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Got £25 on them, get £375 back. It won't ease the pain in the slightest but at least I'll be able to buy myself something nice.

Tbf I was also a regular away traveller and still remember a big number of their fans at the SoL in the corner to our left signing about Bobby Robson being nearly dead and Olivier Bernard being loudly racially abused to know it's not just social media. Also had a song about wishing Steven Taylor dead I think. Just a backwater place full of hatred and bitterness in my experience.

As I live in Wallsend and work in Killingworth I have no interaction with Sunderland fans other than those on Social Media. It appears a fair few wished a nasty ACL imjury on Bruno, so as I said, ironic it's happened to their best player.

See post below yours.

Ironic that's happened less than a week after someone on RTG wished the same injury on Bruno. May well have played his last game for Sunderland now.

Been going since 83/84. Actually went from 1991 to 2002 without missing a home game, inc Anglo Italian Cup matches! Support became a bit more patchy under Ashley then I stopped altogether when Bruce came in. If we'd beaten Man Utd that night I'm certain we would have won the league but we still had 10 league games to play after that so this feels more definitive for me.

By my reckoning I've attended well over 800 matches at SJP and and this one tonight is without doubt the most important for me. I can't comprehend how big this is and the extreme spectrum of emotions I could be feeling at full time depending on the result.

Feel really bad for them. Sometimes think we should just bank transfer them another £30m over on the sly for the sake of our conscience.

Or a daft free kick on the edge of the box ripe for JWP. I'm expecting a nervy night. Hope the crowd are up for it and don't just wave their scarves before the match then sit in silence.

If ever we needed an early goal in a game it's this one. If it stays at 0-0 well into the 2nd half the tension will be unbareable knowing they just need a goal to take ir to pens.

Their fans have been reduced to lobbying the club to make the replay ticlets as cheap as they possibly can in order to avoid yet another 4 figure cup attendance

Agree about the players names not getting cheered beforehand like they did back then but generally speaking the atmosphere wasn't any different for run of the mill games. Just check the NUFC.com archives for the matches from that time and they are bemoaning the lack of atmosphere. At one point it got so bad under SBR that the club took it upon themselves to organise a "flag day" to try to lift things for a match against Spurs and about 6 people brought flags along and it was flat as a fart!

The atmosphere under SBR was poor other than for the big games. Even the CL games other than the Juventus one were flat. Even under KK it was excellent when he first arrived, as was the 92/93 season then it started to die off as soon as we got into the Premier League outwith the big games.

24,000 there (exactly half full) asked to turn up wearing green, for a match against a team who play in green You really couldn't make it up

Sunderloan.

Joelinton got no shit other than on Social Media. When Bruce was here our crowd was so listless and passive they couldn't raise the energy to give anyone any stick, including Bruce.

They mock us (and rightly so) when our lot do it so when I seen him last night the opportunity to catch some evidence was too good to turn down.

I took that photo last night

Would go down as the biggest shock in Scottish football history I reckon. Aberdeen have won the Scottish Cup 7 times, the League 4 times, the League Cup 6 times, and even beat Real Madrid to win the Cup Winners Cup. Still 1-0 to Darvel and we're into stoppage time.

Used to love the tannoy announcements during the match in the 90s telling someone their wife had just gone into labour or that their car was blocking the road. Edited. Just read through the last page there and this has already been mentioned

A load of people in the corner were issued with letters before the Fulham game threatening them with bans for persistent standing. Frustrating when every week you see whole stands stood up for the entire match. Safe standing, and soon, is of vital importance.

Love how they all called us Flag Nonces when it was clear as day that they were massively jealous of our flag displays. Now to prove that, they've now turned into flag nonces themselves! Same story with our takeover. All this gnashing of teeth is just trying to cover up how extremely jealous they are of us. It's all quite tragic and hilarious in equal measure really 

Huddersfield, the first home game of the 16/17 season was their first display.

PSV Eindhoven v Vitesse Arnhem tomorrow night.

Nottm Forest Notts County This is very important!