geordiesteve710

It wasn't bitterness, it was schadenfreude. It's all part of football. The time to worry is when you go down and nobody bats a f***ing eyelid. People go on about 'the banners' but they're talking about two banners which could have been brought by one person for all we know. It's not like we were all riding around the city centre, sat on top of our cars, bibbing our horns and waving flags at 3am in the morning because you'd got relegated. Anyway, we know what it's like now - we've been slowly tortured to death in front of the entire world for one entire season now. We have had loads of p*ss take and media coverage about it and to be honest, it just makes me feel better - that us getting relegated is still 'a story'. Unlike pointless yoyo clubs like Albion or Norwich, up and down so often people forget where they are from one year to the next. This fixture is a great opportunity for you lot to take the p*ss back, and we're going to have to suck it up. The only problem is: 1. Your current league position which may render p*ss taking inadvisable before the end of the match. 2. The fact that that banner posted here is proper s****. Tbh Brummie, it was worse than you probably saw, although granted "bitter" is probably the wrong word to describe it. I've been to numerous away grounds down the years and never experienced the amount of abuse, threats of violence, wankers taking their turn to get in my face and eyeball me etc as on the train from aston to new st that day. Loads even followed us onto our platform to wring every last bit of piss-taking they could out of the day. That is not banter, it's really really odd behaviour. Heard stories from more than one group of fans I see regularly that villa fans were driving up the motorway taunting coaches by waving flags and beeping horns. The banners and singing in stadium were fine and all part of the crack imo but it was after, outside that a large majority (but I would stress not all) of villa fans just seemed to collectively turn into a pack of rabid zombies. That said, it was SEVEN fucking years ago. That people still seem to be genuinely upset baffles me, and as for the banners in this thread well, Jesus fucking wept!! Personally, I'd turn up and not even mention the whole thing- as Brummie has alluded to, no-one likes being ignored or feeling unimportant. I resent that the whole Villa thing has basically become part of our culture as a fanbase now. I hate that every time we play Villa the same articles surface in the mag and true faith. It just comes across as very bitter and we used to be bigger and better than that. Those banners were designed to get a rise out of us- 7 years later we're still biting, you couldn't make it up. It's a massive game for NUFC on Saturday, all efforts should go into supporting the manager and the team. And as for the opposition, fuck giving them the attention they want. Aston who??

Horrendous today. His fitness level is appalling for a professional sportsperson.

Looking at the likes of Tiote and Sissoko this season I have wondered at times. They both wanted moves last summer after we just stayed up and both didn't get to leave. If we go down, they'll be off for sure to trim the wage bill. Not saying they've been throwing games, but I don't put it past either of them, or any teammate who fancies a move, to think "fuck it, its better for me if the team goes down anyway" and just carry on not giving a shit or putting effort in.

Keep Sissoko and Janmaat and sit them on the bench for the whole season. And wijnaldum. They seem,happy enough to fuck the club over, the club should fuck their careers over!!

Party time on wearside man!!

I bet it would be shit glue

It's definitely a must-not-lose. 3 points is a catchable gap, 6 points and it's all over realistically.

I've been wondering about this. IIRC wasn't one of Ched Evans' appeals damaged by the actions of his"supporters" towards the victim?

How much compensation do you get if both your keepers are crippled on international duty and you get relegated, missing out on £100million of tv cash??

Probably just England fans being divvies, singing daft songs and latching onto the latest excuse to be obnoxious in a clumsy attempt to be light-hearted/ have "epic bantz". Funnily enough, the mackems are probably the only set of fans that would take it seriously due to the whole silly "respected throughout football" mantra.

How the fuck do you not end up in prison for that?!?

Every 50/50 went their way. Seemed to take the shift in momentum at the end personally and did everything in his power to slow the game down, break up play etc.

This is it, nothing too outrageous (pen call was 50-50 in my opinion), but quite content to let the Leicester fans referee for him and to not go spoiling their "fairytale story" or anything daft like that.

linesman had his flag out for a corner- didn't even cross the line man!! We need to sort out this whole panicking-in-the-opposition box bullshit like, schoolboy stuff.

The only undeserved victory was the last one. I don't know which planet you have been watching from for the last 3 seasons. The only other one I can think of was when Cisse had his equaliser chalked off for no good reason when we were well on top. But, tbf, they turned up at sjp that day and knocked in three screamers, sometimes you just have to take your hat off and say well played. Both games last season they were no better than us throughout the matches, but they managed to pull through both times. Not pretty or particularly deserved (the easter derby, both teams deserved to lose imo) but fair play they got the result both times. The second 3-0 was the worst of the bunch imo. I am 100% sure they "declared" at 3 and went soft on us, pretty much the most embarrassed I can remember being as a Newcastle fan.

Jesus wept. I feel sorry for some of their support like. The ones like Stray whose reaction has been spot on. End of the day the club has acted appallingly and they now should recognise that and take what's coming on the chin. In the grand scheme of things they're not the first club to do something horrible and as long as there's so much money in the game they sure as owt won't be the last. I really don't get the mentality of the idiots who are desperate to cling to some sort of moral high ground, still trying to defend the club and I'd imagine reading shit like this above must make it ten times as bad for the decent ones.

You've more patience than me!!!

'Which one of you is Hope?' 'Well it's not f***ing you, Steve'. As for Craig Hope, after his brilliant piece on Pav and now this he is fast becoming one of my favourite journalists.

As negative as it was, I also didn't think we were that bad under the circumstances where a clean sheet and at least a draw would have been a good result. I don't like setting up for nil nil draws though, the whole point of the game is to try and score at least 1 more goal than the opposition and we carried zero threat of doing so. Which is fair enough if you achieve the point you set out to get a la Stoke at SJP. On the other hand when it doesn't work you can't exactly grumble about it and you especially can't whinge that the opposition keeper saved your only meaningful shot so you deserved a point.

This is what makes their conduct so much worse, that she was an actual fan of the club and ST holder ffs. Utter contempt, the likes of which you'd expect from the pieces of s*** who own and run us but I honestly wouldn't expect it of any other club. If this happened NUFC under Shepherd we'd have probably thrown money at the problem and tried to buy the victim's silence. Our current owner would probably look at how he could exploit the situation for personal gain and maybe slap in a bid to acquire the naming rights to the Chinese takeaway on the cheap. Joking aside though, it is mental everything coming out, properly vile. And every time Sunderland try to cover their tracks by fibbing someone else pops up to contradict them. Never mind blaming it on Byrne, they'd have been better off blaming it on the boogie than this shambles of a PR exercise. Charnley will probably offer the victim and her family ST for life to garner some good PR. "As if the poor lass hasn't suffered enough" etc etc

This is what makes their conduct so much worse, that she was an actual fan of the club and ST holder ffs. Utter contempt, the likes of which you'd expect from the pieces of s*** who own and run us but I honestly wouldn't expect it of any other club. If this happened NUFC under Shepherd we'd have probably thrown money at the problem and tried to buy the victim's silence. Our current owner would probably look at how he could exploit the situation for personal gain and maybe slap in a bid to acquire the naming rights to the Chinese takeaway on the cheap. Joking aside though, it is mental everything coming out, properly vile. And every time Sunderland try to cover their tracks by fibbing someone else pops up to contradict them. Never mind blaming it on Byrne, they'd have been better off blaming it on the boogie than this shambles of a PR exercise.

Exactly. But no one has capitalised so City becomes a freebie sort of. Aye, we could really let our hair down

That's my point, why are they such short odds to go down and we're not. They might not be a particularly exciting or talented set of players, but they've got bottle and something approaching a backbone which is more than you could say for our squad.

Didn't see much of yesterdays game but find it unbelievable that the bookies have us at slight odds against to go down while they're as short as 1/2.