Billy Whitehurst

I used to love those episodes of Gazzetta Football Italia when James Richardson was sat on a terrace outside Il Duomo supping on a Cobra as he demolished a Lamb Bhuna.

Ah yes, those famous staples of authentic Italian cuisine, curry and mayo.

Fucking hell. Overcooked naan bread, incinerated onion bhajis, pilau rice, some chunky brown slop, and are those chips between the naan and the brown slop? This is a new low. Had the shop run out of pedigree chum?

I’m taking my kids trampolining, fucking dreading it. At least everyone else on here sounds like they are having a shit one too. Apart from, that is, Paddocklad’s afternoon session in what looks like a belting pub. He can fuck off though.

I still maintain that he needs his own thread and only he is allowed to post/howl at the moon in it. I’d definitely read it.

He has been brilliant recently. Shows what good coaching and tactics can do. Schar, Joelinton, Krafth, Fraser, Shelvey, Willock and even Murphy look like different players. This, and West Brom’s hilarious form just goes to show how much Steve Bruce is stealing a living.

I think I’m getting too old for this nonsense. How the chuff is he 0.51xG when he has already scored a sitter? Surely he should be over 1?

We had a work do last Thursday. 12 out of the 15 caught it due to some super spreading bastard. Some who had had Covid as recently as January. That said, pretty much everyone had no symptoms or mild symptoms. I was one of the 3 that didn’t get it but I’m either putting that down to the amount of sauce I had or the fact that I tested positive for 14 days in December. It is tearing through London and tubes, pubs, restaurants are all packed this time round. Not really sure what the solution is.

He could have done but, unless we organise a friendly with Sunderland, we’re unlikely to come up against anyone of the calibre of Fiji any time soon.

Good luck with it all Renton, hang in there. If the meds and counselling don’t help then I would recommend the final two episodes in season 2 of ‘Sunderland ‘Til I Die’, they’re quite the tonic.

He has previously said that KSA buying Man Utd would be doomsday for football and has also written articles about Man City and sports washing so I think he has been pretty consistent. I don’t particularly like the guy but I think he is a decent journalist. Holt, on the other hand, is just a ridiculous man.

Yep, Oliver Holt is the most tragic of all. He has completely changed his narrative whereas I think Miguel Delaney has been relatively consistent over the years. I don’t actually know if Tariq Panja is a sports journalist or a political journalist as I can’t ever remember seeing his name apart from his student newspaper articles on the Saudis I see get retweeted on Twitter. I imagine him to be about 19 years old though. Anyway, fuck them all.

Can’t really fault that performance too much. Howe really has got us organised. It’s nice to see a manager who can be arsed with tactics. They were ok but I don’t think Longstaff or Lascelles are cut out for the level we aspire too.

I’m going to this but will be sat in the Chelsea end, just hoping Lascelles, Krafth and Longstaff don’t make it too painful.

Yes, maybe. Everton is the much more winnable game.

What a day. Great performance, Ryan Fraser was brilliant, Howe has transformed Joelinton and Schar. Targett is really solid, would much rather have him than Digne. That was as comfortable as it comes, can’t remember the last time I was so relaxed with a Newcastle performance. Also met Souness on the train (he was heading to the rugby) who told me he thought Owen was shite and never wanted to sign him. Wanted Anelka apparently.

Unless you have video footage of Budgy Burridge shouting “Well done, he’s ten” then I’m afraid I can’t accept any attempt to defend Owen.

He’s also an absolutely shocking pundit, properly boring as fuck with zero insight. It amazes me that he isn’t on Talksport alongside that other salad dodging fuckwit, Gabby Agbonlahor.

Nah, I don’t buy that. It’s all about Owen being a horrible charmless little cunt. No way would the majority of pros act like that to a 13 year old. I refer you to the Toontastic Hall of Cunts thread which Owen won at a canter even though one of the other players is a kiddy fiddler who played for Sunderland.

It depends how much you really want see watch over the hill legends like Scott Nisbet blowing out their arse. Who the fuck is Scott Nisbet and if he is a ‘legend’ then who are some of the lesser known players?

Absolutely howling at the last few pages of this thread and the forensic deconstruction of that post. We moved away from Newcastle when I was 8 years old so have never really encountered many Sunderland supporters. You’ll all know better than me but this RTG board surely can’t be representative? It feels like some kind of care in the community outreach scheme. I almost feel guilty laughing at it.

If she’s not, judging by the Eddie Howe thread, there are a few posters on here who would gladly deputise.

Really nice article, he was such a talented man. You have to admire his integrity. Not a festival lover but I always wanted to go to his festival in Carcassonne as it sounded absolutely brilliant.

Well let’s hope he’s worked on his act in the last 20 years.

I’m going to see Beck in June. I know about 2 of his songs but he is meant to be excellent live. If he doesn’t play those two songs I’ll be well pissed off.