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Just as an example of some of the stuff they have to deal with, my lass has a Ukrainian refugee in her class. The kid doesn't speak English, he's obviously been damaged by his experience, and he's a constant flight risk throughout the school day - as in he will, at a second's notice, get up out of his seat, leave the classroom, leave the building and just walk off school grounds to wherever the fuck he feels like. He's 9. And he has to be physically dragged, kicking, punching, biting and screaming back onto premises and shut in a room until he calms down. And the school has been told there is no alternative for him, so he has to stay in school and just be managed. So my lass is on high alert all day - trying to teach 31 kids whilst also keeping an eye on this lad, and if he so much as twitches or looks like he's about to get up, it's fucking panic stations. That's incredibly stressful to have to go back into every day. That's not teaching. It's not fair on the other kids in the class and it's sure as fuck not fair on the teacher or the two or three that have to leave their classes to chase and drag him back to the building. People don't see this sort of stuff but it's going on everywhere. Imagine all that and then every time you get on social media someone's got something to say about how lazy and greedy you are, and if you put the telly on some cunt politician is there lying about how much you get paid and how much you're being offered. It's a wonder we've got any teachers/nurses/doctors, etc etc left.

Nah you're wrong. This sort of patter is why my wife stays off Facebook atm. It's everything. It's the fact that they're now expected to be social workers, special needs counsellors, put up with insanely entitled parents who just think they can ring up and go off on one cos a fucking 9 year old didn't like the way a teacher said something, deal with growing class sizes, have to actually buy supplies themselves cos the school won't pay for them. It is a fucking gold plated shitshow. And it's getting worse, not better.

Remember our last DoF? His first action as the transfer window opened was to fuck off on holiday. Also, when he tried to sign Shane Ferguson from Birmingham City… where he was on loan from us I’m still pinching myself about this whole new era tbh.

It will be clean as fuck from your tongue like

Pack your job in immediately and take up teaching. It's a similar response I say to (usually) Sun reading people I work with who lap up the 'benefits scroungers' 50" plasma TV, free everything patter fed to them via Tory propaganda. It's funny that the same people are worried about being made redundant and the future they face? It should be a blessing, go on the dole and live the life of Reilly, that's what happens isn't it?

All of the above whilst getting paid the same real terms wage that they were getting in 2008 BTW.

Gordon could stay here for the entirety of his career, become a free scoring legend, then go on to lead the club as manager to 10 consecutive quadruples, and he still wouldn’t have made up for those patchwork monstrosities he wore.

30 stepovers before he even takes his kegs off.

Shit strip 👍 Strange looking lass (sister) leaning suggestively across a car bonnet 👍 Shit brutalist architecture in background 👍 Non committal sale date implying supply issues 👍 Homage to the 80s when they could also be found in the third tier 👍

I think they learned the hard way from when one of the players a few years ago, Ferguson I think it was, went through a traumatic experience when he was put up in digs in Boldon iirc? Everything's checked these days.

@LongTimeAdmirer

If it were as cushy a number as some make out then we’d have a massive surplus of teachers in the country instead of a shortage.

Good signing imo. Maddison may have been more exciting but he doesn't really fit into our setup. Barnes can play RW and LW and will allow us to peddle ASM and/or Almiron. 37 goals in 3 seasons

Aims for the hole- stabs it in her eye.

Aye, but at least our sponsor doesn’t sound like some Porn Olympics.

Why is it always the ones you suspect the most?

He has certainly suffered from living in Maddison’s shadow but I think he’s equally as good and is more of an Eddie Howe player*. *This opinion was formed five minutes ago on the realisation that we’re signing him.

Every man can dream

Or a shot on Ms. Tonali.

This will almost certainly be the end of ASM if it happens.

Trippier making himself available to Tonali's lass.

It’s time we took the captaincy off Lascelles properly and give it to this bloke. Stopped by on his time off to greet the new player and introduce himself as a resource for him to settle.

Nowt wrong there. That was on Australian TV man.

Bollocks, Castore are the epitome of professionalism.

"For those who are still unaware, although Nike are Sunderland’s current kit supplier – the partnership is managed by its local affiliate Just Sport Group, based in Spennymoor. The deal which began in 2020 has now been renewed until summer 2027. Basically, we aren’t considered important enough to have a direct relationship with Nike, and as such have a deal where we order our kits from their teamwear range and then a modestly sized factory unit in County Durham stick on the Sunderland badges and send them up the A19. When they arrive and their lack of availability, however, is the BIG problem here." https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/2023/7/6/23785504/just-not-good-enough-sunderland-need-to-catch-up-off-the-pitch-with-whats-going-on-on-it How am I just finding this out?

I bet his fucking sparrow even has a bandage on it

No followed Adam P though so I expect him to get loaned out back to Brescia by Christmas

Having read The Email, the affairs are pretty standard Tory scum stuff, but shagging a 16yr old who’s too drunk to stand is straight-up rape, isn’t it?

Trippiers clobber is fucking rancid like but I’ll let him off, Gordon has a lot to do to make up the deficit on his shocking wardrobe to performance ratio

ASM catching strays while he runs up hills in France.

Ah well, not happening

I love The Kieron as much as the next absolutely 100% heterosexual man, but you’d think he’d have got changed out of his jimmy jams before tapping up the new lads Mrs.

Good, it’s about time people stopped paying so much attention to a player who averages 3 goals and 4 assists a season. The amount of discussion and support he gets far outweighs his worth to the team. If we could get money for him and Almiron and replaced them with Diaby and Barnes that would be a phenomenal window.

That’s a bit niche

No chance. Probably have an injunction put out.

Is he the scrap merchant on Tatooine, or have I got the wrong trilogy?

Molto bene

Kev Lawson (wyeayescout) is doing a newsletter from his Substack now. First one is out and looks at all of the persistent rumour mill links, and has the spiderweb chart thing compared against players currently in the squad. He's one of these who relies on twitter and is obviously concerned about the future of that shit app. https://editkev.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=email&utm_source=post&utm_content=132714714 Sign up there if you want to start receiving his newsletter, if it's anything like this first one I think it'll be worth it.

Canny hatchet job on Osborne, long read, email sent to just about everyone going o his wedding and several journo's https://pastebin.com/3DRZpzDP

Growing six inches in a calendar year?

I hope that includes