Stifler

Absolutely nice for me who has applied for a ticket to every home cup match in the ballot and lost out on them all. I obviously couldn’t get a ticket for the away match as I’m only a Mags+ member.

And that’s net spend. Remember the likes of Liverpool usually sell a star striker to bring in a foreign star striker for much less, Torres, Suarez etc, as well as selling to Saudi clubs for fortunes. Chelsea buy every teenager in the academies of other clubs before they are 16, then sell them as soon as they hit their 20’s. Meanwhile we have never been able to purchase a decent player to begin with, and our academy prospects like Bobby Clark are poached by the likes of Liverpool before they flog him on for a profit, and when we do have a semi-decent player and wish to sell to Saudi, we have to absolutely stunt the fee to ridiculously low levels for the Premier League to say that it’s fair.

We all know that they will. A little bit of INEOS lobbyist here, a little bit of the required Labour donation there, add on a sprinkle of it being the governments flagship project for the North.

Injury time, must mean Celtic song time again.

No they can’t. If either cup winner has already qualified for Europe via the league, then it falls down to the league placings. The fact that we ended up losing out on Europe last season should have made our fans more aware of the rules to be honest.

They will appoint someone else who will have a decent season, then end up sacking him either during the 2nd season, or just after.

We play them 2 and a half weeks before the final. Play some kids and get them to break some fucking legs.

Absolutely no one expects them to.

That’s a fucking red card.

I’ve been thinking about that, not really a bad thing. IF we were to win it, obviously everyone would prefer black & white stripes, but our current away shirt colour scheme is probably the best we could wish for as an alternative.

We don’t know yet. There is a draw done later on to determine who gets the home dressing room, and who gets which side.

I thought last night was very similar to how we have dealt with Arsenal in recent games, and also how others have as well. If they don’t get that early goal, or your defence is rather solid, they will run out of ideas. Once Martinelli went off last night, they ran out of ideas. There was no real goal attempts from them after that. You could see them start to playing it sideways, going back to their back line, looking for that outlet on the right, but not finding it. They well and truly ran out of ideas, and because we had the cushion and could just sit and watch them play the ball from left to right, and back again, they never had that opportunity to play a through ball or anything that could open a team up.

I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to get some dirt cheap Ryanair tickets from Dublin. What makes you think you are getting tickets for a Lazio vs Frankfurt final in anyway?

Fucking hell, can you imagine the scenes if Sunderland fans find this out. The train will be bricked.

That atmosphere last night, now let’s imagine that the noise doesn’t disappear into the sky, and has another 18,000 people joining in.

It sounded class on TV throughout last night. Those there did the step up that was required.

After the first semi-final, I saw an advertisement for a train going down to Wembley. If it’s legit, I can only think that it would be going across the Tyne Valley line, and switching onto the WCML to go down via that way.

I honestly think it’s so easy to wind Arsenal up, mostly down to the fact that they wind themselves up as soon as things don’t start going their way. If the match carried on for any longer, one of their players would have seen red, Rice actually should have been sent off for his challenge on Bruno. How Bruno managed to bounce up and celebrate instead of turning to knock him out is beyond me. Partey is another who is lucky that he never saw the back of a jail cell red.

A mate from uni who is a Sunderland season ticket holder once told me that he asked his brother who is also a Sunderland fan, ‘Do you support Sunderland or do you just hate Newcastle?’ because his brother showed more interest in our results than Sunderland’s. To some of their fans, it really is a case of supporting whoever plays us over supporting them.

That doesn’t apply either, only the winner qualifies.

No, only the winner qualifies for the Europa Conference League. If Liverpool went on to win it, then it would almost certainly drop to the league positions.

Count me in?

SSN are refusing to believe that we won 2-0.

Arteta won’t ever praise the opposition. No Arsenal manager will, they think everyone else is beneath them.

To be fair, there is a draw, you have a draw to determine who is the home team and who is the away team.