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They did a couple of weeks ago and beat Reading 6-1. We have to be careful about overuse of the playing surface as our pitch is worn out and needs renovation which is scheduled for this summer I believe . Also, it costs a lot more to open up and operate Adams Park than Burnham FC. I went to watch them play there yesterday and they had another big win but the attendance was very low despite such lovely weather. They’re second in the table and Carl who coaches them has done a great job.

Rough and Rowdy Ways was a real shock. It is a genuinely interesting and superb album. The best piece of sustained decent work he’d done in 50 years in my opinion

Big game tomorrow. Let's focus on the one thing that really unites us.

The only reason to be on twitter is to be offended by people's views on twitter.

I can understand why everyone thinks that this was a good thing. Contact truly is the best way of breaking down barriers (if the contact is positive of course, which it looks to be in this case). It's great that they got to experience Adams Park on a beautiful day, and hopefully gained some admiration for Wycombe Wanderers as an institution. Especially because the club has been largely overlooked by the local Muslim community (and arguably vice versa). I also hope it gains us some new WWFC fans! I don't have any problem with that at all.

But to answer some of your points:

1. It was gender segregated. Women were on one side and men on the other. You can see this clearly on online photos of the event on social media. This is customary in mosques and during Islamic worship. I don't blame them for doing it. If your religion tells you to follow certain rules in order to obey God and ultimately reach heaven, you obviously follow those rules.

2. Clearly this practice wasn't the club's doing, and was put in place by the organisers.

3. Nonetheless, I think as a society we give in too easily to religion. It's all well and good holding liberal egalitarian values (as I'm sure most of the Gasroom posters on this thread do, including myself). But we seem to often discard or ignore these values in the face of religious teachings or practices that go against them.

Obviously it isn't the responsibility of Wycombe Wanderers to spur on political or theological changes. And on the whole, hosting this event is likely to be a good thing for the club overall for the reasons many people have mentioned above. But it just represents another small example of normalising or accepting an illiberal practice. You mention "meaningful dialogue" in your post, but how much meaningful dialogue about this has there been? Probably none.

TLDR: I think we often tolerate things that we wouldn't normally tolerate, simply because it's religious. This is another small example of that