bigfella

....even pre season friendlies....

I've just realised what this photo reminds me of: http://ijustwanttofitin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ham.jpg with apologies to the 'tards.

...and the final one for tonight http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/images/2009/05/24/sland1_300x352.jpg ...would you???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39204000/jpg/_39204587_sunderland_pa245x245.jpg Another....

Dunno mate, could be any time in the last 20 years looking at the state of them all. I blatantly stole the pic off another site.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/17/article-1183728-00028B7000000258-617_468x412.jpg Oh My Good God!

....ain't that the truth. I have a mate who goes all over the world with sunderland (stop sniggering, I'm talking pre season tours and suchlike here) and although he's got red and white eyes, he's usually quite fair in his analysis of their chances. For the past few weeks he's been unbearable, saying they wouldn't just win, they were going to "hump" us - baffling.

What the fuck is all this about? The makems get humped so we'll show ratboy scoring a couple of goals to make him feel better

No Ratface, the players won't have to face the fans this week....none of the fuckers live in sunderland!

They might be able to isn't he supposedly a Sunderland fan ? he is, actually, goes back to the '60's. ...........mind you Bruce is supposed to be a Newcastle fan....hang on...

Barton's best game for us by some distance today, I thought. Early on, before it all happened, I thought he held it all together, our centre halves and midfield looked a bit shakey. Barton single handedly looked class and as soon as we scored, that was it, everyone was flying

yup yup x2

Fair play to you. I have lived amongst the red'n whiters for most of my life (Boldon) and none of my my mackem supporting mates have had the baals to contact me since the match finished

That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen at the match. Me and the lads round us, were giving him dogs abuse for the ten minutes leading up to his eviction, you could see him getting more and more wound up.

Aye, me. Was alright I suppose, bit of a strange experience, but not the first time I'd been to owt like that. Couldn't get tickets for the first leg of the play offs at Roker, so watched the beam back in the City Hall. Atmosphere at that one was tremendous .

Aye, I've noticed that. Waddle does it, Gazza does it, they pronounce words like "play" as if they have about five vowels in them.

find out how many times in the past 40yrs these games have gone against form. the times they won up here they were better than us through the season iirc and we went so long unbeaten against because we were the better team for so long. edit....the form book says nowt at the minute between the two clubs either. ....is correct. The only one I can remember going significantly against form was the '90 play off game.We were a far better team than them that season.

Hopefully it's just makem shit-stirring. I was out with a makem mate last Saturday and he was adamant that Carroll had lamped someone last weekend and was saying it'd be all over the papers on Monday morning (11th).

Benayoun had to go off with a groin strain after Chelsea had used all their subs. Approx 65 minutes IIRC.

Two good pelantys like. Cool as f**k. Why didn't he take the bastard on Saturday?

What a horrendous fat mess

Well he's at the right place now, with a right load of c*nts...

Absolutely spot on. All of them just fantastically celebrated

From a .com match report vs. the makems, nine years ago In an ideal world, whoever played next to Shearer would be capable of shouldering the workload, especially against the quality defenders who will inevitably expose his reduced mobility in coming games. Whether that player is Ameobi remains a big doubt in my mind. Taking into account his often Waddle-esque languidity, he seems to err on the shoulder-shrugging side of easy-going too often for my liking. Just as he had against Troyes, he walked off for his half time cuppa against the mackems having barely featured or threatened. Hopefully a well-heeled brogue was brought into contact with the back of his shorts within said dressing room. Critical praise from the chattering classes and broadsheet newspaper interviews are all very well, and uncle Bobby simply refuses to have a word said against him, but our hyper-active manager looked more energetic and active on the touchline for great swathes of this game than his young striking prospect. Shola's body language when subbed seemed to betray the fact that he thought his time was up for longer than this game, when in fact the continuing saga of Carl Cort's tin legs means he still has senior opportunities. Nowt has changed....