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My 9 year old daughter put her witchy finger hex on Bacca. She claims she was responsible for the penalty shoot out win. Was nothing to do with Pickford. Apparently.

That's an amazing call to arms, incredible delusions of grandeur. Whoever wrote that has totally missed the fact that the vast majority of 3rd division level players are earn between £60K and £130K per year. That's a decent salary by most standards but chances are they are only going to see that level of income for somewhere between 8 and 12 years of their working life. After that, who knows? Possibly a job in lower league coaching, sports/fitness, maybe physiotherapy, whatever, but on ordinary wages for the rest of their lives. If I was a some journeyman striker in the third division the only things I would be concerned with would be a) am I playing for a professional, stable club and b) how much could I earn in the period of my contract. "That is why you should sign for Sunderland. Only that. So, come and be that man and feel the tender embrace of our love for the next 50 years of your life. Learn something new. Do something different. Convince yourself you have no limits. Welcome to Sunderland." Err, no.

This comment: https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/114992722 On this article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/apr/22/sunderland-feckless-relegation-has-been-coming-at-least-we-now-have-a-parrot?CMP=share_btn_link Is awesome! Blimey, I didn't fully comprehend how devastating the effects of relegation were on the denizens of Wearside........and your budgie dying.......dearie me, oh dear oh dear.....dreadful, awful....horrifying. I feel really bad and broken up inside, I feel like crying. But now for a slightly different angle on this 'bantering' club of good old lads and lasses. Known paedophile player, hidden and protected by at least one club officer and their manager, merely to help prevent a relegation, two seasons earlier. The paedophile's goal celebration, mocking the death of innocent air passengers, does not bear any kind of scutiny. Margaret Byrne got a good bung though, which is nice..... Poznans Planes with banners Banners inflaming hatred suspended from closest rival's iconic bridge Bedshheet slogans e.g. 'Rafa beneath us' (admittedly witty), 'Wank Mags' (so, so) 'Fuck off Mag scum' (not so much) Fascist saluting manager Team captain and fellow "player", smashing up cars to the tune of £4000+ in Stowell Street Newcastle, after a bout of recuperative drinking in The Toon Same player/captain (Cattermole) universally banned from every pub and club in Yarm (inability to hold his beer, mouth, temper) Happpy fans 'banter' about Demba Ba's "exploding" lips, NUFC's "Coon Army", Liam Jones, a nice lad from Hendon, "Monkey Dancing" at Romelu Lukaku, after he scores a goal at the stadium of shite. Chairman Bob Murray 'glassed by a sunderland fan whilst having dinner with his wife in a restaurant. Smearing faeces on the walls of the toilets in St. James' Park and on the wlls of the metro trains and stations, behaviour, not out of the ordinary for travelling sunderland fans (esp. for derbies). Coins, batteries and bottles of piss raining down onto Newcastle fans in the Family Enclosures at St. James' fathers, mothers and children). Titus Bramble and brother Niklaus Bendtner Djibrill Cisse John Oster....... their loveliness goes on and on... I fully expect the makems to fall out of the football leagues, go into liquidation and cease to exist. Leeds United, Portsmouth and other disasters were merely the support acts for this one. Sunderland are DOOMED. Still, the old "six in a row"* should cheer you a bit, up as you plummet towards obscurity and wait for Nissan to change their minds, eh? *"six in a row" refers to the number of fans per row of seating, at the stadium of shite, this season. Goodbye

Sends 3 of them for the newspaper. Get in.

Ignore that, it only worked for a few minutes and back to being stuck...

Can someone try this to see if it works for Tapatalk on Android for them? I searched for "Tap..." in a file manager and found a folder called "com.quoord.tapatalkpro.activity". Delete that and all it's contents. Restart Tapatalk and it recreates everything it needs to, after that the forums seem to come back. Might just be me but possibly the app is leaving something behind even when you un/reinstall.

The unread post feed works OK but the individual forums still won't load. Don't much care now I've figured out the mobile theme. How does tapatalk work? Is it just reading the site via the app or is it processed elsewhere somehow?

Ambivalent about this.

Rob Elliot in Monkseaton at teatime today, so he isn't in Spain. I nearly ran over his foot when hopped out of his car.

Never mind, found it. That'll do.

How do you use the mobile theme?

Properly as in no long load times on individual boards and the search function? If so I might do that again. It was for a few minutes. Then it broke again...

Tapatalk started working properly after an un/reinstall for me. Sent from my Pixel XL using Tapatalk

Tapatalk still being weird for me. I can see a list of threads with new posts form all sections but it doesn't bring anything back when you go into a specific section like football.Before it showed the list of threads in the way / order that the web version does.

This a lovely graph from here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/02/15/watching-chore-horrible-feeling-sunderland-fell-love-football/

Why has nobody started a Man U match thread?

Get in!

1.30 I believe

More from Caulkin: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-amanda-staveley-a-time-waster-i-dont-know-but-mike-ashley-is-wpqzwj8xk Is Amanda Staveley a time-waster? I don’t know — but Mike Ashley is new george caulkin, northern sports correspondent Share Save ‘Did you get the feel that she’s really genuine?” The question, imperfectly put, arrived by text and it was posed by a former Newcastle United player. It is a question that a lot of people have been asking about Amanda Staveley, the businesswoman who has been attempting to buy the club and who spoke to The Times about it yesterday. It is asked, in part, because Mike Ashley has bent the debate that way. There is no straightforward or definitive answer, but there is a context. Can you ever make a rounded judgment on another human being? Can you base it on three or four hours? With a newspaper deadline approaching, words to write and one eye upon the clock? Of course not. That home, that office, around the corner from Hyde Park, felt substantial — grand, if not ostentatious — but that does not mean very much. Except the room we were talking in — grey, wood-panelled walls — was where Theresa May based her leadership campaign for the Conservative Party. Staveley is not really political, she says, but she has the Prime Minster on speed-dial and counts her as a friend. Does the PM think that Staveley is really genuine? Well, we’ll probably never know one way or the other, but there is some evidence and it looks pretty solid. Staveley has had her genuineness questions regarding her three failed bids for Newcastle United Staveley has had her genuineness questions regarding her three failed bids for Newcastle United PA What of Staveley’s pursuit of Newcastle? “It is only right to let the fans know that there is no deal on the table or even under discussion with Amanda Staveley and PCP,” a source — apparently sanctioned by Ashley — told Sky Sports News this week. “Attempts to reach a deal have proved to be exhausting, frustrating and a complete waste of time.” Staveley countered that. “I’m very much still interested in buying Newcastle,” she said. “And our bid remains on the table.” Another source — or perhaps the same source — told Sky Sports News this morning, “We are not aware of any bid that doesn’t contain relegation clauses and we are not considering any further talks with PCP Capital Partners.” That was interesting, because The Times is fully aware of a £250 million bid — payable in full on completion — made for Newcastle on November 17, which doesn’t contain relegation clauses. And they can consider what they want, but Staveley is not going away. Her three bids are there in black and white and so, too, now, is her vision for the club. Can we make a judgement on that? Perhaps not; not unless or until she buys it and gets on with it, but this is not an idle fantasy. She has held meetings with people that matter in Newcastle, with businesses, bodies and leaders (we have confirmed this, independently). She would invest her own money — a lot of it — but says she is also backed by “sovereign wealth funds”. There is an insidious suggestion that she is flimsy. That she is courting publicity, in spite of this being the only time she has mentioned Newcastle in public. In spite of not doing television. And nobody ever explains why publicity about an attempt to buy a football club which has not (yet) come off makes you look more credible. She would never say this and almost certainly does not believe it, but is it because she is a woman? A woman and photogenic? A woman in football? Ashley has lurched from one PR disaster to another during his 11 years at Newcastle Ashley has lurched from one PR disaster to another during his 11 years at Newcastle DOMINIC LIPINSKI/PA WIRE But there is another point, too, because some judgement does not have to be deferred. A time-waster? You might argue that Ashley has wasted the past 11 years. Two relegations? Yet another skirmish with it now? A horrific record in the cups? The renaming of the ground, the employment of Joe Kinnear, the abysmal treatment of legends and good men such as Kevin Keegan, Alan Shearer, Chris Hughton? A club that makes less money, commercially, than a decade ago? All that time. All that waste. Exhausting and frustrating? Like the last three transfer windows? Like Rafa Benitez warning that Newcastle would be in trouble if they did not strengthen last summer and Newcastle not strengthening and then being in trouble? Frustrating like their inability to put two good decisions together? Frustrating like the knowledge that Benitez arrived speaking about Newcastle in terms of history, stature and potential, since when he has repeatedly been confronted by the smallness of their behaviour. It feels like an endless list: Jonas Gutierrez, HMRC, Wonga, written warnings to managers for talking about transfers, the truncation of ambition, the 52,000 souls who troop to matches with their yearning deadened, hope flickering only because of Benitez. I do not know Amanda Staveley, but I’ve met her and I’ve talked to her and that’s better than nothing. I don’t know Mike Ashley, either, and the only way I’ve got in front of him was by buying shares in Sports Direct (with my money, not the paper’s), and asking questions at an AGM, one of the most excruciating experiences of my life. I cannot judge Staveley, but I will judge Ashley and I do. Ask yourself the question: do you get the feel that he’s really genuine?

Sissyoko, double fuck uo

Apparently the players have cancelled their Christmas party: http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/columnists/the-secret-footballer/if-they-bang-on-your-dressing-room-door-all-hell-will-break-loose-464635.html?&session=5pj3S+9Jfr/i6hUz6G0QJM5OiSQChkVWVXAQbWxUv14=

Now we're chasing the game, Rafa will make changes and we'll concede at least one more.

If you had £50 million to spend on players today and the average prices were in the £17-20 million range, so you only get 2 or 3 OR you could wait maybe 4 weeks and get similar players for £10-£15 million and more of them, would you wait or buy now? I feel like we're the subjects of some elaborate version of the Stanford Marshmallow experiment.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2017/may/24/david-squires-on-manchester-a-city-united

£5 winnings against a total stake of nearly £2K? He doesn't seem to be that good at gambling on football TBH.