Alex

That’s him. It took me about 5 minutes to work out what the fuck ‘the Croin’ was though

The Lewis Hall talk reminds me of going to the match on the metro in the Championship/Hughton days. This young kid was talking to his mates and saying that Fitz Hall’s nickname was ‘His shoe’ because his shoe fits all (Fitz Hall)’. And this older fella turned around to him and said ‘It’s one size, ya divvy’.

They play it Cumbria too but that’s not much of an endorsement either.

Bar Loco used to La Toscana. One of those Italian restaurants (like erstwhile ‘Italia’ in Low Fell) that was all carafes of Chianti and plastic grapes on the wall. Where the waiters shouted at each other in Italian like everything was a major fucking drama. And where they prided themselves on being a proper ‘ristorante’ and didn’t sell pizza

Mind the IRA used to occasionally meet in one of the snugs in The Crown in Belfast, according to legend. I’m not sure if the Guinness was really good or maybe they were just taking the piss

The only possible way that story could be true from his perspective is if 1) he’s incredibly naive and 2) they’re all winding him up. Although I would agree his being absolutely full of shite is the more likely scenario

Owesya Wuhoh, did he say?

Comedy Dave bringing out the primary school insults

Nope. He was being a bitter old cunt

Even if they did, which they didn’t, what sort of argument is there for a team which only scored one and we’re lucky only to concede 5 as giving an impressive performance? Mind, if he’s rattled, we really should be optimistic.

One of those ‘happened to a mate of mine’ stories?

Well that’s all a bit depressing

Joking apart though. Imagine if your whole raison d’etre was being the person who started every thread for every bit of televised football on a given day. And then there’s that Hank Williams too

That’s the reaction from a grown man after someone else started a match thread. Followed by his starting his own rival match thread for Man Utd v Wolves.

The comment above it too btw.

Apart from it being obvious we’re right under his skin (as mentioned) he’s only being jokey with the journalists because nothing’s gone tits up this season yet. As soon as it does he’ll return to being a right stroppy cunt with them. Coupled with acting like a weapons grade twat towards the 4th official.

The fucking state of that

Not your fly on the wall type of affair but this series https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2415102/ narrated by Terence Stamp is superb.

Actually, they didn’t. Sunderland didn’t even exist then. Their involvement on the parliamentarian side of the civil war is barely even a footnote in the conflict. Exaggerated massively by them in their constant quest to be relevant. But, aye - fuck them anyway

Aye. I didn’t articulate it particularly well in my previous post but the point I was trying to make is that they’re a decent fucking side. So it was an impressive performance from us. That said, I’ll be happy for Villa to prove me wrong and have a shite season

I largely agreed with Rayvin’s earlier assessment. But I would say it wasn’t just a purple patch last season. I think Gloom pointed out they were 3rd in the form table from the point Emery took over. But there aren’t many teams that can cope with our pace, power and constant running when we’re playing well.

Aye. It’s a ‘mixer’ rather than a ‘sipper’ All the Appleton Estate stuff is the same company / distillery and much more refined. Wray and Nephew is unaged fire watta.

Shouldn’t they be concentrating on hounding out yet another manager?