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Christ. They're even worse than us.

I fucking love the bloke, even now.

They're easily the best away support year in, year out, and I say that as one who fucking hates Man United. Compare their excellent following with Liverpool's utterly pathetic clueless day tripping scandinavians and lost cockneys.

We are quite possibly in big trouble. Effectively relying on the shitness of those below us, and currently forced to throw loads of kids in.

Horrible news. He's a popular bloke, and was having his best season so far with us this year.

Did anyone see that goal Bret Holman scored for AZ tonight? Lovely goal. Someone should give him a go in the PL. or possibly the championship

Our lot fawn over them, too. Having said that, our trip to play them was possibly the most fun I have ever had before, during and after a football match. Great people.

he'd have got less time for ABH or 100 burglaries. In which case, the problem is that sentences for burglaries or ABH are too soft, not that what this little scrote got is too harsh.

Ah, the Blatter Defence. *nods*

The thing for Sunderland fans to be worried about is that he needs to buy strikers, and he's fucking disastrous at spotting them. When we were needing goals to push on and try to break the top four, his idea of striker purchases was Marlon Fucking Harewood, and then Emile Fucking Heskey. The only reason he got Carew in (who did well) was because Lyon rang up and offered him for Baros. I absolutely guarantee you, he'll sign some really shite UK based striker (doesn't shop abroad - bought about 30 players at Villa, 2 of whom were playing outside the UK, one of those was a rookie keeper, and the other was Carew), and the Sunderland fans will start back tracking along the lines of "well, Harewood has been shit everywhere else, but I only really care what he does in a Sunderland shirt". I also flag up now the availability of Emile Shitting Heskey on a free transfer this summer. If I were a Sunderland fan, I wouldn't be excited about the transfer window, I'd be shitting my pants.

What we are now seeing is classic O'Neill. Doesn't believe in rotation, if you're not in his first choice XI, you'll never get into it, players getting tired and stale. Never learns.

How absolutely horrible.

Barcelona will not want to play them mind. Why? Because whilst Barcelona will have the will of Catalonia behind them, Chelsea will carry the will of the entire British people (and empire too). They'll be going postal in Ceylon. Hong Kong will be a sea of blue (all knock-off, obvs)

Barcelona will not want to play them mind. Why? Because whilst Barcelona will have the will of Catalonia behind them, Chelsea will carry the will of the entire British people (and empire too).

At any other PL ground, if the home team were 5-4 on aggregate in the CL going for the quarter finals, and in extra time, the fans would be going fucking bonkers. Look at the Chelsea fans. All the passion of a Saturday afternoon at Nando's

Christ on a fucking bike.

Townsend: "blah blah everything that's good about Chelsea blah blah" In other words, "nothing"

Ah, the pure support of the waving of free plastic flags.

Oh for FUCKS sake

i've been on this planet for 43 long years now, and - leaving aside all hyperbole and irrationality that grips all of us every now and then - I can thing of about five things which really, really annoy me to the point of wanting to inflict harm on fellow members of the human race. And by harm, I mean actual, real, painful, teeth splintering harm. One of those things is the way ITV commentators (BBC do it to, but less overtly) act is if the entire country is behind the English team in the Champions League. Even when it is Chelsea. How much further from the truth could they be? What percentage of match-going English punters who don't support Chelsea do they think are watching this and thinking "Well, I hope Chelsea prevail, it'll be good for the English game, it's always great to see lots of English clubs in the later stages of the Champions League"? I wish we could just press the fucking red button and get the Italian TV commentary.

Ain't that the truth. Yep, two words: John Spencer. David Speedie.

They're also probably about half the age of these Chelsea wankers.

There is genuinely not one single even half likeable thing about Chelsea. Fucking horrible club, and always were, even before they won the lottery.

Yeh we have high hopes for Chris Herd, expecting him to step up in time for the World Cup. What happened to Shane Lowry? Not capable of making the step up to Premier League? I know hes meant to be performing quite well for Millwall. Curious, because we have no international quality left backs at all. Think his move to Milwall was made permanent in January. He never really stood out, to be honest. Milwall fans seem to like him, though. Herd is really starting to blossom this season. Tidy with the ball, rarely gives it away, prepared to put a foot in and get stuck in, too. I like him a lot.

Cheers for the info, Aussiemag. That makes two Aussies now, him and Chris Herd (who is going to be a very decent player)