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Hearing Korean chants at SJP

Korea v. Mexico tonight. Very much looking forward to seeing our boys play at SJP

Problem, North Korea?

They're probably offering five gazillion pounds a week or something. Far from a foregone conclusion that he'd stay given the chance.

Why would Mackie want to go for Blackburn? Seemed to be doing pretty decently last year.

You don't really expect anything beyond "competent" from your backup keeper.

Meh, there's really no need to panic just because of those quotes. I think Pardew's earned some benefit of the doubt at this point.

Korean team's arrived in Newcastle. They're unfortunately not wearing blazers but still, be nice to them if you see them

"momentum" in a transfer window is really important because it's the only thing that stops us from going insane

To be frank, we over-preformed and our rivals under-preformed last year. Tottenham and Chelsea all underwent irregular mid-season crises. We won't be able to count on that happening again. Over our two meetings last season I honestly think Spurs showed that they have a far stronger squad than we do, and although they're 'probably' losing Modric I still think there's a long way to go before we can think of them as direct rivals. Chelsea didn't, but they've spent massively this year and any sane person would expect them to finish significantly above us on the table. Plus, we'll have the distraction of a European campaign to contend with this time. I'm not saying we should just accept mediocrity, but I just think we should temper expectations a bit and not panic at the end of the season just because we're 8th or something. Progress shouldn't always be measured solely on results, and we may actually have put ourselves in a stronger position despite not finishing as high on the table.

Well, Senegal seem pretty shit.

It's not as if we're actually in competition with Man U or Chelsea anyway. Probably a bit much to expect that we'll be able to match up with Spurs this year too.

Fair play I suppose. Also, it's comforting to know that they don't actually live here.

That whole part of that stand was actually filled by Unification Church members. Never stopped dancing and chanting for the whole 90 minutes, creepy as f***. (Sunderland's opponent's were Seongnam Ilhwa FC, who are owned by the Unification Church, aka the Moonies) seongnam have just signed Brendan Hamill, seen by many to be as good if not better than Curtis good. Did he play? Nah, their new Brazilian did but he didn't.

Nah, I got a lot of withering stares, one "what the hell!" and one "you've got to be kidding me." Otherwise we were fine. Good on you. What did you make of the match itself? Sunderland utterly terrible against a lower-mid table K-League team. Fair enough, they were jet-lagged and unfit, but it was still pretty embarrassing. Wasn't even that they were not bothered (except for Bramble, who clearly wasn't) because they were running their asses off and committing some pretty dirty fouls. Just all-around mediocre and unimpressive, which is what you'd expect from a Sunderland team without Sessegnon.

Nah, I got a lot of withering stares, one "what the hell!" and one "you've got to be kidding me." Otherwise we were fine.

That whole part of that stand was actually filled by Unification Church members. Never stopped dancing and chanting for the whole 90 minutes, creepy as fuck. (Sunderland's opponent's were Seongnam Ilhwa FC, who are owned by the Unification Church, aka the Moonies)

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6236/img0992r.jpg The total number of Mackems in Korea is much higher than I thought

Perhaps he could be forced into handing in a transfer request again

Shame you're playing a Korean team then you stupid cunt.

Moonies FC playing them off the pitch

Sounds like the 5 of you in black and white are in a bit of a pickle? How many of them are there? Several dozen

Okay, I did not count on there being actual mackem expats in Korea coming to the match

Also, he moved away from his hometown and had massive homesickness issues, was burdened with the expectations of a 35m transfer fee, and started playing in front of the least patient and supportive crowd in all of England. I think it's pretty obvious that his "true ability" so to speak is closer to his Newcastle form than his Liverpool form.

IMO while it's true that Carroll's stats aren't very impressive, we all saw that this kid has talent. We all watched every game of that amazing spell of his and it was clear that he had far more than just height and brute strength. His career's been a bit fucked up due to his own mistakes and weak mentality, but we should know better than anyone else that he's clearly something special.