m_fenton

I was watching live, but on the phone throughout with with a friend watching on iPlayer. It varied a bit each match, but seemed to be about 90 seconds behind the TV. We got in the habit of having me pause as kick off was taken, then pressing play as kick off was taken on iPlayer. Just meant I heard the goals go in from my neighbour's shouts instead

Yeah I'm a fan, it's a fun parody. The song's clearly not going away, so a silly one-off version of it that acknowledges the women's success is good.

Your syllables are all over the place, but still a great haiku

Hurst, but they're all definitely iconic in their own ways. Platt means the least to me, but I can see how it would mean a ton to anyone who saw it live. Owen against Argentina probably means little to anyone too young to have seen it live, but to me was one of the most magical moments I can ever remember, as an 8 year old watching the 2nd ever tournament I can remember (can only remember the penalty miss from 96 anyway). Gazza I can't remember seeing live, but can remember it being all that anyone ever tried to pull of in the playground for years afterward. Beckham v Greece might be the most mental I've ever gone after a goal, to cap a career defining performance, except any games I've been in the stadium for. Hurst, for me, is the only one that transcends generations. Only SCR would have seen it live, but it's a part of all of our football history in a way that just feels bigger than the others.

Mentioned it in the countdown thread - watched on Monday. As essential for getting in the World Cup spirit as watching Love Actually is for Christmas (substitute Die Hard etc if that's your preference).

You see you? You're just a waste of space!

Watched Mike Basset in the week - now THAT was a proper World Cup.

I think that's the estimated figure since the World Cup was awarded to Qatar, but not all of them would have been building stadiums etc. It's still a horrifying number either way, and the attempt to cover up the true numbers is sickening.

Sounds like scoring from set pieces will be important again then, so that's a strength not a weakness.

They'll only retain an hour of it, so yes the rest will be deleted. Otherwise they'd be retaining more than an hour of it. A copy might exist with the royal family, but so far as the public are concerned it's deleted.

Aside from anything else, those events aren't just symbolic. They're public records of the changing of the Head of State, who still signs off on legislation etc. It's like the government ordering that recordings of Parliament get deleted, or vetoing what the public see from them.

Prepare for the Royal Decree to scrub your Sky boxes... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/25/uk-broadcasters-battle-monarchy-over-control-of-queens-memorial-footage

I expect every Sky presenter to have to queue through the turnstiles next match then instead of being given a fancy "press entrance" then. Perhaps war correspondents should have to enlist first as well? What a fuss over nothing.

Replay of a final, not the 3rd Qualifying Round.

Don't you put 100+ hours into a video game to enjoy playing a video game for 100+ hours?

Is there somewhere to line up while you wait for space in the queue?

My daughter (6) has been obsessed with Queen Victoria since learning about the Victorians last year. No such love for Liz though unfortunately, she couldn't go to watch a football match last Sunday which she was quite upset about, then her swimming lessons are cancelled for Monday. "WHAT'S THE QUEEN GOT TO DO WITH SWIMMING?!", in her own words.

Is that meant to be Ronaldo?

I would be absolutely bloody fuming - lost their minds.

We're all getting a day added on to our annual leave allowance here despite not being contractually obligated to, which is nice. Complete luck of the draw though, and I'm luck to be working for a smaller company where that's quite straightforward for a director to decide straight away.

If he was just someone who'd stolen a bit of money, or had a bit of an affair, or said a few nasty things, I'd agree. For him - deserves reminding every moment of his life, particularly when out in public. What's respectable about having a sex offender follow your coffin?

Is it about Liz? She won't notice. Is it about Charles and family? They won't notice either.

Personally, I'd find the "shut everything down to mourn" thing more understandable if she had died young and unexpectedly. A 96 year old woman peacefully passing hardly seems like reason to shut everything down. The rolling news headline last night was effectively "Son sad that his mum died", which is hardly news either. She was a cultural giant, an inspiration to many and, ignoring the stuff that suggests otherwise, by most accounts a lovely woman. Give her a big send off, clad the newsreaders in black etc, but life goes on as well.

And the Queen hasn't even been to Buckingham Palace for months.

“The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/66881-the-only-thing-known-to-go-faster-than-ordinary-light#:~:text=“The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light,pass to the heir instantaneously.