Alex

I mean it should be a satirical article but the Tyne and Wear doesn’t exist crack is exactly the sort of thing they regularly go on about.

It would be funny enough anyway but they absolutely love vastly inferior players like Cattermole and Kevin Ball. The latter would’ve probably needed a Vanuatuan grandparent to get an international call-up.

The local press are on to it now: https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/opinion/why-sunderland-should-rejoin-county-durham-4146591 I read it twice in case I’d missed something but no, that’s it

I agree tbh, although whatever happens Howe should be right up there. Irrespective of resources though it would be hard to see anything other Guardiola winning if they do the treble. I don’t really have a problem with that. It’s all about winning

I think he arguably had a bit more to work with but he’s done a fantastic job

They couldn’t afford him

It would’ve but that would’ve been 20/20 hindsight (which I suppose this is too ). There’s a middle ground where you stay in the game then go for it earlier. They’d have been incredibly lucky if the gameplay had worked with them scoring at the death with their sole attempt on goal I think it was. Especially in a game where we’d missed loads of chances and hit the woodwork on numerous occasions. They were in a position where it was very difficult for them to stay up but I think you’ve got to try and make things happen in that situation. I.e. not just relying on Everton dropping points at home against a Bournemouth side with no skin in the game. As others have said though it’s all very well replacing and blaming Rogers but it’s fucking pointless if you’re replacing him with Dean Smith. A little bit like Leeds. By all means change the manager but don’t do it that late and don’t bring in a fucking dinosaur / fraud like Allardyce

Kinky

I would say non-impact is generous if the result stays like this

U ok, hun?

Alreet. John Betjeman

They should keep it simple like in Italy (Serie B promotion and relegation): At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to Serie A and four teams are relegated to Serie C. The top two teams are automatically promoted and the third place team is only automatically promoted if they are more than 14 points clear of the fourth placed team. If the third place team is not more than 14 points clear of the fourth place team then the teams from third place to eighth place enter a play-off to decide the final promotion spot. The play-off system has three rounds and the rules are as follows.[6] The preliminary round between fifth and eighth and between sixth and seventh are a single match on the ground of the best placed in the regular season . In the event of a tie at the end of normal time, extra time will be played. If the game is still tied at the end of extra time, the highest ranked team goes through, without taking a penalty shootout. The semi-finals are a two-legged competition with a first leg at home for the teams that played in the preliminary round and a second leg at home for the third and fourth placed teams in the regular season. In the event of a tie in the aggregate result, the best-ranked team in the regular season progresses to the final, without extra time and penalties. The final is played between the winners of the semi-finals over two legs, the latter at the home of the best-placed team in the league. In the event of a tie, the best-placed team in the regular season is promoted to Serie A, without the need for extra time or penalties. In the event that the two finalists have finished the regular season on equal points, the second leg includes extra time and penalties if required. In the relegation zone, the three last-placed teams (18th, 19th and 20th) are automatically demoted to Serie C. If the 16th-placed team is 5 or more points ahead of the 17th-placed team, then the 17th-placed team becomes the 4th and final team to be demoted, otherwise, the conditions for a playoff more commonly called playout exist. If the playout is necessary, the 16th and 17th-placed teams are paired in a two-legged series with home-field advantage in the 2nd leg going to the 16th-placed team. The team with the higher aggregate score remains in Serie B while the loser becomes the fourth team relegated to Serie C. If an aggregate tie exists at the end of regulation play of the 2nd leg, the 16th-placed team is saved, and the 17th-placed team is demoted, unless the two teams ended the season with equal points, in which case there will be extra-time and a penalty shoot-out if still tied.

Was there not too much bother with teams being relegated via the playoffs which ended it? Leeds fans going on the rampage after losing to Charlton rings a bell

They’d have exploited the size of the pitch apparently. #imagine

Was that the ‘87 cup final song of theirs?

I like him about as much as I like his brother’s comedy

Dortmund score but it’s too late. FT in Koln. They had loads of chances as well

Aye. Like a morgue in there now

Koln equaliser v Bayern now

Dortmund just pulled one back

It was noticeable that when Arsenal did it to us it was a sign of their maturity and beating us at our game etc. I don’t mind Arsenal doing it and it’s absolutely what I’d want us to do in that situation. But the cake and eat it hypocrisy from a lot in the media is ridiculous

I’ll say Coventry purely for the fewm. But not arsed either way really.

Bellingham on the subs bench for some reason I notice

Sportswashed 👆

Sounds like we’re rattling all the right cages but it’s obviously devastating not to be getting patronising pats on the head from the likes of Miller