strawb

I worked in Tunisia for a while when I was younger, most of the people are spot on. Speaking to some of the people who worked there after I left the general unrest has being ongoing for a while. Bad times.

Didn't you say Tim Krul probably reads these forums or was that some other knacker?

I am utterly disenchanted with Ashley's view and handling of the club. However I think McClaren on the board is a view to the future and not necessarily a bad thing, if things go tits up (they probably will) they can keep him on as the "football man" on the board and appoint a new head coach with relatively little disruption to the club. Basically acting as a Director of Football. However any success or failure is going to be down to McClarens ability in both roles (debatable), the ability of the new board to create change at all levels of the club (unlikely) and a much higher level of investment than previously from Ashley/the clubs coffers (no chance). So basically, meh.

How does this relate to Sunderland though?

Could you just show us on this doll where Rolf Harris touched you?

This is a great album, been listening to a load of the old late night tales albums recently. Still good.

Most of my mates are boro fans, seen them live a few time playing in the NW. Bamford is a decent player, does everything well without excelling in any area. Would ay he is bit slow for the premiership but decent finisher and decent link up play and ok in the air.

Pure bellend you like

How much rummaging/digging/detecting did you have to do to find this coin, that was perfectly placed on top of the ground?

Fucks sake man.. http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/talk+a+glass+eye+to+sleep.html

Confined spaces? Young manager stood up top on a headset/walkie talkie?

Rumours here that Vieira earns more looking after the City kids than Newcastle are offering for a manager

Fair enough, kid plays for England youths and has no reason to lie to his dad like

I live 10 minutes from the city ground/youth ground now. Vieira isn't even the assistant manager, he looks after the youth team. One of the joiners at works son plays for them and Vieira has full blown childish rows with the under 18's, cant see it going well if this is true.

Nah its not, because of some other completely irrelevant point. Also I believe that up is in fact, down. So there.

I am assuming that your quotes came after the 0-0 at Burnley in April? If so, Burnley and Tottenham had 10 shots at goal each, Burnley hitting the target with 4 while Tottenham hit the target with 2. Are the Spurs forwards misfiring too? Probably not. The fact that Ings missed a sitter is neither here nor there, all strikers miss chances. As far as cherry picking quotes goes, Burnely manager Sean Dyche: "We edged it overall and kept a very good side quiet. That's two clean sheets in three games and there's plenty of endeavour. "I was really pleased the way the team went about it. That was a very motivated group of players who want to be in the Premier League. We're not disappointed. We've gone for the win and that's eight clean sheets for the season now, so there's clear progression." Doesn't even mention Ings' miss, and seems more than happy with a clean sheet. So yeah now I cba with your noise.

Can't be arsed with the rest but this here, coming from you? strawb, on 25 May 2015 - 9:59 PM, said:

Canny. What were the in depth thoughts of Collymore about Burnley's struggle to score goals? Was it down to a misfiring 21 year old striker who scored 11 goals (30% of Burnley's goals this season) who is probably going to end up at bigger club? Or was it that despite playing "decent" football (a misnomer that is always said down a long nose at a supposedly "smaller" club) that their whole team simply wasn't good enough to create enough chances and score enough goals? Also Burnley have been playing with 1 up front most of the season despite playing 442 all of last season because Sam Vokes was out for most of the season, so ignoring "forwards" like Boyd and Barnes who have been playing wide of the 5 behind Ings (10 goals between them) the REST of the TEAM got 6 goals. This to me doesn't point to a misfiring forward line. I would say that Burnley's lack of goals was down to an ethos of trying to be hard to beat i.e. keeping goals conceded to a minimum, this obviously in turn leads to a lack of chances for their "misfiring" forwards. This leads to a host of narrow defeats and in turn adds to the pundit bollocks of them "playing well, just unable to score that one goal" which isn't necessarily true because if they had been more attacking they could have conceded 2/3 more.. I know Garth Crooks can get his points across more succinctly than that so I apologise.

You listen to commentators and pundits and think "aye that sounds about right" yeah?

Aye, I am the one looking an idiot. I like Garth Crooks' general outlook on footballing philosophy but I prefer Stan Collymore and Adrian Durham for the more in depth tactical analysis.

So when you are making assumptions on football, who is your go to pundit?

I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say here like

Nah, its generally a sign of being a bellend. You are definitely on some kind of spectrum though.