madras

One of our lot has family there. Lovely people, he was NUFC through and through but with the thickest, I'm guessing Smethwickian, accent ever. Put us up and put up with us, cracking and unexpected Sunday dinner as well. But I'd never seen so many Ford Cortina's, even passing a car with a cover on, lifted the cover what are the odds.....a Mk IV fucking Cortina !

We stayed in Smethwick. Cortinaville.

Been linked with the West Brom keeper I think.

So that leaves just one chance to play them this season

And Sunderland won a cup. So I'd rather they just do what they did for Le Tour after the Armstrong years and just enter "no winner" in the history books.

You really think he has a clue what Pease pudding is ? He's told what to say for the sake of the piece.

Just passed a coach on Stamfordham Road with a "Queens Park Football Club" sign in the front window. Behind closed doors friendly ? Can't think where else it would be going.

Also strange the bits that are in quotes and those that aren't.

The only bit that sounds iffy, and it may be nuance, is that the fans may not be excited by these signings (or that's how it reads).

Salah and Mane were weren't they ?

I really don't think Rafa could have created this Murphy.

To be fair "team sheet" now is squad.

and he's loving it.

Come on man, look at the Joelinton thread, Gordon's, ASM's, Burn's etc

For a 31yr old. That really should be investigated.

One of those transfers that will end with Scamacca ending up being top scorer in Serie A.

Fee mentioned ?

I remember him at Burnley and for Eire and he was a handy nuisance, bit of a disruptor. Wasn't too displeased (considering our position at the time) at him coming on a free. He's been rubbish mind. I'd like to see him in with the current set up, once, in a nothing game, just to see the disparity for real.

Or he cleans out the teams bus.

Lionel Perez ?

Too busy on the drink in Newcastle.

That's what lead me to sign up on there years ago. They denied Niall Quinn was spat on by a Sunderland fan (despite it being in his autobiog), they denied SBR was an NUFC fan despite many written pieces and his Desert Island Discs bit) etc.

Nah I think he's being serious.

There's an old joke which applies to this situation........... a man rubs a lamp and a genie pops up and offers a wish, anything the man desires. He takes out a map of the Earth and says he wants peace from here,points to one end of the map, to here, and points at the other, with all hunger and want eradicated. The genie replies that he only has so much power and that is far beyond his powers, is there anything else ?. The man thinks for a second and asks for Sunderland to be in the Champions league. "Let's have another look at that map" replied the genie.

Given that it seems like we are going to have games with loads of added time and loads could happen in that added time,will the 4th official need to display added time at 90mins then, if say 13mins is added, then display after 13mins how long is added to the added time ?