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Does Tony Norman still play in goal for them?

Spent minutes staring at that graphic wondering why they were playing Kelly right wing.

There's a NYMackem on there and they sound rather reasonable; "It did, but just because some of them are knackers it is not a stick to beat all of them with. I would not be arsed if a mag tried to wind me up by quoting something that one of the resident loons wrote on here (unless it was me). Week before last was a struggle. There are 100+ of them at work and <5 MLFs. In fact only 2 MLFs (inc me) with season cards who go to most games. They were laying it on thick, but the ONLY way you can deal with it face to face is to concede that it is a proper cup, they have played some big clubs getting to the final and they decisively won the final against the best team in the country. As much as all those words are and were ashes in my mouth, when you rob them of all ammunition you can at least enjoy their frustrated confusion at how to respond."

Oddly, on every new game of Football Manager I play Jonathan David signs for the Toon. Omen?

Sat laughing at this. It reminds me of Empress Theresa, what with the book cover and the literary ability The book and author, not the reviewer.

Fichajes en paz

Gotta say, I have literally zero interest in DJs playing on the Town Moor. I wasn't particularly fussed when I saw our last open top parade and Alan Robson was doing the comparing. Have a pint or two, go out and wave at the bus full of the team and the cup, feel part of the community, share camaraderie, have more pints, job done. If I want to go see a music festival I'll nip to South Shields in the summer.

I swear I learn about something new on here every day

I've been reading through the last few pages to catch up and because of @Sima I'm now constantly humming the "sunderland's a massive club" song. Thanks for that

Tried to read it on the PC but it's just tiny and I'm not faffing around with it.

Chainmail made of double maxim ring pulls.

Calling it now; Hall and Botman aren't injured and they'll play in the cup final. Massive Sandman-esque ECW angle. Genius move by Eddie Howeman.

I reckon it was some inside rib between them, done without malice.

When this news dropped I got a little excited and went to Youtube to find someone who had a clue to maybe give me a rundown. Typing in "apt" was a mistake as all I got was that overplayed "meet me at the..." fucking song.

Aye I've never noticed it or even thought about it before, so thank you. I was just sat here and the thought crossed my mind so cheers for clearing that up, but has it ever been contested? I can just imagine some whinger like arteta arguing that they lost as they werent allowed to let their best corner taker take it from their preferred side.