World Cup: QF: Sweden vs. England, 7/7/2018

[Eisen]

From passing though, it's not pleasant, but not conspicuously worse than other London satellite-type towns.

You may or may not have heard about the notorious poem by future poet laureate John Betjeman called Slough that includes the line, 'Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!'

Betjeman apparently wrote it more as a generalised objection to industrialisation than as a jibe against the place itself, but it stung the locals, and not long after its 1937 publication world events made the line seem a mite tactless.

It isn't fit for humans now. Yup, I heard, that instructor taught us that one.

 

[canuckster19]

I presume the Swedish fans were too polite to retort, 'You're decent, but our women wouldn't touch you swaggering wankers with two bargepoles, and they'd never want to live in a ****hole like Birmingham or Stoke.'

Not like Malmo or Northwest Stockholm are any better.

 

[al secord]

Has it come home yet?