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Rafa's biggest career achievement has to be making a footballer out of Manquillo

Charlton v Sunderland in the play offs, you say? "Memories Light the corners of my mind Misty water-colored memories Of the way we were...."

Play offs only now for Sunderland. Squeaky bum time now at the 3rd division club.....

Well I'm going to pretend I'm a mackem and give the don some abuse on twitter

They’d be better off buying Gateshead next. Cheaper, better attendances and they don’t have to convince players to live in Sunderland.

You know this fucker is beyond tragic when the worst thing in the photo isn't his haircut

Aye, they always act like Ashley is a good owner and we are idiots for disliking him. If Ashley owned them they would have been absolutely fucked, there’s no way he’d have given the club away, paid the debt, all for essentially a few future parachute payments. Short was shite because he trusted the fan base and “legends” of Sunderland time and again. The place is fucking toxic, it was long, and widely, said that the player culture at the club was horrific, the mackems denied it, then when there was a flashpoint with Di Canio the management backed the players, and the mackems were fine with it as Di Canio wasn’t letting the players have tomato ketchup (imagine a lovely pile of chicken fuckin dippahs without a load of ketchup? It’d be like watching the lads without your blue drink). As much of a scumbag as Di Canio is they should have backed him up, instead they backed Cattermole.

In many ways, if we had Short we would have done better than we have under Ashley. He threw money around happily. I mean I'd gladly take Short as Chairman with Rafa as manager.

Not sure if anyone else is watching this game with the NBC Yank Wank commentary but Kevin Kilbane, a player who was, to be charitable, shite, is doing his usual act of criticising world class footballers for not making the correct decision in lightning fast circumstances. “He should have hit that difficult to control, bouncing ball first time with his weak foot across the six yard box with perfect precision for Son to elude two defenders and a charging goalkeeper” It would have taken him 5 touches on his strong foot to get the thing under control. Useless fake Irish, Mackem bellend.

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A PENALTY!??

“Those wooden floors have gone down lovely, good idea pet” Gemmill :

Nice well composed post, welcome to the board

Rafa asked on future and whether he spoke to powers that be: "Yes." Asked again on future: "It doesn't depend on me."

Kenedy. £30m worth of finishing prowess.

That was probably the easiest 47 mins all season These look devoid of any confidence whatsoever. We need to capitalise and close the game out early, trouble is Atsu and Kenedy are unbelievably shite

'Macca' and 'Fletch' comfortably the worst commentary combination. They're fucking devastated so far.

Brighton are the worst team we've played this season

Very close, probs another pen for the few attempts to trip him as he went through. Brighton are absolute shite

Why bother with Kenedy? He's not going to be joining. Why not give Muto some minutes?

Dummett clearly evening the score on that Andonde for his earlier foul on Atsu.

That would have been given against us tbh. Rondon had his heel clearly clipped.

At least he’s focused on the match, either that or he’s having a reyt good push.

Yedlin has paid for conceding that penalty like

Short was very much into letting the legends have a big say in the club, as I said above the issue with Sunderland is their big heroes are people like Niall Quinn and Wearside Jack. It would have been great to have NUFC with people like Keegan, Shearer, etc having a say rather than Lambias and Wise. Not saying Short is perfect but he backed the club, his downfall was trusting fucking divvies like Quinn, there’s also not a whole lot he can do when you have a fan base racially abusing their best players parent etc.

Aye and Cattermole is still fucking fleecing them I think Poyet raised similar issues about the drinking culture to no avail

I know most of them hate Short because they have zero perspective but it’s difficult to imagine them having a better owner or anyone being as fair as he was about the sale etc.

Aye, they’re actually alright. Just analysis without trying to make any grander points or defend their mates. And, aye, that Kyle Martino is fucking useless Typical Yankee Doodle gobshitery who probably thinks Diana Ross invented the penalty shootout.

Aye he is a bellend. The upside of NBC is that they put every single match either on TV or on their streaming service, the downside is you have to sometimes listen to Kilbane. The thing I’m most surprised about is “the two Robbies” (I knarr) Robbie Mustoe and Robbie Earle are actually somewhat decent pundits, I think since they didn’t play for the ‘big’ sides helps as they don’t just spout on and favour the usual sides. They do unfortunately often have this utter dickhead that joins them that I think played in the MLS called Kyle Martino on, he’s usually the cheer leader for “United” and co.

Aye they were fucking silent about that up until they fucked up against Peterborough Now all of a sudden there's a silver lining to their shiteness. I mean what is he actually saying here, that they're happy in League One?

You could’ve saved yourself a lot of money buying from here, mate.

Luckily, Paul Dummett is his kryptonite and he won't get a kick all game.

Aye, all it'll take is a poor start today and the stadium will get fidgety and angry. Luckily, Sunderland are so composed under massive pressure.

They should have absolutely pissed it. Even going up in second would have been somewhat humiliating - if they had any dignity whatsoever. Emotions will be running too high for them to do anything against Pompey today. I think they’ll absolutely bottle the play offs too. and then the fun starts. Let’s see “The Don’s bank statement”

It’s a mystery where the fans get these unrealistic ideas from.

Charlie boy getting a bit rattled it would seem

I’m not saying this will happen to the Unwashed next season if they don’t go up, but this will happen to the Unwashed next season if they don’t go up.

Endgame spoiler

I think the best bit is they’ve had two shots at nicking a coach from Dortmund, and it looks like Norwich have the best one.

There are still chances for Cherry Klopp, New Klopp and Vanilla Klopp to succeed then.

Used to like seeing Ravenelli & Juniho lining up with Jamie Pollock & Phil Stamp

He was Boro's answer to the likes of Clarky, Stevie Watson, Robbie Elliott etc. Except he never played in a really good team. Or was a good player. Fuck it, here he is in another shit team doing the biz..... 'Jimmy Bollock' of the Boro.

That’s numberwang

Last time they were in the championship they just made them up anyway tbh

That is the first time I have ever heard that particular cunt's voice, watched anything to do with him, or known what he looked like. I cannot believe he takes himself seriously. Is it possible that he doesn't? But then no, he wouldn't run for office. Do people actually listen to that voice coming out of that face and think what this fucking moron says has anything to do with their lives? I pictured him as more of a Tommy Robinson type, a sort of rabble-rouser who was more street thug/Aryan Brotherhood than anything else...but no, he's some sort of posh fucking twat who sounds like he delightedly breathes in his own farts and catalogs his every meal with a series of polaroids before uploading them to his blog. Fuck me senseless. EDIT: Is he supposed to be like an "intellectual" racist? Like alt-right for the bigot who's a cut above the common street filth and white trash? Is that his game? Doesn't much fancy holding tiki torches and doing Nazi marches, but he's happy to sit behind the safety of his screen and spout his shit?

It’s nice to see someone playing for one of the clubs further down the league getting some recognition.

Penny farthings on the street, riding. Motor cars were funny things, frightening. Bow and hoops and spinning tops. Penny dreadfuls, lollipops. Comic Cuts, all different things.

We could fill the stadium. Except you fucking can't.