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Sometimes the cards just don't fall your way. Rooney gets dropped against Blackburn, they have a few players out of position, nice easy game for Fergie to rest some players, result, 2-3. Man City beat Liverpool (football club) and back comes young Shrek full of hell ready to be a pain in the arse and pester the ref. Fergie ALWAYS treats a game at SJP with respect and drills their players that its a hostile place etc as he knows when our tails are up we can give them a game, so for that reason you never seem to get an 'off game' from them up here. I'm at work tonight, expecting the worst, hoping for the best. P.s. On Obertan. Just wonder whether Carr would have recommended this lad if he spotted him playing in France? Buy from Man U? Buyer beware! A Pardew signing and so far, a waste of the little funds we have at our disposal from Mr Sports Direct.

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I quite like Arsenal myself. Who said I hated them? Was just starting with A for Arsenal.

I once spoke to an Arsenal fan down there, his patter was, 'yeah, mate, Noocarsill, once went there back in the day, 6 fahsand gooners, good day out', 'when was this?' I asked, he replied it was in the eighties when the terraces was there. I told him he was talking out of his arse as they would only ever bring about 1500 up, tops, and even did so when going for the title, his reply, 'Nah, mate, there was fahsands of us'. When I asked him for specific games/dates he backpeddled quicker than a clown on a uni-cycle! At the same time we were taking 5-7,000 away to places like Barnsley, Rotherham, leeds etc on a regular basis. They're shit liars, like.

Running out to .......

Presenter: "......and we've Nick Hornby-clone on the line, speak to me, my friend." NH-C "Well presenter, I was disgusted at the other clubs attempts to kick our pure footballers out the game and I'm also very much concerned with the direction that Arsene Wenger seems to be taking us.......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........ etc, etc" They always seem to have well spoken fans with either posh or foreign names who could talk a glass eye to sleep.

I've a long memory and hold grudges!!

Used to fill Broon ale at 4°c and it would knock your head off! They were known as 'icers', i.e., 'fancy an icer?' when you got the chance.

After our young Dutch Liverpool supporter opened up a can of worms the other day by asking our opinion on Liverpool football club, (never just liverpool), why don't we all just get it off our chests? Arsenal: The girly screams of some of the Premier precious players started with these cunts, never seen a side have so many hard done by players and a hard done by manager, always conveniently ignored the fact that they've always had some dirty hacking bastards of their own, I could still smack that blonde moonfaced cunt, Dixon every time I see his face on MOTD for his hatchet job on Ginola when they did us 2-0 in the QF of a cup we could've won that year, Bergkamp got away with fucking murder but never got pulled up for it, he was the epitome of a sneaky bastard. Van Persie against Wolves sums these cunts up, nowt to do with him, little wrong with the tackle, probably didn't even see it, but trying to dive in and confront the wolves kid for the refs benefit, typical Arsenal twat of a player. Likewise Viera, I swear this cunt had carte blanche from refs in our games to commit 6 fouls before the ref would give him a yellow, compared to one of ours getting carded straight off. Their faces when they spat the dummy out and lost three nailed on points in that 4-4 was priceless. SBR telling SKY that they needed to learn how react when they got beat was priceless too when Parlour got sent off, I used to listen to talk-ins then, fuck me, their fans were unreal. Talking of their fans, yes, they're a big club, but they have quite a few hangers on and band wagon jumpers as well, I remember Paul Goddard netting the winner at highbury in front of 19K in the late eighties and their travelling support was always tiny for games up here, even the season they won the title. But when it comes down to it, a bigger set of fannies playing the game, you'd fail to see. NEXT!!.......

Merson played for a couple of clubs with chips on their collective shoulders regarding NUFC in Villa and Boro, with the latter painfully aware of how shit they are and how far down the pecking order they are in our interests, Villa can't stand the fact that nobody gives a flying fuck about them, and I include their own support in that. Even throughout the years you look at some clubs support in games against us or in matches where we're not involved and you sometimes think, 'they look like they're enjoying themselves'. They might have a canny song they'll sing, it could be funny etc. I've NEVER had that feeling looking at the Villa fans, thats an honest opinion, they have always had shit songs when they do rouse their arses to sing, they could moan for England, and they just give the impression of being dull as dishwater. Fair enough, like, the accent doesn't help them. They should play in Beige with thin grey stripes and run out to Val Doonican on the tannoy, to be honest.

No harm to the kid, but he's 16, Dutch and shhupports Liverpool Football Club. Nothing sterotypical there, then.

Can a mod put 'shoot to kill, shoot to kill, men' after the 'come in peace' bit to the thread title?

Brilliantly summarised. The other day i caught SKY showing the odds for the title, They put Liverpool on with the Man U's and Man City's at odds of 250-1. Why? Might as well have shown the odds of every team down to 13th, to be honest. This is what I mean about the media's obsession. By the way, to our Dutch friend, how could I forget Andy cole getting three at the Gallowgate as Neil Ruddock was taught what being a footballer was really about as Sellars, Lee etc ran rings around that utter clown, Souness' side?

Just to get back to remembered matches, I remember most of them going back to the eighties. Us taking Anfield over in a cup game in 1984 and genuinely singing and shouting for virtually the whole game as our 2nd div side got beat 4-0 by them. I remember Mavis Reilly scoring a diving header which won us the game up here about '85, remember sitting with Everton fans in a bar down there, having failed to get a ticket just knowing we were going to beat you at Anfield. We did, 2-0. Stevie Watson standing in as a striker as we had none and scoring a fucking peach after holding off a few liverpool players and chipping the keeper. Mirandinha hitting the winner in front of the Kop from the spot was superb. The 4-3 game we lost is waaay behind all these. Kenny Dalglish? Have respect for him they way he dealt with Hillsborough, acknowledge he signed one or two good players for us (as well as some overpriced shit), but felt he was too negative and not sure his heart was in it up here. What do I think of Liverpool? Met a few decent ones to be honest, your club? Just wondering when the media are going to realise you haven't won the league for twenty years, its so like their obsession with your mates from old trafford when they were in a similar position. Also, no fault of your own but glory hunters just get on my tits and you've a fucking boatload, almost as many as Man U.

Don't think this'll go well for you my young Dutch friend.

Mentioned this a while ago. Sweet Jesus do the young'uns need to man up! What a fucking clip, even Duncan Norville would blush.

Enrique will have a blinder, Carroll? Who knows? But Craig Bellamy.......Just have a feeling he'll come on and rip us to bits, Dirk 'I'm a footballer, really' Kuyt to have the ball land at his feet, unmarked and score, we'll get beat here tomorrow, they're not that good at all, but we'll get beat. SKY to cream themselves as they get the winner to seal it 5 mins from time and the Scousers/day-trippers-from- Wales/Ireland/Scandinavia and Cornwall have a little YNWA sing song at the end after 80 mins of abuse from the low allocation our utter cunt of an owner requested and the ex-Reds sitting in SKYs studio can drool over 'Liverpool Football Club'. (Never heard an ex-Player of theirs ever just call them 'Liverpool'.

I agree that New Years day is far better, last few years its been NYD afternoon on the drink and calming down with the drink, taking my time and switching to bottles, and then a disco in the club I get in, plenty of females/dancing and usually a party somewhere afterwards and no New Years Eve Knackers or auld lang sine shite. Of course I've now put the mockers on it! I think last year on new years eve I got an Indian and watched 'Guns of Navarone' on the telly, then had a fucking great day and night on NYD instead. Result.

...........until we went to this titty bar, etc........

Yes. I'm a happy lad tonight, put it that way.

"What mood are you in and why?" Absa-fuckin-lutely fantastic.

"Did you bang it?" You were just pissed, man! Mrs Fist will know that and know how cut up and worried you were. You two seem pretty tight and good together by your posts. I doubt you'll want that headache again!

"Baby Lee" by Teenage Fanclub, the best band in the history of the world you used to say that about the Happy Mondays in every edition of True Faith man !!!!! Anyway, that song rang a bell, and Teenage Fanclub......I thought I'd heard it before but can't remember when. I think you're confusing me with someone else; presumably the editor - while I saw Happy Mondays a few times, I didn't rate them that much. My musical heroes come through the semi-acoustic folk rock lineage; The Byrds, Robson & Jerome, Gram Parsons, Dollar, Fairport Convention, Rick Astley, leading to Teenage Fanclub, Belle & Sebastian and other such bands That's a varied line up, there, Gene.

Throw the fucking book at them. But expect low key coverage and it'll blow over as when it comes down to it as nobody gives a fuck about Sunderland outside this region. How many Sunderland players have been caught acting like cocks in our city through the years? Give them an ASBO and keep them out of our fair city.

Would've been good to that goal before half time. Need to put one away, lads.