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Village Idiot demonstrating my point that we need actual real foreigners to tell us what a DoF does because we haven't got a clue.

Typical crying fat cockneys...

On the downside, you're only ever going to see what the camera focuses upon. It's all the little things which add up to be hugely significant which a tv viewer misses out on. Insights like seeing some bastard dawdling about just because the ball's 40 yards away - better players are still very much in the game at that distance; not something easily detectable on tv, though.

brummie, do you think O'Neill is capable of getting you to the next level, ie the top 4. Just seems he'll never have a better chance than this year. No. He's too limited tactically, and his transfer market approach is weird beyond belief. He can keep us top 6 or 7 with his eyes closed, not even trying, but he won't take us any further than that. He's an infuriating man. See today, the crowd see Delfouneso and Luke Young warming up, looking like they're coming on, start cheering ironically (Cuellar at RB and Heskey anywhere are subjects of some discussion), so he changed his mind and puts Albrighton on instead, just to remind us who is boss. He's infuriating at times, like I said. No chance of him leaving, though? No. Not until he decides he's had enough. To be honest, though, he's always had an uneasy relationship with sections of the support, which would surprise most neutral observers. Really tempted to do a Ronaldo...

Yes, that's probably the best one so far. Just wiki'd to find out if he was Jewish. http://www.prostars.co.uk/localimages/players/large/401.jpg Has never even made it past Berwick.

Silkman's lying scum. Better off dead. His word's worthless.

Having spent a fair while around there, I see more of our colours than I do any other outside the Old Firm. I possibly even see more of us than Hibs or Hearts in Edinburgh specifically - central Edinburgh, at least... Probably tourists, to be fair...

Is he speaking as Ashley's offical PR man or as an individual? I was going to say I can't believe Ashley would be daft enough to hire a twat like Clifford but sadly I can. He never speaks as an individual, there's always a reason for him saying something. I hate Max Clifford with a passion, but I have to grudgingly admit that he's very, very successful at what he does. If he has hired him then from his point of view it could well turn out to be the best decision he's made so far since taking over the club. One thing's for certain, if Clifford's now involved we won't see any more of those amateurish and self-defeating press releases we've grown accustomed to. Frankly I wouldn't mind - a few less of those press releases and we might not have been such an utter shambles. Of course, that only sounds good until you realise it's not just Ashley/Llambias' mouths that are the problem - the brains that lay behind them are a far bigger issue.

Indeed...

Wow. Congratulations.

Saw this and wondered why the hell they were buying him.

maybe they didn't speak at all mind Hahaha. I like that kind of humour.

IIRC, he said pretty much what he said here a few years back - injuries meant he the clock was already ticking for him.

Given the 'loan till Christmas' thing, I got the impression it might even have been an 'agent owns' type deal.

Looking at the name, the most obvious conclusion is that it's been done to piss people off. There'll be other motives, but that was definitely one of them. Ashley flew in with his helicopter like the big boss, handed Hughton a contract, took the club off the market and gave the stadium a comedy name which has left fans up and down the country laughing at us again. He wants to prove he's in charge. Who's going to argue with him? Llambias? Hughton? Just to eliminate any doubt in your mind, I will remind you of our stadium's new name: Sports Direct @ St James Park Stadium. It's clearly a pisstake man, look at it. They have even tagged 'stadium' on the end of 'park' just to emphasize the name change. Ask fans of other clubs what they think and they will tell you it's clearly a pisstake, that's half the reason they're finding it so funny. absolutely. Ashley seems to have this siege mentality in whatever he does, ie 'parking the tanks on the lawn' of his opponents or calling his shareholders 'crybabies' or the dubai shenanigans or offering unqualified outsiders like Llambias, Hughton & Kinnear contracts. He does things his own way and revels in causing a controversy. I don't buy the line that he's ran the club into the ground out of spite - that makes no sense. And i genuinely think he wants to sell the naming rights to make some money. But the temporary naming, a move which gives the club absolutely no benefit whatsoever, is clearly a two fingers up at detractors. I'm an outsider, so god forbid me to know MA more than you do, but I think that the current name is just one of those "trying to please everyone" hackjobs that end up horribly. It seems to me that he just tried to tag a commercial name while being able to say he's kept the original name of the stadium and thus respected its history, and the result has been worse and more humiliating than if he just swapped the name outright. Just to clarify, sticking 'stadium' on the end of ours is akin to calling yours the 'Camp Nou Arena'. It's just totally illogical. I'd have gone along with your explanation until that point.

As the Japs say, the nail that sticks out will get hammered flat

Likewise. Bit of a clichéd response, but a great shame.

So... make a load of predictions. Find them to be quite significantly wrong and then factor reality into those initial predictions in order to create more predictions, which history suggests will also be significantly wrong. I see. Ashley will definitely hang on to us now AND sell the entire squad because we are DEFINITELY staying in the Premiership for more than one season.

The only problem there's been with protests is their absence and/or lack of severity. He got a very easy ride over the relegation, and received no real indication then or since that hanging on isn't a good idea. The trouble is that in real terms our bolt as been shot, shy of anything probably inadvisedly extreme happening - we need another one before we get another opportunity to aim, be that fresh impetus gained from news developments (seemingly unlikely), or straight-forwardly the next round of season ticket renewals (only really useful should we not go up - which I sometimes consider the preferability of (consider us going up, him hanging on even longer and us going back down yet again)).

Pah, sod it

Sounds like a front for an evil corporation. Out of the frying pan and into this bloke > http://img132.imageshack.us/i/prisonbreakgeneral.jpg/?

Not that long, this is his first season anywhere near the team. Six appearances. The lad's a busted flush, fuck him off.

Somalis wandering around South London singing Sunderland till I die Didn't know the score until then...

You mean emulating the tree that fell in the uninhabited woods? If you want to make a noise (let alone achieve something), you'll have to bite the bullet and do it mid-season. It really is your only serious option.