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I remember that from the TV show, was called The Superstars or something. Keegan was awesome in it. You just cannot imagine footballers, or really any prominent sportsmen / women of today being involved in that sort of competition. Unbelievable...

Longstaff was incredibly poor. Is there something wrong with him?

Pretty catchy tune though....

That would make Sun'lun just that little bit too classy, I can see why the planners turned it down.

Two automatically up/down. 16th goes in to a playoff with 3rd-5th. Ashleys target of 17th every year will look fucked.....

Couple or three games in - a win (by a really dodgy late penalty) and a draw (from a late equaliser) does not make them contenders in my book. Barring a couple of teams The League One is absolutely dreadful, and Sunderland fit perfectly into it. ;D

Bruce's tactics will be the same team and approach to the game last night. In his mind he will now believe he has found the winning formula, just like he did after the West Ham match.... Normal service resumed, no planning, no preparation, no understanding of how our opposition will set up against us, no clue, heavy defeat, blame players, rinse and repeat.

I doubt we will see him for a while anyway now after the injury. Looked really nasty and I heard he has an abrasion to the eyeball. That will be a painful one and quite slow to heal.

What is the point of VAR?

Surely it is pronounced Michael Kerry.

$770 That is the answer to the financial question - unless he has spent some of that since the video was produced.

At least they're debt free though marra....

I wish the football season was always like this. Loving the fact that there is football on TeeVee almost every night and our games come round really quickly. The FA and Premier League should look at this, two seasons per calendar year with two nice breaks in between 13 weeks on, 13 weeks off.... :frantic:

Anyone remember when Metroland used to have live music? Bands set up on the little stage in the middle of the funfair.... it was ridiculous and awesome all at the same time!

If the Sunderland Football Club does fold / go out of business, there could be an even lower league 're-birth' for a brand new club, to replace them. It would be so much better if that new club were to be based in the City of DURHAM. rather than in Sunderland. I quite like the idea of a "Durham City FC" to replace them. They could even be adopted by us and become one of our 'feeder clubs'. Happy Days !!! Durham City already exists Doesn't Olivier Bernard own Durham City FC? No way he would have anything to do with Sun'lun!!

I reckon it'll take a week for people to stop putting timeliness on it. Yes!!

I rang up a few months ago to try and sort one for the lads for a day out. It was too expensive for us though. The figure I was quoted for a one off game was £350pp +VAT. There are 8, 10 and 12 seat boxes. I think they’ve got 6 or 7 not paid up for the season. So about 80k GBP for a season for 10 people.... Yikes!! 4200GBP per match inc the VAT.

The box office is answering emails - just with a short delay as they are on very low staff levels.

Remember wasn't Mark Hughes in charge at Man City when they were taken over? Was he? Think I am right...

General Sale is currently July I think....

I made a point a few years ago when people on here started to absolutely blast those who still had their season ticket and went to the game, I said that I was keeping mine because at some point in the future we would be taken over and it would be difficult to get a seat again... I made that mistake many years ago when the ground was being redeveloped and I was turning up each home game and paying on the turnstyles... there was tons of pressure to buy season tickets in the newly opened areas but, I carried on paying on the gate - albeit I was moving to different areas of the ground due to my preferred area either being closed or sold out to season tickets.... I can still remember the week when I went with my mates and we couldn't get in anywhere.... I was about 14 years old and I didn't get into St James' for several seasons after that, I missed a load of the great times in the 90's simply because I didn't take anyones advice to buy a season ticket - they were cheap and plentiful but, I knew best! I eventually got a season ticket in 2003 after being on the waiting list for a couple of seasons and had - in the end - three great seats for me and my dad then my young son joined us from about 2010. Then the pressure came from others telling me that I was a puppet to Ashley and paying money to watch Newcastle was the worst thing I could possibly do... I resisted, I had to walk through protests outside the ground, my dad had some bloke screaming in his face that he was a disgrace for entering St James' while Ashley was destroying the club and all this took its toll. Last season I threw it in. To be fair I was really not enjoying the football, going to the match had become a real drag and at the end of last season I decided that I had enough and was throwing it in.... You can imagine how I am feeling now.... We are on the verge of potentially some great times and I am once again on the outside. I bowed to pressure and allowed myself to start to hate football because of others and because of Ashley. Chances of getting a season ticket for next season??? Close to zero I would say. I am gutted.

Quick question. Should I order my new season ticket now to avoid the rush later when this is confirmed? :idiot2:

Watching Shelvey play in our team is like me playing 5 a side with my mates.... I used to be a decent player but, I lost all my pace. I can still pick out a pass, I can still hit a shot but, I need more time on the ball unchallenged to be able to do these things. As a result having me on the team slows everything down, breaks down good passages of play and I am a hindrance to the better players.... Of course I still want to play because I enjoy it but, I am basically rubbish now and I need to admit that to myself and maybe move on to walking football or find some old codgers that need an extra player to make up numbers in their 5 a side game that is more at my current level.

Luckily for them they never did that.... phew!

He totally miskicked the ball for the goal last night, the replays showed clearly that he hit the ball into the ground causing it to bounce over the keepers outstretched leg, a clean contact would have been saved I think. The movement and run with the ball up to the point of the shot was very nice though.