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Fuck me. Once in a lifetime, that.

Just switched on Fox Sports over here, and it looked like Judah Friedlander was on as Frank from 30 Rock. Did I just imagine that?

Even speaking as an outsider, that's a terrible article . The irony of the Hughton bit. The top six plus clubs like Spurs...who are in the top six. I feel that the fact that I spend loads of time on here completely separates me from so many other clubs' fans, and their opinion of Pardew et al. I feel that I see all your problems laid bare on here every week, yet so many others seem to miss the point.

I've not seen anything of Armstrong, but I'm amazed he isn't getting a run out now. Actually, scratch that, I'm not amazed in the slightest, but it just seems like a completely wasted opportunity to give a couple of kids a couple of games. Just look at us - our season is still not quite mathematically over, and Sherwood is clearly just marking time, but he's still giving Kane and Veljkovic some game time.

Still think it's too early to tell for Lamela and Soldado, but it was a shit-load of money.

It is just that basically we hate everyone, but love Newcastle TO do with the miners' strikes and them crossing the pickets, is it not? Nope. It was sung long before then and was sung by every clubs' fans not just ours. It was one of "the" chants of the time and I remember an old MOTD commentator saying something like "Nottingham Forest - the team everyone hates". Of course the really important part to remember is the emphatic "and Leicester" after "Sunderland too". Dunno who the Forest fans used to use in lieu - possibly Tottenham Hotspur ?? Anyway to answer the OP I'd love to see Forest back up, it's been far too long. I vaguely remember us using Nottingham Forest, then both "Arsenal too" and "Liverpool too" at different times. Cool story. Bournemouth for me, for the hell of it.

Well don't tell everyone .

Can't have Dortmund going through instead of Real, man. Two minutes added time?

Yeah, but they fully deserved that on the pitch tonight.

PSG defender pushes Ba into the keeper, then appeals.

Modric, Bale, Van de Vaart and Adebayor FFS.

Probably Lavezzi.

Terrible decision by the ref.

This is one of those refs that you just want to shout at in the face. "When they dive you're supposed to book them!" It's not fucking rocket science.

Obvious point, but how has Lavezzi not been booked? Proper Gattuso performance tonight.

Yet Sherwood who has done the same thing and been getting less points than AVB gets the benefit of the doubt? Sherwood has more points than AVB, and is unlikely to last out the summer.

It is.

I think it's pretty clear that things were not hunky dory behind scenes, for some reason. He was certainly making some strange decisions. It's certainly true that ditching him before we'd even got to Christmas was effectively writing off the season.

Just did a quick add-up - in the league I think AVB was W8D3L5, Sherwood is W10D2L5.

Just do RTG man, it's mint. I went on looking for a match thread, but was disappointed. The Ki thread with the Korean fangirl/boy was ace though.

Anyone know of a readable Sunderland board (i.e. not RTG)? Just for the schadenfreude.

Still hoping we get Caulker back - rumours are that we might have something agreed.

Liverpool not being shit has been too much of a trade-off for me.

Can't believe that Eriksen is younger than, for example, Paul Dummett.

AVB was sacked for more than just performances on the pitch - there were clearly bigger issues in the way he handled the squad behind the scenes. Levy makes some ballsy decisions, and some misguided ones, but he clearly didn't have someone proper lined up and if that was the case then there was obviously something else concerning him. In a weird way I admire Sherwood for having the balls to put himself out there. I mean, it's a hard job, and he wasn't ever going to be ready for it, but he's actually done all right considering. I mean, Flip brings up the games this year, but the only teams he's lost to in the Prem have been Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool...and Norwich. He came in at a fairly horrible time, not having worked with the players at all, and did OK. We've now got West Brom, Fulham, Stoke, West Ham, and Villa, and we're capable of winning all five. Also, for all the stick he's had for persisting with players like Bentaleb (and Kane), he's now given a handful of kids some real experience too.