Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
ENGLAND WERE KNOCKED out of the World Cup last night.
The team were beaten 2-1 by Croatia after extra-time despite taking an early lead in the game.
Reaching the second-last stage was the team’s best performance in football’s biggest competition for 28 years but English fans remain disappointed today.
So what have the papers made of it all?
In years gone by, English papers have often been quick to find a villain when England exit a tournament and have been seen as more of a hindrance than a help to the team’s chances.
But this year the tone around the team has been more positive and that has extended to today’s headlines.
Such as in The Mirror
Both The Guardian and The Times referenced Baddiel and Skinner
Manager Gareth Southgate and his waistcoat were front and centre in the Daily Express
Metro might have won the best pun award for its effort
The Daily Telegraph gave the team pride of place above Trump
The Daily Mail claimed the team had ‘brought the whole nation together’. There were a lot of similar sentiments in these Brexity times
The Telegraph’s celebrated cartoonist Matt Pritchett was on the ball with the Brexit comparisons
And of the course there were the ‘what might have been’ angles. Sunday Times executive editor Ben Preston tweeted a picture of what would have been the cover of a special supplement had England reached the final this weekend.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Helen mc enree & a very sensible positive idea in the same sentence? Is it April 1sr already?
@Mary Linton: You would think if a pilot kept on crashing planes, they’d be sacked, but the same ineptitude is fine in politics, apparently!
@Mary Linton: I know right? I thought DOGE were cutting all this.
@Louis Jacob: Apologies, lost me there….. isn’t DOGE an American financial accountability department?
@Mary Linton: you’re a bore
Seems reasonable.
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: you obviously don’t havw school going children . These children need massive supports some are non verbal some very verbal so putting in a student. Teacher is like letting a trainee electrician loose to rewire a hole house . No experience .
@Karen Marten: if alternative is no teacher, then put the kids first. Cop on.
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: you have no cop on how would you .
@Karen Marten: are u a parent. I doubt it you know nothing.
@Karen Marten: I don’t think theyre asking the trainee teachers to run the school either. The point is to train teachers withing the special school setting. Can’t see any issue with this.
@Mindful Muinteoir: When I taught deaf and special needs children trainee teachers would spend time in the classroom with us. This showed them how we sometimes have to adapt our teaching to include all children equally. It also gave them an insight into what being a SEN teacher requires should they wish to go down that path.
@Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: So you don’t believe that children with special needs deserve to have teachers who are specifically trained to teach these children and to meet their needs? Shameful!!
@Mindful Muinteoir: Wow, how about they get primary school teachers to start lecturing in third level institutions? And don’t tell me that’s not the same thing, it is.
@Ann Reddin: Steady up. It’s placement as part of their studies and they would be supervised by qualified teachers at all times. Experience is the best way to learn anything. This is a positive step
Anything Master minded by this silly woman, is bound to be a disaster!
@Brian Hunt: Play the ball Brian.
It’s a great idea.
They’re already doing it so makes sense.
Any measure that will address the early intervention for those with Special Needs in schools must be welcomed
Great idea, but unions won’t allow it as they’ll put teachers first as usual.
@Allo Allo: unfair.
@Allo Allo: you obviously did’nt bother to read the article. The INTO came up with this idea first, you gobdaw.
‘Something something… teachers bad’ and so on
@Allo Allo: how is it a great idea these trainee teachers can barely teach mainstream kids my child is in 6th class a crucial year a a newly grad teacher was put to them be more suited with junior or senior infants. So how is it a good idea to do the same with special need kids. No no plenty of years of experience is needed for that type of teaching
And where are these people being forced into these positions going to live?
Pay them properly so they decide to stay in Ireland and after turning the masters in education into a cash cow students spend €10000 to qualify
I agree with this. I only said something similar a few weeks ago. Main stream teachers just think 1 way and that’s all kids are the same when that’s not the case. I’ve seen it so many times and it’s annoying.
@darren guthrie: absolute nonsense statement
have your say