Stifler

They have lost 3 games so far this season. PSG aside (who they actually beat) you’d think most Premier League teams would outperform that. Their Champions League campaign has been poor so far, their only win comes from beating Ajax who sit on 0 points. I really think it’s doable that we get the win here.

That stadium is fucking shit. The sides of the main stand don’t close properly, and with the rest of the stadium being fairly open, it just lets the wind flow through it. There isn’t even any patio heaters or similar to help fans. There is no surprise that the attendances have dropped off massively. How Gateshead cope I have no idea.

Tino and Hall are key to our counter.

I noticed that all the flags for the women had damp/mold on them today.

Doubtful. League wise they are doing much better this season.

Game well and truly over.

2, how is that distracting from my point though? It’s been an issue for a while, others have mentioned it, in fact I was responding to someone who mentioned it.

We owe these cunts a good fucking hiding. The fuckers didn’t even go on to win it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRWtrftjQUx/?igsh=bWFjcjVsNTdhcGYx

Anyone fancy going to watch the women play today?

Someone on Reddit has dared to ask if Anfields atmosphere is poor. The Scouse mods on the Premier League thread have moved to snip it when every set of fans were saying that their atmosphere is a myth. https://www.reddit.com/r/PremierLeague/s/d70rQDPglq

There is no end to the propaganda and rewriting of history scousers will do if the truth makes them look bad.

Some guy has bought Howe’s dugout seat to play FM. https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/s/BgTA8EgQgR

He’s fucking class. Can we get another CB like him that he can play alongside?

I mentioned it in a recent club survey. The amount of people going to toilets to sniff some lines whilst people are waiting to genuinely use them, as well as fans coming in to the stadium who are clearly out of their mind is unacceptable to be honest. It’s fucking blatant as well.

Our fan aren’t singing Blaydon races like Liverpool sing YNWA, and Arsenal sing London forever (which I’m convinced is a new thing, never remember them singing it or at all until recently). It’s a song to be sung during the game. It’s a shame because our fan had just started to hum to Local Hero in recently in anyway. I also think our traditional tunnel anthem (O’ Fortuna) is the best for building up anticipation. Like anything though, I think our atmosphere on these things depends on the crowd and occasion. Sometimes are fans are up to it for key games, sometimes they are a little on edge, and other times they are generally apathetic. You can have anything playing and it won’t change.

It will affect them massively, although PSR probably already was. Their chairman was on about how they might dip in the transfer market in January if a top 10 position is possible. PSR puts a limit on them. Their commercial revenue is absolutely fucking shit. I think our Adidas deal alone was worth more than all their commercial revenue in their last set of full accounts. They will obviously have Premier League TV money now, and some commercial deals will have increased, but it won’t be anywhere near other clubs. How long are those crowds going to last? We know that as soon as their team dips, their crowd fucks off. If they will struggle to sell £40 tickets, how will they sell corporate tickets for much more? It was pointed out a little while back that their income for selling out with the ticket prices that they have and those that they had to give away as well the discounted tickets was the equivalent of Norwich selling out their stadium at the going rate for tickets. The Norwich owners are now on collision course with their fans over expanding their stadium and creating corporate and fanzone facilities because their ticket revenue is now no longer sufficient to mount a challenge for promotion. With work, we do quite a bit of work in Sunderland, an the amount of shirts that they have sold since they got promoted is telling, but again this is on the back of the promotion an having a shirt that is a popular historic strip that they had. Well everyone is doing that, I think Leeds’ last season was one of the best selling Adidas kits. Every club is doing that, and most clubs at the higher end of the are charging more for their kits and selling more of them. I don’t even think their kit deal is directly with Hummel either, I’m sure it’s still with that company based in Spennymoor. As it’s been said by plenty of fans from plenty of teams though. These rules are there not just to protect the top 6, but also to protect the likes of Crystal Palace, Brighton, Brentford etc from being challenged by the likes of Sunderland. They might have some decent players now, but even if they sold them all in the summer, Brighton etc have already done that 5 times over and made more money than them.

The mackem is trying to form an argument that our 2nd goal should have been disallowed.

I have to admit, I’ve been a bit apathetic to the match. Watching the other scores come in you do question if we would just maybe have a perfect day. At half time I think it swung for me to thinking we would just do it.

Yeah it was an even game to be honest. In fact until we scored the 2nd the game was in the balance. We could have lost it just as much as we won it.

The angle they showed us looked like he was clearly offside.

The only decision that went in our favour was the penalty, and he didn’t make the decision. He was fucking awful, and gave them everything they asked for.

Micah can barely even raise his voice, he’s not even a Man City fan.

Liverpool fans turning on him, change the thread title to Isak: Walking alone.

Fair fucking play @Mattoon If Carlsburg did Saturday football, it would still probably be just as shit as their Danish/Scouse lager, but they don’t and today was a perfect day.