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High one would hope. PS I am on my prayer mat as I write this.

http://www.haku.co.uk/b3ta/DavidSullivan3.gif Ha ha ha

Mind you, some fucking terrible "defending" there.

What a great goal, Rangers

This is a very interesting thread, but maybe you should edit your OP to mention what you have above? I don't think i'm the only one who was a bit confused at first That's a good point, I did indeed cloud the issue a bit. I've edited it now. Ta!

Good stuff, but I don't know how many times I have to say this, it was *not* a muslim seating area. It was an area of the ground where no booze is served (like the family section and - I believe - the away end) but also where Halal food was available. The attenders could sit there or elsewhere.

Apparently there are loads of Muslim Newcastle supporters. Alan Shariah was their favourite player.

Ha ha, naughty but also very funny.

Villa fan mate from work who I texted as soon as I heard replied with a wish that they will get a points reduction The PL doing the right thing is probably too much to hope for, sadly.

I'm hoping the vile porno dwarf emerges from the big house on the hill with a ring piece the size of the bull ring. She'll probably get off by playing the "too simple to understand what she was doing" card.

Let me reiterate - it wasn't a muslim section. The offer was "you can sit anywhere in the ground where there is availability. However, for your information, in this area of the ground, there is no alcohol served, and halal snacks are available". Who knows, maybe halal snacks will be available all over the ground soon, but for the time being, they were free to sit wherever they wanted. Also, the ground holds 42,640, the average crowd is over 40,000 this season, clearly whilst the club want to get people involved, they're not going to be able to do offers like that all the time.

WTF Luckiest fucking team on earth.

Ha ha ha!!!! Fucking GET IN!

OMFG what a fucking chance.

Theo will score.

He's some player, that boy

Part Nigerian, part Scottish, part cheetah. Bloody hell. Where in the ground would you put him Until Saturday, I'd have said on the bench, but his goal seemed to revitalise him

I'll be talking about it. Something along the lines of did you hear that cunt of a commentator last night.

"this is a match which gets the whole country watching, they'll be talking about it in the offices tomorrow" not in my office we won't. We'll be arguing about whose turn it is to go and get the coffee and what radio station to listen to.

Part Nigerian, part Scottish, part cheetah.

Despite all the money and time I expend on football, I can honestly say I couldn't care less who wins the league. Same predictable cunts, different coloured shirts.

The commentary is arse shittingly awful.

Its not a nice place. Birmingham city centre and its ameneties and attractions have been completley revitalised in the last few years and make its centre as good as anywhere, but the signs of urban decay and division of the communities in the suburbs including Aston make it a horrible place imo. Aston University isn't in Aston, it is in the city centre, brilliant location (just PMed you, Chris) All big cities have rundown areas, and Aston is certainly that. There are lots of suburbs like Sutton, Solihull, Harborne, Edgbaston which are anything but run down. But that's a different topic

Nobody should pay less because of their religion. It was a one-off offer to encourage a sector of the population who would normally not think of going to a football match (despite living next door to a PL stadium) to go to one. If you were non muslim and lived in that area, you too would have had the offer. It just happens that almost everyone is Muslim there. Just to reiterate what Spurs From Africa said, it isn't a permanent arrangement, it was a one off offer. In the same way a lot of clubs sell tickets cheaply to schools. It won't mean a "Muslim section" of the ground (that'd be worse than actually not having them at the ground in the first place, in many ways). If the idea is to make it easier for people to make that first step to becoming an attender, then good for them. Remember what it was like for you the first time you went to a match as a 6 or 7 year old? There'll be Muslim kids just like that right now. If a few of them have had an introduction into the game like we had way back when, that left them wide eyed and wanting more, then good for them. Why should they be excluded from the near endless cycle of misery and disappointment that we get? We did similar things to encourage families back to matches (why do you think you can't sit in your seat at SJP with a pint?) several years ago.

I agree, we shouldn't do that, but what do you class as bending over backwards? There's no booze in the family section either, but I don't see people moaning about that. I've also been to loads of away grounds where they don't sell booze to the away fans (in fact, isnt Villa Park one of them?) but people don't have a massive problem with that. Small gestures (and this is a small gesture) can go a long way.