Ronaldo

Same old. Good without the ball, poor with it.

Your boycott over Ronnie? It's the first game I've been to in a year and the second since Pardew's first 0-3 against Sunlun. The club's vaguely on the right track now so I'll go to the odd one when I can unless that changes.

Mitrovic grabbed him and picked him up. Seriously, though, Rafa's a lucky boy tonight. Easily the best football I've seen us play in a long time until 1-0, at which point he waved us back 15 yards and it completely facilitated Norwich's route back into the game. We looked so much better with 2 strikers on the pitch I can't tell you.

Well what's your point? I wasn't being critical of him so much as the 'hot streak' assertion that was admittedly misinterprested. He's contributed nothing yet for which there are several mitigating circumstances. Live with it.

Is there actually anything they don't try to relate back to us? Fucking losers.

Honestly if I had that lot for company I'd probably order and tuck into a curry, too.

Nowt wrong with a curry, man.

It's a little misleading but we're 9th now. If we concede the first goal tomorrow it's gonna be toxic.

You're talking about a guy who's won nothing in his career, been booed at pretty much all of his recent clubs and there's a line of cunts on SSN and the rest falling over themselves to call him a great, successful manager.

I read it as a hot streak overall, not specifically against Norwich. I like Mitrovic a lot but he's contributed virtually nothing this season, obviously.

It's like when Beardsley said we'd been a great run under Pardew when we'd drawn twice and lost three times in the last five.

He wasnt on decent cash with us was he? He was the lowest paid manager in the league with a salary apparently heavily incentivised on operating profit - ie player sales.

I hate to say it but so do we, unless you mean purely in a Championship context.

I had it on at 7.30ish, one of them (Paul Walsh) said he'd had a 'brilliantly successful managerial career'.

Hmm. Pulis or Pardew, that. Pardew's on decent money at Palace though, no? Works for when he was here.

Hmm. Pulis or Pardew, that.

Didn't he have an account in the British Virgin Islands in his dog's name or somat?

Tell me that's not real.

Howe or Hoddle if it has to be an English manager. It shouldn't be, though. Frankly it can't be, if we want to get somewhere.

Fucking Steve Bruce, man. McClaren, Hodgson, Allardyce and Bruce/Southgate 4 of our last 5 managers. Imagine that? And people would still try to assign blame to the 'bottle of the players' and other such tripe.

I think he always saw Sunderland as a short-term thing, like. The amount of times I'd see him driving around down here (his house is 10 mins from mine) in mid-week suggested he spent next to no time on Wearside.

That is pretty weird.

Yes.

I'll say one thing for him, like. The bloke can dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d7Z1SZtjeQ

The fact that this is seen as one of the better chants is fucking hilarious, like.