FFS, where is football heading.

[Edward Alistair]

Matches to be paused for fasting Muslim players

Tuesday's Premier League matches will briefly be paused for Muslim players who have been fasting during Ramadan.

www.bbc.co.uk

Can't believe this thought was entertained let alone acted on.
If there is something more important than doing your job then find another job.

 

[Overseaswall]

Been going on for a few seasons at least

 

[heh-now]

that wd have got the sutton pie eater-keeper off the hook......

 

[67lions]

Didn’t Jimmy just get on with it.

 

[Soul Man]

I seem to recall that some years ago (many years ago) there was a Christian player who refused to play on a Sunday. I cannot remember his name so “religious reasons” is not a new thing

 

[silverlion]

Was it Mark Lazarus?

 

[kinelloz]

With the number of stoppages in the game, it don't really make a lot of difference

 

[Stowwall]

I seem to recall that some years ago (many years ago) there was a Christian player who refused to play on a Sunday. I cannot remember his name so “religious reasons” is not a new thing

Jonathan Edwards the triple jumper wouldn't compete on a sunday.

 

[norwichmark]

Matches to be paused for fasting Muslim players

Tuesday's Premier League matches will briefly be paused for Muslim players who have been fasting during Ramadan.

www.bbc.co.uk

Can't believe this thought was entertained let alone acted on.
If there is something more important than doing your job then find another job.

Late April fool. We bend over for everything not English

 

[TheOneAndOnlyGazza]

Football to ban crosses for the Easter fixtures after complaints from Holy Goalies.

 

[Phlion54]

Why don't they wait till half time to eat & drink or is that to simp!e or even easier don t pick them to start and bring them on as subs when they have sorted they fairy tale beliefs

 

[STWall]

At least the ever militant doggies have told them where to go!

 

[bazzwall]

Was it Mark Lazarus?

He liked a salt beef sandwich

 

[Soul Man]

He liked a salt beef sandwich

So do I

 

[SE14]

As a catholic I never attend matches on Good Friday. Its probably the only home
game I’ll miss all season. I’m outraged that Muslims get so much sympathy in
this country with less than 1.5 million living here (at the present)

 

[ozwall]

Can't see what the problem is, it's been happening the last few seasons. At least it's factored into the time keeping unlike all the time wasting and play acting that goes on.

 

[BigPaul]

When I was at the fire service college, we were doing real fire exercises all day, every day.
We had Muslim students from various places in the Middle East and Far East.
One of my staff, a Station Officer from Newcastle was liaison officer for these students.
When they arrived he would get them all together for a pep talk and briefing.
It was crazy to think they would do the strenuous work without eating all day.
If it was Ramadan he would tell the Muslims that he had personally contacted their imam in their home countries and that he had given them all special dispensation to eat during the day because of the work and training they were doing.
In exchange they must say extra prayers every evening after dinner.
Worked like a charm, every time and they all believed him.

I have to admit, when I first started I wasn’t sure, so I asked him one day if he’d really done what he’d said. His response…Did I fuck, man!

 

[milleniwall's have rights]

Football to ban crosses for the Easter fixtures after complaints from Holy Goalies.

Holy Goalie !!!!!

 

[Edward Alistair]

Was it Mark Lazarus?

I'm sure Arteta will be telling Jesus to get on the end of as many crosses as he can at Anfield on Sunday.

 

[silverlion]

Dan Walker of BBC Breakfast and now Channel 5 News will not work on Sundays because of his Christian beliefs. Tolerance has always been a trait of British Culture.