I'm confused now. Are you Gareth Thomas, the former rugby player or Sion Thomas posing as Gareth Thomas?

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

If I can offer an overly intellectual opinion, I did make an interesting note from Randall Collins' book on the micro-sociology of violence recently:

'Despite the use of sexist epithets to insult men they do not like, the hooligans of the 1980s were ardent admirers of Margaret Thatcher and the queen—presumably because these could be used to assert English solidarity and superiority, and to put down respectable educated liberals and leftists; although in Italy they chant ‘f*** the Pope!’, at home they defend the Catholic church, out of hostility to the Anglican establishment (Buford 1993: 95). The pattern is much like that analyzed by Katz (1999) in his study of freeway road rage: curses are brought to one's lips because they fit the particular target one is confronting at the moment; they need not be based on deeply held beliefs, and the repertoire can be inconsistent and contradictory from occasion to occasion.'

I'd suggest that homophobic taunts are a similar phenomenon: those chanting mostly aren't deep-seated homophobes, but instrumentalise a background convention of homophobia, as Anthony King has argued in the case of most racist chanting.

So I don't think that most people joining in with these chants are particularly hateful; but intent is somewhat irrelevant when the effect is chanting that equates homosexuality with all sorts of negative traits. There's no room for subtlety in a crowd.

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When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

BOOM! I knew I'd voted for the right guy!

He didn't ask for armchair warriors to spout nonsense on a forum but whether they would be willing to express their views in a BBC documentary.

Are you willing to go in front of the cameras and tell the world that you will chant what you want and if they don't like it they can do one or is your eloquence reserved only for anonymous posts on the internet?

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Dear Gareth,

It would be wrong to think C Palace is a hotbed of homophobia,notwithstanding the support by some for crass chants about Brighton (just an opinion).My guess would be homophobia amongst football fans is a reflection of society.Its there,but thankfully on a steady decrease.

PS:If it's one of your researchers posing on here as you,well done to walesandco for arguably breaching the OFCOM code at stage 1 of your production.