Ian - Old Testament, innit. Judaism. The clever thing with Christianity - of St. Paul, really - was to take elements from the Jews with their single, special god (at a time when other religions had zillions of gods) but make it more consumer-friendly. Like being able to eat pig and allowing males to have an intact penis.

Kentish not sure about that. I desperately covet my neighbour's oxen.

Don S - let's see how long that lasts...

Like I say, Islam is essentially an instruction manual from Allah ghostwritten by Muhammad. If you don't follow the rules - forsaking pork & booze & buggery, praying five times a day 'n' shit - you don't get your ticket to paradise.

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There’s still the chance that the players might reject call ups and refuse to go. Taking the knee is ongoing because it needs to keep being said therefore this must be a perfect opportunity to say they’re not going and take a stand against discrimination.

God changed his mind about the blacks and the gays. Allah seems a little stubborn.

Totes. Islam is a code of life handed down from Allah via Muhammad, and buggery is a sin.

All these social justice warriors conveniently ignore Islam (and other Religions) when campaigning for equality. They're too busy scrolling through 15 year old Tweets looking for Homophobic jokes rather than targeting people and countries who openly hate Homosexuality and women

MAD, you have a point, though I'd make a distinction between the football 'community' (which presumably includes the entire UK football pyramid and more), and the football institution - FIFA, the FA etc.

Yea I agree with that tbf. “It’s a chance to educate them” is fucking bullshit.

That’s what pisses me off with hypocrisy of it Wazza: if the football community actually gave a fuck the World Cup wouldn’t be in an Islamic state. All the campaigns are virtue signalling nonsense when the team, the FA, it’s lickadoos will all be in Qatar.

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MAD-There have been a lot of angry outcry over it, to the point where Blatter said "just don't hold hands", and Southgate has been discussing it with the team this year. Bit much to call for people to go over there and demonstrate though when they called face Sharia courts.

Timmy, I don’t recall the lgbtqbaq suggesting a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar where a religious state imprisons homosexuals? Maybe I missed it and look forward to demonstrations there in December.

Timmy, behavior like that would suggest to me that he's a closet Gueye.

MAD, it’s an interesting one, isn’t it. Goes without saying you should be tolerant to all gay, straight, black, white etc, but when you’re promoting different faiths one week that generally aren’t so accepting (homosexuality banned in Senegal for example) to things like rainbow laces you’re kind of in a bit of a weird place.

Cosgrove to Elgin City is probably more likely.

Lurks - yes Cosgrove to Brum :-)

Russ he might have been waiting to see what happens with the manager. Players who’ve moved around and been around a while will probably have people they’d rather not work with or don’t have a great relationship with, or people they don’t know enough about. Would make sense in his position to not sign until knows the picture here.

So has anyone of our superstar players that’s been chased by big name clubs for ages announced their move to them yet?

Pinnock was more proof we’ve been shopping in the L2 and National League bucket last few years. Left us and played level below since.

Interesting link Timmy. Looks like the player involved would argue this morning that islamaphobia is alive and well in football.

It looks like we will be seeing Mitch Pinnock at plough lane next season.

I don't know how the hell a team like Rangers managed to get to a European final. It's a shame West Ham didn't get past Frankfurt in the semis, because they would probably have made mincemeat of them.