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Depends in what context you wish to view it I suppose. Could be an attack on Qatar’s human rights record….

I don’t consider it homophobic because it isn’t… unless you call the community you are referring to as queers which I don’t..

Something can be gay and queer and nothing to do with same sex relationships and intercourse . But hey ho. Also it winds people up easily as witnessed by your response. Although it wasn’t cross you considered it something that it wasn’t.

Anyway fuck Citeh, can I use cunts? Isn’t that technically an insult to women? Yet causally tossed around on this site.

Hypocrites the lot of you.

Chicago: Equal opportunity insulter.

In unrelated news. I have never Seen Matt Turner so happy!

Chicago: Amused.

PS: Hendo should have got MOM for many many reasons…

Did he drop his medal when he reached for it?

It’s not an insult to women. It’s using an old word for vagina that has taken on a degree of stigma or offensiveness. A lot of women find the word distasteful. But it’s not used as a direct insult to women.

Guru: etymologist

EXACTLY!!!!!!

Chicago: Making a point.

Have to confess to being a bit confused, but this article goes through lots of options and seems to suggest Chelsea winning Conference league çan give extra spot in Europa to league.

www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/44372662/how-premier-league-teams-qualify-champions-league-europe

What?

AoNZ had "cunt" read into Hansard this week in a typically atrocious display of pearl-clutching by our awful government.
Especially while banning some Maori MPs for doing that brilliant haka in parliament

Was the "some of my best friends...". response busy or something?

Sorry, but I really dislike the Palace fans. The drum, the matching t-shirts, the wannabe ultra songs and branding, the choirmaster “leaders” who face the crowd instead of the match, even a bit of stupid Poznan stuff at the end. Wankers.

We'll have to agree to disagree, Jim.

Every year in the National, there are unfancied horses who are out with the leading pack after three-quarters of the fences have been jumped. On almost every occasion, those horses are ultimately (and with no disgrace) overtaken in the home straight by the faster, stronger, better-financed ones.

This does not mean that they 'fucked up the Grand National', surely?

That's a really crap analogy.

Ok. I stand corrected. If Chelsea come in 6th and with the Conference, then a Europa League place goes to 7th. I think we’d have to beat Chelsea for that to happen?

We had injuries, our form dropped (like it did for other clubs at some point), other stronger teams have ended more positively. A more natural finishing position of 7th seems likely. You seem to think that because we were 3rd at the 3/4 mark, we should finish third? You’ve been given two analogies, running 1500m and a horse race. Both work. How about the unseeded player at Wimbledon who gets to the quarters? Or how about the almost-relegated team who, the next year, find themselves in the mixer with 8 games to go but eventually fade to finish a highly creditable 7th? All are situations where a unfancied outside has been in contention part way through the race but doesn’t place.

That you are angry and think we fucked it up shows naïveté, ignorance or blind optimism on your part. Or possibly all three.

Maybe, but this is elite-level football and the margins are fine. We're lucky to have a smart, tactically-astute coach who found a way this season to blend a side into one greater than the sum of its parts - which is exactly what every provincial club in the Premier League needs to do.

That took Forest a long, long way - much further than any of us had the right to expect. It's been brilliant to see Nuno out-thinking manager after manager and us bloodying the noses of the top sides on a regular basis.

When our first eleven is available and at full tilt, we're a match for anyone in this division - remarkable really after just three seasons at the level (and a near quarter-century away).

What we've seen over the past few weeks is the impact when a couple of our best players are out injured and others are being patched up and sent out onto the pitch at 70 per cent fit. We're not good enough or experienced enough yet (nor a deep enough squad) to be able to handle those circumstances - that's not a stick with which to beat them.

Ignore the analogy if you like, but I'm genuinely interested to hear you explain how these players have 'fucked up' (your words on numerous occasions recently) the Champions League.

I think frustration comes from 1 point from three home games against Everton, Brentford and Leicester. The equivalent would be if the last jumps for our outsider horse were smaller than for the rest of the field or our 1500 runner could run his last lap downhill.