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I really enjoyed that. It's only the second episode I've listened to but I love Mortimer. He wasn't being as funny as he is in Athletico or on TV but generally he can't help being funny even when he's being serious. Glad to hear he's doing more stuff with Vic too.

There is a podcast about the Golden State Killer that I just listened to the first episode of last week. Given this new turn of events it'll be interesting to see how it pans out (the podcast I mean). It's called Unmasking A Killer.

Went to see the new Avengers film last night. After the last Avengers and the last Captain America (not to mention Dr Strange, Black Panther and Spiderman) I wasn't really expecting too much but I was very pleased to find out that I really enjoyed it. Right from the start there seemed to be a real threat that major characters would probably be killed off (even if you still imagine that there would be a fair chance they'd come back in some form in the future given that it's a Marvel film and you regularly see that happening in comics and lets face it, they are a cash cow for them) that made for much more interesting action scenes. They also managed to bring the comedic elements from the last Thor film and the Guardian's films which I think is where Marvel films usually fail or succeed.

I love Athletico Mince. You can pretty much ignore all of the fat Mackems stuff but Mortimer is a genius. The Sunderland songs (particularly the fact that KFC and donkeys are so regular) Beardsley and gangs of the EPL are all brilliant. I miss the South African stuff which seams to have tailed off. Fucking gang bangers, you gotta love them.

It was only when I ready that drivel from Taylor yesterday that I realised that Watmore wasn't actually a product of their academy. This makes it far more likely that he'll leave in the summer if he's fit enough for anyone to want. He's not got a great amount of skill but the pace he has(had) would most likely make him a standout player in league one. I'd imagine the likes of Gooch and Honeyman will manage to come through this season without their reputation being too badly harmed by the dross around them so they could potentially find teams like the ones Fish mentions willing to take a punt on them. Clearly the likes of Lens, Karzi, Kone, Borini will all be away. But there's no way they will get anything like the money they are hoping for for them. As Alex notes, none of their players are going to be attracting premier league interest so there's no chance of the really big money. And with everyone knowing the god awful financial position they are in anyone who is interested in their players will be bargain hunting. This will result in no money to spend again so that even if they might be a draw for players at that level they won't be able to afford them. I can see them having a team that consists of the players that were so shit no one even wanted who's morale can't be good now and will hardly be improved by being stuck in a team that's not being improved. I've not seen any of their games this season to I don't really know how bad these players are. But I don't think you really need to know to predict them struggling next season. I know how we were after years of Ashley, Pardew, Carver and McClaren. Had we stuck with the Wally With The Brolly we would have went down and stayed in the Championship for years. The morale at the club was the lowest I've ever known. It took a world class manager to change that. The state of them lot is far worse than we ever were. Coleman is by far the highest profile manager they could have hoped to get in their situation and he's managed to do fuck all to improve them. I'm sure they will point to Rafa taking us down but in the last couple of months of the season there was improvement that was clear for all to see culminating in the thrashing of Spurs. But even away from the results, we clearly took Rafa to heart. Can the same be said of them with Coleman? They might talk him up a bit but the proof is in massive numbers of unused pink seats in their ikea stadium. The apathy from their support means that even those who do keep going to the games will quickly turn on them when things don't go to plan and unless there is a change of ownership for someone very wealthy who can support them with funds for transfers, that black cloud hanging over them is going nowhere. Fuck knows how bad the standard is in league one. I suspect it's more than bad enough to keep them comfortably away from the threat of relegation. But in order to mount any sort of promotion push you need momentum and they have none (certainly not in a forward direction). Mid table obscurity is where they'll be.

Their 3 keepers this season got either a 4 or 5 from her. I reckon it would take a keeper with no arms to earn a score of 0 on that marking system. • Donald Love (Manchester United, £1m): Tries but not good enough at right-back. 6/10 What about that description suggests someone who deserves a 6 out of 10? They bought him for the premier league and he's been shown to be not good enough for the championship. £1m is nothing in today's transfer market for a premier league player but paying it for a league 1 (at best) surely deserves less than a mark which suggests more positive than negative. She really is the sports reporting equivalent of Sunderland.

I had a lazy Sunday and re watched the first season (I spotted quite a few hints this time round when I already knew what was happening) so I was keen to get straight into the new season.

New season of Westworld has started well.

Nice bit of trolling from the official twitter feed.

Thought it was very similar to the Burnley Monday night game. Shit game that could have easily gone either way. Typically when he’s being talked up for England, Shelvey was the poorest he’s been in ages. And after being talked up for his recent performances, Perez showed why we desperately need to replace him in the summer. But we gave away very little and with a bit of luck or a competent referee we probably would have won. I loved Pickfords reaction. It reminded me of that time Sunderland got relegated to league one by Burton.

I fucking hate the bisto drinking cunt. So after the weekends festivities, I fully expect to be beaten this evening.

That is one of the finest examples of Mackem behaviour I’ve ever seen. Absolute gold.

I couldn’t be happier at the moment if Scarlett Johansson was rimming me. As if I’d if them going down wasn’t enough. But bent scoring the equaliser for burton and the thick cunts not even knowing they were down! Christ I’m not expecting any Christmas presents for the next century.

worth posting again

I've watched a few episodes of the alienist and it's canny.

Ignorance excused but poor reading skills can't be I'm afraid.

You can be thankful for that.

Mbemba will surely be away in the summer. Him, Mitro and Gayle are the ones that I think we'll be interested in selling that are worth anything.

Not if we finish above them surely.

My mate said after the match that it was the first time since Robson that you could really feel proud of the team. We had a really good season under Pardew when we made Europe but there was always the feeling that manager was a cunt and the players were only here to get themselves a move somewhere else. Now we have a manager and players who (despite the wank stain we have for an owner) want to be here and do well for the club and it we're seeing the results come because of that.

I love that there's still a lot of their lot that expected us to turn on Rafa as soon as anything went wrong. It's fucking killing them that he's here.

I watched it online and we did ok considering how poor we seem to be at that level this season (losing multiple times to the reserve teams of championship or lower clubs) and we probably deserved the draw. The only players who looked like they had a chance of making it were that Fernandez (although he needs to learn when to release the ball a bit earlier) and Sangare who came on as a sub and looked head and shoulders above everyone else in the team. It was just a shame we couldn't get him on the ball more as he used it well every time he had it.

Maybe if we send it over poundland there would be more of them there to see it?

I've watched it many times and it's anything but.

Get to fuck man. Hudson is one of the greatest characters ever.