Disco

Played and scored.

Be very suprised if this was a no/low scoring draw.

Friedel Richards Hangeland Upson Figueroa Lennon Fabregas Essien Arteta Rooney Torres Subs: James, G.Cahill, Shawcross, Bent, Milijas, Dunn

Flamengo are current champions of Brazil like. Botafogo are a more suitable comparison, play in black & white stripes n all although they've won a fair bit more than us.

Since i first started getting into football circa 1992, aged 6/7. Whole family is from the round about and Newcastle fans so it was unlikely anything else was going to happen. First match was NUFC 3-0 P'boro in Promotion year.

What is it with us and fucking Derby?

Why? Like a very, very, very, VERY poor version of Dani Alves.

Is Rio a guaranteed starter these days though?

Warnock, Cole, Richards, Johnson All the RBs are a massive liability though and so is LB is Ashley Cole isn't playing. It'd be where I'd looking to exploit England if i was the opposition manager.

No lose transfer, if he's good keep him, if he's not get rid. Not exactly going to be costing much. Good to see we are still looking for new talent though, shame we are so poor at doing it close too home.

Sure Papavasiliou had curly locks

Jonas goes down easily at times but at the same time he gets a lot of rough treatment from carthorse fullbacks. S. Taylor is a cunt, aside from that we don't have any other players clever enough to win a foul from a dive.

Agreed.

Well you lot were a fat load of help! Only been able to find it available in the USA.

Forgot about him, knew there was someone but still 2 players out 11 is hardly half our squad.

Agreed, half our old squad are now playing in the premiership and doing alright. Alot of the sunderland squad are dross that they have had for ages or unproven foreigners. Out of the team that we took down from this point last year only Bassong is a regular in the Premiership.

Aye they definitely don't want to get back in the Championship.

Wolves and Hull in their last 3 games. Could be interesting if they are still down there.

Happy days, can't be long left is there? 5mins (ish)

Geet up the Seasiders. Having a really good season.

They were both there last year, and while Pompey looked doomed I reckon the other two places are wide open still. Sunderland have a better team IMO than we did last year, certainly won't go down with the whimper like we did if they do go down. Once they get a few injuries back they'll fine i reckon.

Not hard to be fair. Although i do think we'd raise it if we came up against some bigger teams. We actually played some decent stuff at home to WBA. A lot of the time we seem destined to try and mimick our opponents. A lot of that is down to tactics as well though. Leicester being an example from recent.

Spurs fans must have the most annoying repetoire (sp) of songs going.

Too many worse teams down there i think. Wolves, Hull, Burnley, Pompeii etc.

I remeber Van Nistelrooy being a master at that for Man Utd. Aye he was the first i saw manipulating the new rule like so many do nower days. Its made for poachers of goals but there are very few of them in the game nowadays.