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got on a bus to Cardiff at 3am Sunday morning from Washy services, got back at 2.30am Monday morning. Fell asleep in Physics first lesson (GCSE's were the following month) and got myself a week's worth of detentions

Youngster Cook joins Addicks Started by Metal Mickey, Yesterday 03:19 PM Charlton Athletic sign forward Jordan Cook Started by Metal Mickey, Yesterday 12:47 PM Departure of young player sends "Metal Mickey" haywire. So much so he feels the need to start two threads.

Nar Robert's goal was an equaliser.

Bosingwa to Lille Debuchy to us. Maicon to Chelsea. Done.

Right, I'm going to do the glorious season that was 2002/03 from my perspective. We were in the Champions League, pending a two-legged qualifier against Željezničar from Bosnia. We did the business over there, getting a 1-0 win courtesy of Kieron Dyer. IIRC there was no coverage of the game on TV and we were left to some awful grainy Metro commentary. We brought in Titus Bramble from Ipswich and also a youngster by the name of Hugo Viana from Sporting Lisbon. We failed to agree terms with Sylvain Distin who we'd had on loan towards the end of the previous season. In the second leg, we cruised to a comfortable 4-0 win. Dyer and LuaLua scoring before a peach from Viana and Shearer getting the fourth late on. In the opening game, whereby I was on a plane to Lanzarote and didn't find out the score until the following morning, we battered West Ham 4-nowt before losing 1-0 to Man City on our last trip to Maine Road. In Lanzarote airport waiting for the plane home I watched us fight back from 2-0 at Anfield to earn a credible 2-2 draw. It appeared that the spirit from the season before was still in the squad. However we slipped up at home to Leeds and had the usual defeat at Chelsea. After that was our opening CL group game away at Dynamo Kiev. This was a time when ITV Digital was 'king'. The game was shown on the ITV News Channel, which barely anybody had. I watched the first half through a pub window before managing to actually get inside at HT when it emptied as peopole went for a tab. We lost 2-0 and Shearer and Bellamy both got suspensions following 'altercations' with Kiev players. We returned to league action to face the mackems who had had a shit start to the season under Monkey's Heed. 83 seconds in and we were 1-0 up thanks to Bellamy, with a bandaged Shearer adding a second later in the first half. Our league form continued towards Christmas with us winning nearly all our home games but often coming unstuck away from home, conceding 5 at both Blackburn and Man Utd. During that time we also lost our opening home CL game against Feyenoord and were undone by my boyhood hero Del Piero at the delle Alpi. However in the return game we got an unlikely win against Juventus thanks to the unlikely figure of Andy Griffin, although some called it a Buffon OG. Griffin then followed it up with an absolute screamer at home to Charlton. We went into the final round of games needing a win against Feyenoord to become the first team to qualify having lost our first three games. We all know what happened so I won't go into too much detail. I went mental, I'm guessing you went mental. All the while the folks down the road were busy becoming the worst team the PL had seen. Regularly we'd go into school following CL exploits the night before (especially after Feyenoord) grinning about where our club was going and how much fun it all was while the mackems at school whinged on about Tore Andre Flo and Kevin Kyle's inability to kick a football properly. As the second group stage of the CL started (an utterly stupid concept which thankfully was scrapped) we faced the mighty Inter Milan at home. Disaster. We were 1-0 down after 2 minutes and Bellamy lashed out at serial wind-up merchant Marco Materazzi and was sent off 6 minutes in. Shearer was later suspended for lashing out. We'd again have to perform miracles with Shola and LuaLua up front. We lost 3-1 in the Nou Camp, a game which was postponed for 24 hours due to a torrential downpour. Shola scored for us. We began 2003 with a 1-0 win over the bindippers, Robert smashing in a free kick at the Leazes End before crashing out to Division One side Wolves in the FA Cup 3-2. We had fought back from 2-0 down to 2-2. At the end of the game, a rather incensed Craig Bellamy pointed to the PL badge on his sleeve and mouthed 'thats what its all about' to the Sky cameras. January passed with names being linked, one being the Brazilian Kleberson, who ended up at Manchester United. However, we strengthened our defence with the signing of the classy Jonathan Woodgate. A snip at £9m. The unwashed attempted to save their season by bringing in world-renowned Talal El-Karkouri. The unbelievable also happened in February. We went to Germany and battered Leverkusen (who were battling relegation in the Bundesliga) 3-1 in their own back yard. LuaLua and Ameobi were sublime with the latter getting a brace. In the return fixture, we had Shearer back. We won 3-1 again and he got a hat-trick. Shay Given also saved a weak Oliver Neuville penalty. Injuries meant that Woody didn't make his debut until a home game against Chelsea in early March. It was then we saw the quality of player we had on our books. Early on Jesper Gronkjaer tore down the right, approaching the edge of our 18 yard box. Woody came over in front of the Gallowgate, quick as a flash taking both ball and man cleanly. Everyone in SJP stood up to applause a superb piece of defending. 10,000 Geordies also make the trip over to Milan to see us twice take the lead thanks to Shearer in the San Siro. We came back with our heads held high following a 2-2 draw before losing 2-0 at home to Barcelona. An improvement on the 3-0 loss we suffered pre-season! With sunderland somehow managing to get shitter by the week and under the guidance of 'Sargeant' Howard Wilkinson, the phrase "Have you ever seen a mackem in Milan?" was invented. We avenged the earlier 5-2 humping at Ewood Park by spanking Blackburn 5-1 at SJP, Bellamy in particular scoring a delightful goal, sweeping the ball in first time after a cross from the left. We also lost 2-1 at Everton when a goal was scored following a horrific tackle by Thomas Gravesen which left Olly Bernard in a crumpled heap. Useless wanker Neale Barry didn't do anything. We were rather embarrassingly spanked 6-2 at home to Manchester United despite taking the lead through a Jermaine Jenas screamer. Paul Scholes got a hat-trick. We lost 2-1 at Fulham before beating the now-relegated mackems, led by Mick McCarthy 1-0 on their own patch. Nobby scored a penalty and Craig Bellamy missed a tonne of chances. They thought they'd got something late on, Kevin Kyle scoring, turning towards a mass of perma-gravy stained red and white shirts only to discover it had been disallowed. We took "Lets all laugh at sunderland" cards and sung Vera Lynn's WWII classic while mocking their sorry slide into the First Division. Hugo scored a peach of a free-kick at home to Birmingham in a 1-0 win before following it up at the Hawthorns as we finished the campaign with a 2-2 draw against already-relegated WBA. We finished third, while Chelsea and Liverpool scrapped it out for fourth on the final day. We had qualified for the Champions League for the second year running. There was a buzz about the club as we anticipated a summer of further incomings and looking to strengthen further...

I had my paper round back then. Throughout the summer I'd go along the shop to pick up my batch of Chronicles and have a flick through the back page. So infuriating week in, week out, to see names linked but only Bowyer to come in. Unbelievable that the board were so reluctant to spend and allow us to kick on. Another random memory from that was also rushing back from school for the Valerenga away game. I'm sure it kicked off at something like 4pm.

What was utterly infuriating about the beginning of it all as well was we'd done the hard work and got a result over in Belgrade. Albeit only a 1 goal advantage but any form of draw would have been enough. The penalties in the shootout were absolutely horrific as well. Even Shearer missed. .com were bitter, whinging in their post-match report that the Partizan goalkeeper had edged off his line for each one.

I've seen double decker busses turn quicker than Aaron Hughes did for Drogba's second (I think) goal. We also nearly completely ballsed it up away to Southampton if it wasn't for Ambrose's late equaliser.

1611: FOOTBALL Scotland goalkeeper Allan McGregor is in talks with Besiktas, according to the Turkish club's official website. The 30-year-old is one of several players who have, following advice from PFA Scotland, rejected the chance to transfer their contracts from Rangers to Charles Green's new company.

1557: FOOTBALL Left-back Nicky Shorey rejoins Reading on a one-year deal. The 31-year-old was released by West Brom at the end of last season and is now back at the Premier League newcomers. Thankfully eliminates the nightmare scenario of us possibly signing him.

http://www.footballfancast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Daniel-Levy.jpg is Levy.

home one could definitely pass for a County Championship top.

Tampestry is a 15th century depiction of early mackemdom made from tampons, similar to the more famous Bayeux Tapestry which is housed in the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux. However the sunderland version is housed in a display cabinet in Joplings.

fucking hell thats dire!

Lee Ryder ‏@lee_ryder The Chronicle understands #nufc have turned down #bcfc bid for Harper

pissed off at the amount of wallpushers saying "send him back on loan to Newcastle for a bit". Simply forgetting 1. Would we actually want him? 2. Why should we 'develop' another club's player for them? 3. Would he actually get in our XI

I was at Duncan Ferguson's debut vs. Wimbledon. He scored twice. I thought he was going to be amazing

aye, some people that were non-ST holders sat next to us for the Inter home game and came in about 5 minutes late. They didn't believe us when we told them we were 1-0 down and had 10 men. Made them count the players on the pitch to prove we weren't lying. The history teacher I mentioned earlier went on the wind-up the following morning. Had revenge later that season though when his beloved bindippers were knocked out by Basel.

had a history lesson the day of the Arsenal away game in 01/02. Our teacher was a Liverpool-loving Northern Irishman. He spent the whole hour laughing at us saying that we might win, telling us we'd get thumped and had fluked our league position. It was the day before we broke up for Christmas IIRC. Told us if Newcastle won then he wouldn't give us homework over the holiday I remember about 12 of us hunting him down the following morning to gloat. The b****** was still bitter and could only muster a s*** response. Still gave us homework anarl, the c***.

Sheff Utd in 06/07 was on my 18th birthday. Ended up getting off my face to numb the pain.

06/07 was my last year with a ST. Started uni Sept '07 and couldn't afford to keep it. Honestly one of the worst seasons following NUFC, second only to the farce that was 08/09. Absolutely no high points other than European games against some utterly bizarre opposition. I remember sitting watching SSN on transfer deadline day, hoping, praying we'd get someone decent in. Ended up with Sibierski and Giuseppe Rossi on loan. Ever so underwhelming.

Never forget the day we sold Andy Cole. Me dad picked me up from school, I was 7 and a half, he was my idol (Cole, not me dad). He told me straight away Was in tears and sulked in my room all night.

Straight Outta Compton - NWA. Got some dodgy looks from the locals of Wylam the other week when I was in The Boathouse and I hoyed f*** Tha Police on the jukebox.