DJ_NUFC

Yep. They're acting as if before every single moment of self-destruction, the Keegan blow-up, the Hughton sacking, the Shearer ghosting, the Kinnear hiring (twice!), etc., we were all given ample quotes and long-form think-pieces in the Guardian with Ashley and his crew of bandits waxing lyrical about their vision of the football club. We had as little information then as we do now. So forgive us for bricking it.

There's nothing there at all, this whole fuss is because a tabloid ran a story based on basically f*** all. Plus the track record of Mike Ashley. We went through all this before Rafa signed with most people unwilling to believe that Ashley would sanction making him our manager. It's always going to be likely that there is going to be a bust up down the road, but do we really need to bite every time a tabloid journalist throws us a line? Erm, we're not losing our minds over just one article. The same news made it to Rafa's press conference and he had to address it. And his responses, going just by the transcript (I haven't seen the video so I have no idea about body language or telepathy, both popular forms of communication on this forum) were slightly concerning for those of us who err on the side of paranoia when it comes to Ashley. Saying we're being paranoid about Ashley is telling a lass who's finally escaped her abusive husband that she's paranoid when she keeps getting missed calls.

You realize that will only see the re-appearance of Dennis Wise or Kinnear as replacement, right? Ashley seems to not have any mates in football who are actually modern and intelligent.

I'm so happy Ashley's gonna put a stop to this sort of thing sharpish / chrisbalablaboobala

"Elliot" and "fit" should never be used in the same sentence.

Didier Domi, Bernard, Enrique. Anybody who deputised there under SBR did the job relatively well.

LoL, wtf.

Great that sunderland (the town) is still seen worldwide as a place populated by backward racist hicks, while sunderland (the club) remain a nonce-harbouring nonce-fest with noncey fans cheering on peados and fascists and doling out racism to their own player's mothers. We punch horses. I just burst out laughing. http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/30/505410043/in-pro-brexit-english-city-a-jobs-crisis-is-averted-but-for-how-long?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2058 Amazing find When NPR is onto you, you're not coming back from that.

One of our worst performances in a while. Shocking and dispiriting, and without any imagination whatsoever.

For once I agree with Ron. Worse, imagine a childhood without having seen home alone? It's how sociopaths are made.

I was told about the cous cous nonce thing in good faith, and the person who told me has some pretty decent sources and is still adamant that's what was said. Oh okay, that's different then. And I definitely give it more credibility now that you've actually mentioned how it came about. So then why are some members on here acting as if it's one big forum joke and everyone who believed it is an idiot?

Please don't post this SJW garbage in here. It's being panned by anyone with a brain on social media, and rightly so. MTV needs to dissolve into the irrelevance it has been since the 1990s.

If anything the last few years on social media and 4chan trolls have taught us, it's incredibly easy to spread fake news. If the person(s) on this board went on and on about this whole cous cous nonce thing without immediately coming clean that it was a made up joke, you can't have multiple posts about it from multiple users and then act all "lulz" when some people actually believe it. It's a childish, c*** move, and belongs on 4/8chan, not on N-O.

What a Christmas pud. Nee worries Al, just pinch somebody else's dinner. Ha! to the King goes the turkey ? crown!! Bit insensitive if you ask me, with all that's going on in Ankara.

They're still using his name to scare kids in Northampton.

I concur it's clickbait. There's more on show on regular fitness instagram accounts these days than that.

I didn't know where else to put this. https://twitter.com/eplwags/status/810467693547704321

Dwight "don't got that talent" Gayle: https://www.premierleague.com/players/4771/Dwight-Gayle/overview https://www.premierleague.com/players/5879/Aleksandar-Mitrovic/overview Even if you just compare their return in the Prem, they're not too far apart.

I don't think this post has received enough love yet. Puff, puff, pass, Zero, you're hogging it.

http://i.imgur.com/NSUzdFe.gif Yep. The guy whose misses and form had a, however relatively small, hand in our relegation from the Premiership, who didn't or couldn't get a game in the Championship, is now being called to lead the line when we go back up This place, man. Nobody seems to do reasonable, only extreme suggestions.

Mind you, I don't think we should sell him and I love the crazy bastard. Hans, my criticism of his is as measured as it can get

Been listening to this. As I suspected, Carr wasn't really to blame for some of our shit signings and he has been under exactly the sort of restrictions that some of us suspected he was. The sort of restrictions that force him to buy players unfit for purpose for considerable sums of money? Aye, OK. You should probably listen to it before launching into your default of arrogant ignorance like. http://i.giphy.com/3o7TKyOoGtsprTLgZy.gif

From London. Fucking sell him iyam.

Ours definitely's been playing like it.