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Ref just cannot bring himself to give another pen, here.

"5-1, even Cisse scored, 5-1....."

Their squad is full, they need to sell to buy, they'll get more for him now than they will in the summer, he's got a gammy shoulder and is generally quite injury prone, they play one up and it seems Altidore is Poyet's first choice. Which surely makes it less likely that West Ham would go for him, especially since they already have Carroll on their books, who hasn't played (much/at all) since joining them permanently.

Come the end of the season they have those games away. Didn't Blackburn have a similar scheduale at the start of the season they went down? What you are missing to mention is that if their home fixtures so far have been hard then their away fixtures have been easy, in that case how come they haven't won one of them? This game today was the second of thier winning run and the second draw. they need to be beating teams in/around them. Big big ask for them to turn this around. That's it... they seem to save their better performances until they play the (bigger) teams higher up the table, which is no good to them really. The indiscipline, and tendancy to score own goals ain't helping either, like! Hehe.

So, that's two of their 'Must Win' games against fellow strugglers ending in draws, then. And another red card. At least Owen Goal wasn't playing for them today.

Hehe, SSN announced the goal and it was still 0-1 on this stream... the it caught up!

Soccer Saturday panel tipping these to stay up. Hopefully the equivalent of a managerial 'vote of confidence'.

Mag witch hunt. I can imagine them dunking people into the Wear saying "If he floats he's a Mag, if he doesn't he was one of us".

Could be their only chance of Europe this season... Can still see them having enough, especially over 2 legs.

Correct. Hope those Wembley hotel tickets are refundable.

Because we are their benchmark for everything ^ That is very true - even Gabbiadini on Totalsport - often if he's trying to justify or make a point about something Sunderland/their fans/a player has done, he'll compare it to something to with us/our fans/players. One of his favourites is if he's trying defend Clattermole.... he'll compare a tackle he got carded for with one Cabaye wasn't carded for, regardless of context.

Love how they are all talking about 'Wembley' and 'The Final' already.... despite the fact they potentially have to play one of Man City, Man Utd or Spurs over 2 legs yet.

Just seen Ki's goal.... those pink seats really seemed to enjoy it.

From the Totalsport FB posting of the result...

So, presuming they are still here, will this stop Colo and Cabaye from speaking to papers in Argentina and France respectively when away on international duty, or does this only cover UK publications?

Not a Pylon, but I remember the FA Cup tie at Blackburn in 1992 (I think it was?), when the Darwin end was being demolished (think it was the last match before it closed)... most of the roof covering was gone, and a few lads were up in the rafters. The staff/stewards threatened to delay the kick off until they came down.

They'll probably just pay a similar amount as SD do for the in/around ground advertising.

That reminds me of a call to Total Sport by one of them last week.... suggesting they should go for Joleon Lescott and Joe Hart on loan, as both will need games if they want to go to the World Cup.

Hehe aye, saw that last night.

Looks like Fulham, along with Palace are having their 'new manager bounce'.... Fulham 2-0 up now, even Berbatov is scoring again. Good Times.

Didn't see the match today, but still buzzin' about the result. Cannot wait for MOTD.

...or Mags

Also irritating that so far we've taken 10 points (combined) off Man Utd, Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool.... yet we gave these Cretins 3 of their 8 points.

Its all part of the conspiracy against them, this seyson.

6 really, with their goal difference of -18 5(pointsfromsafetybutvertually6basedongoaldifference)underland doesnt really work imo