Winnersaint

Or Dixon and Speedie’s come to that

Clearly hasn’t got them onside with him. Luggy all over again

Family first today. I'm going to watch it in the warm but my daughter is going for her first Saints match. She was contacted at work by a friend of hers who had a spare ticket. She's been badgering me to go for ages. She asked me if I minded! Let's hope it lives it up to expectations and she brings them luck!

Student Union Bar at what was then Worcester College of Higher Education

Nostalgia time. Very much part of my teenage years. Saw them in Nov 72 in Bournemouth at start of their UK Trilogy tour. First ever proper live gig. Saw loads of that sort of stuff mainly in Bournemouth as was over that side of the Forest. Genesis, twice Selling England by the Pound and Lamb tours, Yes, as well as some of the more 'industrial stuff' like Purple, Free, Uriah Heep, Hawkwind etc. Happy times. Apart from seeing Ultravox at the Mayflower (or was it still The Gaumont then?) sometime in the 80's I've not been to a live concert since, but I reckoned I ended on a high with Led Zeppelin at Earl's Court in 75. Most of that stuff just feels very dated now.

Being asked by a kid at school if I remember teaching their mum/dad and then being told mum or dad's name and having no idea who the f*** they were.

F**k that, if it wasn't for the private schools of north Hampshire, Berkshire and south west Surrey I'd have no tutoring business

Not sure sure they are. Play some decent stuff. Reckon Villa, Newcastle, Sheffield Utd, Brighton, Burnley and dare I say Palace will be in for longer and harder seasons than them.

As some have pointed out he was MIA in the 70s. Always thought he was a boring, overrated cricketer, a pompous opinionated commentator and pundit and ill deserving of the 'hero' status that many give him. In my mind, take that away what is left that deserves a knighthood?

Mine too. First full international was England v USSR at Wembley in 67, 2 - 2 draw. Another winger ran that show, Igor Chislenko.

Salah! Almost Moussa’s standard there. Arse being ripped a new one.

Suggestions that this might just be a parody account!

https://sport.bt.com/the-script/the-script-of-the-201920-season-google-opta-and-squawka-predict-premier-league-champions-league-and-europa-league-outcomes-S11364380558801 Got this in an email from BT a couple of days ago. If the season starts like the computer has predicted it's going to be a hoot on here!

No sense of being a patronising git in this response then!

Shouldn't this thread be retitled Boris Johnson and the death of the Tory Party?

Overreaction by the Tory cnt, overreaction by the media.

No just a c*nt

Nash he’s just a c*nt

Ah well let's all give up. No ****ing point to it anymore. After all as fans we're entitled to a rich owner, aren't we?

Got to love the foaming hate of the anti-cycling brigade.

The Daily Heil always fails to process this. “Road tax” based on emissions, unless I fart on a ride I’m not contributing to climate change. Does that bellend Always.SFC have similar issues with golfers wearing golf stuff, park footballers playing in footie kit, or Judo players doing Brian Jacks impersonations? BTW I Also have third party insurance, another Heil misconception. Oh and B o l l o c k s to Brexit

Great stuff

Either turn your predictive text off or learn how to spell the chairman's name. As I'm sure you're aware Goa is in India!

Here's another thing that the top few % use to their advantage, the education system. Around 7% of children are privately educated, rising to around 15% post 16. Now you might not have an issue with that in itself but a closer look reveals a fundamental difference in the exam systems available in both sectors. It's all to do with the performance league tables which are the blight of the state system and occurs at both GCSE and A Level. A Levels and GCSE's were reformed in between 2102 and 2014 at the behest of the then Education Secretary Michael Gove. The idea was to 'raise standards' increase rigour and eliminate what the government saw as the 'cheaters charter' afforded by coursework. Come 2016 and students in state schools began studying these new and very much more demanding specifications. As ever there was loophole iGCSEs and CIE (Cambridge International Examinations) A Levels. The purpose of iGCSEs and CIE A Levels was to offer a UK accredited qualification for students in International Schools and those studying in parts of Africa, the Caribbean and Indian sub-continent. Trouble is these have been taken to offer an easier route through exams at 16 and 18 than Gove's new super exams and were widely taken up by fee paying schools. For a while some state schools adopted them as well. However now they are no longer accredited as a bone-fide GCSE qualification.............................For state schools that is, as they no longer count towards a school's performance targets! As a result state schools offering these dropped them. Meanwhile the fee paying sector are free to continue to offer iGCSEs and CIE A Levels as their system of accountability does not involve performance targets in the same way. In essence most privately educated children have an easier route through exams than those in the state sector, where this really becomes important is at A Level which in turn impacts on university entry. I am a self employed private tutor and have worked with young people in CIE, iGCSE, AQA, OCR, Edexcel geography courses, so am well placed to see the differences. Here are a couple of examples. The first is from a recent iGCSE paper and is worth 7 marks, the highest tariff question candidates need to answer. The main difference is in the command word. Describe in the iGCSE question and 'to what extent' in the AQA one. They require one to simply regurgitate what they know while the other has to engage in a written discursive argument The second is from AQA GCSE 1-9 Paper 2 sat in June last year and is the highest tariff question on the urban section of the paper. This is worth 9 marks. Most urban areas experience traffic problems. For an urban area you have studied, describe the strategies which have been used to reduce traffic congestion. Name of urban area ...................................................... To what extent has urban change created environmental challenges in a UK city you have studied. So which one do people think is harder, and is the system of accountability in education fair? One rule for those with money and the rest can go hang!!

Quite a bit I expect.