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

They don’t have to be ‘sat around watching the football’ for it to be enough of a distraction to affect care. Are you always so sneeringly dismissive of other peoples’ life experiences ?

My goodness @nowillpowernoproblem , you're very cranky for someone who didn't stay up to watch the match. And rude.

Judging by the tone of his/her posts, the OP is tired and ratty and needs a long nap 🤣

This - give me strength!

I don’t like the tribalism or male violence associated with any big bunch of men. It’s not improving in this country. Nor do I like being told what I should be enjoying.

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.

The British disdain happiness that they don't approve of, personally. They don't like smiling, laughter, sounds, celebrations, optimism etc unless it's by them and about them. It's a national past time to celebrate being miserable and commiserate with one another about how superior this makes them to other countries. Are you new here?

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.

I agree. If it was the semi-final or something, I could understand all the fuss.

And it's not like it's a once in a lifetime event.

Love that line 'men chasing a ball...'. Guess you don't like any sport @Dandelionas when it comes down to it, it's all just 'women hitting a ball over a net', 'men hitting a small ball into a hole', 'women running down a track' etc etc.
Sport brings many people a lot of joy, me included.

And the pro football lot need to get a grip and learn what’s important in life!

It might be different in those few places left where your local team is still your local team with players paid no more than minimum wage like the rest of us, but all this shiny glossy high level football shit is just showing up your inability to think or live in the freedom people used to have just a few decades ago. It’s no more representative of the British nation is than Farage.

As for the game itself it’s just a bunch of men kicking a leather sack around!

Yeah, how dare she try to give birth during an important football game. She should have crossed her legs for England.

Ffs 🤦‍♀️

(a fellow football fan)

You’ve said you don’t have kids, even those who do have kids haven’t got a clue what goes on in schools because <newsflash> kids don’t tell them 🙄. So how are you the font of all knowledge?

Same here.

Far too many Moaning Minny joy sponges on here.

But it must be because her niece told her it was? And her niece does, in fact, represent all British education, so.

I'm not a real football fan, but I watch some of the England matches. I didn't stay up last night as I was too tired. They actually play better when I don't watch - I think I put the mockers on them when I watch 😂

I am however fed up with my mum moaning on and on about 'all the football on the telly, what about me'. Well, maybe that's because it's the World Cup mum, and the mainstream channels are obviously going to show matches rather than 1940s black and white film re-runs for little old ladies. I suggest she tries one of the 300 other Freeview channels she has access to but she'd rather moan about Eastenders being relegated to BBC3.

The learning definitely isn’t ‘done’. And it isn’t the end of term. That’s still two weeks away. But do keep dismissing what every teacher on here is telling you.

DS got a full night's sleep, got up, watched 20 minutes of highlights without knowing the score and has gone off to Breakfast Club absolutely elated and just as excited had he stayed up for hours but without the exhaustion. An absolute win win.

Except for DD who got Mexico in the class sweepstake and was more bothered about that than England winning.

But it's not light hearted given many of my service users who are some of the most vulnerable members of our communities will have experienced significant levels of violence, and then we will be picking up additional rough sleepers this week due to the increase in DV.

Perhaps you don't see those who experience homelessness as humans if you find this light-hearted.

It's the parents isn't it. Kids manage fine after one disrupted nights sleep.

That was my suspicion. No woman (or at least no woman who's given birth) would be that twattish about something like that! I didn't even go into labour when I had DS (I was booked in for a c section,) but I can show some fucking empathy.

@MoreDangerousThanAWomanScorned I'm sorry you had to go through that and I'm glad you were both okay. 💐 That must have been very frightening.

I'm unclenched? I think it's a good thing.

If they did this every week you'd have a point.

It was a one off. Try to enjoy lighthearted events, we don't get many.

Now obviously we don't know if they'll progress further but if they do, whatever time the match is your dc will probably want to watch that too.

@nowillpowernoproblem I was with you to an extent on the general sentiment of your first post but when people are replying with genuine impacts you’re being excessively dismissive.

Your comment to the poster about her birth experience is absolutely awful - dismissing a woman by calling her ‘love’ is misogynistic. I was going to say it was internalised misogyny but on further reading I think you’re probably a man. I’m shocked that you then doubled down on your comment rather than apologising!

@MoreDangerousThanAWomanScorned Im so sorry to hear about your experience.

Schools these days don’t spend days (or weeks, as it would be at this point) watching films at the end of term. The curriculum is taught until pretty close to the end and then the last few days in summer might be trips and structured activities (the last day or so in other terms). If your niece’s school wasn’t doing anything as long as three weeks before the end of term then that’s concerning and something may be going wrong in that school.

The other poster who works in healthcare was making a valid point as well - people should’ve book annual leave but if not everyone has and some call in sick, there will be an impact.

Speaking of rudeness... what a nasty petty comment to make to a teacher.