James

8 is a lucky number for Chinese they want house numbers, car numbers, phone numbers with as many 8s as possible. If

Just as you expect HMRC to recoup all they are owed you should also expect the HMRC to get their tax figures right and be transparent for it. Sadly this is not the case, HMRC actually owe millions in tax and NI to our NHS health professionals who trained to become a different type, e.g nurses who trained to be a midwife. When my wife found out about it she had to jump through several difficult hoops and wait about a year to receive the £11k she was owed. Meanwhile it continues to be hushed up all around.

Firstly I understand and support Rafa's sticking with a long term plan regarding formations etc, however I think he has royally fucked up his long term prospects because to implement his long term plan he needs full buy in from Ashley and to do that he needed to show short term success. Whilst I am fully on Rafa's side, Ashley may perceive that: 1. He appears to have failed to win the league 2. He spunked significant transfer funds on a number of players that were either shit (Sels) or rarely featured. Could have signed 1 good first team player with that. 3. Despite the noises made about not sending injury risk players onto the pitch, the fact that the club doctor allowed Aarons and Gayle onto the pitch was a fucking travesty. Our doctor has a more CV and should not be in this role and Rafa should have been more ruthless there. These recent results could well be the beginning of the end for Rafa, he will probably survive as manager for now, but a Graham Carr influenced 12 months beckons.

We won't win the league now. Disappointing but promotion is what matters.

Shola's nephew Simon Ameobi plays for the U15s anyway so should be ready for his debut in a couple of years

So Ashley has lent us a net £15m to cover our relegation, but our debt to him hasn't increased. Also Sports Direct to start to pay for sponsorship. Conclusion: Sports Direct on shirt in lieu of debt

So mentioned with the club accounts that Sports Direct will pay the club sponsorship next season. Inevitably paving the way to be our new shirt sponsor

Hey, it's my birthday the day after! What are the chances? About 1 in 365, iirc. 1 in 133,225 isn't it? 1 in 365 for each of their birthdays to fall on any one day and 1 in (365 x 365) for them to be consecutive. No we are talking about the chances that having stated a birthday of X that Ian W has a birthday of X+1. The estimated probability is 1/365 however the exact probability can not be known without knowing the distribution of birthdays amongst the worlds populace.

Why should it be judged on whether the victim was offended? It showed a real bad attitude. Also worth noting that Many of Saville and co's victims tried laughing off at the time.

He is a gonna especially after the whole Adam Johnson debacle, makes Sunderland the home of paedo's, paedo sympathisers and women beaters.

Good innings at 90, is now presumably up there serving tea to a host of other NUFC legends RIP

Just cashed out to be sure, am £400 up for international weekend simply on win accumulators. Only Belgium's ineptitude prevented the grand.

just cashed out the £250 I win yesterday

If Belgium win make that £750!

Internationals went well for once £250 up!

Fuck off with your French League players Graham Carr

On balance I probably agree that we did make some bad recruitment decisions in the summer where we should have been replacing Colback. The standout ones are probably Sels as a first team goalkeeper, signing both Gamez and Lazaar (just one needed), and signing Hanley while retaining Mbemba. I am sure we could have found a better player than Colback had we made better choices. However every club get a few signings wrong and don't know enough of the circumstances of each transfer to point the finger.

Perhaps we need a different system at home only as it seems to be working away from home

In the absence of transfers I would like to see Barlaser involved a bit more, I think he is good enough to compete on a rotation. Also if Gouffran and Atsu can't do the business then Lazaar should be brought in from the cold.

I don't think he is rotating the squad as well as he did earlier in the season. Granted there are injuries but we did seem to thrive on every player being on their toes. The squad is being more static and complacent and it's time to make a change. This is why we needed to invest in January, that could be a £200m+ mistake.

What? There's so many things you can excuse Dummett of but he is certainly not lazy. It's like Sissoko and Wijnaldum never existed

Unless he gets injured Dummett will play more games than any other left back next season.

Does anyone have any league, promotion, relegation bets looking like coming to fruition? I had a £25k and £100k accumulator, the former has all teams within three points of where they need to be while the latter is mostly like the former although need Forest Green to pull Lincoln in a bit.

Other than when Man City and Chelsea were bought by billionaires, I don't think I have ever seen a club buy 5 high quality players in the summer. We will sign two good quality first teamers, one of those a winger, and three or four rotational players

He had a clause in his contract. Mistake having the clause then