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The prime issue is whether Short will keep funding the losses, but FFP is now an issue for them because of the scale of those losses. The UEFA regulations theoretically require these to be €5M, but IIRC allow you to lose €45M over the next two seasons (2013/14 and 2014/15), as long as the owner covers it. Sunderland are already in line to be well over this amount. If they go down they will be in serious trouble. FFP only means anything if you're in Europe, don't they? a version of FFP is being adopted by the premier league isn't it ?

History tells us it may be the other way round. colo was shite till he settled beside taylor, who was the better player at the start of the championship season and has been the equal defensivly of colo when fit. colo, however is much better with the ball when in possession.

Can't remember if I've already made a prediction but as of now, for all I want it to be QPR, the mackems and west ham,I think it'll be reading, Southampton and villa.

they have but i think they can get enough points from their home games to get to safety. it could be scary for them mind as I think they'll get nothing from the 4 games after norwich.

looks much nicer in real life, really nice personality seemingly aswell. when they first came over she went with her hubby when he went to school trips for the club. the staff at the bairns school were wowed by her.

complete c***s trick this like, not sporting at all. it's not like it's going to stop anyone. who would stop because someone made a noise ?. HTT, i can't remember taylor being classed a liability, he's had poor games, who hasn't, but I've never thought "shit steven taylors playing, there's a weak spot"

neither of our goals excite you ?, shame like.

na, though that was good. his telling the crowd to calm down after he slightly mis directed the ball back to eliott was better.

apart from neesy obviously whom I hope scores tons, has women swooning at his feet (obviously as the plucky loser being the redder that he is)

i'm off to work in 5hrs. hope you all get snowed on and hypobloodythermia.

do you watch football ? for all stoke don't have players you salivate over they have survived the past few years on more than the myth of their set pieces, their goals against us down there should show you that. recently our team has picked itself, expect very similar to line ups v chelsea/southampton/swansea.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=765920 now get this. it's now hitting home to them that they'll never ammount to much, they are at best lower prem/higher championship.................................because of their geographic location.

Have we ever not done that? aye and nar. we often get blamed for it even if it's not the tactic, ie the oppo pushing on a bit more due to being a goal behind. no denying sometimes we have but some try to make out we do it whenever we take a lead. Well of course the opponents push on harder when they are behind, but that happens to every leading team in every game, and not all of them sit back not being able to handle the pressure. Plus, if the oppo push on that's when you get some chances to counter and can find spaces: I've never seen us doing that a single time this year, and I can't remember the last time we did it tbh. It's not just a coincidence that 90+% of our wins are by one goal margin. if it happens to every leading team in every game why have we not done it when trailing ? the rest, for me, is a confidence issue, the nerves set in, players may well sit further back 'in case' without even knowing they are doing it. it's not necessarily tactics to do that . do you really think with the way we look when trying to hold on to a lead that we'd do that as a a deliberate tactic ?

it;s a point though. marty does seem to be trying to emulate clough by copying him without understanding times have changed.

Have we ever not done that? aye and nar. we often get blamed for it even if it's not the tactic, ie the oppo pushing on a bit more due to being a goal behind. no denying sometimes we have but some try to make out we do it whenever we take a lead. Some evidence of us pushing on when in the lead might help your case. pushing on ? we often tried to carry on as we were but the oppo were pushing on to catch up. as i've said before, more of an issue was why we couldn't put on that sort of pressure after going behind.

Have we ever not done that? aye and nar. we often get blamed for it even if it's not the tactic, ie the oppo pushing on a bit more due to being a goal behind. no denying sometimes we have but some try to make out we do it whenever we take a lead.

they know he has no money, they also know why.

Nothing that good could really happen to us. Happened before, Sudnerland and Boro down...And we blast our way into the Champions leage for the first time. Should have won the league that year wrong year i think. the season both the mackems and boro went down was when we scraped into 2nd late on, needing to win by loads, liverpool and arsenal to get beat. i think every result on that last day went out way. the odds on all the games needed for us to get second and them two to go down would've made for a good win.

SWEEPER KEEPER! been used by kids for years, also called rush keeper up here.

you know what I like best about all this ? from us being green with envy about their signing of brown and o'shea etc (we told them the reality, they wouldn't listen), from them getting the great marty (we told them, they wouldn't listen), yet it's us who are deluded.

he's similar to what he was at citeh. pretty when he gets the ball but to little effect and does nothing when he hasn't got the ball.

shows how little they know. many warned them about o'neill and Johnson but they knew better.

honestly wouldn't recognise him. I saw sameobi coming out of kingston park tesco the other week. in the same way shay given was taller in real life than he looked on the tele, sammi is skinnier.

i can see 37 points just stopping up. (not sure they'll beat stoke and southampton mind)

After good draws (im surprised sat here now) at Goodison and OT they must have thought they were on the way to safety, then we played utter s**** and they gifted us a 4-1! Sure they were mathematically relegated after the game at OT. And long since relying on snookers before that. the mackems have recently been decent at old trafford. at least twice they should've won.