Leaderboard

Seeing some of the people that have come out of Eton I think that's one of the last places on the planet I'd send my children to school even if I won the lottery 37 times in a row. Hard work in a normal school will get you a good education, academically and vitally, socially as well. Learning about the world and the people around you is more important for a child's education than GCSE results or whatever pompous and elitist alternative they may or may not provide at Eton, and that's coming from a secondary school teacher. I'd much rather have a dumb kid with values than a snob for a child with all of the pathways open to them to become the fattest cat in all the land. The thought of having offspring turn out like Rees-Mogg actually makes me sick, as I'm sure everyone can see by me making the same point four times in different ways about not wanting to send my kids to Eton.

You say this as if the UK hasn't always been multicultural. Welsh, Scottish, Irish, English, there was cultural issues for time immemoriam... Normans, Anglo-Saxons, Pictish, Caledonian, Cornish, Bretons, Celts, Romans, and so forth. Cultural clashes have existed long before different colours made it easy to identify. I garuantee you that if all the people non-indigenous to the Isles vanished one day, it wouldn't be long before all the nasty hatred reserved for 'Pakis' was redirected at something else, Catholics, Protestants, northerners, Irish, Scots, etc. Racism is just a funnel that people use to funnel the blame, hatred, and evil into; it's very easily redirected into something else. People like to believe that time and progress is linear, you say 'this day and age' as if we are meant to be more enlightened as a species than 500 years ago. Well we aren't, we just manifest our evil differently.

Don't know if we already have a general thread for this but here's Gordon Strachan comparing abusing a convicted sex offender to the abuse of black players

Yes. I watched the game and could not see it from the replay, so I thought he must have said something. but I read just know that he spat at him. The reaction of Havertz and the ref immidiately running to him with the red in his hand it makes absolutely sense with that piece of information. Ascacibar seemed out of control. I cannot imagine Havertz is the most provocative guy on the field either. Exept that that the effortless way he plays would be pretty exasperating.

Yeah - right when the ref was looking too. https://streamable.com/s6sm7

Probably my biggest disappointment with Stuttgart has been the downwards trend in their youth development. They used to be one of the best clubs in Germany in terms of talent recognition and nurture, who do they have in the team now from their youth ranks other than Gomez? Didavi? Baumgartl? That's it I think. Sad.

Fuck off.

It's a simplified version so Americans can understand it But no, there's no relation at all except that there have been drivers switching back and forth between the two series.

Welcome to the forum @Dreamer7

I promise he wasn't.

Hence Proved Maradona > Messi

https://streamable.com/dagu6 He sounds so distraught He was also very apologetic and called himself "careless" in an interview during Quali. Good lad.