It wasn't really a lockdown complaint (though I am not averse to them!) - just a lament on the brevity of childhood. (View Post)

Well it sort of happens at the transition from primary to secondary, but I feel sad for the likes of her - the 'young-for-their-age' kids - who are used to spending breaktimes playing games… (View Post)

Off thread - I was speaking to an 11 year old girl yesterday - another player in my daughter's football team. She's a sweet kid - smiley and eager to please. "How's senior school … (View Post)

If only there was some middle ground between decriminalising theft from shops and shooting people for it. (View Post)

Every single other sport seems to make tech-assisted decision making work. Football resists it for years, then when it does introduce it, acts like it invented it, then makes an utter bollocks of it.… (View Post)