PaddockLad
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What was he threatening to do to people on their walls? The post cuts off for me.
Paul proving the power of the internet by uniting a shower of bickering twats behind 'laughing at the fat lad'.
something to do with "raping their mothers"
he clearly has some issues, which makes his inability to fit in on here all the more strange if you ask me
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Really entertaining match.
Completely different Birmingham to the one who were so meek against us.
Anyone else feel bizarre watching this alternative reality where carr and bowyer are taking arsenal apart several years after they looked finished for us
and now martins
I was just thinking the same thing.....its a bit unreal, McLeish persuaded Carr to come out of retirement and now he's at Wembley winning a trophy.
Fair play to Brum and to McLeish who's got to take a lot of the credit. Won loads at Rangers and now he's winning trophies with fuckin Birmingham City
Is Mcleish in with a shout at the Man Utd job when bacon face finishes?...
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So do I take it England won on fewer wickets lost?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/sta...l/scorecard.stm
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apparently she is getting elocution lessons for her stint in the US. pet.
I think shes already had the English ones. She was on a course with Ant and Dec. Shearer was meant to attend but he went to Blackburn. For the yanks to understand geordie it can take up to ten years. I think your accent is hard to understand because Scotland let England have Newcastle. It was a clog in them economy I think.
There was a couple of yank actors (well, one was Diane Kruger, who sounds like a fuckin valley girl but is actually German) on Graham Norton on Friday night an the third guest was your old mucka John Bishop and the other two couldnt understand a word the scally twat said
Sold any good jokes lately Mick?
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Richards lost his battle with cancer on 26 February 2011. He was initially diagnosed with an inner-ear infection and underwent a brain scan, but was reportedly told the chances of having a tumour were "extremely low".[4]
In March 2005, he announced his retirement from the game due to illness after receiving "evidence that it would be harmful to his health to continue". He said: "I am obviously deeply disappointed to be giving up the sport I love, but it's the only choice." He was suffering from frequent dizzy spells and headaches owing to an inner-ear infection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Richards_(footballer)
Very sad, canny player in his day rip.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that but they are shit.
One of them was done by and 11 year old scouser what do you fuckin expect?
The other one is sort of impressiony/abstracty....I'm sure you know its not supposed to be a photographic reproduction of the subject so I don't really see how you can say it's "shit"; it's the "artist's impression" of Shearer, I presume scoring the record breaking goal...but as you say one mans meat, peace and love etc...
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Alan Shearer, acrylic on canvasI like that who's the artist?
John Lennon's picture of George Robledo scoring the winner in the 1952 FA Cup final....No9 is Jackie Milburn....it appeared as the cover of Lennon's Walls & Bridges album in the 1970s, and he also released a single from it called "no 9 dream"
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Jackson Pollock, forgotten about him, good stuff like....
John Squire copied Pollocks style on various Stone Roses cover sleeves when he wasnt chopping out riffs for them....and he was also chief animator on the 1970s cultish kids animation "Cholton and the Wheelies"
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No footballers, went to a rugby school....various semi famous Scotland & British Lions players went there...
Brian Redpath, head coach at Gloucester
Alan Tait, head coach at Newcastle Falcons...went to rugby league whilst working as a roof tiler in 1987 having appeared at the first rugby world cup, then came back to union in the mid nineties and scored the winning try in the series winning second test in South Africa in 1997. No one else has acheived that as far as I know, he's a bit of a rugby ledge.
John Jeffrey, from the same village as me
and Justin Molotnikov,little known film director...cine buffs may have seen his feature "crying with laughter" from a couple of years back, or more than likely not : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1098790/
Whoever said Clapton wins, unless Rob W was at school with his alter ego, God
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Push on or cut back? Why Sunderland's losses mean Quinn, Short and Bruce are at a crucial crossroads
By Simon Bird
Published 23:00 21/02/11
There is an old joke in football's boardrooms.
Q. How do you become a millionaire?
A. Be a billionaire, and buy a football club.
Best not tell that one down at Sunderland, where it is increasingly relevant to wonder: How deep are the pockets of owner Ellis Short?
How much longer will he be prepared to pump £28 million a year, for that is the sum he balanced the books with last season, and the year before, to get Sunderland competing in the top ten?
Are Sunderland nearing the end of an unsustainable journey? Their current income, £65.4 million a year, is so out of kilter with spending which for the year to July 2010 stood at £96 million.These are the issues chairman Niall Quinn and tycoon Short are grappling with behind the scenes at the Stadium of Light.
It seems that Sunderland are at a crossroads.
If Short is happy to burn cash (last year he loaned the club £22 million and £6 million) in the short term, there won't be a problem.
If Short wants Sunderland to start to break even, major cut backs will be needed. Specifically on transfer spending and the club's wage bill, which stood at a massive 82 per cent of turnover, £53.7 million, last summer.
Does this explain why a deal was done so swiftly to sell Darren Bent in January? An injection of £18 million, rising to £24 million, certainly helps this season's accounts.
These are not popular questions to ask. Fans like to imagine there is a bottomless pit of cash from a billionaire benefactor. And indeed, so far, there is no suggestion that Short will turn off the tap.
He bought Sunderland cheaply from the Irish Drumaville group, and he wants to build it into a asset worth perhaps ten times his purchase price. And have some fun along the way as an owner and football fan.
There has been progress. Steve Bruce has been backed to build his playing staff, he has largely bought well, and shaped a team that is threatening to match the seventh place finishes that Peter Reid's side achieved ten years ago.
These really are, on the pitch, very good times on Wearside.
But there is a sticking point, tempering the optimism and hope.
Back in the Reid era, when a trip to the new Stadium of Light was a novelty, and his team were a band of brothers who grew with the club, attendances were regularly topping 46,000.
The current revival under Short, Quinn and Bruce has actually seen attendances fall. Gate receipts for last season plunged by £1 million, to £12.6 million.
And there is the problem. Unless crowds increase to Quinn's 44,000 target, pushing up turnover and making Wearside an even more intimidating place to visit, Sunderland's progress may stall. Quinn says so himself.
The vision Quinn sold to Short when he contemplated a takeover was of investment first, to improve the squad, followed by what Quinn believed would be increased attendances and a rocking home crowd. Investment offset by increasing turnover as Sunderland grew off the pitch.
But income has stagnated. Falls in sponsorship, merchandising and conferencing have been offset by the rising cash from the tv deal.
And here is the knot of the problem. The recession hits the North worse, and Sunderland fans will be suffering more than most as cuts bite.
It is not a question of loyalty, it is a question of money. The first luxury to go in households is likely to be expensive trips to the Stadium of Light.
Quinn is right to try and cajole fans back. That is his job.
But watching a match in a pub, (illegally broadcast or not) over two or three pints costs under a tenner. Turning up at the Stadium of Light, even with its progressive ticket prices (among the best in the country) could cost three times that.
Quinn will take a road-show around the region to win back fans. Last time he did it four years ago, it was evangelical, and it inspired.
He says: "If I don't win them back, the club may have to downsize and cut its cloth differently. It'll be difficult to follow up on the current investment and players may have to be sold.
"Manchester United have just announced turnover of £289m; ours is £64m. We can't compete financially with that.
"Our missing 10,000 fans cost us £1.8m over the season so a figure like that won't make the difference in allowing us to compete - it is those fans being inside the ground and making it a hostile place for visiting sides that makes the difference.
"What I want from our fans is their atmospheric input. That's what makes the place special. If they don't come back, we may not be the club I thought we were and could be."
Economic realities are hitting home at Sunderland.
Thats the top and bottom of this, and its got them to 7th, 2 points ahead of us, a newly promoted bag of shite....
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L7 sit in on Saturday after the Bolton game?
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#...fficialfanepage
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An acca I put on in December and I forgotten about it finally paid out tonight, £120 odd
What were waiting on?...... Berwick's superb home win v Montrose?
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Brett Ormerod has now scored in all 4 divisions for Blackpool, which is nice.............3 nowt, Danny crying into his chicken soup
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wonder what the response on here would be if there was a bobby robson version of this thread
Is there an abysmal statue of Sir Bob anywhere mate?...feel free to go ahead if there is.
The ipswich one isn't great but fortunately i have too much respect for SBR to mock him like this.
typical
typical of what?....someone who doesnt take everything they see on the internet seriously?....correct...which must be a new feeling for you....
Not taking it seriously?
Oh i get it, mocking a dead North East legend, what a great laugh
No, as has been explained the thread is mocking that hideous statue....if you want me to be serious for a second then I think its a fuckin disgrace to the bloke. But there again, look who commisioned it....
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wonder what the response on here would be if there was a bobby robson version of this thread
Is there an abysmal statue of Sir Bob anywhere mate?...feel free to go ahead if there is.
The ipswich one isn't great but fortunately i have too much respect for SBR to mock him like this.
typical
typical of what?....someone who doesnt take everything they see on the internet seriously?....correct...which must be a new feeling for you....
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wonder what the response on here would be if there was a bobby robson version of this thread
Is there an abysmal statue of Sir Bob anywhere mate?...feel free to go ahead if there is.
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All kicking off....unconfirmed BBC sources say theres 233 Libyans dead in violence this weekend. Gadaffis son just appeared on national tv trying to scare the public into calling off the revolution and offering compromises, also claims only 84 dead and tanks on the streets are being driven by "drunks"....his old man is reported to have fucked off too....
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Somebody called Tehuoe or something has just made two Arsenal centre halfs look very stupid.....1 each and just going into 4 mins of injury time
Barry Hearn is going to be a happy boy tonight....
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Depends on what you mean by "settle"?...do you mean us the fans "settling" for Everton's recent league record?...bar relegation, its been quite similar over the last 10 years.
Don't we just settle for what is being dished up on and off the field by whoever owns the club?...we might not be happy about it, but our crowds show that most of us are willing to at least tolerate Ashley,or not let him spoil our enjoyment in spite of everything. The only thing that couldve made crowds stay away wouldve been a prolonged period in divi 2 but it didn't pan out like that.
We're our own worst enemies in a way and we all deep down know it. Not enough of us are willing to stop going and even if we did is there anyone out there that would want to take us over and put enough serious money into us to make us serious challengers for silverware in most seasons? The potential is there, no doubt, but in reality we settle for whatever we're served up. We'll just hold our noses about Ashley and get behind whatever team we have to put out next season. And I expect the Everton fans will do much the same, as in reality we have no choice but to vote with our feet.
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He arrived in Roker Park’s dying days and moved to the new Stadium of Light in 1997, fired by the passion of the crowd that filled their new 48,000-seater home to the rafters time and again.
Really?
TBF - they did get full houses for the first couple of years under the Monkey's heed - it was only after the relegations bit that they dropped a bit.
That was in the initial "free ticket mackems" era though.
Aye exactly. Headmasters in places like HEXHAM, BLYTH, BLAYDON, ASHINGTON, FUCKIN HAYDON BRIDGE (proper Sunderland heartlands), were getting letters - "right £50 bring the whole school doon" and that's how they filled 48,000. Newcastle have almost always had full houses for 18 year, paying top end prices (most expensive outside London).
It was further afield than that....they sent a team of coaches to Kelso one weekend in the 90s and had a coaching clinic for all the local youngsters then put a bus on for them the following weekend to take them to a game at the sol.....Kelso is close to 70 miles from sunderland
As we speak there are currently 2 sunderland fans in Kelso ...the same amount as there was almost 30 years ago when I was at school with one of them...the other one is his older brother and unsuprisingly their old man is from sunderland, they were brought up to support the fuckin twats. In view of this I think its fair to say as a policy for recruiting fans its worse than useless.Quinn has sold Short a pup and now he's getting grief from the yank for it. As you say, entirely predictable. Feel sorry for him in a way, but you can't make honey out of dogshit
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Don't know if this has been mentioned but a friend has just said that the 10% renewal discount only applies if you bought a ST for the first time last season....anyone know if that is correct?....cant find my renewal pack, think the dog ate it, then threw up
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Kevin Phillips is still in the Premier League???
Let me re-phrase that.
Kevin phillips is still alive???
aye and half of Warwickshire are hanging out of his missus.....who'd have thought it?
Guthrie on for Best....just shutting up shop or was Leon injured?
spurs scored in san siro, crouch...away goal for the cunts
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aye we're sitting back and letting them play...fuckin get into the cunts
freekick to brum....and the stream freezes!
what happened?
Will you be renewing this season?
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Am crumbling... heart and head are saying the same but..
the fat cunt has almost got me, £504 is a fuckin great price for a ST, that cant be denied...is today the cut off for the 12 month direct debit or did I just imagine seeing that on . cock earlier?..