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Well it is Millwall, so he has a point... 😐

If that is really his car, maybe it is left hand drive. It doesn't look like a car that someone would have been extracted from the right hand seat as they would likely have cut the roof off for that.

With the current trend for teams playing out from the back, it would make a high press even more useful as it could limit the goalkeepers choices for distribution resulting in a rushed long kick or having the choice of giving it away or a corner.

I'd say people of faith receive more tolerance than anyone else! They are allowed to be as bigoted as they like as long as they can blame their religion for it. Of course the vast majority of religious people are not like that and, as ever, it's a small but vocal minority that tarnish the reputations for all. "Not trying to pick an argument" - Well that's not very Pink Un forum! 😁

That is a fair question. If we are talking about tolerance & acceptance, should we also be accepting and tolerant of their views? I'm not qualified to answer that. It's like freedom of speech though. The freedom to be able to say what you want, does not mean freedom from consequences.

Well yes I do. Not personally but my cousin is a gay female, ex-married with a child and since marrying her new wife, adopted another child. She is quite high up in the police. One of my ex colleagues who is now a close friend is also gay and had the usual struggles at school and also got married and had children before admitting who he really is and leaving for another man. He is now actually with another woman, but they have an "understanding". As for the rest of it - well yes, I did say my comments were "pie in the sky" and didn't suggest that it how things are, just how they should be. In an ideal world, everyone would be free to be what they want to be with no judgement from anyone else. I fear this will never happen though as there will always be a (hopefully shrinking) section of society that will not accept others choices. Religion doesn't help of course, and is often used as justification.

I watched my local club Finchampstead Town once and was the only fan. I only stayed for the 1st half as it started chucking it down and there is no cover, so you could argue that the attendance was 1/2 😄

That's a long way from what I was saying. My point is that it simply shouldn't matter. I wasn't suggesting that someone who comes out as gay is flaunting it - more that the constant press talking about it is putting pressure on any gay players to have to come out and say they are. It shouldn't matter if a player is a straight family man, a womaniser playing the field of models (ignoring that as a separate issue), a gay family man or an "over the top" cross dresser who does Ballroom and appears on Drag Race. All are just people. Why do the press care so much about what someone does away from football? It's easy to say some footballers are "flaunting" their straightness with "trophy" wives and multiple children, but there are also plenty of footballers with "normal" families and also plenty who we know little about. Do they have a partner male or female? Who knows? And as far as I'm concerned, who cares! Yes I'm talking "pie in the sky" and the public in general are not ready for it (the press are just a mirror to what the public want to read) as there are too many bigots and gammons who get angry about things that do not affect them, which, as you say, is the reason for gay pride marches, rainbow laces etc. just as we still have to have black pride. Also no, I shouldn't have bothered writing my first post, or replying with this one as I'm going to get torn to pieces again for being naive.

True, but also, why should they? I'm sure their colleagues know and they also know what the response would be from a big enough section of the "fans" to make life uncomfortable. But also (and I know this is a long way from the point) but straight players aren't expected to "come out" as straight, so why should gay players have to come out as gay? Surely, if everyone is treated as equal, it just shouldn't be a thing, and nobody should have to come out as anything. Yes, I know that's over-simplifying things.

As long as they get their act together for 19 Jan 😉

Or maybe he is just knackered after experiencing N.O.R.W.I.C.H. 🩲

While this is true, I think one of the reasons the NCFC season ticket sales have always been so strong is that it's the only way to guarantee a ticket for the top games. Once there are enough seats available so you only fill out for the very top games, then people start dropping the ST and go for casual tickets, picking the games they are most available for/interested in. So it is possible that increasing stadium capacity might actually result in lower demand and ultimately lower overall ticket sales, especially for the less interesting games.

Well Rooney might be available soon...

Which is where we are really missing Sargent. Whatever you think of his abilities. he is a proper nuisance to the defence so occupies markers and makes space for Sainz. Crnac might be able to do that but not when he is played as a winger rather than a centre forward (I've seen no evidence that he can actually fill that role yet).

I worked for Laurence Scott many years ago (30+ 😱). Those are workshops, not warehouses. They make very large electric motors & gearboxes. I used to run CNC milling machines and lathes in there. I would have been roughly where the "M" of "Electric Motor Shop" is on that image. REAGIT I think is an engineering training centre and is a related business. It's been on that site since 1883!