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He was in-between hobbies.

That’s quite the age-gap. Did the tv break or something?

I love how our lot just talk absolute shite about injury status to the press, I’ve never understood being open and honest about the status of players as it only helps opposition prep. One of the best was when everyone thought Bruno was out for a game before footage of him fucking legging it to the team bus emerged and he started the game

They remind me of failed contestants on the Apprentice. In the taxi interview on their way home, they always say how they're going to make it big whatever Sugar says, and he'd better watch out. Never to be heard of again*. * Except Stuart Baggs who made the news when he died.

The cunt who invented them should be hung by one. That ok?

He's a "winger" so will be a genuine mackem, but tbf I think he is being sarcastic/taking the piss. Because on a slightly more serious point, some mackems are actually just people like us, and there are some normal ones amongst them. Just as you wouldn't want to characterise all NUFC supporters as being like Steve Wraith, not all mackem are knackers. But a larger than normal proportion obviously are. Which is why I actually pity the normal ones. You don't have much choice in who you support. If you were unfortunate to be born a mackem, even if you were from the better bits (erm, Ashbrook, Seaburn?) you kind of have to support that team. So not only do you have to put up with living in a shit city (until you're old/rich enough to get out), support a fucking walking embarassment of a club, but you also have to put up with a fellow support base, a large proportion of which who are fucking rancid. That's why I say, hug a mackem today. Especially if that mackem is Lauren Laverne.

I think he’s Englands next captain too. If FFP allows it & our other main targets we should definitely try to get him into a room with Eddie Howe & the owners. That’s obviously dependent on champions league football . Shearer turned Man Utd down twice, first time was for newly minted Blackburn Rovers.. obviously it’s a vastly different football world now but there’s something about how he’s acted around the Newcastle players and staff this season…Tripper needs to get inside his head on England duty..

Yeah but what about in five years time?

To be honest, I'm mainly FUMING at myself for still watching Pointless in 2023.

You could offer me a drink in a Baccarat Crystal goblet, but if you’ve just taken a fucking shit in it, I’ll have my brew in a grey Death Star mug, thanks.

35, 30 and 18 The 12 year old will be sober but moody

I'm on holiday. This is my FUN TIME.

I think Cardiff is a canny city tbh. Sunderland would be moreon a level with Newport.

We're doing it again lads. We're all saying "nah he'll never sign, but..." and with each post we're getting closer and closer to thinking he might. He's not signing for us. but if he did...

Toilets free of integrated faecal foot baths.

Sunderland had as much chance of being a host city as hull, Stoke or any of the UK’s shithole towns. their stadium isn’t bad, but it is in disrepair, needs updating and is in a terrible location. There must be at least a half dozen stadiums better suited - old Trafford, the emirates, Celtic park, anfield, the London stadium, Croke park, kenilworth road etc

The clue’s in the title

Someone won the jackpot on Pointless today for saying "Emil Zapotek" and I am FUMING. Finally I have a sense of what it must be like to be wykiki.

“ Dad, why do you call me KDP?” ” Kesthwick Dog Park, thon, Kesthwick Dog Park.”

Mrs. CT. “ No more kids ! Me fanny’s like Alum Pot, man! Take this bleeping stick and fuck off to dig spoons up or something!”

True. Bruno is arguably better at the DM role than rice though. I thought he had to play further forwards after he scored all those goals last season but he’s been bloody brilliant in the deeper role this season. While we’re playing fantasy football, if we got rice and Maddison, we could rotate Bruno and Rice at “number 6”, while also rotating him with the others at “number 8”

I completely agree. Cardiff is a nice place to visit, has a castle in its centre, some of those old victorian shopping arcades, and a large modern shopping centre without dogshit or litter. The EU also sank a ton of money into Tiger Bay iirc. Its certainly not undefunded and shit imo. Newport on the other hand is one of the worst shitholes Ive been to - depressing and ugly, and the place has a bad reputation for crime and violence. Even the river is tidal, so as you pull into the train station you pass over an expanse of mud flats. All the funding in the world wouldn’t fix it (not that they get any) and they have a massive chip on their shoulder about Cardiff. Fucked if I can see the parallels with Newcastle and Sunderland though

you’re good

Alex aka Alfred Spot on.

I think he'd be a mug to go to Chelsea tbh. Man U used to pick Arsenal's pockets for their best players but that era might be over so arsenal could be a good bet but they might deteriorate from where they are presently. Man U is a decent bet for him as they are what they are and will eventually be bought I'd guess but might depend if they fancy Kane? If Ferguson was there and they were still a power there's no doubt in my mind Kane would have been there a couple of years ago. Like I say, I don't think we're ready to spend that big on one player until the money starts rolling in and even then I don't think they're going to risk financial oblivion when there could be an alternative that makes better sense.

He’ll want champions league football

I’m guessing it’s nostalgia that you’re feeling for crest because if anyone came up with that today in a marketing meeting they’d be fired on the spot.

I hope we can beat this lot but I will go for an on the fence 1-1. I have COVID so am pissed off especially as I am on holiday, not that I am away anywhere thank fuck. Apparently you can go out after five days even if you test positive so that’s me tomorrow. It’s like having a heavy cold and an annoying cough like I had when I smoked that’s the cough not the cold. Back on track no love lost between us and Villa so despite my prediction I hope we stuff the twats.

Wow, now SJP is like the death star. And it's got grey cladding, like, erm, most stadiums? Yeah, as I've said before, I wish instead of having one of the most impressive cantilevered glass roofs in the world it was made of corrugated iron like the mackems' cow shed. I actually love the uniqueness of SJP like. The scale of it is actually impressive. Like the OP here, I walk past it 3 days a week and it still impresses. I just hope they can pull off the Gallowgate extesnion and make it a proper horseshoe, and then it's finished for me.

The level of delusion is astonishing. The SoL has the best loaction in the country by a mile apparently. For anyone wondering, the Sheepfolds is currently an area of contiguous scrap yards last seen on Breaking Bad without the nice weather. They're planning a housing estate on this which will be an obvious improvement but maybe not befitting the best location in the UK marra. This new pedestrian footbridge they're building, to connect the Sheepfolds with Yates wine bar in the city centre or whatever, is going to be a concrete brutalist structure coming already equipped with anti-suicide fences.

The lads at Tifo catching up with Toontastic's data analyst team.

I was going to say like, it must be 7 seasons since we played them last They’re fucking tapped. Could you imagine the reverse? There’s not a mackem alive who wouldn’t swap the 6 in a rowuh for a reversal of fortunes

I love how Sunderland is first choice for concerts which the mackems love to point out that Elton/Robbie/Ed/George etc like to play in the premier north east venue. No mention that St James’ could host them better but we don’t want the pitch getting knackered, which has been a hot topic for them over the years. No doubt they think Elton/Robbie/Ed/George stay the night in Sunderland Premier Inn and sample the local cheesy chips & blue pop……and lastly Elton is a MLF😂

He’d be a massive statement of intent. England’s most coveted player along with Bellingham

Despite the loss v us, he was still a big influence for them.

Rice is only 24, so he's still fairly young. We could field him for 4 years and still sell him for a tidy sum. I'd love him, and I think we could get him, if nobody else at the big boy table was after him. But imo he's tailor made for Pep's Man City side, and he'd improve every central midfield of the 'big clubs'.

Aye but Elton John played there last year

Surely we want to showcase the best of the UK? I mean that is where the discussion ends. Sunderland is a fucking cesspit.

Bigger stadium. Better city (not even a contest). Better location (both in terms of its being in the city centre and not being in Vladivostok-on-Wear). Better transport links (road, rail and air). More tourist accommodation. Further expansion and improvements to SJP actually in the pipeline, rather than just being discussed on RTG. Having the actual funds to take these plans forward. No swarms of flying crisp packets invading the pitch. I’m sure I’ve missed a few

Does he have an opinion on retractable dog leads?

Terrible shame, that mind.

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Roma are playing feyenoord tonight wearing an away shirt with an old crest* on, they've done this before, Atalanta have as well and I'm a big fan of it, would love it if we did the same occasionally on one of our away shirts. Tonight's shirt has the second from top left, sometimes they've had bottom first left. HMHM verdict:

Double oof.

Standing or sitting?