Lighthouse

I'd forgotten about that one. Just looked at the team we played that night; Davis, Chambers, Yoshi, Hooiveld, Fox, Davis, Cork, Gaston, Reed, Lee J Rod. I think it's fair to say we gained a bit of depth since then.

Our last win up there, that's our overall form. A bit confusing, point taken. Our visits to Sunderland since then. 06/07 - 1-1 Playoff season, in which Sunderland went on to win the Championship. Bale gets a last minute equaliser. 12/13 - 1-1 Puncheon gets a late equaliser to secure our safety in the Premier League. 13/14 - 2-2 Saints throw away a 2-0 lead earned by J Rod and Lovren 13/14 - 1-0 Cup defeat. Saints are terrible. 14/15 - 2-1 defeat. Having not conceded a pen all season, we let in 2. JWP is sent off.

I'm not sure this is what Sir Tim Berners-Lee had in mind.

That lasted all of 3 minutes. Personally I never held up any hope of Villa doing us a favour. They are sh*te and likely to get battered.

The 8-0 aside, they really are a bogey team for us. A couple of years ago they lost 7 of their first 8 games and in the other came within 2 minutes of winning at St Mary's. Our last win up there was January 2003, Beattie scored in a 1-0. Since then, 1W 4D 3L in the League and a cup defeat. Romeu in for Victor is the only change for me.

Sunderland have been terrible, even under BFS they were awful against Everton and Newcastle. Having said that, it's going to be a tough game and we never win up there. Victor suspended, I'd guess Romeu comes straight in along side Clasie.

Wouldn't say that was particularly true and I live in Crawley and go out drinking with a lot of cabin crew. In fact I can only think of 1 gay bar here. My impression is that a lot of the older guys with a bit more money tend to live in Brighton, whilst many of the younger guys live closer to Gatwick where it's cheaper and easier to get to work. However, even the ones who don't live there like going to Brighton for the 'gay scene' and the pride events etc. I'd say more than anything it's just a place to meet like minded people and nothing more sinister.

And Watford, although no two games are ever the same.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34687139 ISIS affiliates in Sinai claim responsibility.

Probably a good thing given what he spent the rest of the money on.

Two points: 1. There are no doubt plenty which weren't reported but there were also plenty recorded which may have been false, so you would have to take both into account. 2. I just did a quick search for the demographics of gay people in the UK, which came up with 3.6m, roughly 6%, which seems reasonable. 6,000 'hate crimes' against 3.6m people is pretty much 1 in 600 people or less than 0.2% of the gay population. Hardly endemic of homophobia.

We've been through this, the stadium is big enough already.

Lol

We're 3-0 up against Tranmere on my stream.

Good shout, I'd forgotten that until you reminded me, pulled off a proper Banks/Pele for one of them.

No more hassle than any straight player and the associated tabloid gossip about which page 3 girl he is sleeping with. After a couple of days of 'OMG player X is gay', there is nothing really to report disproportional to any straight player. I'm sure Heat magazine would be fascinated to know who his boyfriend is but no more so than if it was some female model, singer, actress etc. I really don't think there is anything out there worth living a life of denial and sexual isolation over. Is it really worth wasting your life with a woman you don't love and can't satisfy in bed because your scared of a couple of idiots yelling, "oi pufta!" at a football game?

Bart saved one in the 6-0 at Molly, which might be the only pen he faced for us but I'm not sure on that.

The was an episode of South Park where they satirised a similar situation and had the word 'fag' changed in the dictionary from a homosexual to a douche bag on a motorbike. I think a lot of people just say gay out of habit from when they were at school. If someone says, "my car is being gay it won't start!" they aren't aiming any abuse at homosexuals but somehow that word has taken on a new meaning. It has become insulting without actually referring to someone's sexuality, a bit like fag. It would be good if people didn't use it like that and I personally don't but I think gay people need to recognise that in this context, 'gay' isn't referring to them.

I'm going to echo both of your comments. The last time I can remember something along those lines, aside from an EDL rally or Abu Qatada speech, was probably the Cup game against Pompey in 2005. The sound effects mic picked up some idiot making a monkey noise at Linvoy Primus, for which he was unanimously slated by other fans and the media. Yeah the press will find isolated cases and make them out to be a massive issue but that's what they do. Take isolated incidents are report them as being indicative of society. Nobody reported the couple of thousand Chelsea fans who went to Paris, had a couple of pints of French lager with their black, white and Asian Parisian counterparts and had a friendly chat about Zlatan's nose. I honestly can't remember the last time I witness an incident in person where I felt sorry for someone because of their skin, gender or sexuality. Most people Ive met either don't make an issue of it or just make light of it.

I think it will be 'significant' for a couple of days. You know what they say; today's news - tomorrows chip wrapper. It will be news, in the media sense, whilst most readers and viewers wont actually give much of a sh*t. Then Wenger will say something about Mourinho or Utd will be linked to Messi or Karsten Janker will finally open that petting zoo with Rudi Skacel and the media will quickly move on to the next 'significant' story.

Sorry, I thought you were talking about the Mourinho/Hazard incident. If you just mean people singing "get your tits out" etc. then yeah I agree people need to stop. It's immature and something a 15 year old would probably be pleased with but is it any worse than calling the ref a w anchor? On the other hand, I can't imagine fans signing, "get your c*ck out for the lads," at a gay player, so it's a different situation really.

In what way are homosexual children educated differently to straight children? I can confirm I have experienced a stranger shouting something unpleasant at me at some point in my life. I can't imagine living a life of denial and sexual isolation was in some way better. I'm not sure how Eva is really relevant to this. She fell out with that tool Mourinho and left the club. As far as I'm aware the club weren't bullying her for being a woman and the majority of people are on her side.

There are always going to be a few kn*bbers in a group of 30,000 people. If you get upset by half a dosen people making offensive remarks about something in a crowd that size, I would suggest you need thicker skin. A couple of idiots in row 15 yelling "poofta!" isn't going to hurt anyone and they will soon get chucked out and banned.

The thing is with Brighton fans it's not actually their sexuality. Brighton does have quite a big gay scene, which I'd imagine stems largely from cabin crew at Gatwick, however the football fans are probably no different from any other fans demographic. I think if it came to an actual gay player, hardly anyone would say anything. Why, because there is no humour in suggesting an openly gay person is gay. The only path beyond that leads into a world of hatred and abuse which 99% of fans would not go down. From your username I'm guessing you went to a fair few games in the 70s but fans just aren't like that any more. We don't need fans caged in with metal fences, you don't get the sh*t kicked out of you at Millwall or West Ham. Nobody is throwing bananas at John Barnes and people don't hate gays.