Big Geordie

Brown :D

Defoe scores - 2-1

I read earlier that the kit has been changed (colour wise) a couple of times, during the club's history.

Are you surprised? Only got to luck at our cup record since Ashley bought the club. It's not a priority, because there is no money to be made from a cup run.

Do you want everyone to miss? Got no great liking for either side. Boro fans (in the main) are twats, having been at Uni there for 4 years during the early-mid 90's.

Ashley Young misses Boro through - 3-1 on pens.

Carrick misses 1-2 to Boro

Nugent misses for Boro

Rooney has a pen saved 0-1 to Boro Shootout

Given the problems we currently have in centre-midfield, would it not be an option to move Colo into a DMC position, fetching Dummett alongside Mbemba and Haidara then at left back?

The FA give with one and and take the piss with the other. Fucking joke the club have been charged with failing to control the players.

Allardyce is right about this last bit - it is utterly bizarre. I wonder if they will do it again next season? Assuming we are both in the same league!

Barry Sweeney's dad; "I've heard Adam Johnsons getting stick about his goal celebration today. Well take it from me it had nowt to do with a flying tragedy which happened last year. Adam is in trouble because of an action he has been accused of but remember British law states that innocent until proven guilty. Also remember Adam was a Newcastle fan and I know because it was the Keegan era. Give the kid the benefit of doubt and let justice prevail"

Obviously, some little mackem charva doing his keyboard warrior bit. Still though - fucking grim.

I feel quite 'meh' about whether we go down or not. Reality is, we are in serious trouble but remember we've been swimming against the tide, since we finished 5th and Ashley shit himself. We have some good, young talent but also some players who should have been moved on a couple of years ago. Those who run the club have only got themselves to blame for their myopic outlook and as ever, it's the supporters who suffer.

Even some mackems think that's what he did then. Worth pointing out though, that these won't be respresentative of all Sunderland supporters. Just a few mindless arseholes giving it the big 'I am' online.

TF going after Johnson's 'celebration'; http://www.true-faith.co.uk/thru-black-white-eyes-maladjusted-25oct15/ THRU BLACK & WHITE EYES – Maladjusted – 25/Oct/15 BY MICHAEL MARTIN • OCTOBER 25, 2015 • TBAWE • COMMENTS (0) • 266 The last time I came out of the SoS after a derby defeat I was amongst a febrile away support sickened after another gutless surrender from a team which just looked to have cowardice running through it like Blackpool rock. This time, don’t get me wrong, I was with people similarly devastated at a derby defeat of an infinitely more emphatic score-line but this felt different. The difference I suppose was McClaren leading part of the team to the away end at the final whistle and the support returning the applause and a travelling support loudly chanting its defiance as all around the SoS Mackems could scarely believe what they had just witnessed. United didn’t just edge the first half – we were completely dominant. We passed the ball well, our movement and shape was far superior and a goal to us looked inevitable. Then of course the sky fell in on us. We are denied a clear penalty by a grotesquely incompetent referee who got decisions big and small wrong all afternoon. Then we are looking horrified as the referee points to the spot and Coloccini is given a red card. Johnson puts the penalty away and we are staring at another derby defeat square in the face. What has been widely overlooked by the media however is Johnson’s celebration! I’m not going to defend the relentless abuse heaped upon Johnson in connection with his forthcoming hearing into allegations of sexual offences with a minor. They are a bit over the to me and I don’t particularly like it. Johnson has a right (if he’s innocent) to feel wounded by the abuse but what he is not entitled to do is run the length of the pitch, arms outstretched in an aeroplane gesture that many around me took to be connected to the loss of two Newcastle United supporters in the MH17 disaster last year. It was a gesture not dissimilar to what has been common-place at Old Trafford for many years from nugget supporters wishing to goad home supporters with Munich tragedy gestures that I’m delighted to say has never been something we have indulged in with the exception of one or two utter tools. Needless to say it will be impossible to prove what was in Johnson’s mind. Had he celebrated with Sunderland fans behind the goal where he scored the penalty, this discussion wouldn’t be happening. But he ran the full length of the pitch with a gesture that looked to me to be calculated. Obviously, no-one in the media will have the balls to put the matter to him or Sunderland AFC. That’s not to score ghoulish points off Sunderland. No other set of fans or club responded so well to the MH17 tragedy our near neighbours and that should never be forgotten. This should not distract from the magnificent gestures that came from Sunderland last year but Johnson appeared to be up to something offensive and distasteful as far as I could see. It should not be swept under the carpet. But onto the referee Robert Madley. If I wasn’t so invested in the game I think I’d have just laughed but obviously this was no laughing matter. How on earth Madley can decide Tiote’s two fouls warrant a yellow card but let Cattermole’s persistent offences go unpunished is mind-boggling. I could go on and I’m sure you have. But obviously the biggest rick is Madley’s decision to ignore the hand-ball and then clear foul on Gini in the Sunderland box which happened only seconds before they get their penalty. Let’s leave it at that. The derby has gone and we have to suck up the humiliation that comes with a sixth successive defeat to a team as lamentably piss poor as Sunderland. What must happen next is we beat Stoke City on Saturday. For all of the lift we got after the Norwich game last week, that has all gone now and we need to get a win on the board and recover from this defeat. Anything less and we are going to be looking down the barrel of relegation again. For me we need 20 points before the end of the calendar year and we had better start collecting them now. If we don’t beat Stoke on Saturday then we are in the shit and it is rising. ---------------------------- I can't comment on what Johnson did. TV had him pegging it down to the away end. Is it a mountain being made out of a molehill?

That won't get sorted until Ashley sells up. If they owner doesn't give a fuck and lacks professionalism, then why should some of the players? Shite always flows downwards and NUFC are a great example.

Today's sending off aside, it does seem that our sendings off record is an issue that needs addressing, but it won't be. Why? Because it's an overall symptom of how the club is ran. Rotten to the core. I also believe it's near a calendar year since we were last given a penalty.

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It's worth bearing in mind that while they have been us 6 times off the belt, imagine what it must have felt like to go 28 years without beating us at home. That is mental cruelty over a GENERATION. We will have our time again. Lets just hope we don't have to wait until Ashley sells up for that to happen.

Steve Bremner is a hack for Murdoch's favorite rag.