| Forum Thread | Kinnel at 19:33 26 Mar 2024
And Tom rhyming slang still doesn't get a brief. |
| Forum Reply | Mine not arrived either, no panic…. at 17:06 26 Mar 2024
Never thrown a petrol bomb, which makes me think I really should have upped my game a bit in my younger years. Had one thrown at me mind, but they missed so all was good :-) |
| Forum Reply | Got some bad nostalgia yesterday at 19:32 24 Mar 2024
I wasn't in the cheap seats so can only comment on my surrounds, but coke heads were nowhere to be seen. Same on the tubes to/from the game. (Which is good obs) The Brazilian fans did far more to make it an enjoyable experience which says something about how gentrified the crowd was yesterday. It felt like a whole stadium full of middle class families, who in themselves are fine, but when that's 95% of the fans it really feels...well just very very dull tbh |
| Forum Reply | Got some bad nostalgia yesterday at 19:25 24 Mar 2024
Your grandson seems like a sensible lad. Real shame as I always found any trips to Wembley utterly captivating in my early years. How far it had fallen in that respect. |
| Forum Reply | Got some bad nostalgia yesterday at 19:23 24 Mar 2024
The people taking selfies on the approaches to Wembley summed it up. More interested in posting their pics onto social media than anything else. 15 mins to go, got the photos, experienced the occasion, can go home happy... Give me a town match any day. |
| Forum Reply | Got some bad nostalgia yesterday at 19:20 24 Mar 2024
Accept everything you say, and clearly at the last Euros things went horribly wrong at times. But surely there has to be a medium ground, where we keep the atmosphere and excitement without the lawlessness and coke fuelled aggression. |
| 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 Reply | Friday quiz on the cops at 19:38 22 Mar 2024
Very close. The report says they now investigate just 3.5% of referrals, which is a quarter of what they did just 5 years ago. |
| Forum Reply | Norwich ticket requests at 15:48 22 Mar 2024
34 and a bit thousand - that's what last years play off finalists got. |
| 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 Reply | Rather grim Hive Mind question: at 22:26 20 Mar 2024
I misread your OP as a chance of a nuclear strike - which you didn't specify. Hence my going very low. Chances of a military strike - I guess that's a whole game of chicken, test out the resolve of Nato to respond in kind. As others have said, if Trump gets in that could be the time it might happen. The Baltic states or wherever was most handy to damage the war effort. Would think it most likely that maybe a stray missile launched - which the Russians could claim was an accident, even though everyone would know it wasn't. Probability? Maybe 1 in 20 (if Trump gets elected) - 1 in 50 if not. |
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