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You know when Iwas watching the news on the BBC yesterday, I couldn't help thinking Buenos Aires really reminded me of Sunderland town centre back when they won the FA cup. Think Sunderland and Argentina need to be twinned on the strength of this.

Hangovers, rail strikes, the as yet undetermined presence of James Maddison. What better way to spend Boxing Day?

Whataboutery that marra

only a matter of time before there's a buenos aires black cats formed. links can be traced back to the 1800s when a bunch of enterprising mackems wandering about la pampa taught the then horseless gauchos how to ride. not content with that they then headed east for a night out in the city and before you know it they'd taught the locals how to tango. as a consequence of both the above the entire population of argentina are now mlfs and all hate the mags, obviously.

I notice their TOWN CENTRE slip up btw

I was on a bus in Sunderland once when a lad, who had previously been canoodling with a lass at the back of the bus stood up and started storming to the front of the bus. There was obviously trouble in paradise cos the lass at the back of the bus shouted after him "But Aces! I LUV YA!" (pronounced Ayussuz obviously)

Apparently I failed my test.

Wait.....I thought the Argies were sportswashed mags? 😮

I'd imagine the very fact we're in to the quarter finals, never mind actually winning the fucking thing will already be enough for them to award the poor league cup an asterisk.

Fuck it, Wyki has made me a believer.

Senior sources, close to the checkout, indicated to me the price of the bag was too high and whilst the bag was known to them, there was unlikely to be a deal In this visit. Things can change though.

We all know that most myths have some inkling of truth or some origin that's been totally bent out of shape. Looks like Rents was the mythical Mag who completely dropped his arse when the MLF put him straight with some uncomfortable truths about how classy, historical and loved Sunderland are and how scummy we were, telt him good and proper but Rents couldn't look him in the eye. Gerrin! FTM.

Why do they fucking care about shite that doesn’t fucking matter? All clubs fan bases recycle each others songs, they aren’t a special or unique fan base in fact their club is by and large one of the most generic, and least unique middling clubs in England. Why don’t they concentrate on the fact they’ve been a division or two below us for over half a fucking decade now can they remember how fucking happy they were when we spent 12 months in a division below them? Yet they think banging on about our fan base “stealing a song” is going to bother us? In fact they probably heard our fan base singing the song while watching us on tv, or even a stream they specifically sought out. The crux is we matter and they don’t, that’s the point they know and won’t admit, we have the president of top of the league Napoli coming out to try and temper rumours that we are about to buy their star player, one of the premier up and coming talents in world football, and they’re talking about our fan base off hand singing a song they claim they made? Sounds good lads.

"Ah, hello, I was wondering if you have any seats left for your Buenos Aires flight?...... you do? Excellent! The name? Fist, Mr Monkey's Fist. Sorry? You're going to put me next to the ex-MLF Mag gloryhunter group heading out there too? Bastards."

I find the reasonable ones just won't want to talk about it, which is absolutely fair enough. I've got mackem mates but they're fair weather fans so we never touch on the subject, especially recently. I had one "mate" in my circle of friends, well I say mate but more the partner of my wife's friend, who was always fuming about us, proper radgee about us. Once we were staying over at a mutual friend's house (in Sunderland as it happened) and he ended up offering me outside for a fight he got that wound up (over nothing). This was the first or second year Shearer had signed for us iirc, so a while back. I mean this was pretty bizarre behaviour amongst any group of young professionals - doctors, solicitors, scientists. He himself ended up in a very senior position in the NHS. I didn't take him up on his offer. Was hilarious watching him mumble apologies the next day to me whilst his wife watched on, arms crossed. I went to the match later that day where we played them at SJP, but disappointedly we only drew 1-1. Over the years I've known many like him as well, but the point is, yes, there are many decent mackems as well as utter arseholes, as there is for all clubs I imagine. I'm not sure what the decent fan/arsehole fan ratio is with them, I suspect its higher than normal but tbh you can understand that given they have to put up with coming from Sunderland. And you won't find any decent fan on Pure Football forum of the SMB either, that place slef selects itself (any dissent and You're branded a "mag" and bullied out).

First sang by Jarrow Elvis. FTM

It's the wrong way around !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Talking of distortions, I'm not sure about this. I'm sure I remember singing this song for as long as I've been going to matches. Whilst we're at it, can we have the Blaydon races back and ban the Mackem Aces or whichever shit they sing?

The team works. And what works, is not touched. I'm not saying we have to settle for what we have, but we shouldn't waste our money. And that is something that we are doing very well at the moment. We have a very decent XI and yet we also have 'important' players who can do well off the bench. There are Saint Maximin and Isak who have not been important yet. There's Murphy and Fraser who have been good boosters and there's Targett. Personally, I think we have to change something in the midfield. I don't trust Longstaff at all. And Shelvey has no match rhythm. As something happens to Bruno... What I want to say is that I don't think it makes sense to sign Maddison now, for example. Instead, I wish we could have a go at Tielemans. He is a player whose contract expires in June, so he could get out very cheap in January. Or, if we're happy with what we've got... try to negotiate for him free for June. I think that if we continue along this line, there will be many top players who want to join the team. As we get to February-March being in the Big Four, we will be able to propose a very good transfer market because the players will see that this is a reality and a solid project.

Wants to think himself lucky he wasn’t dropping and breaking bottles of Pinot Grigio in Palmersville Aldi when the tournament was on. Like some of his less respected colleagues

Burnt by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

That officiating team must have had about 8 pints each before the match going off that fucking performance . We weren’t at our best but we controlled the game and should have won 3-0 tbh.

"Imagine we won these a champions league"

This is why you left 5 minutes early. A classic CT flounce cos they weren't passing to your special boy.

"Whilst it obviously is hilarious to the usual hard of thinking toon trolls that my bag split and my fix of wine broke in Aldi what they don't realise is that Mark Bainbridge the shop manager was grateful to me for highlighting his wine section by making a song and dance about my vino accident as they'd overstocked and needed to shift some so not so hilarious now is it? You're welcome.'

Avoid this one, it's not arsed if it works or not . * * Sorry, word you're looking for is bivalent.

You could be onto something, makes you think, that famous Argy product - corned beef - looks like it was made to remind someone of a mackem lasses complexion

“Aces” ffs. Just using that word in a football chant is making me laugh. Proper “you’re getting mauled by the tigers” vibes

Had on, so they actually sing “Mackem Aces” to the tune of “Blaydon Races”?! How many of them did it take to brainstorm that together?

Exile went to Turkey on holiday. Not suggesting for a second Turkey and Saudi Arabia are the same. But would that be the destination for someone’s whose raison d'etre is highlighting the human rights abuses and atrocities committed by regimes around the world? How is the conflict in Yemen worse that what Turkey have been doing in Kurdistan since the 70s? That’s just one example re the Turkish regime

As for copying songs, they really don't want to go there. The Sunderland bootboys says it all, 100% a Newcastle United song, not anybody elses never mind theirs, the fact they must know it yet still adapt it despite loathing us and being classier shows who they really are. It would be like us singing wise men say or whatever? The going/going down was a blatant piss take at their expense so isn't copying in the sense they've done it. (I haven't even mentioned the Blaydon races copy!)

It's unusual really as one of their favourite clubs is for some reason....Manchester City...for multiple bizarre reasons. 'it's different owa in UAYYEEEE Marra, they've got class human rights, am TELLIN YA''

Mackem'dYP

Saw someone on twitter liken the Carabao Cup to a holiday romance. When you're in it it's dead exciting and fun, the minute you're out you don't care about it at all.

I'm up for a bit of guess the historical train station as the next man. Had this on photo one, and now you've blown it.

‘White wine’s for poofs, you absolute mug’.

I know you're being flippant, but honestly, we'd need to increase the number of point we take from the 'top 6' clubs if we were to seriously mount a title challenge.

Getting shit calls and still winning; who are we? The clean sheet is key IMO as it will be on our defensive fortitude that we make our push for a champion's league spot. Even though we've scored plenty of goals thus far I can see them drying up a little, particularly after the shit World Cup may have put the breaks on our offensive cohesiveness and the hot form of some of our players (Miggy, I'm looking at you here). No injuries too.

He should have turned down the coin and not gone then, the mealy mouthed cunt

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