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I would also add that Martins was up to his usual trick of coming back to "help" the team and trying to dribble his way out of his own half which nearly always ends in him losing it - that's why it wasn't a bad idea within the flow of this game to take him off (though we may as well have played with 10 with Xisco).

They are both absolute clowns who can't even play a 5 yard ball to a teammate - Martin's only plus is the odd spectacular goal (though a distant memory). They both should be dumped but unfortunately Xisco is fucking shit as is Carrol which as I said leaves Viduka and Owens as the only decent strikers we have. Pisser is 40 games between the two of them would be a miracle.

What worries me is that only Viduka and Owen are missing from our best team including tonight.

The article is a load of shit but perhaps the bastards now know how it feels to have such shite written about you as we have in the last few months.

I went to Morocco a couple of years ago for a holiday and had a great time but was warned pretty early on that one thing they don't stand for at all is any kind of anti-royal sentiment.

I didn't see the Given thing but I'd imagine that's worth more getting up in arms about than the "trouble" at the end which I thought was minor compared with some of the reports. Having said that in the context of it having happened every time they've scored against us there I do think it merits comment that nothings been done.

When Boro made the UEFA final a couple of years ago I remember saying to a mate that it was pointless them winning it as they couldn't be happier or celebrate more than when they'd beaten us. The same applies to them yesterday - their greatest moments as Sunderland fans had been the Marseille game and Keegan walking out - now they have an actual victory to celebrate their lives are complete - in fact as a mutually beneficial pact with the rest of the world why don't they all just kill themselves now.

For someone who doesn't drink or whatever that is the most pissed remark I've heard for ages. Martins was absolutely terrible.

Just got home. Cunts. Been through feigned acceptance, depression and anger (airport crawling with parasitic red&white Irish bastards) and have got to the cunts stage.

Cunt.

It's a schizo experience - you're full of adrenalin but at the same time fear of defeat makes you nauseous. The extremes make it a different experience to all other football games and I'm not sure whether its worth it. In my lifetime we've definitely had the better of them but the fear of defeat still terrifies me and sometimes I wish we'd never have to play them again. However when we aren't in the same league, the absence of the fixtures is palpable. They seem over-confident this time around - I think the first game at the SOS when they were flying under the heed and we were lower mid-table dross was a much better chance for them to beat us but they didn't (2-2) - I hope tomorrow is the same even though I don't think they're that good and I'd certainly take a draw.

I don't mind laughing at people's misfortune in the right circumstances but I had to switch that off because of the peskiness of being human and feeling sorry for her.

since the number is 616 as well just makes him especially wrong QI-licious

I was told by a religious nutjob years ago while waiting in a queue for a gig that the barcodes on the bottle of water I had and indeed all barcodes translate as "666" - He was so earnest about it and didn't take kindly to my reply that that would make any kind of stock control programs redundant before they were written. Having said that the idea of Satan and/or his minions going to all that bother just to surround us with his number did appeal to me.

Steve Harrison - Graham Taylor's monkey - sorry no link.

I was actually thinking the cliche last night in that millions of pounds worth of talent in an industry worth probably billions comes down the the competence of people barely beyond amateur - the thing is that's exactly what feeds their egos into making them think they are the stars of the show. Another cliche is that a good ref is one you don't notice - that should be beaten into the twats like Styles.

Think that was Winter - another fucking prick.

The problem Hughes has is that he still hasn't realised he doesn't play for the manc cunts anymore so he doesn't have a divine right to getting his own way. The same syndrome applies to Ince, Bruce and Keane.

Aye, regularly gets himself on 5 Live in the evenings. I don't mind that in itself, it's more the way he's goes on. He's come across as a very arrogant bloke. He was on a flight back to Stansted I was on after we played Liverpool about 6 years ago and a couple of scousers had a chat with him - nothing dodgy just mild banter and it took me about 20 seconds to see he was at a level of arrogant wankerness which it would be hard to surpass for normal people - really thought he was a football star.

I'd add it to every other minute I've seen him play - no potential or promise for me.

Is this another case of a gutless linesman? I think the players were asking him to consult the linesman and he seemed willing to go over to him IF the bloke had something to say but of course he didn't. I also agree with Burley's doomsday scenario - how can any tackle be allowed under Poll's criteria?

In the cold light of day I think they will claim that he'd already made contact and fouled him with his left leg before playing the ball - I don't agree but that would mean they would admit it should have been a free kick outside but still a red. One of the facets of corruption is to rewrite history though someone on Setanta (Burley?) made the point that Shay even made to not pick the ball up thinking it was a back pass via the tackle.

Fuck off you nobjockey, anyone who's ever watched football could see that was never a pen in a million years, you fuckin cockney wank. How would you know, you blind twat

Shite as usual - the video backed my original opinion up as it would have had I seen it at the match.

My usual question: Rob Styles - incompetent or corrupt? On the bright side there's nowt wrong with the team spirit. I'd also like to say how much I would love to see somebody cripple Shaun Wright-Phillips for life.