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

Nor is football.

Also Arthur represents Great Britain not just England. So he is more relevant to the wider population than the England football team.

Lol.

So you're not a parent. You've derided teachers, healthcare workers and people who've given their own experiences of football-related negligence. Your superciliousness is laughable.

I'm going to suggest that this isn't a serious post, but merely rage bait..

I was totally with you until your snarky comment about schools. There’s still three weeks left! They will not be watching films!

I had a proposal for Andy Burnham. Introduce a footballers tax. Any footballer who get more than £10k a week gets taxed at 90%. It would be win win:

1. People would be happy as it would be the mega rich paying more.
2. Footballers play for the love of the game not for money they wouldn't care.
3. It would raise 1bn from the premier league alone.

It would be a victimless tax!

It’s the World Cup FFS!
Football may be the MOST important activity in young people’s lives.

I hate football. But I love a bit of suspension of the day to day. Im thoroughly enjoying the fact that my in box and phone will be silent until noon, and that I've had my early morning walk without the usual shouted commentary of the white van men.

@nowillpowernoproblem

"Seeing everyone come together to celebrate and be happy is so lovely. It’s such a nice reminder that there is more in this country that unites us than divides us."
Oh, the irony! And after all your jibes, as well, at those of us who couldn't give a monkey's about the football and therefore do not need to "calm down a little."
Watch it or not, I could not care less.
Enjoy your day (and good luck to those working in schools today supervising film-watching ).

And yet schools were closed half of the week before last and the same this week, and even those that were open did very little. It's funny when it's the school who closes or just sticks things on for the afternoon, it's fine and won't be to the detriment of their education. DS didn't stay up he's too young, but the hypocrisy is real.

I work with vulnerable people. At the start of the World Cup we had an all staff email go out reminding us that domestic violence increases during major football tournaments and to check in with service users, and a staff helpline we could call if we’re victims ourselves. This doesn’t happen with any other sport. That’s what I’m focused on during the World Cup.

I don’t really care who stays up to watch it, doesn’t affect me. Years ago I used to let my DS stay up for the major WWE events so I can’t really criticise anyone.

It’ll soon be over and then we can go back to normal.

You are being vvvvv unreasonable for telling anyone to “calm down”. You don’t have the right.

Way to reassure those who complain about the misogyny.

There are parties and then there are parties. I like interesting people, not those who’ve got nothing in their heads and rely on alcohol to try to be interesting.

There is definitely still learning going on in some schools, find it weird that lots of people are saying their isn't. In our household we got up at 5:30am and watched it on iPlayer. It seems like a good compromise, the youngest got 8+ hours of sleep and we both watched the match unaware of the final outcomes It was definitely a nail biter. Bring on Saturday.

See my earlier post about 'just a bunch of men kicking a ball around'...
Really don't understand this argument.

This. Well said.

The football lot need to calm tf down way more.

I totally get this as a football lover, I have colleagues.I seem to want to talk about diet and clothes constantly. They tell me most days what they had for dinner the night before, which generally, I already know, because they've already told me what they were going to make the day before.
I try and shut them down, but fuck me. Do they go on about food a lot. I literally don't give a fuck. Maybe I should start talking to them about football to see how they like it!

The OP is giving off the sort of really unpleasant vibes that people who don’t like football associate with the mouthiest people who do like football. Ignorance, accusations of lying, demeaning comments, etc all acceptable when you are watching ‘the national sport.’ Only, for a large number of the population (and I’m talking millions of people here) it’s just another sport going on in the background. Yes, it’s lovely to have some sport to watch when the sun is out and the days are long. I’m sure at some point the OP will be along to accuse me of not really liking sport. But that is not true. I’ll be off to watch the cricket later on this month, and earlier this year I sat for 4 days thrilled by the absolutely mastery of their sport on show by the riders at Badminton. (I think that the unfortunate clash of the football World Cup with her historic 3rd consecutive win only 10 weeks after giving birth, leading from the front the whole way, will sadly rob Ros Canter of the Sports Personality of the Year.)

So no, I don’t think the anti football brigade need to calm down because I don’t think they ever really got het up like the pro football brigade. Some of the pro football brigade are just looking for a fight where there is none, and it is perhaps them, including the OP, who need to calm down.

Or perhaps OP is a school kid- either tired and cranky in class having stayed up to watch the football, or just cranky, having been made to go to bed.

'Other countries do not force (male) football down everybody’s throats like this, and god I wish I was in one of those every time there is a big tournament'

They absolutely do. It's a big deal globally! Some are more respectful. Unlike the Mexicans with their fireworks and trumpets to disturb thr players, the boos, the nastiness. It is just great that they got their arses handed to them.

Neither is football.

If it were just a football match, that would be fine. I'd applaud the celebration and joy in it. Sadly, football in this country isn't just a game. Somebody compared it to people liking or not liking Christmas but I think this is a false equivalence.

Football, as mentioned by PPs, contributes significantly to domestic violence rates. It causes tribalism which results in violence, antisocial behaviours and a public bill to be paid in terms of policing, medical care and street cleaning. The tribalism also encourages unsportsmanlike behaviours, even as far as racism and abuse. Grown men en masse scream slurs across a pitch because their team has the temerity to lose a game. I've seen "fans" rip up tickets and leave before the end of a game because their team is losing (only to go on and win). That's before you even get to the corruption, false idols and the management of the sport.

Are the above behaviours everybody? No of course not. Football is enjoyed appropriately by countless people. What you're forgetting is that non football fans aren't impacted by the positives of the game in the way that they are negatively impacted by the significant impacts of the things I describe above.

And you'd be well advised to stop talking about teaching when you know nothing about it. Your doubling down suggests trolling tbh. We teach to the end of term and that's some way off yet. The only film watching in my classes is on the very last day of term and it's a film related to what we've been studying e.g. Y9 will watch Romeo and Juliet. All other lessons are normal.

I was with you till you posted this drivel.

How odd of you to start a thread complaining that people are not united then. I don't believe a football tournament, whatever the outcome, will make people feel better about the state of the country.

I was with you until this ignorant comment.

Perhaps your goady comments come from a place of bitter jealousy that you missed the game?

Doll ?????