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Britain from the 1950s has gone, get used to it. No matter what we feel about that it's a fact. It's up to us to model it for the future and in my experience young people have no major issues in getting along as they focus on what they have in common, not what makes them different. It's sad middle aged types who can't cope and well, they're no loss really.

Your loss.

Partly due to the big MOD base I reckon. The Slovaks are next door, the kids English is as good as my nippers and the parents are great people who have made the UK their home. The Polish kids are a nice bunch as well, with their English without a trace of accent. The Nepalese is due to a Gurkha battalion based at Beacon Barracks. The Indians are kids of engineers based at Alstrom and are also good kids who my nipper spends a lot of time doing maths and IT with. It's giving them a balanced outlook in a way that isn't rammed down their throat.

That was your loss. My kids have friends that are Slovak, Polish, Nepalese, Indian, Romanian, Spanish and Cypriot. It has given them, even at a young age, an interest in other cultures, languages, religions and cuisines.

Depends. When I'm in Smethwick, around Victoria Park way and Rolfe St, as a white chap I really am the minority. In Victoria Primary school less that 10% is classed as white and that includes the Poles. In my classes over there I have only one white lass, the rest is a mix of the UN. What I find most interesting is how the 2nd generation Muslim women are becoming emancipated and reclaiming their future.

Surprising at times how the most educated appear the most ignorant and narrow minded.

Sorry, thought you meant Wembley.

The majority of that area is Sikh. If I'm honest, I'd sooner live close to an Asian area than I would a white council sink estate and I'm guessing most of the posters would.

There is but you are the former I'm afraid.

They are a mediocre small club wanting to play with the big boys and are, to be honest, a bit crap. No doubt they will spending Saturday rolling around pretending to be hurt whilst losing and afterwards blame the ref'.

Personally I just hope Arry gets sent down.

Everyone understands that family, work and money impinges on footy and it's no different for me, despite being a season ticket holder. However, it would appear that some are irked as their support has been found wanting due to them CBA to see us in L1 but will no doubt be flooding back if and when we get back to the top flight. Are those Saints fans who traveled the length and breadth of England whilst we were in L1 superior to the CBA wan kers? Yes. They know it and we know it.

The fault of all our political masters.

Not all members of the Labour party nor its supporters say we cannot leave the EU and it is disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

And equally strange that at the time of the last global crisis the tories said it was solely down to Labour's economic policy. Simple truth is is that the markets are dry butt fuc king us all.

There was nothing controversial in the OP, simply a question whether one charity would ultimately take the place on another or is there still a place for both. In no way does the OP degenerate the sacrifice made by any generation of HMF or the place that remembrance week has in the national psyche.

Perhaps all of us northern based Saints fans should just pay on the day? I'll be fu cked if I'm queuing up after the BHA game thus getting back to Staffordshire even later.

It would depend on whether they forgot to buy one or forgot to swap it from one suit lapel to another. Regardless, it's about freedom of choice, the very thing so many fought and died for.

I would suggest it does. H4H is about as high profile as it gets and is 365 charity, the RBL and the Poppy Appeal is a November charity in the eyes of the public. All of the fundraising I see being done for ex-HMF is for H4H. It's as if the populace equates H4H with "Now" and the Poppy Appeal with "Then".

Slight difference as the bubble means I have no choice. For Donny I do. It annoys me no end that those of us who live hours from SMS are made to jump through hoops.

Better be as I'll be fu cked if I'm paying a booking fee for a ticket I have to collect!

Apologies, but I don't give a shiny sh*t what you think but I accept your choice on language regarding "better" and "loyal".

Do I feel superior as a fan who had a season ticket when in League 1 to those who rock up to the "big" games? Fu ck yes. Am I bothered in the slightest that they weren't there? Fu ck no. Their loss.

What is noticeable is how many more places are now observing a 2minutes silence at 11.00 on 11/11. To me the poppy is WW1 and anybody who has explored the Somme and the old front lines through northern France and western Belgium will understand what I mean by that. The way that a few blood red flowers stand out against the deep green of the Flanders grass and strike a breathtaking contrast to the grey skies always brings tears to my eyes. No matter how many times I go, and I'll be exploring another part of Flanders in Feb', it always gets me. Remembrance Sunday is a day when I think of all those who have served and fallen. On our local memorial is the name of my friends son, KIA in Iraq aged 19. Last year was the 1st time I've worn my own campaign medals to the cenotaph. Felt quite odd, something old men do, but my wife said I ought to. Felt quite moved when total strangers shook my hand and said thanks and it was noticeable, to me, how many more people my age were wearing their medals, berets and colours. The RBL and H4H, both very dear to my heart and two sides of the same coin and both have their place and I fundraise for both.

They were doing nothing wrong and you think that nicking them for doing nothing is acceptable? I despise the EDL but the OB are out of order.