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“Hello, is that Frank? Kyril here, how you doing? Good stuff. Listen Frank we know you’re looking for work and we have a vacancy here we’d love you to fill and we were hoping you could give us an idea of salary requirements, staff numbers etc. How much? What’s that Frank you’re breaking up. He’s gone, thank fuck. Speakman, go and tell Dodds to get the tactics ready and tell him he has the 36p out of the swear jar for players. Also, tell him I traded Jobe to spurs for a curly wurly.”

I’m happy to say that Ma Fist is still a rabid socialist at 84. She refers to Sunak as The Mantlepiece because you could rest your elbow on him… … she’s 5’0”.

Still alive and kicking.

Alicante: "Bueno dias, Sunderland football club. We agree to play your team but only on condition you don't form any football clubs who'll be competitors for us while you're over here and your fans must not wear any Sunderland shirts to kit out any newly formed clubs."

Not a mobile phone nor a gravy stained shirt in sight. Gerrin!!! FTM.

Ahem, excuse me.

Farage is basically that boring ‘controversial’ wanker that appears on here from time to time and gets eviscerated. Almost everything he says is carefully considered to be an allusion to racism without actually saying it. In order to provoke a ‘how is that racist?’ response from him and his followers if he’s called out as such. It never ceases to depress me that people can’t see right through him.

@PaddockLadd YP for you Wykiki. 👍

Southgate panics if he goes over the recommended serving size with his morning cereal, you’ll get caution and you’ll like it

Mackems travelling to Alicante and playing Alicante and some other side. Just a heads up in case anyone on here is bewked up on a trip to 'Beni' between the 15th July and 21st July. If you are I doubt you'll see any Sunderland shirts as there's no way they'd wear them on a trip to Spain.

My dad was a staunch labour voter up until Corbyn (he’s not voting for a fucking commie etc). Then he bought into the populist shite of Farage and he’s never looked back, despite me pointing out that Farage would dismantle the very socialist NHS that has bought him and my mam 20+ extra years. It’s mental to think that South Park actually nailed the public attitude to immigrants and how easy it is to twist them up to it. 80 years after D Day and we’ve learned absolutely fuck all from WW2 it appears.

My dad isn't really that way inclined but he's old now and has slowly been brainwashed but like Darth Vader, I know there's good in him. (politically). Take away politics, (and he doesn't rant on like a gammon anyway), he's just a good bloke. No way, other than the odd comment where my feelings are known, am I pushing it.

Write him a letter, petal. KCG 5-1 Braveheart Close Glesgae North Britain.

I would. Two of my sisters aren't talking to me as it is

Unlike me btw. 28 years can fuck right off.

If I stopped supporting my team just because they’re shit I would have stopped posting on here a long time ago

Just got in for the penalty/sending off. #ThoughtsandPrayers @PaddockLad, @Toonpack, @Kevin Carr's Gloves.

Latest: 'Kylie Minogue now not under consideration by HMHM.'

This is spot on and something that I have always thought but never understood. I fail to see how the Tories are an ideal to live up to. I am in a far more comfortable situation, financially, that both of the people I have mentioned but I can not find any draw to the Tories. I have always voted Labour and I imagine that I will. My family have very little finances when I grew up, but I was loved and my parents always put me and my brothers first, I had access to good (state) education and access to university. I don't think I would have the same chances now. I am not starry eyed about Labour but I really feel that they are the closest that we will ever get to being able to level up society. I listen to the smaller parties and they are just not realistic in their expectations and aims because they do not have to be. I would love a return to the EU but this is not going to happen any time soon. I also feel that for Labour to back it would create a media backlash which has a big impact.

I heard they leave them at home and buy a new one when they get there from a passing MLF sailor.

I'm not exaggerating and have mentioned this before but it is permanently on at my in-laws, obviously can't speak for when we're not there but every time we go around it's on. I was there on Thursday but it was just the MiL and it was on. I don't say as much to them but I just ask them to turn the volume low 'so I can hear them' and on Thursday just walked in and turned it down myself. Trouble is my dad sometimes watches it, when it's on there I do the same or make some remark. I popped up last Saturday but my Mam was out with my sister so there was just my dad and it was on. I went into the kitchen to make a cuppa for us and when I got back it was on sky news. I never said anything but I was a bit like..... Small steps. He used to read the mirror and slaughter the Tories when I was a kid but started getting the mail around 20-30 years ago and also him being ex-forces helps as they play on that stuff when the truth is they couldn't give a fuck about the plebs who are in the ranks especially before and after their service. It's hard to go too far as I don't want to cause bad feeling in their latter years. (I'd never forgive myself).

I have to hold myself back from bringing up my niece and nephew when I get into it with my mam and sister about Brexit. Both voted for it, both made these kids' lives worse off, but it feels a step too far to actually spell it out to them. My sister loves falling out with people and I suspect I'd never hear from her again, and scoring a point in an argument probably isn't worth that. Probably.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8KsgQASS6y/?igsh=dWJpM3Flc29kOTFl 😂

That and GB news. The de facto father in law said to me with a straight face this country has never been better and is considerably improved compared to 14 years ago. Worst part is I don’t even think he believes it himself. He just can’t bring himself to admit what his beloved Tories have done to the country his grandchildren have to grow up in

Speaking of which.... Got some very triumphant texts from my mam yesterday about Reform polling ahead of the Tories. Sent her one back referring to the self-publicising, racist architect of Brexit and she quickly changed the subject. Not that keen to talk about Brexit anymore, although as expected it's not Brexit that's the problem, it's *this version* of Brexit. Last time I went out for a dog walk with my dad, he raised the horrifying spectre of 15 minute cities. I had to try and explain that it's a simple town planning concept that has been weaponised by conspiracy nuts, but unfortunately the conspiracy nuts have won the day there too. How I came from these people, I do not know. It's genuinely depressing though, the power of social media to melt people's brains.

Alright stop, collaborate and listen, Renty's back with a brand new patient.

As usual, very well observed. It doesn’t excuse his appalling philosophy but it does in part explain it. And it even makes sense re: the caricature that is JRM. He’s ‘nouveau riche’ compared to a true natural nasty posh cunt like Johnson. You also see it in the various guises of the trying way too hard Braverman, Badenoch and Truss. They’re all fucking mental, but that’s partly why they think it’s something to aspire to. I was privy to letters secretaries of state sent to then PM Johnson. The language then Foreign Secretary Truss used was like a ridiculous parody of someone trying to sound like a bonafide member of that set. With words like heft used instead of influence. The class system, starting with that jug-eared cunt, is the first thing I’d get rid of if I could.

Collaborate

We all need to agree not to let them renounce their plastic jockiness. They've made their shitty tartan beds, now they need to lie in them.

Puff

Lee Dixon is to co-commentators what Peter Sutcliffe was to truck drivers.

Tyldsley seems to get more vocal when he mentions Sobazlai (sp) for some reason?

I think that's a thing. People vote Tory as that's where they see themselves. I know a lad who is clueless when it comes to politics, but votes Tory because that's where he sees himself socially.

Aye, since my Dad died, my mother has had no-one to ground her. She has gone from Labour -> Tory (in 2019 like Dazzlers Fatha) and now will be voting Reform. She bleated on about Eastern Europeans coming over a few years but still hired Janek to do clean her windows.. "Oh, but he is nice". I think he fucked off back to Poland around Brexit time.

Quantum Leap

Just next to there, right next to the central station. It’s still quite a complex railway crossing but not quite what it was in its world record breaking heyday:

Never gets old.

I waa excited until I realised this. Vorsprung but Technik🙈

Du pain, du vin….

Have you tried not having sweatboxes every Friday night?

Is this the old time forum equivalent of fish saying he's got a girlfriend?

Once this is out the way I think you’ll see them being more like their true selves. I.e. supporting whoever England are playing