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Well you're shit out of luck, you should have gone somewhere else.

The booing at the substitutions was fucking loud by SJP standards like. Completely audible chants of "Big Sam for England", and a "Wheeeeey!" and applause when we heard what the scousers were singing about him. Had to laugh at "One shot, we've only had one shot" then about 10minutes later when Martins sent a wayward effort over the bar "Two shots, we've only had two shots". Had to laugh or you'd cry at that point... Did seem like people were streaming out after the goal but it must have just been a small amount of people leaving in a very short time cos you couldn't see any gaps after that, still full of unfortunate punters till pretty much the death.

I can't wait to see what bizarre tactic or selection we're in for. I'm going to plump for two of my favourites recently, "hoof the ball up to a midget" for tactics and "Milner on the left/Zog on the right." for selection.

Fine by me, let him get his feet wet with England to see if he's good enough for the top job

Just got back. That has worn my patience very fucking thin with Sam like. Not read the thread but I'm going to say what I imagine everyone else has already said. Started without Milner and so got royally bumraped down the right. Took off Emre, the only player we had on the park who had the slightest hint of looking like doing anything. Finally brought on Milner, but obviously Sam had got bored of being raped down the right and thought we'd like the refreshing change of being raped down the left and took off Zog. The Guests of Collingwood Insurance had obviously had too much free beer and were taking the piss, as usual. Smith and Geremi must have something on Sam, maybe pictures of him snorting coke off a ladyboy or something. A cynical team like Arsenal or Man U would have put 7 or 8 past us today and we're lucky to escape with just a 3-Nowt hiding. Not looking forward to facing the Gooners like. EDIT: Oh, and Carr at left back.

native american shurely ? please excuse my total political incorrectness Think he was more of a Cherokee I think that more than anything is my abiding memory of my formative years in the benches and paddocks. The sheer randomness to suddenly hear the hollering. We called him Tonto. Didn't hear him for a few years then he suddenly reappeared at an away match about 10 years ago if I recall.

Pulled out at the last minute, snapped his vocal chords ordering a taxi.

Dunno if they showed it on telly but there was a bit of a pitch invasion in the corner when they scored. Ten or so mackems got various distances onto the pitch, hugging the players etc.

Very much like when you've got a dashboard camera in a rally car and it flips over. GROUNDSKYGROUNDSKYGROUNDSKYTOONSHIRTSKYSCREAMINGFACEGROUNDSKY and then seeing my mate who was sitting one row in front and about ten seats down coming bounding over people to grab me. I somehow lost some skin off one of my knuckles and I've got a sore forearm still, possibly from wacking the yorkshire lass with bright red hair who was sitting next to me in the face.

Could of bricks lobbed at our coach, but they hit the side and not the windows. That just reminded me of the "Fuck off the Pennywell" chant at the end

I saw a grand total of 2, both being held by the same idiot at the end.

Mate of mine was sitting right near Ashley and said some bloke was giving him shit most of the game, saying how the performance was shit, how he needed to sort it out etc. Great crack on the coaches giving the mackem bastards some shit. Banged on the window at some fat bloke and he opened his shirt to reveal a toon tattoo in the midst of all the mackems in their tops, what a guy. Song of the day had to be "4-1, even Chopra scored" when we were cueing at the turnstiles.

Well I've just got back and I#m pissed off my titts. Got to say I'm happpy with a draw, like. Noticed they'd bought their jiffy bags with "TO SAM" and "BUNNG" on just in case we didn't get the joke. Some sad mackem bsstard tries to brick our coach as well but they missed the windaz-obviously didn't have abything bettr to do!

It's alright, if Smith plays he'll be sent off in the first half. Well lads, it's derby day. Just got up with a horrible hangover, off to see some strippers in half an hour apparently. Howay the lads!

dance of the nights or summit Cheers I'm being a bit nosy like, but any particular reason? Maybe he needs it for his ringtone cos he's sitting in the home end. I wouldn't like to be in the midst of tens of thousands of frothing mackems on derby day and have Local Hero start blaring out my pocket.

If only Paddy bookmakers weren't beyond reproach in that respect, they could have borrowed some off them. I still don't get this sudden Irish fan connection with Keane by the way, didn't his little tantrum cost them the best stab they had at getting anywhere in a major competition for decades?

I wasn't at the last one but the one before that (Solano's late penalty). There are police swarming about everywhere, you would struggle to get near the mackems if you tried. Basically everyone gets herded onto something like 70-odd coaches and buses forming a massive long convoy and given a police escort into sunderland. I remember there was a late kick off because a few dozen brave/mad Geordies decided to travel on their own and take the metro to the ground. Trouble obviously kicked off at the other end so the police had to escort them through. You'll be fine wearing your toon shirt, just make sure you get on the coach/bus back. Cheers, thought so. Not getting the official coach, but I'm told the one we're getting on is joining the convoy anyway, so should be alreet.

Get in, hope Ashley gets a round in Starting to shit it a bit now like. Meeting the fellas I'm going up with at 7 tomorrow for a drink so hopefully that'll calm my nerves. Be a lot happier coming back when we've got 3 points in the bag. Couldn't go to the last one, presume we'll have enough legions of coppers around us 24/7 to be alright wearing a toon top, ie I'm not going to take a wrong turn out the turnstiles and end up surrounded by the great unwashed?

Rafa's Liverpool have rarely had a problem pulling out a fucking cracking performance when they desperately need it, that's why they've done so well in the Champions League and cup competitions in general. It's the fact that, unless the situation does it for him, he can't motivate his players to beat the likes of us or Birmingham with any degree of consistancy, and that's why Liverpool can't win the premier league. Last night doesn't really change that, it shows that Besiktas are a fucking woeful team by Chamions League standards and that Liverpool are more than capable of beating them blindfolded - but Rafa couldn't get them to get the job done without it being a crucial make-or-break match.

Until players really start to shine or otherwise we could always just work with what we've got We think, he may Turn out to be OK Habib Beye, Habib Baye He runs more than the rest, At least he tries his best, Al-an Smith, woooaaahh, Al-an Smith, woooah We're not sure of the reason, He looked canny pre-season, Could his muscles be torn? Hope he regains his form, Walking in a Geremi wonderland

Aye, when we were scoring goals for fun and sitting top of the league we were a lot louder as well, and the creative juices were flowing a lot better in terms of making up songs an all.

We've played two decent teams so far, Pompey and Man City, and both of them have embarrassed us.

As well as the obvious ones like the 2-1, sitting in the pissing rain in the car afterwards going no-where with "Why does it always rain on me" on the radio, turning up for a semi final and apparently playing for a draw, there's a few to come to mind that were disappointing for me personally - Derby away this season because I was really looking forward to seeing us win away for the first time in ages and it pissed all over my giddy optimism about a fresh start and brought us down with a bump about how much work there's still to do. Frankfurt away, simply because it was a cracking holiday with 90 minutes of piss poor football in the middle and no goal to celebrate. Saying that, it was a good experience and great atmosphere in the stadium (from the home fans at least)

Quick delivery but not well packaged and quality is suspect. Would not read again.

"Right, remember lads - keep it in single figures" Seriously though, I'm not going to slate Sam yet until he shows he's never going to learn from mistakes like yesterday.