I was sat miles away in the stand but through my glass eye i could tell his hand hit the whitwash... honest.

First openly gay person to play at Odsal?

Who cares if he was in touch, only evens up his miraculous 'backwards' knock on with a force 10 gale behind him

Well he publicly criticised the reception he got at Cas t'other week, wonder if he'll go crying to his newspaper after today? Or toughen up and deal with it. I'm not condoning what people say but it's bound to happen. I don't think then whining about it will help his cause either.

People used to say the same thing about monkey chants.

I think the linesman thought he'd end up in touch and put his flag up before he was sure and then couldn't reverse the decision. You win some you lose some on calls like that and fortunately it went our way.

The quips about Thomas' sexuality from the terraces were just plain childish. One lad stood near me was at it throughout the game, got a bit tiresome.

Quite possibly, but almost certainly not the first gay person.

Somebody stood near me said something about him being gay. Didn't look that gay to me though in fact he was really unhappy after the touch judge put his flag up.

Good point.

I was pretty close to where he was tackled and i did see one of his knuckle hairs cross the line

You have a long and promising future ahead of you as a Video Ref at Bulls games then! Since one of the qualifications for the job over the years seems to have been seeing things (funnily enough rarely in our favour...) that no-one else saw...