PENKAAA

Cattermole you dirty cunt.

Wonder when Sewelly will realise Bendtner isn't world class. 

Sunderland really are gash.

Hope it hurts Bardsley you dirty twat.

Ji is crap.

Agreed.

I've yet to meet a Sunderland fan in Northern Ireland. What made O'Neill support them?

Dave makes a good point (can't be arsed to go back a page to quote it).

 

He's a good manager who gets good results. There's no getting away from that. They haven't appointed Avram Grant.

 

On the flip side, that stuff from the bloke in Leicester is so spot on, i almost nodded my head clean off my shouders. He's very far from being any type of messiah. He'll get them to 8th to 10th, I reckon, which for Sunderland is quite the achievement.

 

Actual fact does not bear comparison to some of the media fawning. Henry Winter the other day described him as "a stellar manager". Not wanting to sound snooty, but if he's that, having been out of work for over a year, why on earth is he about to take over at Sunderland?

 

My advice to you lot is to marvel at the forthcoming press fawning, because it is going to make you vomit. It made me vomit even when he was with us, the suggestion being that we were Martin O'Neill's Aston Villa, that we were lucky to have him, and that should overrule any complaints we might have about the awful football or the profligate wasting of money. Had I known we'd still be getting it today (and we are), I would have opted never to have had him here at the first place.

 

I have personally never had a problem with Sunderland. Sure, RTG is the mongiest place I've ever seen on the internet, but on the flip side, my best mate at uni was a mackem, i watched them with him a lot in the third division. 

 

Now MON is going there, however, and thnking back to how he shat on us gigantically, and wanting to see how his press fan club would react to it, I wish them absolutely nothing but ill.

...Sunderland appears to be a perfect fit for the Northern Irishman - an under-achieving team crying out for the shot of energy, enjoyment and self-belief that O’Neill injects into moribund clubs.

 

O’Neill is keenly aware of the club’s rich history and its core of fanatical support and will revel in the team’s current underdog status compared to their fiercest rivals, Newcastle.

 

Nor is it thought that O’Neill will be in any way dismayed by suggestions that he will not have much money to spend at the Stadium of Light.

 

In fact, in some ways he is relishing the task of trying to revive Sunderland without significant financial backing.

 

Some have sought to damage his reputation with a drip-feed of criticism about his spending at Villa and the wages that were paid to players during his reign there.

 

But since he left, Villa have sold three players that he bought - Ashley Young, James Milner and Stewart Downing - for massive profits; profits that put O’Neill’s expenditure in an entirely different light.

 

It is also worth pointing out that when O’Neill was manager, Villa finished sixth in the Premier League for three successive seasons.

 

Without him, they finished ninth last season and currently lie eighth, although they appear to have been cut adrift of the top seven.

 

Their ambitions of qualifying for the Champions League disappeared when O’Neill left.

 

So, even though Sunderland are only two points above the relegation zone, they are also just five points behind Villa.

 

O’Neill’s admirers would back him to not only close that margin but overhaul it this season.

 

One of football’s great characters has been out of the game long enough.

 

If Sunderland close the deal, it will be good to have him back.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/mirror-football-blog/Why-Martin-O-Neill-is-perfect-fit-as-next-Sunderland-manager-and-why-they-are-perfect-for-him-Oliver-Holt-opinion-article837324.html

Jesus Christ, just seen i'm 3rd in the head-to-head!

Murphy out, Walters in - is my transfer for this week. Probably transfer Begovic out next week.

http://www.cpfc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=226224&page=12

Was that reported in the press? Or just a rumour? Thought you didn't like those Sewelly.

https://twitter.com/#!/Masterplan_safc

 

 

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@MsiDouglas I urge you to read Louise Taylor's piece in The Guardian tomorrow. This is how you report on safc.

What's Louise Taylor been saying?

Edit: Doesn't matter, found the article i think.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/nov/30/steve-bruce-sunderland-sacked

Scottwilsonecho Scott Wilson

So there we have it - Steve Bruce is no longer #SAFC boss. The fact it didn't happen on Monday strongly suggests someone is lined up.

Oooh, someone lined up?

Thanks for everything, Brucey.

SAFCofficial Sunderland AFC

Sunderland Football Club have parted company with manager Steve Bruce.

Retweeted by Scottwilsonecho

No, i bought one then went back after the wrong order was placed then ordered the second correctly with the promotional code.

I continued through the payment process thinking "The next page must give you the chance to enter the promotinal code surely..." then i find out my order is being processed.

Could have cancelled it but i was too late. 

Done, but bought two by accident. I'm so stupid. 

Gonna memorise it and sing it in the bar when i'm watching it. Wish i was there, the atmosphere will be great!

These Bruce photos have been cheering me up a little these past couple of days.

I absolutely lost it watching his goal against Sheffiled United when he was young.

"Go on Gary Speed, get one yourself son..."  :'(

'Go On Gary Speed, Get One Yourself Lad' on youtube.

Well if he has they better not interrupt the Speed interview on radio newcastle, they are simply not worth the air time of Gary Speed TBH.

This interview is great so far.

I hope they don't get relegated actually. Would love them to finish 17th each season if it was up to me. If they fall to the Championship, they may come back strong if promoted.

 

Green with envy.

Lol at Wigan's away support.

0:20

The thought of him becoming a regular pundit.