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Oh dear Alpine, you STILL don't get it do you? And for you to call any other fan sad takes the biscuit as the most negative poster once again in 2009. Never mind. "Clueless Scottish soak"??? LOL You are priceless Alpine. Sorry to hear that you have been unwell but good to see you back to your normal self again.

What difference does it make if he is gay or not? Isn't that the point. Do you feel the need to discuss your sexuality for tens of thousands of strangers?

So what? Why in nearly 2010 do we still feel the need to define people by what they do with the private parts? Or not as the case might be?

So why the thread then?

POt, kettle, black DD. I seem to remember you having several hobby horses on her which you flog to death. As ever, if you don't agree say why, if you don't like a thread find one you do! I think I make a valid point. As you keep telling us, isn't that what this place is about?

Why should it be assumed that people who are gay can't be "tough", play hard physical sports and do tough jobs?

I agree that it was a minority, just as it was a minority who were saying a few weeks back that it wasn't a question of if Pardew should be sacked, it was a matter of when. It just goes to show that no matter what anyone does at this club there will always be a faction of supporters who will take a negative viewpoint. For those hoping that this nonsense would disappear along with Lowe, it obvioulsy has not.

It just goes to show that there will never be a consensus on here about anyone or anything. If you cannot see the irony between the the two threads then so be it. Happy Christmas.

Its funny isn't it? Just the other day NC was getting stick for his spat with the Echo! Still, good luck to them both and to the club next year.

If they didn't think that they had a case against him they would have dropped it by now. But it is one thing to have a case and another to have enough evidence of a realistic conviction.

Are you sure it wasn't a waiter?

So we won the game! Simples

My children live in Spain and are due to be coming over to me for the Christmas hols and are flying (or might be) BA. Bah! In this day and age there are no reasons to strike. At the end of the day the company will lose even more money/business which will equate to more job losses. I work in the public sector and we have to save £500k a year for the next three years in our area. Over the whole country that equates to a 20% jobs cut. There will be no strike though and no inconvenience for the public. Sadly it is the way of the world. It is called reality in a tough financial climate. BA are in the cr*p financially which means it will be tougher for the staff - welcome to the real world! To take it out on the people who pay their wages at Christmas speaks volumes about what the cabin staff really think about the people they are suppose to serve. Well Duncan, you are a cabin staff shop steward aren't you? Wha do you have to say about this?

Is this the new window at Staplewood that all the fuss was about??

We have had too many sideshows that we don't need in the past and this is another. The only thing that matters is getting this club promoted, not petty spats between people who should know better.

Like it or not, it has given some really talented people the chance to have a career. Leona Lewis is very good and her cover of Snow Patrol's Run is far better than their version. Alexandrea Burke is a very good performer and Diane Vickers is now in a West End show. At least it has an end product which is more than can be said for I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. THis is far more deserving of scorn in my book. How many times can you watch a "has been" or "never was" eat bugs? Every year it seems for some! If it wasn't for Ant & Dec sending the whole thing us so well a la Wogan and Eurovision it would be the worse thing on TV.

Which goes to show that Pardew has come in and sorted out many of the problems that we had before (thanks in no small measure to the new investment). Rome wasn't built in a day but we are finally back on track and long may the revival continue.

The Sopranos - awesome as is Californication.

Duncan, you got your wish. Lowe went and we were relagated (again). Still not happy? The last time I was gutted if we scored less than 2 goals at home Cahoon was in his prome. We are now regulalry scoring 3 goals a game...what's wrong with this picture?

We are winning every week and we are scoring 3 goals a game at the moment. I would suggest that this is no bad thing and long may it continue. I don't want us playing like Brazil and getting nowhere. If we play ugly and get out of the 3rd division I will be more than happy. I seem to remember us playing some pretty football under JP with no end result. What would you rather have? Previous managers have been pilloried for not getting results every week. It now seems that even if you do that is not good enough for some. Even Alpine has given up posting so he must be in a straightjacket by now.

Newspapers may be dying in terms of sales but they currently still drive agendas and inform TV news programmes. It time they may well move to online subscritions but not for a while yet. When you are going to work it is still eassier to pick up a paer than log into and read the same amount of mews on an IT device. I spent 30 year working for The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and The Spectator. There is still something about newspapers and magazines that will never be replaced by the online media.

Like others I suspect that there is more to this tham meets the eye, but as long we we keep winning football matches I couldn't care less about the spat. Lowe took stick stick for his relationship with them though and it does make you wonder now if it was more them and less him...unless we have another LOwe on board in NC?

LOL you guys are too cool....It is just a bit of fun and some of these people are actually better than the so called "stars" (Joe outsung George Michael last night). It is just abit of entertainment on weekend TV. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Simples. There isn't much else on. Oh, yes and I do care. I though that Stacey was really funny and would love to have seen her win.

It is a real shame but it seems that some of our fans cannot handle the good run of form and seem to be waiting for us to lose again before they feel they have anything to say. I don't get it, after the last few years you would think they would be euphoric? Perhaps they are still pinning for Pearson??? And by the win, winning on penalities means that you have won the match otherwise what is the point of them???.