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Harsh on Mike tbh He is the sole reason we follow a totally pointless football club these days.

Probably a City fan tbf. If so, I don't think he would be allowed to referee a Man Utd game. Clattenburg and Michael Oliver don't do Sunderland games do they? No they don't. Doesn't really matter whether he supports Man Utd or not, a lot of his friends and family members will. Seems daft that they have the full country to pick a referee from and they go and choose one from Manchester.

Just noticed that the referee for tonight is from Manchester. Shouldn't really be allowed that.

He won't.

Everton away in the FA cup, 0-1 - Ian Rush scored for us. :lol: I was at that one. The only thing I remember about the day was leaving the ground after the match and finding out we'd drawn Stevenage in the next round.

Thought Cisse played well yesterday especially considering the complete plank he was asked to play alongside.

Thought it looked about right from my seat in the Gallowgate. About 300 empty seats in the Villa end and about another 300 spread over Level 7. The rest of the ground looked full, even the Platinum club looked chocka.

When he first went to Crystal Palace he was full of praise for their fans and the atmosphere they create. Now he's reduced to begging them to turn up to watch his team. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2967729/Crystal-Palace-struggle-sell-away-tickets-televised-Premier-League-match-West-Ham-Alan-Pardew-urges-fans-leave-sofa-one.html

NUFC.com were saying over 50,000 had been sold for the Villa match by Wednesday morning. beat me to it, nearly a sell out apparently. I turned down a free ticket today as well. I'll stay in the bar. Staggering really. Blind loyalty or blind stupidity.

NUFC.com were saying over 50,000 had been sold for the Villa match by Wednesday morning.

Missed a penalty tonight.

Maybe if he allowed some other sponsors some coverage inside the stadium at the expense of some of his sports direct adverts the club may well make a profit before player trading. Every other club in the PL has grown their commercial revenue massively in the past 7 years except us.

Said he couldn't complain about the effort and then in the same sentence says we were outfought. What a prick.

This message board is the only place I've ever seen where he's actually rated although more and more people are seeing sense now. Terrible player with a heart the size of a pea.

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Hopefully they get hold of Ashley one day.

Worrying thing for me is the fact that we had the lead in the 3 we've drawn. Lead 3 times against Burnley - didn't win. Lead against Stoke - didn't win. Lead against Palace - didn't win. That's not just bad luck, the decisions he's taken during those 3 games when we've been sitting on a lead have meant taking 3 points when it could/should have been 9. To throw away a lead 5 times in 6 games is f***ing frightening. The negativity and fear will take years to get rid of, it's the worst combination you can get - scared of losing the game and petrified when we're leading. His substitutions have shown him up as a coward. The Stoke game particularly when we were 1-0 up and in the ascendancy when more composure from Perez and Obertan would have had us comfortably out of sight he makes terrible decisions and changes the whole mindset of the team to just try and hang on instead of killing the game off as any half decent team would have done. We invited the pressure onto us and the inevitable happened.

3 very well taken goals as well.

His 6 points from 6 games would equate to a 38 point season which would have us around the relegation zone. When you consider his 6 points have consisted of a win at a woeful Hull, a lucky draw at home to Burnley, and 2 awful performances in draws v Stoke and Palace it's a very poor start he's made (I haven't included Leicester in the cup). If, as expected, he's given the job full time in the summer expect 30,000 crowds next season followed by relegation. He's so far out of his depth as a PL manager it's embarrassing.

Nothing loveable about him tbh.

They'll stop up once again thanks to the 6 points we gift them. When you look at that match last night, us on Sunday, in fact most PL games you realise it's not a particularly good or exciting league anymore. Sky need their head read for paying all that for it and the minute they put my subscription up to cover the costs I'll be cancelling because I'm watching less and less live football on TV.

I'll order him an Indians tonight. That should cheer him up.

Looking at the stadium plan we've sold well less than 40k tickets is far for the Stoke game. Taking into account Stokes pitiful following I can see a sub 45k crowd for the first time in a few seasons. Should set the alarm bells ringing, but it won't. On a season ticket related subject it also shows how many season ticket holders we've lost in recent years as there's still loads of availability in the East Stand. Before we were relegated that area was basically season ticket holders only except for a few empty seats dotted about.

We should have a sweep to see how many more times he mentions Bobby Robson from now till the end if the season.

He can't seriously think he's in with a chance of getting it after overseeing a lucky 3-3 home draw with Burnley who hit the woodwork 4 times, a pathetic defeat at Leicester and another loss yesterday. Nobody could be that deluded.