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According to RTG he never lost one. Although Villa's squad probably cost three times more than Birmingham and West Brom's combined and I don't know for how much of his reign they were in the same division.

Both 'class' and '9-1' only entered the Mackem lexicon after they were absolutely harrowed by the 5-1, about 10 minutes after they'd been sure our relegation meant it was their turn for an extended period of dominance. Going into this match they were still sure we were a championship level yo-yo club and were relishing the prospect of demolishing us. All of that crumbled in 90 minutes and they desperately needed to clutch at a straw to beat us with, however flaccid. I don't think any of them genuinely think their club is seen as 'classy' by neutrals or even classier than ours, or that anyone outside of Wearside (or even in Wearside pre-2010) knows or cares that Sunderland beat us 9-1 in an age where football was so different that the modern offside rule didn't exist and Newcastle were winning the league. The reason it seems so bizarre is that it's a collective expression if one of the stages of post traumatic stress

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Think the police have probably told them we're all turning up in England shirts with shaved heads and doc martens, swinging bar stools and shouting 'Oo are yah'. Probably thought it would be cheaper to cancel our rooms than compensate innocent tourists killed and maimed in the melee and rebuild the hotel from the rubble.

Stephane Sessegnon is hoping his next experience of the Wear-Tyne derby will go better than his last, when he saw red. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/8166263/

How much do you charge per hour to your, uh, clients?

Ah, it's half the fun man. The entire journey there makes you feel like a child murderer on your way to court.

How do they know when the deadline for 75+ points was only today?

Seriously though, sounds like the Belgian police are shitting it and going about this completely the wrong way. Did Birmingham give them trouble when they were over there or something? If they think people are just going to shrug their shoulders, cancel their work leave and chuck their £110 Eurostar tickets in the bin because they've tried to make it difficult, they're going to be disappointed. Makes me think they're going to try and be proper zero-tolerance as well, this is going to be the match where I get nicked for nothing and get a life club ban isn't it It's not rocket science, it's easier to control 7,000 fans when they're in the stadium, not when they're in the home end, outside trying to buy tickets from touts and in bars. No-one is going over there looking for trouble, but if there's a bar full of half Brugge and half Newcastle fans who've been drinking right through the game, there's a last minute goal and half the pub go into mental celebrations, of course there's going to be more of a chance of trouble than in a segregated stadium.

They really don't want us to be there, do they? Way to make a guy feel welcome.

Depends if you include Coldplay.

And yet no Krul, Taylor, Santon, Colo, Jonas.....well, I'm struggling to see his logic. Perhaps someone from the Sunderland division of the EDL could explain? http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=735587#ixzz290eX7sOs Single somebody out. Picks multiple players. They all look the same to mackems man. The mushroom village from the Smurfs has a higher level of racial diversity than Pennywell.

I am often known to prowl in such places!

They stand out like a sore thumb. If someone makes an observation that they've already heard someone make, they roll their eyes and shout "GIGGS!" for a start.

One ticket arrived today. Wish my mates would catch me up on loyalty points

Guess who were on last week http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mg74/features/wonga-account-fraud

Applying for me and my dad together on my card, guess I need to put my signature on the bit at the end after the card payment bit and not his?

Right, time to work out how the fuck to do this then

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/8154563/

20 pages of championing personal responsibility 'If you get into a deal with a company like Wonga it's your own fault, it's your choice, no-one forces you to' and then when it looks like there might be repercussions from us signing up to a four year deal with a company whose business model is seen as immoral and potentially illegal somehow it's not fair. Yeah, hypocrisy is the word.

Sounds very much like the FA may place restrictions on where they can use the branding from some of these articles like

If it was a player in Peta I imagine they might have put up with Tesco even though they sold meat, but might have reservations about being sponsored by Huntington Life Sciences

It's alright they won't be able to read the repossession notices. Well this is kind of another point, isn't it, there are much better solutions out there such as credit unions, but the people who need them don't find out about them because credit unions can't spend £24m advertising it. If you don't have the internet etc to do your research and you desperatley need £50 to pay someone who's threatening you with whatever, the only place you might know to go to is one of these guys. If you're a rich chap who owes £50,000, you can probably have your accountant negotiate with the person making the threats and probably point out these threats aren't legal, you can get advice, you can get a loan at a ore reasonable rate, you still have day to day living expenses covered. If you've got literally nowt, you'll probably end up at one of these guys, and in those 5 minutes they're not going to find out if you're just some wide-boy who can't wait to buy the new FIFA or if you have a mental age of 12, don't know what you're getting yourself into and have no idea how you'll be able to pay it back with the amount of added interest.

This is just the people who've actually taken out loans by the way not the people who end up being hounded for money they haven't borrowed seeing as you can just ring up with a name and address and get approved in the space of a few sentences. Which I guess could even happen to this meeting of the finest minds of our time, not just to the sub-human scum who've lost their job and haven't got the knowhow or the lack of morals to game the benefits system or hotwire a car instead.

Using some of the logic on this thread, is it possible for anyone to prey on the desperate and vulnerable? Illegal loan sharks? Dodgy door-to-door double glazers knocking on old folks doors? Confidence tricksters? Drug dealers? Protection rackets? Gang masters? People traffickers? Crooked landlords? Pimps? It's easy to say "Oh, well, they shouldn't have got involved in it", not so much when you're desperate, have mental health problems or are semi-literate.