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

I like my job, don't say I have it rough, I knew it wasn't easy when I joined, didn't have to take a promotion which meant I'd be on call, I chose to. I don't start threads about how hard my profession have it, I don't turn every major world event into how it's going to impact my work, can't say the same for all professions here. I'm at work now so can't continue the scintillating discussion. I'm sure you've got sleepy kids to deal with anyway.

Jeez what a horrible thread. Sums up football for me - starts with an innocent game that is supposed to be good natured and brings people together, but all it does is raise aggression and tribalism against people who aren’t like you.

Insulting hard working teachers and people with genuine concerns about the social consequences of this match, you’re not exactly a glowing advocate for sportsmanship and egalitarianism are you op?

I’d suggest you’re the one that needs to calm down. Learn to prioritise empathy and humanity over a silly game where men kick a ball with their feet.

My son's school closed when it was 25 and breezy

I'm not bothered about football, but then someone else won't be interested in the hobby I do - I just accept it and let them get on with it as long as its not affecting me.

I didn't stay up, my husband didn't stay up, my son didn't stay up...it didn't suit our family arrangements. We aren't anti-football at all. If people want to stay up, that's their business. I couldn't care a less if people stayed up or not!!

Didn’t the schools close because of the heatwave ?

😂

But this still would have happened if the match had been on earlier. People would still have gone to the pub to watch the game at 8pm, got pissed and left that pub and done the same thing. Your issue there is with the Local Council not making sure pubs are being responsible neighbours. (Also, don’t buy a house near a pub)

Don't be ridiculous - what % of staff, in most healthcare settings, do you imagine can have AL at the same time?

"Yet teachers always have it so hard...."
I didn't say that teachers "have it so hard." You made an allegation and I countered it with an actual account of the realities of the situation in my school.
I could say the same about you and your "on call 24/7 for a whole week" but I won't.

Well, exactly. There's quite a nasty aggressive undercurrent (which is not absent from this thread) which leads to, for example, the group of young men in our town surrounding people minding their own business and demanding that they agree that "it's coming home". At its worst, it leads to the known increase in domestic violence if or when England loses.

I believe her! They refused to examine me for the first 40 minutes of my 50 minute labour, until I crawled into their office and refused to leave. Apparently I progressed quicker than expected… The football wasn’t on though.

Anyway, I work in healthcare, went to bed last night, got up to watch the match then went back to bed. Absolutely fine and productive today!

I'm really sorry this happened to you.

My birth experience with my first son many many years ago was also a very traumatic and poor one and it still upsets me. So I totally empathise with you.

OP should be ashamed of her response to you.

Our school had one, optional, early finish. Otherwise was comoletely normal.

No it’s not. Most girls couldn’t care less and a very large number of boys also have zero interest in it.

It’s ironic @nowillpowernoproblem that every post you make reinforces the vitriol and prejudice that you’ve been complaining about out in others.

You’ve criticised anyone who doesn’t enjoy watching football, teachers and schools, someone’s experience of birth and just about everyone who doesn’t have the same thoughts and opinions as you.

I think everyone understands that it is an important sporting event. That doesn’t mean that it supersedes anything else going on in the world. You’ve said that you don’t have children, so you really aren’t in a position to comment on the experience of those who have them and those who teach them or care for them in other ways.

It's been proven that dv goes up when England lose at football, or when someone's team loses. There are adverts about it, I heard one on the radio last week.

You are trying to prove a point by belittling someone's own experience through the work they do.

Alcohol, that's one of the triggers. Christmas, hot days, football, holidays all have increased alcohol consumption.

Personally I'd have anyone found guilty of any type of assault banned from drinking forever.

Barely even that if you met my son's teacher.

FWIW I'm in work today, worked during the pandemic (not on teams 'home learning'), work when many people are sleeping I'm on call 24/7 now until next Monday morning including 40 hours in my actual workplace, but I don't moan about people who like a bit of football when there is an international tournament on. Yet teachers always have it so hard....

Oh I’m loving that one, especially no 2. Women are told in education and health aaaaallll the time that we should be working for love not money!

‘Football isn’t the problem it’s men’ well yeees … and where else are large groups of random men enabled and empowered to be violent outside football? What else are we all told to shut up and enjoy or else???

Maybe where you are but we still have two weeks left.

As for calling another woman 'love' and talking about her birth like that
... Disgusting.
Absolutely shocking attitude from OP.

Violent men are the problem, not football.

Dv goes up at Christmas, during summer holidays, when there's a heatwave etc etc. They don't need a reason or a trigger.

Yes obviously carry on checking in with service users but maybe work with other organisations on the source which is violent men, rather than emails when there's a footie match.

Not what the thread is about but my school most certainly did NOT close last week for heat (or ever, for snow) and if we did "very little," it was because the temperatures inside (with no aircon and only some ineffective fans brought in from home by staff) were so high that the kids were droopy and exhausted and fit for nothing.
Bit like many of them will be today but, hey ho. Childcare, isn't it?

Totally agree - I have zero interest in football and rather hoped they would lose and that would be the end of it. I must admit I was surprised to hear they had won!

Give me tennis any day - far more exciting and interesting.