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Yep, Mad Mitch will be spinning in his grave...

Thanks dune, but not necessary; I am perfectly comfortable with my children's academic achievements. My two eldest that have reached school age are straight A pupils (in the Austrian system - probably means A********** in England) because, thank god, my wife as a qualified teacher and myself as a qualified engineer managed to compensate and undo all the damage that the modern English school system wreaked at that time, but it was finally a major factor for returning here.

The terrace chant "you only sing when you're winning" might have been written for the German people during WW2.

This.

More explanation. You got the dogma brainwashing at home too.... I know the teachers are against it. It means they have to do some real work like, erm, teach, and just how great a job they've been doing at turning several generations of English kids into illiterate morons will be exposed.... Dont believe me if your conditioning really wont allow it. Just go and have a look at how Britain has PLUMMETED down the international tables for academice achievement in recent years..

Can someone explain why they think the away kit is OK and the home kit is crap ? They are the same, but inverted. I think they are both crap.

Well, thats a bunch of crap. My kids went to English schools from 2004 and 2008. I knew it was going wrong when my eldest told me he spent the afternoons watching Disney DVDs so the teacher could mark homework and the mornings classwork... Also not sure your example of the "success" of the modern system is a good one. One thing came through though, the modern system is very good at brainwashng kids with left-wing dogma...

I was suprised by this, but apparently its true. Those regiments expected to disappear completely are those with a high intake from the Commonwealth.

Umbro havent delivered them yet, they are on back-order like last year's away socks.

Yep, sod educating our kids properly, lets make sure they all leave school terminally stupid.

The Arctic convoy survivors are still awaiting recognition; they are more honoured in Murmansk than they are in London........

I dont get all the hand-wringing about their role. Nazi Germany invented the strategy in the first place, when the Luftwaffe flattened Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. He who lives by the sword and all that...

I support everything Gove is trying to do. I can see past the fact he is an irritating Sweatie. Hammond is on record that he views his job purely as managing his department and balancing the books, and that he does not identify with or have any sentimentality about the armed forces. He has made it clear that he couldnt care less about the regimental system. Pugwash's comments are spot on about the senority of PWRR, but the problem is they recruit quite a high proportion of their strength from the Commonwealth, and less from the UK itself. Hammond must be thinking the "wogs" can be sent back to where they came from....

You really have honed your trolling skills in recent times..

No better. How about swapping the home and away shorts ?

Not only did he help himself to a seat at the Bomber Command Memorial unveiling, despite all party leaders graciously giving it a miss so that veterans got as many seats as possible; then refusing to help out with the costs of the service from MoD funds (700grand, 5minutes less p*ssing around on the aircraft carrier project...). No, not only that. Then comes this, right before Armed Forces Day : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9366306/Battalions-with-foreign-bias-face-axe-in-Army-cuts.html No Argyl and Sutherland Highlanders or PWRR ? Might as well disband the Army now while half of it is still stuck in Afghanistan, you c**t.

Doing what, exactly ? If someone tells Pearce to include Beckham after telling him from the start it was his squad to choose, he should quit.

I "threw my toys out of the pram" about the kit based on the assumption that his feedback about it was correct, to which he bizarrely answered "you should make your own minds up when you see it ". Why on earth did he bother telling us about it then ? He posted in a rather annoying ITK way, I dont see what there is to be smug about.

Really dont understand the tacky logos on last years home kit and this years. I suspect the logo on the new away kit is equally as tacky, its just not visible on the white shirt. Last years away kit has a more sophisticated and tasteful logo. As someone has said, these kits look utterly rushed and lacking in thought.

Nothing against the handsome chap in the photo, but I hate it even more now. The sponsor logo looks cheap and tacky.

I'll think you'll find I did, sort of.

Would say The9s credibility is intact, to be fair. What a let-down.

Is the away kit Liverpool or Manyoo ?

The socks are f**king dire. We look like f**king Liverpool.

Utter sh*te. Not how I envisioned Southampton back in the PL after 7 years.