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Don't rub it in - I went with the football but should have stuck with the tennis! And I forgot about Wimbledon when I booked theatre tix months ago ...hoping to be home in time for the men's finals.

I’d never watched a football match in its entirety before this World Cup, and now I’ve watched three. It’s very stressful isn’t it? Also the commentators just sit around berating the players and saying how tired and out of it they all look which seems unnecessarily cruel as even when at 80% they’re still very good. Imagine if every musical had Mark Shenton’s voice over the top talking about how Elphaba hit the high notes better on Tuesday.

I. Bloody. Hate. Football.

I've gotta say, I don't know how unpopular "I hate football" is going to be as an opinion on a theatre board.

Not cricket?

I also hate the ignorant England fans who thought it was appropriate to damage NHS ambulances and run into Ikea, a Swedish furniture shop, and destroy the place.

Though strangely I know of no other sport in this country has a minority of fans that turn to criminal acts as a result of their team’s performance in a tournament.

Note also the recent violence at several horse race meetings.

I’m sure NFL and AFL fans probably get as drunk and lairy as football fans.

I’ll never forget a time I was on my way to Fulham on the District Line to meet some friends. Chelsea had just beaten Tottenham earlier that day. Although we were nowhere in the vicinity of either area, still there were Chelsea fans on the tube harassing various members of the public as if they were potential Tottenham fans that apparently deserved to be berated. The fans in question looked at least 50 years old and some were even women.

There really is just no need.

See all those people who like a march, as over the weekend with protests about Trump and then a couple of weeks ago about Brexit - What I never understand about these protests is why they think walking down a street somewhere holding a piss poor quality sign with a supposedly witty slogan will make any difference at all. Trump still came, we are still leaving the EU - nothing changed, you walked down a street and made no material difference in the slightest.

Think what those 200,000 or so people in London last week could actually do by working together in support of a campaign against racism and sexism. Think what could be achieved in terms of door knocking with a message, running an appropriate social media campaign, getting the electorate out to vote etc.

Actions speak louder than words and I always think they'll show up for a demonstration in the hope of getting on the telly or being a meme but if there is actual hard work to do in support of whatever the cause is then they'll disappear like snow off a dyke and leave it to someone else. 200,000 people actually working in a positive way on the remain campaign could have made the difference.

Marches need to be repeat events to have an impact. The idea is to generate headlines and convince MPs of the strength of public opinion - partly by grabbing hold of the news agenda and making it difficult for politicians to talk about anything else. It needs to be *every week* to do that - one-off events will simply blow over. The Trump baby blimp was a stroke of genius as it made for good pictures and grabbed front pages, but it was a one-off.

I am not sure how effective marches can be in the modern media age - it's too hard to dominate the news agenda in a pluralistic media age when everyone gets to tailor their feed to their taste, with the news cycle moving so fast, with very partisan press ownership dictating the agenda, and a frankly cowed BBC worried about upsetting the government and losing their funding. The problem is that the social media tactics that have been shown to work are, frankly, unethical.