gbandit

Priceless man

Just saying that Mancini comes up with so much guff in interviews. It's not even entertaining bollocks, most of he tone aim just left thinking what on earth are you actually on about

Now that they've gotten over our 'headstart', they're nailed on for 13 from 15. I wouldn't even be surprised to see them go on a run and get all fifteen points with marty and his party tricks

Ben Ben Ben Arfa has been on a good run recently, well done the lad

True, I was on my lunch break when all the shit about bids coming in for him came about and I was like, there is no way we're getting value if he goes for £25m, even with it being the last day of the transfer window. All the press reports at the time were valuing him at about £25m. I wouldn't have taken £30m on the day and I remember the Carroll thread was full of debates back and forth with people saying any chairman in the world would take £30m but I was just left thinking, if Carroll goes, who on earth is going to score and keep us in the league? Looking back on it and not having the Newcastle bias, he's probably a £20m player when he plays like he did for us and a £5m as he's playing for liverpool.

Love the one about Pardew only having one scout. If it were true (think we've actually got ten) then surely it would be a good thing. Paying fuck all wages to get the best deals in the PL, jokers

Gutted that I have to wait so long for the next Ben Arfa show, hope he absolutely murders stoke and puts that prat Pulis in his place

I can't fucking stand it when other fans/sunderland/pundits label us as deluded. It's absolutely shocking journalism and lack of insight. You speak to the majority of toon fans and they're negative as fuck. Right now, we're joint fourth on points and still most people think we'll end up 5th/6th. I'm not the kind of fan who gets carried away, I always try to judge things objectively and I'm not the type of fan who rubs other people's noses in it when we do well. most of my toon mates have the same attitude, I don't know how this myth of delusion still circulates

Agree with that - Zaha from Palace is another mentioned in the Chron article who can play as a wide forward - bags of pace too. Zaha, if coached correctly can go on to become an extremely good player. All the signs are there that he's going to make it at the top level

Pards gets a clap for that Ferguson should definitely be getting on in most games for thirty minutes as he's hungry, fast and will cause loads of problems against tired legs. Also, Santon deserves that praise. He was quality against Bolton

Fair enough, it can be useful. Ive said it before on here but I cannot even begin to describe how appalling most forums are including most imdb boards. Still haven't worked out if this forum genuinely is way above average or whether football forums in general have a better standard (RTG and rawk not included)

You on imdb hans? Was just looking through some posts about drive and there's a user called hansdownerpantz

Would have Lennon over Hatem at RW tbh. Real width. No way, Lennon has pace and fires crosses in but really doesn't create anything in standard play. Hatem creates in build up, link-play, wonder goals and assists. He's so much more complete wherever he plays

I've not read the article and don't plan to but hacks normally watch one or two of our games and then extrapolate an article on our season based on that and shit they read from other people. Should be banned from writing if they can't prove they've watched over 50% of our games

Sign.Those.Other.People

I love Shearer constantly going on in the press about Harry. He's definitely doing us a favour there

Nice, that's what his big wages are for

Best thingon the Internet is sbragia

Would take only slightly more than zero pleasure in winning a major tournament if we won it like stole do. It's so far from football man and it will never ever bring success. It can only get you so far and it's appalling to watch. Can't wait for stoke to get relegated. Tyson makes a great point, teams like stoke are holding back football development in this country

Is this what really happens when you get banned? Ask Ronaldo, he's spent some time on the sidelines

That's good to hear. Seems we're getting quite a decent profile in France thanks to our french boys and the manner in which we've performed our business. Can only be good going forward and I hope we can develop a similar reputation in some other european countries too. Think Holland could be next if we get Pieters and Douglas. Football colonialism with Ben Arfa as our Napoleon. Nice. Hope Ben Arfa produces another devastating goal against Stoke, also, with all the focus on referees recently, hopefully they'll step their games up and start actually doing something about Huth and Shawcross among others in their team manhandling anything in range

This, on any other season Simpson will make half or less than half of the goal line clearances he has this season. It's just an aberration but it has been very useful. Personally, I want to see footballers playing in every position on the park. There's no space in the PL for players who aren't able to do several different things with/without the ball but the lad doesn't need to take such heat from an opening post

Awesome, huge respect

Yuck, that is not even close to top 4 standard

Nah, but there's going to be a new Jonathan Creek mystery, unfortunately Alan Davies will not be able to play the leading role Is it the one with the missing hubcaps? Nah, it's the one with the 'Justice' spear through Alan's head