Alex

I know he’s talented but I never realise he was a world class sailor

I bet he’s put a few off signing

As ever, the appalling commercial revenue figures show the ‘running a club like a business’ bollocks is precisely that.

It was acceptable in Italia

Aye, I thought it must’ve been when Ardilles was manager. Just looks like a bit of grass on a housing estate where we’d have played when we were kids

It’s certainly ambiguous enough for that to be the case. A bit like ‘every penny the club generates’ patter

Aye, but enough about Adam Johnson

Yeah, he did well. He’s benefitting from being coached by Benitez but it’s a testament to him that absorbed what he’s been taught also. I also think that playing as one of a back 3 suits him perfectly

It was at least a yellow just for the foul even without the other factors.

Gene is no longer on the turnstiles at Heaton Stan btw, in case that was putting anyone off going

Aye, given where they are in the league at this point in the season it was massive game for them. Only not for the reasons the mackems think it was

Pre-season friendly?

Hope not

As an aside, Heaton Stannington had 400+ there on Saturday, albeit with Billingham town taking about 200 to see them win the Northern League Second Division. Still a hell of a crowd for that level (especially with Newcastle at home).

To be fair, he’s on his 8th pint of blue pop

If you say so, Lee

That sort of mild piss-taking by Newcastle fans seems to be about the only thing the mods on there take issue with.

And the magedia.

The idea that opposition players are able to engineer results to ensure Sunderland stay in the division so they can benefit financially. If they were able to do that they’d just get themselves into one of the automatic promotion spots instead.

Some kid on there claiming the owners didn’t want promotion this season. Because that’s more plausible than them being badly ran. I would imagine they were absolutely banking on getting out the division at the first attempt

Ivan Toney assist

Wouldn’t mind reading RTG atm 😆

And Raoul Moat was

Aye, promises will just be reneged on anyway

He was a cunt of a player who seemed to get away with it due to looking about 12 years old