Alex

I think Ferdinand might have most rancid patter of the lot. He’s got absolutely nothing to offer as an analyst.

That list so fucking what? The idea that’s some heinous list of crimes against football. That’s fairly standard stuff in sport at the highest level. At least it is when teams are competent and professional. And that’s not a lot of incidents over a season anyway. If you can call them incidents. But aye, it’s a definite sign teams are rattled like. Imagine having the temerity to potentially get top 4 this soon? Because the alternative to a new kid on the block like us is probably Man City winning about 80% of domestic trophies for the foreseeable.

Aye. It’s light on detail. And everything else

They do realise that ships aren't crewed exclusive by people from the place where they’re built, don’t they?

The bloke from the Roker Report is delighted that the Roker Report have published his piece. Which, incidentally, cites absolutely no other sources to back his claim. It does, however, make claims that come from ‘international researchers’ Just give it up, eh lads?

Is that the big announcement about the origin of Bilbao’s kit then? imagine being so desperate to be relevant that you reinvent history to the extent you’re actually telling another club they don’t know their own history. Without any basis and purely because said club and its fans enjoy close links and a friendship with us. They are absolutely fucking tapped

I don’t know about you but I’m already excited at the prospect of signing all these players I’ve never heard of

He’s doing some work experience

I’ve chatted to her briefly once. She was on with Rafa and Caulkin at a talk in at the Tyneside Cinema sponsored by The Times. Also there was a show that ran briefly on Channel 4 which was kind of their version of The Sunday Supplement. She was on once and there was a scouser who worked as a tipster for one of the red tops who was a regular on there. He had to explain to her that betting on the result of a football match was a three horse race and not (as she thought) a two horse race. Even after spelling it out I wasn’t convinced she’d understood.

Not exactly an avid follower of his but does he ever talk about football?

She’s a dyed in the wool Liverpool fan. Also it’s just a case of they got their noses in front then did what all good sides usually do in big games against well matched opponents. It was one of those games where if the penalty stands or Murphy’s effort is an inch or two in a different direction then it’s a different story. As others have mentioned these games often go one way or the other on very fine margins. The idea Howe is the new Diego Simeone though is a combination of lazy journalism (based on his very short time spent there) and them being unhappy at one or more their beloved big 6 getting pushed down the pecking order. The hypocrisy and wise after the event stuff man like last night when a very cynical Real Madrid we’re clever, ruthless and had laid a trap. Only when they were winning though. At 1-1 Man City we’re assured, professional and controlling the tempo etc. just fuck off tbh. Like Arsenal only did it to get back at us. It’s called winning, you fucking bint

Should make a fillum about it

We’d ripped their hands off if anyone offered that tbh. You only need a modicum of objectivity to view his constantly picking up injuries as a major concern.

Look, you can’t change the constitution by removing the second amendment. Seriously though, I can’t get my head round the ease with which almost anyone can buy semi-automatic assault weapons. Imagine sending your kids to first school in a country in peacetime. And having a genuine, well-founded fear that they might be killed in yet another massacre. And the machinery of government basically being able to do very little to change the laws to help prevent that. We’re all guilty of becoming numb to certain horrors on the news. But it must’ve gotten well part that stage in the US where it’s the mass murders of (often) little kids in your own fucking country.

Not all Sunderland fans racially abuse players’ mothers. Not all of them go on the drink with only a couple of advent calendar chocolates to line their stomachs and proceed to have a shite on their seat, not all of them have their annual bath / shit outside in the fountains at Trafalgar Square, not all of them carry cheese slices for their half time burger. However thousands hero -worshipped a nonce and would probably take him back in the blink of an eye if they though he could still do a job* for them 👍🏻 *I mean literally, not just defecating outdoors

Isak could play in any of the 4 most advanced positions too in that formation. With the advent of 5 subs having options to come off the bench is more important than ever. Not to mention European football next season putting a greater strain on the squad

I like how he seems to be suggesting that the apparently nonsensical ‘Reubens square….’ graffiti is some sort of coded message from the hand of an agent provocateur. Rather than it being someone so pissed they think writing on a war memorial with a marker is a good idea. Not that being pissed is much of an excuse

Well he is a practicing catholic

Maddison is a touch of class imo. I think he works hard enough and would do well in one of the wide attacking roles with runners we have in midfield. I also think we’ll need more flexibility going forward. Howe’s pretty much played the same system (just with changes in personnel at times) all season. Even when we played Sheff Wed away in the cup and made a few changes it was still using the tried and tested 4-3-3. I think recently the over reliance on Bruno (and Longstaff) means we’ll look to sign another ‘number 6’. Apart from allowing some rotation it means we’d be able to play 4-2-3-1 and Maddison would be great in that system, especially as a 10. Tl:dr - sign him and get Declan Rice while you’re at it

Started watching Storyville: Blue Bag Life on BBC4 last night (available on iPlayer) and ended up watching the whole thing. It’s about Lisa Selby and (mainly) the relationship with her mother. The latter, who struggled with drug dependency, abandoned her as a 10 month old baby. It’s mostly shot on her mobile phone and is inevitably grim in parts, as it tackles the death of Helen (the mother). It manages to avoid cliche and there’s humour there too. Helen, even sat drinking special brew in her grotty basement flat, is charismatic and funny, like an opiate-addicted Beryl Reid. Lisa battled addiction herself but seems to have come out the other side relatively unscathed with a career as an artist/photographer/ lecturer in fine art. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Well worth watching (c) The Evening Chronicle

Mad to think he was a liberal and a civil rights activist in the 60s. How do you go from that to where he ended up?

Has to be a mag that travelled to Preston because their fans don’t have form for embarrassing themselves and the club

Fuck me. That would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. Btw the latest Texas mass shooting (where 4 or more people have been killed or wounded) was, according to the beeb, the 198th in America this year.

Aye, it’s the dark arts and having a big game mentality rather than a dirty Madrid side being allowed to get away with it by a weak ref