geordiesteve710

To my mind there are two potential possibilities here. 1. There has been a kick off this week which has ultimately resulted in Carrs departure. The Sundays have got wind of it either before or after Carr left and have decided to print now anyway because a) it was a good story and would be a shame to waste it and b) you know, clickbait. 2. The club are fucking about again either penny pinching or flat out refusing to pay the going rate for reasonable players, possibly due to this lawyer dickhead deciding he needs to make an impact and hoy his weight around. If this is the case, Rafa will be properly fucked off because, like the rest of us, he can see this squad will struggle not to go straight back down without substantial investment. Clearly no.1 is the better scenario, whereas no.2 would be cause for serious concern. I'm not #itk or anything but I'm struggling to think of any reason to give Ashley/Charnley the benefit of the doubt based on their past performance. In fact, when the best argument you can make that the regime are competent enough to back rafa is along the lines of "surely they can't be stupid enough to do the same thing again" then I'd say it's actually looking pretty grim and people are justified in showing concern. Obviously fingers crossed it's just a storm in a teacup like.

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Villa and sheff wed would be my favourites to go up as it currently stands. Boro and Fulham would also have a good chance if they can keep hold of their best players ("the defence" in boros case.) Reading will do nowhere as well as last season imo and Leeds are likely to self-destruct again as is customary. Rest are much of a muchness as far as I can see.

Players winning a trophy (or promotion in this case) with their club then running around with their national flags to celebrate. It's not an international match, you were all representing your club, there's no need ffs.

I'd personally add campbell, hyypia, mcgrath and potentially Des Walker to this list if we're looking at prem-era centre-backs. Not sure about bruce/pallister mind. They were a great combination but neither were stand-out brilliant in their own right.

£6.76m a year wages x 3 years is just over £20m unless I'm missing something?

Disgrace that. Justice done.

You're right they wouldn't - how can anyone say a player with only 30 odd top flights games and uncapped gets anywhere near a 30 million fee is just stupid even in today's market. There are a number of English keepers in the premier who would command a higher fee. currently better and who would have the top clubs looking long before Pickford. Maybe in a couple of years that may change but that's a big may at the same time. The only people who think he is worth anywhere near 30 million currently are the desperados down the road. Andy Carroll. was my first thought reading that too, although iirc Carroll had played for England before he left us. I'd agree with the general point that he's not worth £30million but it's a negotiation and sunderland understandably want to get as much as they can for him. They're not going to get as much if they come out and say "we'd ideally like as close to £20mill as possible but are prepared to be flexible on price" are they? We've seen Levy and Ashley coin it in by adopting a similar stance on a number of occasions. In fact, it's probably the first competent thing Moyes has done or said since he was appointed

Is punches crosses he should be catching still a thing? Seems to me like punching is the new normal for keepers nowadays. Aye, they all seem to be coached to punch rather than try to catch now- unless they're under no pressure and it's a shit floaty cross of course.

Gives referees more of an excuse to bottle the decision and wave play on when they clearly should be giving someone a second yellow/ book a rooney for diving, in the knowledge that it'll be picked up on later so they don't have to make the controversial call themselves. Also, in reference to leffes correct point above, it will give more power to the tv companies to decide which incidents are highlighted for the fa to review, because they sure as s*** aren't going to have someone sit through every minute of every game analysing every coming together. On the other hand, it needed addressing and I couldn't think of a better solution so fair f***s to them I guess

Given that Greg turned up that day without any fucking euros I'd say it's a knocking bet you did like.

Two last-second winners!! Missed 4 goals in the exeter game after you told me to switch over

Exeter-Carlisle is fucking rancid btw, just in case anyone was wondering

Premier League is a completely separate entity to the Football League since the top clubs broke away in 92. Fwiw I still call the Championship Division Two. Illogical I know, but it's the second tier of football in England and shouldn't be glamourised/hyped as if it's anything more than that imo.

Look North reckoned that sunderland had given away 20,000 tickets. Did I hear Dawn right ? Think she was talking about the Swansea game last weekend no?

Don't understand how that wasn't a pen for huddersfield like

Never mind. As you were.

Guidetti!!

Actually haven't seen much from them on this, what's being said? Couple of bits on twitter along the lines of "typical nufc fans showing their lack of class, flying a plane mocking a boy with cancer whilst he's in the stadium below." Despite the problems with the banner, everyone knows that's not the case. But suggesting that it is is only likely to cause unnecessary offence and upset, all in the name of having a pop at Newcastle fans.

The banner is obviously stupid on every conceivable level. Mind you, the sunderland fans making the banner out to be something it's not just to score points against Newcastle fans is just as offensive!!

Well defined contribution to the thread newsted

The two Barnsley fans I spoke to were actually appalled by the fans that were celebrating the Brighton goal. Said the ones letting the smokebomb off were a bunch of out of control kids. I think we can relate to that element amongst our support like. Looking from the gallowgate up to the away section it seemed to be a minority that were jumping up and down in celebration.

West Ham Chelsea is pretty nasty tbf. I think it's the ethnic make-up of spurs fanbase which gives the spurs game an extra "edge" for a lot of west hams more right-leaning support.

When we got relegated at Villa and they stayed up. Tannoy guy at their place announced we were down and that picture shows the celebrations. On a day when which started with either team getting relegated. The scenes would have been the same had we stayed up and they had gone down. Surprised me this, my recollection of the day was that it was either us or hull and they were either already safe or it would have been a mathematical miracle. But no, just checked the table from that season. If we'd won at Villa we'd not only have stopped up but would have finished a point above them, winning the prestigious golden comb for the best bald man into the bargain.