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I'm not a big fan of the song, but I do get why it's popular and caught on. I could understand people not liking it if it was snarling, crowing, jingoistic etc, but it's the Lightening Seeds FFS!... :)

I think the song highlighting England's 'underferformance' is its' redeeming quality. It also conveys hope...''30 years of hurt, never stopped me dreaming''...the one thing that all football fans share from national to non-league level, that eternal hope that this time their team will do well...

jazzer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's coming along nicely home...:)

The parable of the Tortoise and the Hare springs to mind...

Frank Skinner on the Last Leg last night said that ''It's coming home'' was a reference to football originating in England. What he's actually referring to is the setting-up of modern-day football with an official Association and rules therein, which England was the first to do, not the invention of the game itself. A long time ago I read that claim went to China. I'm pretty sure I heard someone in the crowd at Wimbledon shout that tennis was coming home after Barty's win...:)

Don't they have copy editors at the Times?...:)

It's coming Back Home...

Congratulations Meds, no 3rd/4th play-off so can't be caught, they think it's all over... Seni-Finals points... Semi-Finals Leaderboard...

Too sexy for contextual analysis...

Will do, Mary...

Semi-Finals fixtures... Tuesday 6th July Italy v Spain Wednesday 7th July England v Denmark

Apparently we'll be the only county in the world pressing ahead with such a strategy that is effectively Vaccines v Covid. No halfway house, no minimising risks, just hope that the vaccine wall holds back Covid...

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > However nothing will be true if the next variant > gets through anti bodies / vaccinations then we > will be back at the start of the pandemic again The Gov is basically gambling that a more severe variant the vaccines can't cope with doesn't emerge. If we had a Gov that had a track record of dealing with previous new severe variants quickly and soundly, then I could give them a bit of leeway with such a strategy, but we don't. They were slow to react to both the Kent and Delta variants, the former with terrible consequences, while we've yet to see the full consequences of their inertia over Delta. I don't understand why there's this ideological obsession with relaxing all restrictions on the 19th while there's still a sizeable percentage of the population that is unvaccinated and the Delta variant is clearly on the rise. The public were overwhelmingly behind the lockdowns despite what Tory backbenchers would have you believe, and I'm sure an equally large majority would support retaining some restrictions such as mandatory wearing of masks on public transport, in shops etc...

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Yep, it does feel like the Gov is pinning everything on the vaccine and everything can go back to normal after the 19th. People seem to be forgetting that the vaccine isn't a cure, merely reduces the severity i.e. hospitalisation/death, and that people can still catch it, pass it on, and some will be very poorly. Personally I'll continue to wear a mask if I feel the situation warrants it...

Quarter-Finals fixtures... Friday 2nd July Switzerland v Spain Belgium v Italy Saturday 3rd July Czech Republic v Denmark Ukraine v England

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Well, the Mirror seems to have grown up in the intervening years... NB. Piers Morgan was the editor at the time and later apologised on TV...

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...the more visceral English/Britsh bashing which I see more of these days... Post-referendum perchance?...

Poor bloke, he spent his Christmas on a Covid ward doing his 'dayjob' while those scumbags were probably sat at home stuffing themselves. I've just seen a video of a crowd (presuming from the weekend protest) chanting 'traitor' outside his house. Police need to get involved, his safety is clearly at risk...

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Reminds me of the Germans singing their version of > it after winning Euro96 at Wembley. Not sure what > the German version translated as. I can only remember them singing the chorus...in perfect English :)

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would venture that it?s less of a maths/science > grasp thing and more of a mindset thing. > Sometimes the maths is simple, but some people > just don?t care about the maths or facts - they > want to believe what they believe. You now see this a lot in politics and journalism too, especially with the contrarianism of the spikedonline crowd which has crept into the mainstream. Instead of working their way towards a conclusion, they start of with a conclusion in keeping with their mindset and work backwards. Gove's ''we don't need experts'' comment has a lot to answer for...

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