that
... Disgusting.

I've worked in healthcare for nearly 30 years so 7 world cups and there's always people wittering on 'I bet so and so will ring in sick' 'oh it'll be hell today with people tired from watching the footie'.

Usually the same people who claim to have not had time for a piss at work since the 90s but spend plenty of time chatting. Usually just complaining about how busy they allegedly are.

Never experienced anyone ringing in sick after the footie or not doing their job properly.

Frankly in healthcare these days, we’re all used to the wait….

I didn't get compensation - thankfully, both me and DS were absolutely fine. He was born 25 minutes after they finally checked me.

I did have a birth debriefing when I still felt so upset/traumatised by it three months later and in that briefing session the senior midwife agreed that my care had been seriously below standard. They were supposed to be 'learning lessons' - if you look at the state of maternity services I'm not sure they did, no lessons have been learned from much more serious incidents.

I did feel it, that was the point, I was crying and desperate in a triage ward for two hours and ignored while all the staff sat around the tv.

My kids are 14 and 16 and one is in school today.

14 year old is in school and wouldn't dream of displaying disruptive behaviours just cos he's tired.

He's going in as normal, just as I'm going to work as normal. He asked for the day off and I said no, he needs to crack on as normal, as thats a logical consequence of wanting to watch the football at 2am

Its one night of limited sleep...kids will cope, as will adults

Thats a problem with your colleagues morals and not a football problem!

Thousands of us, (including me) stayed up to watch it, enjoyed it and are now up ready to go to work

Ignorant and unnecessary teacher bashing. I can assure you schools are not 'watching films', there's still over two weeks of term left.

Why should those who couldn't care less about football suffer because some do. As I said if you want to be irresponsible and disrupt your child's sleep for football at least have the ownership to keep them off the next day.

Spoken by someone who knows nothing about schools!

I don’t like football but I hope everyone who watched last night enjoyed it.

I also hope that anyone who let their 5 year olds stay up keep them off school today as I don’t fancy a class of over tired children for the day! 🤣

People just enjoy being miserable and negative and misery needs company!

I didn’t stay up to watch it either because I’m 35 weeks pregnant and have a toddler up at 6am so my body said “absolutely the fuck not” (I can’t even stay awake through a regular day without a nap atm 🤣but I woke up periodically to check the score. I would have loved to have been able to stay up and watch it as it looked like a brilliant game! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

and your right. The world won’t die today. I spent two years being awake all night and having to function the following day,
everyone will be fine and hopefully in a good mood!

As a teacher no they won't drop dead but they will be really tired and more likely to have behaviours which disrupt the learning of others. If you kept them up, keep them off school for the sake of the rest of us. Thanks.