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Edouard apparently got injured in the Celtic post-match warm down.

I like the quote "Police believe it was taken somewhere in Sussex. There's clearly blue motorway signs, so that narrows it down to about 6 miles of road doesn't it?

Got one last night. Not so much a dramatic ping as a quick check of the phone before bed and "oh shit". Cancelled kids day out at adventure park today, mountain biking this evening and pub for the Lions game tomorrow. Luckily ends midnight Sunday, and off on holiday (Wales) on Monday, so as...

I agree to a point - but this wasn't a junior government minister "liking" a tweet. It was a coherently-written tweet in suggesting schools take part in this from the official DfE account. Whilst it has no formal constitutional status, that to me is a de-factor policy statement from government.

I fully agree that if this government tried to sneak in fascism through the back door they'd do an incomplete and ineffective job of it! :)

Agreed it's not formal DfE policy that can be enforced. It's also completely false to disassociate it with government almost entirely. Don't do Twitter a disservice - it's quite clearly becoming the main mouthpiece for political policy and direction across the spectrum and in fact worldwide. If...

But the Department for Education tweeted yesterday asking schools to get involved. That is quite literally from the mouth of the government, at the very highest level when it comes to education. Scan back through the thread - any outrage? I think everyone is laughing at it.

Thanks for that. I did watch the entire campaign. Not sure what your point is, I was responding to a poster who said that if Ireland had played a similar setup to Sweden, with Duffy at the back, they'd be at the Euros. I pointed out we did and we're not.

I have to disagree here, although not writing off your own experiences. There is some (not enough) affirmative action, intervention and support for working class kids, but it is aimed at those across the ethnic spectrum, as it is social and economic issues behind it, not race. I don't see what...

I don't think anyone is saying to white working-class kids "you're lucky because you're white". Just that, for all the things that are stacked against them in life, colour isn't one.

My dad's Irish (although he lived most his life in England) and I always followed Ireland as a result. USA '94 was probably quite formative in that as well, but it started before then. What's always amused me is the extent to which it offends other people, including those that don't know me.

That is pretty much the style attempted under McCarthy, and we are not at the Euros.

Certainly didn't look like Barnsley fans were wearing them this evening.

Visiting family in Ireland.

I don't think its unreasonable for people to be interested in having a couple of beers. Many wouldn't have got to any of the Chelsea, Southampton or Sheff Utd games so are seeing an Albion game for the first time in over a year (which I'd imagine for many people is the longest gap since they...

I think most people on here want them to go down for behaving like c**s when they beat us in the playoffs.

Could someone explain why people who had tickets for Arsenal and Wolves would deserve to go to the front of the queue? They were unlucky that the games were cancelled, but no more unlucky than those of us who came out in Pot 4 (in my case for all four games).

Related story: In our 9 a side Aussie Rules league, we once travelled to a game with 8 fit players and a bloke (not the best player when fit) with a broken collarbone. After much discussion, it was decided that he'd squeeze a guernsey on and take off his sling, and then just jog up and down on...

I love that you say that in a way that suggests Celtic are the ones doing something strange out of the two.

I believe under this plan they'd be allowed to spend some of their money on new players to improve their squads. I don't support the plan but the size of Celtic and Rangers (in terms of matchday attendances, support in Glasgow and then nationally/internationally) is not remotely comparable to...