bigfella

I can't remember either of those things, mind you, I was suffering from sun-stroke at the time. And excessive alcohol consumption of course.

I find the FA trying to send us down a little difficult to believe. Unless you think how s*** we've been is their fault like. No doubt about it we are exactly where we deserve to be but we've had some awful decisions go against us this season. Rightly or wrongly Mike Dean is the only ref that gives that penalty v Palace on Saturday, then we had Agueros offside goal, our 2nd goal to make it 2-0 v Man City in the corresponding fixture being wrongly disallowed, Coloccinis red card v the Mackems, Norwich winner the other week being a handball, the penalty against Mbemba v Man Utd and that's just off the top of my head without even thinking. Match deciding decisions that have gone against us. Now I've always been of the belief that decisions even themselves out and no doubt we have had one or two go our way but we are well in the negative when it comes to refereeing/linesmen decisions this season. I've been saying this all season. We're obviously not a good team, but that'll take (hopefully Rafa) some time to sort out. However there's no doubt we haven't got the rub of the green in many matches this season, and bad refereeing decisions are just a part of that.

Yes, I remember trying to join in with it, standing in the Leazes end at one of my first games back in the early '70s. Didn't know the words.

That was outrageously entertaining. Had everything that you want from a game of football. Unlike the Burnley game earlier, which was a soporific load of cobblers. Bodes well for next season, whichever division we're in.

Should have gone, but Clattenburg just proved why he's the best ref in the league. Imagine Mike Jones or Bobby Madley handling that

Nasty - especially those near the corner flag. Probably still commit the "Chelsea smile". When I think of Chelsea fans, I always imagine them to be like those cunts that killed Stephen Lawrence.

Yes, but quite happy to see a few retrospective bans

A veritable cuntfest.

What a fuckin goal!!!

I knaa!! We're far too old for this shit Mick.

Caam on Chels...*shudders*

Think Sunderland will lose to Chelsea. And people are underestimating man u. They're fifth in the league, got a rock solid defence, need the points to pull out an (admittedly unlikely) champions league place. Ok they're crap compared to previous years, but they've still got enough to beat Norwich.

Remember they're playing a piss poor makem team, not the best Spurs side in living memory.

We'll be fine, listen to Brummie, Villa are fuckin awful, the only team in the league to have not given a fuck all season, some of their players were on the beach in January ffs. Cagy 2-1 win, Cisse and Mitro.

Naa, they'll do the biz against the makems. Hopefully.

Yep, can't understand why you'd get yourself involved in a cunt off with such a team of cunts as Chelsea, especially when you're cruising the game.

Ooh naughty from Dembele, that'll get retrospective action.

Fair play, another fantastically timed run and finish.

And fat sham too. Please make it happen

Kane timed his run perfectly there.

Well that was the most underwhelming 'massive' game I've ever seen. Good luck to Burnley and all that, but if that had been at the Riverside, the place would have been jumping and I bow to no man in my derision of the smoggies pathetic support.

Anyone watching Burnley QPR? Burnley fans want to hang their heads in shame, heard more atmosphere at a Boldon Villa game.

Another factor IIRC, was the previous year's semi at Hillsborough was between the same two teams, but that year the Liverpool fans had the bigger opposite Kop stand, the same end we had in '74. It's a long time since I've been to Hillsborough, so I don't recall the street layout outside, but I'm sure it made more sense logistically having the Liverpool fans at the other end.

Yes. Disgusting unfounded allegations of drunken fans urinating on the fallen , rifling through the pockets of the dead. All a calculated smear campaign by the authorities to cover up the real guilty parties.

Yep, seen all this and more. Some police forces were worse than others, you always had to be wary in south Yorkshire and the West Midlands. Seen young lads on their way to a match at Bramhall Lane twatted with truncheons for the crime of walking across a road.