Neil

No, you don't tell him he'll be on the bench, you tell him, like anyone, he'd have to fight for his place in the team.

Leadership. Veteran. Solid.

Expansive passing.

Exactly, this is the first derby in ages I don't feel really nervous about. Unless they beat us heavily, which they don't do to anyone regularly, we hold the bragging rights for the season. I don't feel nervous about it because I've already come to terms with the fact we will probably lose, as I don't believe Nolan and Smith are capable of competing as a central midfield pairing. You are only as good as your last win so the bragging rights will be pretty worthless unless we get a point. Now this lad speaks sense. You a regular or just one of the 15,000 going along on Sunday because it's Newcastle ? Working mate. Very rarely get to any games. Ah well, at least you've got a job. Haha, I'm at Uni as well. Impressive eh. Newcastle Uni per chance?

He's got experience and commitment, y'know.

Other than that, though...

So it will Sewelly be done tomorrow, right? Like I give a fuck if that's been used already. I WAS PLEASED WITH IT.

In all seriousness this Sunderland fan is exactly the type of person you're on about... except he doesn't even have any trivia/stats to talk of, he just drones on, and on, and on, and on, and on about 'SAFC', 'Pele' (Welbeck), 'Diego' (Onouha) and ultimately, makes paint drying look like Brazil 1970.

There's an Everton fan at work who actually almost makes me hate football with his boring football trivia and stats. I just want to be chummy-chum-chums.

I agree, M4. The Timeless Paul Scholes has to be there.

You know of any pacey strikers mainly right footed out in France that could partner Andy Carroll? Nice ice-breaker. Smooth. Rather off-topic and not long enough really to put in the funny stories thread, but really reminds me of a Sunderland fan I know displaying truly incompetent chatting up skills a couple of years ago. Me and my mates were at the bar and we looked over to see how his attempts were going and we heard simply, in a dour, monotone voice, "......and it hit Gordon, hit the post, went in, and we lost..." Suffice to say the face on the lass was one of contempt and fucking despair.

Deary me, 3-0.

Cavani with another brace. 2-0 Napoli.

That's the thing though VI, Messi will out-trophy him every single time, and in three season you'll have a player named Ganso who probably will be there winning battling it out and probably winning it in 2014 if Brazil wins the World Cup. I have my doubts Ronaldo will win it 3 times and if he does, than you can also remember that Ronaldo missed two whole year right after he peaked as a footballer which probably would've brought him at least one trophy. The real Ronaldo was also a big match winner, something CRonaldo isn't. Ronaldo scoring three past Man Utd in that Champions League tie for Real is just classic. Hmm. Really does depend on when he goes to Europe, and where.

Pleased it was Kaka to finish it off.

Nice counter.

The goalkeeping, my word.

Di Maria is one of life's true twats.

At least Chelsea for once don't get a lower-league side at home. Sigh.

Karma's a bitch for the honest Liverpool team.

Is that not an FA Cup game as well? Oh, yeah, aye.

Really? All Man Utd have done is thump it clear.

This is the only game today, right? Spurs aren't playing Charlton are they? It's just, I would have liked somewhere to mention a couple of things about that game. Oh well, never mind.

Hope so! Only caught a couple of minutes of pregame but enough to fill the sick bucket already. "Its the English superclassico" "The biggest rivalry in English football" .... It's become England's Auld Firm don't you know?

Isn't gonna get a sniff today.