Listen Up.

It’s time for a regular feature to come back up on here, and that is a little reminder to those of you who don’t know that I, like virtually all scout leaders, am a volunteer that does this for free. I don’t get paid a thing, in actual fact I regularly end up out of pocket. I do everything in my own time (well ok, some time in my employers time as well, but what the boss doesn’t know wont hurt him!), I regularly end up taking annual leave to do what I do.

I don’t want that to sound like a complaint because it’s not. I love what I do and certainly wouldn’t put in the efforts that I do if I didn’t. Yet at the end of the day I do have a life away from this, of at least I pretend to anyway.

It is for this reason that I am finding the attitude of one or two parents of my Cubs annoying to the point of being offensive. I wont go into details, I don’t think it’s appropriate, but suffice to say that they need to understand that I am not at their beck and call 24 hours a day. They need to deal with the fact that sometimes you just have to wait. We try and instil in the kids a number of values, these include, as well as many others, courtesy, patients and self reliance. While they do very well I feel that a number of their parents could do with the same lesson.

Rant over.

So I went to see England V Russia last night and just wanted to add a few comments about the experience.

Firstly, England fans, please stop booing and jeering the other team's national anthem, it's not big, it's not clever and you just look stupid. Ok?

Secondly, it's not the first game the new Wembley has hosted, there have been plenty, so really I think there is no excuse for the dreadful service at the food points, the total monkeys they had on duty simply didn't have a clue.

Third, Wembley looks incredible at night! The way it is lit up makes it look quite incredible, a very good job has been done by all on that one!

Finally England fans please start finding your voices! 80000 of you should make a deafening din instead it was tame, not silent, but you would never have known that this was a must win competitive international, come on, enjoy yourselves and through yourselves into it. This is meant to be fun!!!