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Having us as the second biggest derby in England is just complete nonsense. It would be interesting to know how they worked that out.

My point was that it casts money, takes time and is pointless. As they have ruled out any appeal meaning grades go down I expect they will get swamped so you can expect ‘what the government wants’ to be nowhere near what is achieved.

You are just making stuff up, I think we should have locked down earlier and harder, that probably would have meant we came out much quicker meaning less of a hit to the economy. As for exams, as soon as they decided not to sit and grades would be estimated there was obviously going to be grade inflation. I would have expected teachers to estimate and there be some sort of dialogue between the results people and the schools to end up with some reasonable grades based on the individuals performances.

The government is picking up the tab for the appeals that doesn’t mean they are free, it means the tax payer pays instead if the school. The main issue at the moment with grades is getting a place at Uni, no student should be denied a place just because of some algorithm. These kids have had their education cut short and are being chucked out into the work market during the deepest recession ever. Surely if they can’t sit exams and prove themselves they should be given the benefit of doubt with some positive grades?

Everyone knows that this year is a freak year and whatever grades they have been awarded may be wrong so I don’t see the issue. It’s not rocket science as an employer to look at their grades and allow for a bit of exaggeration. Anyway as a student trying to get into uni you are only really competing against people in the same year and there tends to be grade inflation every year anyway. My point about the straight A’s is just to illustrate how flawed and unfair the system is, there will be people in different situations who haven’t done mocks or who didn’t take them seriously. Also student like that now have to go through a pointless, lengthy and expensive appeals process at a time when they should just be sorting their place at uni.

Another shambles from the government, obviously the only acceptable solution once they binned the exams was to accept the teachers predictions and the obvious grade inflation. It’s a freak situation, who gives a shit if the grades are a bit higher than usual. Some of the examples on the radio today were laughable, students predicted As and got As in their mocks, downgraded to Bs and Cs.

It was the explaining the obvious claxon actually, not surprised you misunderstood.

The players were not making a political statement, just anti racism. I thought their statement(s) made that pretty clear.

They've had 6 months to plan for the start of the next school year.

Think it was only planned to last until the end of last season so no need to wet your pants.

Still fucking awful.

If France already take more than us then they are not going to spend a fortune trying to stop them coming over here. Especially if they are coming from fucked up war-zones we helped create.

What would be the point of putting them in a cruise liner, they wouldn’t be any less of our problem, apart from costing us more money?

The fact that they went through a similar thing with Sars probably means they know what they are doing with regards to face masks don’t you think? if fiddling with face masks cases it to spread how come their cases are so low?

The don’t touch your face advice is so you don’t get the virus in your nose, mouth or eyes, touching the skin on your face would not be a problem. You could fiddle with your mask all day long and not touch your mouth, nose or eyes. When you wear a face mask (even a poorly fitted shit one) you can’t bite your nails, pick your nose or touch your lips. The fact that Korea and Japan, where mask wearing is the norm, have faired so well makes it the obvious thing to do.

That’s a hell of a gamble, I assumed Tindall would go with Howe where ever he goes next. Smacks of a caretaker type appointment, sort of makes sense as time is so tight in between seasons.

I think for many of them it’s a language thing, English tends to be a more common second language than French so they probably feel safer and more optimistic about starting a new life where they can communicate. We obviously need to stop people trying to cross the channel in rubber dinghies but I don’t have a big issue with these guys being here. Asylum seekers or economic migrants, whatever you want to call them they have to be pretty desperate to risk their lives crossing in one of those things. If they have managed to get here from Iraq they are showing more get up and go than the average waster in the UK, good luck to them.

Do you actually know anyone who makes medical decisions based on what ex pro footballers say or are you just making it up?

I dunno, they would be in a much better position if they didn’t have 8 players out of contract. They are going to have to sign 8 new players on contracts under the new rules.

Ask Farage - his poster had the big queue of asian/middle eastern looking asylum seekers on it.

I just thought it was ironic considering the all the hype over illegal immigration from the Brexit lot prior to the vote. It would be interesting to see the reasons why it has gone up so much since we have left. Obviously might be nothing to do with wether we are in the EU or not but maybe it's now more in the interests of France to have them come over so they are no longer an EU problem?

Does being in or out of the EU effect how many boats we can stop crossing the channel?

Who gies a sh!t about his opinion on vaccines? He's a legend because of how well he kicked a football around a pitch, he's no less of a legend because he has different opinion to me about vaccines.

So after leaving the EU migrants coming over from France in boats has massively increased. Taking back control.

Not really, I had no idea what it was about. Twitter is different, you actually have to follow people to read their tweets. If you don't like what people say, don't follow them is my advice.