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7. If we hadn't gone and lost to Villa on the last day of the season, Forest would be automatically promoted by now

These spots are looking more and more settled as well now, who do you want to come up with us and WBA? I'm going to say Swansea, just because I want a nice violent Welsh derby final and that means I have to pick my least disliked Welsh club to come up.

Three years ago I vommed on their statue of Robin Hood while my mate pissed in Maid Marion's cupped hands. I consider that means the moral victory has already been won, no matter what the result.

That was by far and away the greatest thing I've ever seen at St James. I spent half the match giggling about it. Brilliant. It was superb, yeah. Aye! It was a bloody massacre of unarmed monks and that y'knaa

Having a go at us for "big club" syndrome, from a team that sing "1-0 to the famous team" in spite of most people under 30 probably wondering if they're who Sol Cambell played for before he went back to Arsenal.

Forest's absolute hatred of being called Notts Forest is what they're most famous for at the moment, I assumed the thread title was a deliberate dig.

Sunderland aren't doing either well enough or comically shit enough to be bothered about. If they were challenging for Europe I might be pissed off, if they were scrapping in the bottom 4 I'd be praying for them to fuck up, if they were doing their regular struggle to get into double figures by Christmas I'd have a dig, but kicking around the middle of the bottom half of the prem when we're not even competing with them this season, who gives a fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC2Ady-WfMA

If I remember, the Nottingham mines were newer and much more pleasant to work in, ie you weren't working hunched on your hands and knees with your head pressed against the roof in the pitch black non-stop, the ventilation was better so they weren't all hacking up black shit all the time and the heat wasn't quite as unbearable. The more modern machinery and the fact the coal had been tapped more recently also meant they were turning a profit, so they believed that their mine was probably safe anyway. When they kept working they became darlings of the press and the government, who loved wheeling them out at any opportunity to (as the other miners saw it) slag off their own. The adjacent Yorkshire mines were the ones tasked with the flying pickets on Nottingham, so both teams there still get fucking dogs abuse off Leeds as well. The Sheffield teams and Tranmere also famously bear a grudge about it.

Did you used to animate Doug on Nickelodeon in the 90s?

http://www.fantastic-telecom.com/ Seem to have appeared out of nowhere, third google result down is a boro fan posting on some shitty forum thinking it's going to be the stadium name. Searching for "fan-tastic telecom" brings up a few more results, think the official name is with a hyphen, which probably won't please them too much if we've got their name worng in our press release.

In Leviticus it also says it is an abomination to eat shellfish, so is everyone who eats a seafood pizza condemned? In John 3:16 it says whosoever believes in God will have life everlasting, making no distinction between sexualities. Note "Whosoever" not whosoever as long as you are straight. Best fiction book ever written. Most stolen book in the world too. Hear that a lot and not really sure how they work it out, but the most printed book in history being the most stolen book in history would seem pretty obvious to me...

To be fair they have won the European Cup twice. Thats my point, if they're such a big club, then they shouldnt celebrate like they've won the European cup again after beating little old newcastle. "You're only here for the big club" sang the biggest crowd Forest have had at the City Ground all season, more than when they played Derby... Along with "Sign on, sign on", a decade after the last Nottingham mines closed... Hope the topic title is a deliberate by the way

Surely there has to be police action over this, once you have to go to hospital for a broken jaw it's no longer a matter of "Oh, I don't want to press charges" is it? Looks like it would be classified as GBH

There's a middle ground between "flaunting" your sexuality and not actively hiding it though, and it's that area that most heterosexual footballers can comfortably occupy and which homosexual footballers don't seem to be able to - a heterosexual footballer can say in an interview that they live with their partner Jane on a farm somewhere or turn up to an awards ceremony arm in arm with them without the expectation that it'll be front page news the next day and next time they step out onto the pitch they'll get a load of shit.

To the tune of Arsenal's "vieira" song Carroll broke his jaw He's eating through a straw Steve Tay-lor woooaaah Steve Tay-lor wooooaahh

Unrelated overhead air kick at the other side of the pitch.

Merlin was going a bit "hell in a handcart" earlier. And guess who's paying!

Statistically, if you take one of the lower estimates of 5% of the population, if all the Premier League teams are playing one weekend, out of the 222 players that make up the starting 11, there are 11 players, one full team, who are homosexual playing that weekend. Now, it's possible that gay young men don't tend to go into football as a profession as much (possibly because of the fact professional football is a pretty hostile environment to gay people) so the numbers could well be lower. But so low that none of those players playing on that weekend is gay? Even going on to include the high profile players starting on the bench for the top half clubs? I really doubt it like, there's no way there aren't high profile premier league players who are gay, for some reason they feel the need to hide it. And when I say hide it I don't mean that the alternative is to march onto the pitch with a rainbow flag shouting "gay rights now". There are lots of players who we know have female partners, whether it's because of media circus stuff like Rooney and Coleen or Cheryl and Ashley or more mundane stuff like program profiles "He lives in Essex with his wife, two children and four dogs and enjoys fishing." The BBC has an internal magazine called Ariel and they do profiles of people that work in the company, and in a similar way they did a profile of BBC Jane Hill in which she matter of factly stated her family situation in the same way, that she lives with her partner Sara and her dogs etc. The Sun's take on it was of course to splash across the pages "BBC Lesbian shock! Jane STUNS male fans by announcing she's a lesbian!!" and of course all the comments beneath the article were "Why's she flaunting it, I don't go around telling people I'm straight, they should keep it to themselves etc." The media and fan furore if it was a footballer who didn't hide his homosexuality in the same way would be off the chart, so I don't really think people can say it's not a big deal any more. It's hardly the 50s but there's still a way to go before people can just get over it.

Used to always be on our coach when I went to all the away games with me dad mid-90s. Used to say he got put in a home and they wouldn't let him out for the away matches because he'd get back so late so he'd climb out the window. Apparently he always waited by the tuinnel when Keegan was a player and gave him a sweet on his way off the pitch, which is why he got a seat so close when Keegan came back. Also was told never to accept a peanut off him cos he'd buy then with chocolate on, but cos he had nee teeth he'd suck them and spit them back in the packet. Of course all this was just stuff I heard on away trips, so it could be bollocks. There were always a group of lads who'd look after him on the coach and mash up his sausage and beans for him at the service station. They always had a crack with the away fans as well when they were helping him out the ground "This is what watching Newcastle does to yee, he's 26 this lad!" Was on his way out when I last saw him about 15 year ago so he'd have done well to still be knocking around now like.

Our number four does actually have his PCs and laptops linked together in his house.

Can recycle Nicky Butt's now he's finally faded away Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Geordies going up, going up, Geordies going up Looking forward to being able to steal Chelsea's "That's why we're champions"

From his game and onwards he has just looked nervous and lacking in confidence, possibly completely overawed by his new surroundings. He desperately needs a goal to settle his nerves. Probably what Hughton was thinking when he brought him on against those lot.

Scunthorpe are seriously fucking gash, slightly disappointed it wasn't 10-nowt. No surprise to see they've got the worst goal difference in the league. Straight after the match I got to see a lad in a guinness hat proper chunder near Barker and Stonehouse as well, one of those ones where it explodes out of both nostrils as well

At the game, no exaggeration to say we could have been 6-0 up after 25 mins.