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I was home from Denmark a couple of years back and the wife and myself went to see Ricky Gervais at the sunderland empire. After the gig we got lost for a while trying to find where we'd parked. My wife, who's Danish, made my night when she casually said that she had been in East Berlin before the wall came down and she thought that sunderland look more deprived.

Bit of advice for the pair of you. Straighten up your baseball caps, untuck your tracky bottoms from your socks, it's not a good look, and get a life

Fucking hell this thread has made me seriously homesick. Left Newcastle in 1989 at the tender age of 22. This has brought back so many memories of simpler times

That should endear them to the Leeds fans.

Don't get why we keep going for defenders where that seems to be the best functioning part of the side this season.

You cant really blame the players for that though can you? If you were told you were going to get £100k a week for doing what you do would you say "Nah" of course you wouldnt. I don't blame the players. You're right if some bugger would give me that kind of cash I'd rip their hands of as well. I blame TV and the governing bodies for allowing it to spiral so far out of control.

Can't argue with that. Sums up pretty much why I've fallen out of love with the sport. I watch very little if nothing that isn't Toon related. Money has fucked up footall. Apart from the hooligan element the sport was much more fun in the 80's. Thickets earning 100 grand a week because they can kick a ball is fucking mental.

.....and who are we going to play in defense pray tell?

beckham had a huge hissy fit at the end of the first half... walked over to the supporters section of the galaxy and told them to fuck off... he then asked one fan to come down to where he was... the fan jumped the barrier and was escorted out... Yet some smart arse still took their kids with them wearing the Milan Beckham shirts!!

I reckon without sounding pessimistic it's possible (no I haven't been doing drugs) we are coming to the end of everything, and the sad thing is if that's the case we never got to see us winning a trophy. Everything is bad in the world at the moment, 15 years ago everything seemed better, and a lot of the ills of the world are seeping in to football. When you're talking about £40m for an unproven Argentinian who I thinks shite anyway (Aguerro) you know it's fucked up. The only way football will get better is if wage caps and budget caps are implemented, otherwise football is dead officially. The whole point of football is competition. Between 1950 and 1980 there was nearly 20 different champions of English football, 1980-2009 there's been SEVEN, I don't mind when clubs win it like Liverpool did in the 70's, but when the whole thing is driven by greed at the very top of UEFA and FIFA you just think what's the point. The Champions League shouldn't even exist in my view. Agree totally. Everything that i loved about going to games over the last 30 year is slowly but surely being taken away. This money situation is fucking ridiculous, the world is in a recession then Real Madrid pay 80 million for one player who then claims he's worth every penny, BOLLOCKS. I still go games and watch and read all the news but i think it's the moth to a flame syndrome. I follow because i always have done and always will do but the love of the game of football for me is slowly dying. Money is killing the game and sooner or later it will all come crashing down

Not holding my breath

I wish this bollocks would sort itself out soon I'm getting bored.

Something really fucking stinks about all of this

Aye! You might be looking at our potential first team squad for next season. Wee Ken Jyn General Manager - Thailand I wonder if he's Scottish ? Litttle Scottish african bloke

A big bet.

Cause me dad said he'd thrash me to within an inch of me life if i didn't. Let this be a lesson for all the Geordie fathers allowing their offspring to wander the metro centre wearing manc, chelsea, scouse, etc shirts. Seriously though just happened naturally my dad took me to my first game in 76 and from there the pain began.

Sticking pins in me eyes and sliding down razor blades using my balls as brakes. Just wish it was fucking all over once and for all.

I'm thinking of cancelling me sky subscription, because i'm sick to fucking death of staring at Sky bastard sports news 24/7. Go on some fucker ask me Amir Khans weight, fucking ingrained.

Yes we're in the shit, yes it looks bad, yes we are about to self destruct, However it could be worse we could be mackems

may your balls turn green, fester and fall off. Let your inbred Makem family them boil them and have them on toast with your cheesy chips.

Yet again at the end of a transfer window we're in the shit. When the fuck will this fucking club learn. Who in christs name worth his salt would take this job with Wise and his cohorts making the decisions. I hope I'm wrong but i think this time we've fucked it up badly.

It is Wise 110%. It's not even up for debate he's already been told he's the new manager. If true it's a fucking joke.

It better not be Wise or

Athough I'm not panicking outright yet, there is definite reason for concern. As stated not many clubs have spent cash however not many clubs are in the situation we are. Next season you can have seven subs, that will just about take our entire first team squad, three or four injuries and we're fucked. The management and board have known all year that our squad is in dire need of stengthening and should have identified realistic targets prior to the season ending. These players should have been signed to give them a full pre season so we could at least hit the ground running, no one expects us to beat Man Utd or Arsenal but a few bad results against lesser teams could see confidence blown and land us in the brown steamy.

None of your business tbf. Bell. Embarrasing is it?