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Cheers mate flashbacks to shopping there as a kid

It's people management 101. If I get given a new group of young people to work with, inevitably someone will say "so and so is trouble" or "that one is lazy". But you have to build those relationships. I've had some people astounded at the different behaviours people can show from one person to the next. A good chunk of it is just the relationship.

Fair play to him. Works hard and deserved a goal

Served us well. Deserved to go out on a better season, same as Vards but it's a team game sadly

Absolutely not

Crisps. A packet of crisps.

Did they genuinely think they could do non league to top flight in successive seasons and not hit roadblocks? There are some absolutely massive clubs in the Championship - clubs that have won FA Cups, English league titles and European honours. They're a bunch of nobodies going nowhere who got given a rocket out of the gutter. It's absolutely lovely that Mac has connected with Wales and seems actually invested but be realistic and grateful for the relative ease at which they've climbed.

God that's a dated reference

Yeah this game looks like it's getting called off

He got lost looking for the skyhooks aisle

For £21 million I'd expect to buy half of League One. Madness. It's Deadpool and Sunny bloke vs man in a sport we don't care about

That is not on, at all. By all means allow the Thai tourism board to buy advertising space (presumably at discount rates but whatever) but not this.

Physical printed copy does seem increasingly irrelevant in this day and age. My local non league produces it but it's usually only one or two old blokes reading it. Can't be very cost effective.

Absolutely awful. At first I thought it was some mass allergic reaction to some food they had but reading a 76 year old man arrested for intent to poison is not what I expected. Sadly, nothing surprises me these days.

"He fell over"

Typically, yes. There was a very significant case a few years ago where an Oxford med student was given leniency by the judge for her crimes. The crime of stabbing her boyfriend. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-41389520 The really ridiculous thing is that, instead of taking that as a win, she tried (and failed) to appeal her conviction.

A very fair and reasoned statement. One of the main issues the education sector has is that it seemingly can't satisfy everyone. Kids can be pulled out of sex education and when certain topics ARE covered, parents get up in arms. There needs to be a national, sensible discussion as to what people need to know. It's not just porn available on every device, though. It's also websites like watchpeopledie and ebaumsworld. The issue is less that kids can find this stuff and more that it can just appear in their DMs. I have never seen some of the more salacious stuff knocking about - beheading videos, animals being kicked to death, etc. That's because when I was growing up, you couldn't just send it in the same way. Now, you can embed a gif of a beheading into a DM and off it goes. Porn is kind of the misnomer here. It's peer to peer comms. The other, very useful, solution would be a cultural shift away from giving kids smartphones. That CAN be done but it needs the will of parents.

This sort of raises a few questions and points, for me. The first being why did it fall to you to talk to them and not their parents? Based on my experience 15 is far, far too late to be having any kind of talk. As someone who was sexually active from 13 (along with most people I knew), this kind of thing needs to start at the back end of primary school. Even little things like calling it "the birds and the bees" talk is subtle code to kids/ society that sex is somehow different and needs colourful language. When we talk to kids about drugs, self harm and other issues, we don't really use euphemisms like that. So why do we feel the need to do it for sex? Just some thoughts. I'm personally against the implementation that they've put in place and would always put education first. Smoking rates were cut through years of education.

An academy I work with sent their lot down to Arsenal to play their under 16s last year. The kid is absolutely insane. He absolutely bullied lads 3-4 years older.

Overlaid with a banging euro techno dance track circa 2003 and flashy graphics that say SKILLZ

Christ she couldn't even muster a half smile

Technical skills and arrogance. They had a ref on their side and an absolutely knackered England in front of them.

Spain will be absolutely ashamed they didn't win that

JAMMY

Jesus Christ this is torture