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

Not angry but am tired of the whole thing, was hoping England would get knocked out last night so it would be over (at least for England) and people would largely shut up about it!

Beating Mexico at the aztecs, altitude, heat, the fact they’d only lost 2 games in 89 competitive games, is good reason for the “dramatical nonsense” TBH.

I doubt the poster you refer to let her son watch it, she asked AIBU then flounced when the majority said she was. She wanted everyone to agree with her, they didn’t.

tbh, I think it's nuts to care so much about any game you're not actually playing in, I honestly don't get it. BUT. I do understand that lots of people care a great deal. My brother in law is one. He is football crazy. It is hugely important to him. I don't understand why, but I understand that it is. iyswim.

The world cup is what? Once every 4 years? So a few days every 4 years? Let people enjoy it. If they want a day off it's not going to solve any of the world's problems but neither is it the end of the world for some kids to be knackered for a day or two.

What does bother me though is the violence that goes with it. It is fact not opinion that violence increases, especially domestic violence, and that is a big problem. Maybe football matches should be screened in coffee shops rather than pubs.

No one is shitting on England. People are pissed off by their lives being impacted by something they have little to no interest in. I would usually want England to do well because it makes other people happy, but after this morning, I am praying they get kicked out before their next stupid o'clock in the morning match.

I'm not a teacher, FWIW, but I am passing my shitty mood onto everyone because I'm pissed off and exhausted.

The thing I'm pissed off most about is that I'm usually a very easy-going, live-and-let-live type person. If my neighbours had said to me, "We're watching the match at home and will have mates around. We'll try to be quiet, but there might be some screaming." I would have done what they did and gone to bed early in case I got woken up at 2 am.

But they didn't. So I didn't. And now I have had around an hour's sleep, and I'm feeling pretty shitty towards anyone who as much as thinks about football in my presence.

Absolutely everything in life is better without Twitter in the background. I am an immeasurably happier human since I stopped using it about 2 years ago.

I didn't stay up and watch the football. I intended to, but the delay was too much for my tired eyes. I'm going to watch it tonight though and I agree wholeheartedly with the OP.

The world won't end if kids and adults are tired today because they shared a positive experience overnight. We really don't share enough positive experiences as a nation right now. I am NOT a football fan, I hate the culture around it - but I hope everyone that stayed awake and saw it unfold is buzzing today, and I hope the dopamine fills your heart for as long as possible, before everything is FUCKING MISERABLE again.

Because it's artificial. People are coming together to play a competitive game which has its own rules which not everyone else necessarily understands, and not everyone actually cares who wins..

Do you watch every sports match or other competitive activity that comes your way? You could make very similar comments about local matches, tennis, netball, water polo, bowls, curling, chess, you name it. Would you be equally fascinated by all of those?

How people can say sports boring is beyond me.. I think people are odd who say this. It's unscripted.That game last night had everything. You couldn't tell which way it was going to go.
Perhaps some more people will get into it now.
If they don't never mind, but to say boring. Wow.

Angela Rayner on LBC just now made a comment that "we may all be nursing sore eyes or sore heads after last night..."

No, all of us aren't. Not even the majority of us are. I think that's what gets up a lot of people's noses - the assumption that everyone either is, or should be, glued to the football over any other sport or activity.

If you enjoy it, good for you. Crack on. But allow those of us to moan when our jobs don't allow us to finish early (I know some that did on Wednesday) or our jobs/schools don't change start times for the other sports or other events we prefer. Because football.

Oh dear. Like I say, negative and clearly no idea about the game.

They haven’t won anything. This was the last 16. Let’s have a little perspective.

My daughter is now in her 50s but I still remember being left alone at a crucial stage in her birth as the nurses all disappeared to watch Red rum win the grand national, so it's not just football!

I imagine it would have been a little more than 25 and breezy in classrooms surrounded by plate glass and with no aircon.

I was responding to OP, right on page one where thy stated it's no big deal, the world can turn a bit slower and work doesn't need to be done on time....
It's just sarcasm.

DH and DS have seen football games. They don't go and act violent over it.

Because one is more freely available on telly perhaps? And is local? I'd pay for theatre at cinema over live theatre jsit cos of cost and travel even tho I love theatre. If I had a good telly and I could stream it directly to my house, I would

I hope the teachers being negative don't pass that awful attitude onto the pupils. Last night's display from England was one of the most spectacular things to witness for our country. I'm sick of England being shit on just for being England. We played with skill and tenacity; played as a team and came together. We weren't expected to win but we bloody well did. The bulldog spirit was back. If you're English, whether you like football or not, you should be proud but as usual, all the negatives will be highlighted.

Denial is a river in Egypt.

Ok

I think @RubyPowderPuff was being sarcastic.

Well, yes, I think that was her point given she was being sarcastic

My kids are still having regular lessons.

If you said that to me I'd be making an official complaint.

So while I agree that it’s ok for kids to take the day off occasionally for a special occasion it’s also untrue they are doing nothing this week.

Accounts from kids about what they are up to (particularly while arguing a day off will be fine) are not necessarily reliable

Why on earth is this addressed to me? I had nothing to do with the thread you were responding to. It was @Pushmepullu who asked ir your grandchildren's school was underachieving.

It's also true that more people get off their arses to go and watch a live theatre performance in this country than get off their arses to go and watch a live football match.