Weirdly I'm lined up to host two Danish students next semester and two Texans over the summer, all without Erasmus. The EU were rather juvenile over Erasmus and I understand why we didn't c… (View Post)

Once saw him cut a wide one at Southampton so hard that I heard the ball hitting the boundary wall before I saw it. Legend of a player. (View Post)

Bath more than Salisbury, except for Russians, of course. (View Post)

Interesting discussion about Heysel and Hillsborough: https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17430437.2015.1079011 "At the Heysel Stadium in Brussels in 1985, 39 Juventus supporters were kille… (View Post)

I would add - the culture of football hooliganism was the main cause of the disaster. No need for fences to control hooligans = no one dying at Hillsborough. People don't like it but many of the… (View Post)