Benwell Lad

Deserved a draw? The first half was awful, their game plan was to upset us by playing dirty, it worked and we sank to their level. Overall though it was pretty even, two good chances for us, one for them and a penalty out of nothing but they did have a 20 minute spell in charge. Second half we murdered them. Funniest thing today was hearing their scruffy manager saying if they'd held on it would have been a deserved win. Is he an idiot ? Even if he didn't see it with his own two eyes he'd only have had to look at our glaring statistical superiority to realise they did not deserve to win.

Just means one of the two strikers drops deep to make 5 without the ball, before going back to 4-4-2 when you do have it. Shola did it impeccably last season there and Ba's more than capable of doing similar. Spot on regarding both. Shola has always enjoyed dropping deep and starting an attack and Ba likes doing it too.

Better keep himself right for Saturday. There again - hold on a minute, a makem win would be best for us. Keep boozin Andy, let yer hair down kidda.

I think a bit like Pardew's comment about us sinking to their level after Cattermole had been instructed to try and break a leg in the first minute, maybe as fans we sink to their level of abuse on occasions too. However I've always seen the respective rivalry as being quite different, theirs is a bitter hatred which seems fuelled by a feeling of inferiority and a huge chip on the shoulder about all things Newcastle, ours is a kind of piss taking thing about all things Sunderland which comes from a feeling of birthright and footballing superiority. It's not quite as pronounced as the Boro thing where they hate us but we're hardly bothered about them, but it does seem nowadays that the macums have a bitter hatred while we just, well we just laugh at them really. Back in the bad old days when there was much more of a raw edge about it and police escorts and even segregation were not used, Sunderland were nothing really and we did and went as we pleased down there. They have become a lot more hostile since the internet and all ticket segregation etc arrived. Boro were always a different kettle of fish and you had to be a lot more careful down there.

I think Frazier Campbell's behaviour was even worse than O'Neill or Cattermole's on the day. For a professional player to so openly goad opposition supporters trying to provoke a reaction would be a disgrace at any game, but in such a highly charged atmosphere which is difficult enough for police and match officials to control it was quite unbelievable.

I feel sorry for their remaining decent fans although it seems that they are now badly outnumbered by the scum element. Sunderland was once a famous shipbuilding city with a proud football club, nowadays it's seen as a bit of a wilderness populated by heathens and the club is starting to reflect that sadly.

I have never liked Sunderland, but did once respect them as a decent club and know that many of their fans were decent people. Nowadays it seems that the criminal element in their team and fans whose behaviour has sunk to the very lowest depths are what they are known for. Good Sunderland fans should make a stand against those who seem to take pride pride in such vile behaviour before it is too late and their attendances diminish even further as decent people turn their back on the club.

http://www.northumbria.police.uk/news_and_events/media_centre/news_releases/details.asp?id=56491 They've been allowed to get away with that type of behaviour for years now so it's no surprise that they're sinking lower all the time. It started when the police and FA turned a blind eye to the pitch invasions and attacking opposition players in their stadium, now it seems that wrecking their transport to the match is in vogue with macums. Does it really surprise anyone when they have a captain like Lee Cattermole and their manager refuses to make any stance against the criminal element on their playing staff ? Perhaps the way the club is going is a reason for their half empty stadium, decent people not wanting to be associated with it and just leaving it to the fuckwits.

Like the town they live in, sunderland fans seem to be stuck in some kind of 1980's despicable behaviour time warp. It's little wonder that their players etc never set foot in the place.

There could be no more appropriate captain for a club like sunderland than Lee Cattermole.

Nice to bump into the Italian Magpies yesterday, hope you all had a good day despite the weather and dropping two points against inferior opposition.

If the fans report it to the police/FA, could get a ban for it. It was very clear, prolonged and orchestrated. Right in front of kids as well. Stewards and 4th official saw it. Shocking behaviour from a professional in such a highly charged atmosphere.

Frazier Campbell was goading fans and making gestures along the touchline after their goal. Pretty disgraceful and makes things even more difficult for the police and match officials in such a highly charged atmosphere.

left leg in,left leg out.............. Legend.

Loved the two sad macums holding their big Sports Direct bags up before kick off, I'm sure Mike Ashley appreciated their efforts too. Will we be doing Tombola bags at the SoShite next season? We really should as it's just so totally hilarious.

Have to say how funny it was to see sunderlands finest, the softest touch in football pre-internet but nowadays the hardest fans in cyberdom, staining their pants as a few charvers threw their empty plastic pop bottles at them as they were escorted to SJP. No doubt Wireside will however be revelling in tales of doing another gay bar in their annual outing to the big city.

Disappointed not to get a deserved victory - HBA tore them apart 2nd half and Shola did what he does best. Still nice to leave the match and enjoy a few post match pints of great beer in class bars in our superb city centre while they went back to that scummy place their players and staff would never be seen dead in. O'Neill is a disgrace and really needs to address the criminal thug he has as his club captain instead of defending his constant dangerous play and insane attitude.

I said before last week's match that the mackems may struggle against a side like West Brom who themselves like to soak it up and counter quickly, even joked that it would be a game of two sides sitting deep and waiting for each other to make a move. They were found out in that game as their general level of performance had never matched results even during their recent good spell and once behind they really don't have a Plan B. We have the better players, most of the quality and several "big game" payers. If the game was played 10 times we'd win 6 lose 2 and draw 2. We're favourites but much will depend on the referee not being swayed by their constant cheating and harassing, nailed on certainties are that Larsson will cheat at every opportunity and Cattermole will be instructed to take out a key player.

The TF articles on their so called legend/heroes really are so funny. Points them out to be nothing more than average/poor players who played vital roles in achieving mediocrity/relegation. Seems like the biggest legend of all is Niall Quinn, the man who signed up Keane,Bruce and then Bruce again,spending shitloads to take them backwards. Only a scummy little club's fans could turn that bunch of losers into legends. FTM. STHT.

Saw that last night.... thats one massive cheesy chip on his shoulder, like. i wonder if he sees his fellow mackems the way everyone else sees them,as an arsenal fan i spoke to recently described them "the place and the people are a more northerly stoke" before saying they spend the weekend in newcastle when they play them, go to sunderland as late as possible and leave as soon as possible. Heard many other club' fans say the same thing, yet they consider Newcastle a top away day. Strange but most neutrals I've spoken to around the UK and further afield view Newcastle as a top city and destination, whereas on the off chance they know anything about sunderland, it's seen as depressed and populated by strange narrow minded people, like a big overgrown council estate with no centre or anything of note. Our airport (international code NCL) really seems to get to them too for some strange reason. Author of that piece sounds a bit of a smartarse but more essentially a liar.

One of only two games this season I don't look forward too. Don't know why really because they've been mainly gimmees for the last ten years or so. Probably just that thought of losing which has to happen some time but will be greeted by macums as the begining of some new world order. Sad thing for macums is that they can never win really. Even if they won every derby for the rest of time they'll still be dirty macums when they wake up the next day and they'll live in a shitty little town that no one outside the north east knows or cares about. For a macum the only real hope is that reincarnation might be a fact. Anyway we have a better team and most of the quality. They will kick everything that moves, they'll cheat and harrass the referee at every opportunity. 2-0 to us and Colo to notch.

I have never referred to the Leazes or Gallowgate as anything other than that. I can't remember anyone I know referring to them as anything else either. I can say hand on heart after all these years I don't even know which one was renamed the SJH stand and which one was the Exhibition stand or whatever. Same with St.James' Park, it will never be anything else. Mind I did start calling the Popular the New Stand and on occasions I've even called it the East Stand recently, so maybe change really can happen.

Most Ashley stuff generates differing viewpoints but on the SJP renaming issue I think it must be almost 100% unanimous that no one agrees with it. Let him call it what he wants and if someone is daft enough to pay £10M or whatever for the naming rights then good luck to them, but as long as there's a football stadium in Newcastle it will only ever be called one thing by Geordies and Newcastle fans. I can't help feeling that continuing to debate it just plays straight into the hands of those who want to sell the naming rights and the best policy would be to just ignore them and carry on referring to SJP by it's correct name. Anyway we still play in NE1 at St.James'Park,as we always have done, despite the proposals of previous regimes to relocate us a few years ago. Sunderland fans found great amusement in posting pictures of the SJP letters being removed, but there's a picture somewhere of a massive crane with "O'Brien's" emblazoned across it demolishing Roker Park. That's how to really piss all over 100 years of history.

Aye. One was playing in a struggling relegation team last season and the other at a level about the same as the Unibond. Hardworking players but not even top end Premiership never mind world beaters.

Unfuckinbelievable. See who's been summoned to sort out the litter problem at the SoShite ;D any,any,any http://www.safc.com/page/NewsStoriesDetail/0,,10281~2385063,00.html