McFaul

Any potential golds today? I wouldn't say they're shite, but Brazil aren't Brazil 1970, and aren't unbeatable. I don't know if GBR can beat them but if they do the gold is there for the taking. Even if we lose we weren't expected to get out of the group so we've done so well, we had some luck yesterday, but no one wins anything without luck. 77,000 at Wembley to watch Gabon v Korea yesterday in a 0-0 draw (the only game on there), is there a country in the world who could match that?

I don't give a fuck about twitter reputations, I made a mistake and apologised to him which he accepted, fuck knows what it has to do with anyone else. Anyway it was prozac scoffer, not prozac muncher. One of the Nufcfans group, saw Clarke Carlisle on a train from Manchester to Bradford (as I predicted as well). He spoke to him for two minutes, asking him about his next move, and his thoughts about NUFC etc... the conversation took place outside a train toilet door, nufcfans made out it was a long interview, but as soon as Clarke Carlisle got home, he saw what had been tweeted to 20,000 people, and he said I said absolutely nothing of the sort and most of it was fabricated, further diminishing nufcfans credibility on twitter. It was massively embarrassing for them.

Work in Sunderland and come back. There's more ginger people in Sunderland, and they're generally smaller.

Utter bollocks, in fact the biggest amount of bollocks you've written on here. Hardly in the same ball park as that, hardly in the same stratosphere. If someone is going to abuse NUFC in an unprovoked, FSA, Simon Jordan, Matthew Syed style attack, they have to expect some sort of reaction, because a pikey reaction "is quite a faakin fing". The thing that tripped me up was the lass got it all wrong and I didn't check the facts, and dived in feet first. I shouldn't have said anything about his depression even if he said Newcastle had the worst fans on earth, were a mickey mouse club and all the players were cunts, which is why I apologised because I insulted him and used a dodgy card. Anyway as JawD it's nufc fans fault, and by the finish Clarke could see I was genuine and was more or less saying he'd take me for a pint. Might've known the former geeky student mafia on here would make it out to be something it's not though, especially with Clarke saying I was a shining beacon for NE football Weldy is a mate as well, and a good lad brought up on the Shankill Road but hates bigotry, he was only stating facts, he gets to more NUFC games than half of this board despite being in Northern Ireland, he's sitting beside me against Tottenham as it happens.

Is there anywhere to view the published article?

They say if a dog bites a child put the cunt down because they'll do it again. I was out of order but how it was put to me was he'd been slagging nufc and the supporters off, I said to a lass who'd mentioned it, he should stick to the prozac or something like that, I didn't say it directly to him (which probably makes it even worse), but somehow he got hold of it to my astonishment, and said he hadn't been slagging NUFC off and his interview with nufcfans was a lie. I apologised unreservedly, was a stupid thing to say anyway, but what is better a man who's a cunt who won't admit they're a bad man, or a good man who's been a cunt who admits they've been a bad man? Not that I'm a good man like, but neither is J69 with his pish. If it was any cunt else he wouldn't have commented. By the finish Clarke was saying I'm a shining beacon for North East football fans, which shows the class of the man.

I respect you, you're an intelligent man, but when I started working in Sunderland I went there with the hope I'd better my impression of them, it got worse. I'm liberal in my attitude, and to be fair I can see how you think like that because I see similarities between people in South Shields and people in Sunderland. The accent is different, but there are similarities, I'll leave it there.

Nothing, and I mean nothing could be further from the truth. CT lives 4 miles from Sunderland and 9 from the toon, granted I accept people from Boldon don't have mackem accents, and even he says just a short trip away they're completely different. You've been away from the NE since you were 16 and it shows. At nearly 6ft3 I'm not big in Newcastle in Sunderland I'm a giant, there's something about the Tyneside genetics, and some survey proved we're the tallest most handsome cunts in the country, perhaps the viking influence I don't know. Every pretty house has a toilet though and that counts for genes too.

It's a bit long winded to be honest, but it ended up with Clarke Carlisle of the PFA saying this.... Clarke Carlisle ‏@clarkecarlisle5 @weldy1980 @leazeslad True that! If only more people had this in their armoury..... #respecttoyouStevie

Fucking J69 is a wank though. He's been well behaved recently almost resorting to good lad status, then he retreats to his default ways. Mug.

If only every footballer was as humble as Clarke Carlisle.

Might as well be a mackem yourself from Fencehouses you're certainly more their stock than you are ours put it that way, which explains why you like them.

Hehe all true enough but...the Scrogg hasn't been a pub for at least 8 year.

My parents are both from Walker and I like it whenever I visit family, spent large parts of childhood there. No problems in Byker or Walker, best people you will ever find in my experience. The older ones especially. The area around the Barnes pub itself is bland, it is better than Cruddas Park, but likes saying someone is better than Tyson Nunez.

I know just about every part of Sunderland, and that area round Chester Road you mention, it isn't completely shit but it's no better than the worst place in Fenham. You have to go 3 or 4 mile outside the town centre to get anything like vaguely pleasant in Whitburn and East Herrington. They're victims of their environment, in fact they're victims that Newcastle got royal coal shipping rights, because our regional dominance has effect them ever since, must be 500 years now.

Sniffer is the clear and present Maud Grimes of Toontastic. West Yorkshire for you. If he won the lottery he'd moan about "all t'begging letters off people on t'dole". Cheer up.

It's £14 to watch them playing worse sides the wor reserves though.

I never ever go get in the mackems have got beat. Like ever, I think I probably would have when Gillingham beat them but I was too young to appreciate it, but if the mackems are on telly, I'm not shouting at the screen for them to lose. I think so fuck either way, in contrast to people like RhysSAFC about us, although technically from Consett he's not a full blown mackem.

Aye Kate Adie too, you would never dream that she's a mackem, but she managed to escape when she was about 17.

I don't know if it's that. Their reality is different from geordies. It's like asking North Koreans if they'd prefer to be South Korean's, the people in the North know no different so they probably wouldn't and it's the same with mackems.

The actual town centre is fucking so depressing, it needs the kiss of life, the people are just downtrodden, bitter, they just aren't evolving they're stagnating, I know people might think it's a bigoted rant but it's how I feel about them, awful, it's a sad miserable place, where it's easy to see why life expectancy is pretty low, depression rates high, and moral decency is completely devoid.

I can relate to most of that, although see when I go to Asda I reckon you see just as many toon shirts.

You voted you hate them as much as you love Newcastle.

Really CT??

Well it was a good 40 yards.