Mr R Sewell

32 year old Assistant Principal of Student Development @UEAEdu lecturer on RSE. Governor. An @IpswichTown fan working in Norfolk. 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 My Views.

[Leicester City @LCFC]

A special welcome from Conor 🦊

[Ian White @ianwhite21]

THREAD: @LauraTrottMP and others have pointed out (following the Panorama episode) that the failings in underperforming schools deserve far more attention. What do those failings look like? I've spent 6 years out of 17 in the profession in those environments:

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Attendance: down
Young people's life satisfaction: down
Mental health problems: up

We often see people making hard claims about the role of schools and the education system in all this: that the curriculum or behaviour standards or multi-academy-trusts are driving these very real problems.

But does the data stack up?

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[Mr R Sewell @MrSewell5]

Boo hoo

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Following their World Cup final defeat to Spain, Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni walked out of his post-match press conference after becoming too emotional to carry on.

[Football Away Days @AwayDaysFB]

Simeone has committed FIVE fouls in the opening 40 minutes of the game and hasn't been carded. Elliot Anderson committed 1 foul and got carded..

Make it make sense 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Ipswich Town @IpswichTown]

Ipswich Town is excited to announce the signing of Brazilian striker Emersonn. ✍️

The 21-year-old joins from French Ligue 1 side Toulouse for an undisclosed fee and has signed a five-year contract at Portman Road, running to the summer of 2031.

[Liam Tharme @LiamTharmeCoach]

England, famously, have never had World Cups derailed by red cards to their best players

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump

[Mr R Sewell @MrSewell5]

Moron

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Trump on Balogun:

Balogun is our best player. He got a red card. I didn't know what that meant, but then I heard that it means you cannot play in the next game.

That's very unfair. How do you penalize him for a game that hasn't been played yet?

I asked for a review by FIFA.

[Mr R Sewell @MrSewell5]

Corrupt.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

USA-USA-USA 🦅

[Mr R Sewell @MrSewell5]

This is completely and utterly untrue.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Did you know that in Religious Eduction (RE) as a GCSE (compulsory in many schools in the U.K. especially Church of England schools!), when our 14-16 year olds have to learn the education materials for the RE GSCE, it’s 50% Christianity and 50% Islam. That’s bizarre enough as it is. Why is it 50% on Islam?

But what is even more telling, in the two exams, the one on Islam, is ALL on Islam. Then the other exam that is supposed to be on Christianity is split in two, with one half as a compare and contrast with Islam. So in the end, the students spend about 75% of their time learning about Islam for their GCSE RE!

They are also taught that Jihad means to struggle and does not mean to wage religious war.

[Falkland Islands @falklands_utd]

Argentina advance after a rare successful encounter with a small Atlantic island.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

So could England and you'd have the added bonuses of..

The oldest football nation on earth with fans able to walk up to stadiums rather than being located 20 miles outside of the city in a former swamp. Walking past houses, cafes, pubs where you can feel the energy build.

Enjoy that pint and a sing song in a real pub in a real housing estate next to the stadium rather than 12 different concessions that all sell burgers at a mall/airport stadium concession centre.

Pricing that demands ALL fans can realistically attend rather than a cock waving wanker telling everyone he paid a million dollars for his ticket.

Communities that live a breathe the game instead of pretending they know what they're talking about for a month every 4 years.

Stadiums that are built for the game, generate noise rather than spaceship sized Disneylands that generate zero football atmosphere.

A chance for supporters to visit any one of 100 professional clubs stadiums in one small country, many within a 10 mile radius, where 150 year old rivalries have played out. You'll end up buying the shirt of a shitty club in a random town you've never heard of and it'll hit like crack for the rest of your life.

A travel experience by car or rail that could see you get to any ground from any other in 4, not 14 hours.

An opportunity to have jellied eels before going into the London stadium, jerk chicken or jollof rice at Arsenal , world class Balti pies at Villa Park or homemade top class pies at Anfield by @HomebakedBakery then sitting on the world famous Kop or beautiful new Everton stadium for a game.

Let the American mind boggle as St James's Park sits squarely in the City centre of Newcastle, not 20 miles out.

Stay in London and visit 15 or 16 professional clubs in one city.

Visit the @NFM_Shop and understand 150 years of English football culture, footballs and shirts that are half the age of your country, the world's most fascinating collection of football history.

Not everyone wants bigger, more expensive or corporate. Most fans across the globe proudly campaign for affordable pricing so that EVERYONE can enjoy and be a part of this sport.

I'll invite you to Spain and Portugal and Morocco , as my guest, for the next edition. Football cultures that from Seville to Barcelona to Bilbao to Marrakech to Lisbon to Porto to Vigo highlight difference in cultures, regions, cities and football experiences. A 24/7 living and breathing passion for the sport that unless experienced, cannot be fully comprehended or appreciated.

If you like big, corporate, burger concessioned, greed driven pricing, sure, America wins.

But if you want your mind blown, you'll go to a World Cup in Italy, Spain, England, Germany, Brazil, Argentina. I guarantee, even in jest, you'll realise how naive your comments are.

[Mr R Sewell @MrSewell5]

No.

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

Best World Cup ever????

[Mr R Sewell @MrSewell5]

I’ll get back to you after my hydration break…

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

Best World Cup ever????

[Michael Lavelle @mikelavelle93]

Back in my day we had to keep our blazers on unless the teachers gave us permission to take them off. And if we were in a French lesson our teacher made us ask in French.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

I miss the old door.

[Mr R Sewell @MrSewell5]

Quite a bit of truth in this…

[Jeremy Vine & Daytime on 5 @JeremyVineOn5]

"We live in an era of instant gratification."

"When I was younger, people understood that they had to wait for good things."

📞 Arabella suggests Keir Starmer had unrealistic expectations foisted upon him by an electorate with no attention span.

@theJeremyVine | #JeremyVine

[Jeremy Vine & Daytime on 5 @JeremyVineOn5]

"We live in an era of instant gratification."

"When I was younger, people understood that they had to wait for good things."

📞 Arabella suggests Keir Starmer had unrealistic expectations foisted upon him by an electorate with no attention span.

@theJeremyVine | #JeremyVine