| Forum Thread | Kinnel at 19:33 26 Mar 2024
And Tom rhyming slang still doesn't get a brief. |
| Forum Thread | Got some bad nostalgia yesterday at 11:54 24 Mar 2024
Went to the England Brazil game last night, and thoroughly unimpressed in lots of ways. From "arrival times" on the tickets (when did that become a thing?) to watching some DJ set that was basically pumping out high beat music more often heard in a school kids disco, the whole thing was completely sanitised. Forget the football - sometimes games are cr*p, anyone who sat through footie at Portman Rd before Kieran's arrival knows that. It was the complete change of experience from watching England to what felt more like an Taylor Swift concert. Of course families, women and kids should be welcome but yesterday it was like a "What the f has happened to footie?" wake up call. The average fan was so uncommitted that the leave early brigade were in the majority. No doubt all the usual bollox will apply about wanting to miss the traffic / tube queues etc. but if that's an issue why go in the first place ffs? Not even a school night. At FT the ground was genuinely less than half full. So many had left early that I walked to the tube and straight onto the platform - 40 odd thousand already well on their way home not bothered enough to stay to the end. I started to follow England home and away decades ago (Went to Italia 90, Euro 96 etc) so am well aware that England has always attracted a very nasty minority who we are well rid off (The "No surrender" crew) but surely when you attracting the type of people who hold up mobile phones with their lights on to make a spectacle, rather than watch the actual game then it's all gone a whole long way too far. Think that's me done for Wembley tbh (unless the Towen get there) - an utterly soulless experience when I'd sooner have watched it in a pub. Attending a game like England v Brazil should be a wonderful experience, think it's the 3rd time have done so at Wembley and last night showed just how utterly sh1t the modern football experience can be when you take all the passion out of it and turn it into a music/light show. Really hope it's not the future for club footie. [Post edited 24 Mar 11:56]
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| Forum Thread | Friday quiz on the cops at 15:34 22 Mar 2024
As you know, our mates at the IOPC are responsible for investigating cases of police misconduct, but what percentage of cases referred to them actually get investigated? Govt report out yesterday has the figure, but without googling... |
| Forum Thread | Friday quiz at 19:16 15 Mar 2024
Just discovered something I have in common with Liz Truss... No one's guessing this one. |
| Forum Thread | So is the speaker another sexist / racist? at 09:00 14 Mar 2024
Or did he not see Diane Abbott's attempts to speak at PMQs yesterday? Was he so bound by convention (terrified of not following it) that he thought it right to ignore her? Something not right when the victim of racist/misogyny is ignored as she was yesterday. |
| Forum Thread | Southampton fire next to stadium at 15:51 6 Mar 2024
Wondering if tonight's match could be postponed? Don't know any more than that but is a possibility if it's not contained?
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| Forum Thread | The Met failings laid bare here at 11:31 29 Feb 2024
Some culture that protects/hides scum like this - but am sure the usual apologists will be along to tell us it's only "the odd bad apple" whilst conveniently forgetting the 100s of his colleagues who literally worked with, laughed with and joked with "The rapist" as we was known. He even shared "extreme porn" with his police colleagues - but we all know none of them will get fired - it's not like we expect the police to report such things - one suspects because it's a common practice - or just they don't care. Corrupt to the core. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/29/met-police-should-never-have-emp |
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