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I started reading that as Then halfway through And ended

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October 30 - Aston Villa have become the first English Premier League club to publicly back a supporters' campaign to bring back safe standing areas on a limited and experimental basis – but look certain to encounter strong opposition. Standing at matches in the top two divisions of English football has been banned since 1989 following the Hillsborough stadium disaster but Germany has long employed standing areas successfully and campaigners believe doing the same in England would enhance the atmosphere as well as bring ticket prices down. "We have had a number of good discussions and meetings with the Football Supporters' Federation (FSF) over the past 12 months and fully support their campaign to allow small-scale trials of safe standing areas at grounds," Paul Faulkner, Aston Villa's chief executive, said. "Whenever we have discussed the topic with our fans we've found almost unanimous support for such a trial, and the concept of giving fans the choice to decide to either sit or stand at a game. "We believe Villa Park could be a potential venue for such a trial, and would like the opportunity to progress the plans further with the wider support of the football community in this country." Peter Daykin, safe standing coordinator at the FSF, made the point that fans often still stand up at games anyway even though it is officially banned, and that the time had come for supporters to be allowed to choose. "Standing was outlawed on grounds of safety, and yet successive Governments have agreed that standing is safe – it's hard not to when it is done perfectly safely every week at rugby grounds, lower league football grounds and in top football leagues all around the world," he said. The Premier League is certain to oppose the campaign, arguing that all-seater grounds had significant benefits. "Since the introduction of all-seater stadia the supporter experience has improved significantly and we have seen more diverse crowds attending Premier League matches including more women and children," a spokesman said. "The police, safety officers and licensing authorities remain clear on this issue and have consistently informed us that crowd management has improved as a result of all-seater stadia being in place in the top two divisions in this country. "We will not be encouraging the Government to change the law."

I did a bit of researching and found out that of the 15 games Sunderland have won under O'Neill 5 of them have been in cup competitions. This leaves his league record as follows: P: 32 W: 10 D: 13 L: 9 Win: 31% Not a terrible record. However, In his first 16 league games in charge he won 9 of them! Losing only 5. P: 16 W: 9 D: 2 L: 5 Win: 60% This means his points total from his first 16 games in charge = 29 Its been well documented however that in his last 16 games he has only picked up 1 win. However his points total equals 14 points with 11 draws thrown in there. P: 16 W: 1 D: 11 L: 4 Win: 6 % Points total from last 16 league games= 14 points. So not great recently. Let's make things worse... Brucey was sacked for his side's performance in the last 16 games of his reign... His results show that he won 4 of those last 16 matches. His record breaks down as P: 16 W: 4 D: 5 L: 7 Win= 25 % Giving Brucey a grand points total of 17. For the slower mathmeticians on the board this works out as a better record than O'Neill's current 16 match run. The Party with Marty is definitely over

of the year award goes to....

Linesmen not passing the ball back/or stopping the ball on goal kick or throw in

How you manage that?

Llambias' programme notes man. You couldnt make it up

Have we ever won handsomely under Pardew? Genuine question... If we haven't it's quite obvious why. Score a goal and defend the lead. If we can score a second try and see the game out. (Wolves away)

Ferguson should feel very hard done by not to have played today. He's not put a foot wrong in any game he's played for us imo, and he had to sit on the bench and watch the shit served up by others out there this afternoon

Fucking awful. I could feel the anger brewing in the stadium for a crescendo of boos at full time, until that goal went in. We've not played well once this season at all

I heard a lad of about 6 behind me say at the match 'I wish all this Sports Direct stuff would be taken down. It looks horrible'

You can just tell they're going to cause trouble Oh the irony

That'll be much easier than having 6000 Geordies in various bars in the city. Keep all the (bad) eggs in one basket imo Couldn't agree more fella, be class anyway though. Aye I'm looking forward to it. I'll still class it as going to a European away game, with it being my first one. Hopefully if we progress we get a bit luckier with ticket allocation!

That'll be much easier than having 6000 Geordies in various bars in the city. Keep all the (bad) eggs in one basket imo

Beautiful

Fucking joke that like. Apparently they're nowhere near selling out their home ground either

http://www.nufc.com/images/2002-10-23griffin.jpg 10 years ago today

How much? I thought you needed to have a Belgian passport to buy them or something?

I didn't think this 9-1 shit was used as an 'insult' by most Mackems

Ain't looked at team since opening day

Anybody got the CHOOSE NUFC' text from last season? And the good one none of the shit ones i've seen doing the rounds on fb today