BlackandWhite

We're lucky to still have a chance late in the game. If Wednesday were two up you couldn't say they wouldn't deserve it. Been miles better.

I am fucking sick of these days were the players just decide to keep thier mental state a home and have an off day. This is the 4th home game it's happened this season ffs it's not good enough. Few more and we could find ourselves third in no time it's a disgrace Darlow's been the only one in this game for us.

Only one difference I can see in that Hughton didn't deserve to be sacked we were doing well in our first season back with him. Pardew's sacking is the most warranted I have seen for a while.

Hope his England embarrasment has a serious negative effect on his confidence and players' respect for him. If Fat Sam and Sunderland are relegated in the same season that would be so good please let it happen.

So he's banned for calling him a Arabic/Moroccan prick? No doubt had Shelvey been called an English w***** or prick nothing would be said. Double standards again.

Looking at the match highlights those fuckers on the radio really do exaggerate the fuck out of everything I thought their miss from 12 yards was an open goal but there was loads 'round him in the box.

Hopefully it keeps us on our toes for the next game so we most definitely don't have another sleep day.

They deserve it tbf Birmingham are shit. It was all Brighton for the those last 20 mins or so.

That's Sunderland Brighton are just a really, really hard team to beat (in this league anyway). They're less prone to random off days where they f*** up like we've had 5 times this season but they're more prone to not being able o kill teams off and end up drawing some games they should have won as a result.

It's class what they done for the kid. Fantasic to see him smile and have a great night. Fair play to them and Chelsea, too. Two clubs I would never have thought for one second of my life I'd be praising in some sort of way My general opinion of both clubs is a very poor one. But they deserve credit for accommodating the lad.

Didn't think Lacelles was that bad. One moment stands out where their fat Dutch winger was in a great position but he covered and made an excellent block and won and goal kick n all in the process. Excellent defending. Aye, that was great defending. It's just a shame he spent the other 91 minutes passing the ball out of play and to Wigan players There was a run in the first half by a Wigan player where he lunged in and was lucky to narrowly miss the Wigan player or it'd have been a pen. He was rubbish, but most of the others were too. He just seemed to stand out more imo. I thought dummet was the worst, was found wanting a few times and contributed fuck all. We could argue about Lacelles but at least he had one clear excellent moment in the game. Dummett is our biggest weakness in my opinion.

How the fuck does this guy stay in jobs? He must be the greatest talker of bullshit, the best at pulling wool over eyes, ever.

Didn't think Lacelles was that bad. One moment stands out where their fat Dutch winger was in a great position but he covered and made an excellent block and won and goal kick n all in the process. Excellent defending.

Nice to see the terminally ill lad smiling today and enjoying himself before their game. Hopefully he keeps smiling right to the end and it's the best 2 months possible. Hopefully his team are relegated though at the end of the season it's long overdue in fairness.

Training ground atmosphere.

It's clear many teams are identifying Dummet as a weakness and rightly so. He's fucking shit and he's had a bad start here.

So Mitro could easily score nearly 50 goals this season if he started every game and was our main striker? Got 9 in the Premier. Sort it out Rafa.

How will he explain this one to investors the t***

How long before they turn on Moyes again?

Classic Pardew playing players out of position.

Fair enough take back what I say about Kante then as I obviously wasn't aware of that fact. I was wrong it wasn't complacency. But I am still 100% slating them for their lack of ambition by the fact they've come out and basically admitted they're happy to just have a decent UCL campaign and then go back to being a boring mid table side. At least try and push on and be better than you were before the miracle. Even if it means aiming for top 10 or Europa. Not just 40 points. Edit: In fact yeah I got my initial analysis horribly wrong. Better now though thanks to the good folk here enlightening me and calling me out when I was wrong. Still don't approve of the whole 'we only want 40 points' thing though.

I would add that it's just not the sale of their best player that has me concerned about Leicester ambitions (not that I really give any hint of a fuck about the club). But their manager is even coming out and saying their target is 40 points and to do well in the champions league. He has said himself they'll be happy to just stay up this season and have a good run in Europe. So back to being a shitty mid table team once the UCL is over essentially. Great ambition Leicester, great ambition.

It's completely incomparable to us. We spent £6 million on Vurnon Anita that summer, essentially a break even since we got some chump change for Best and Forster. They've spent £60 million on Slimani, Musa, Kaputska, Mendy. They agreed a £38 million deal with Adrien Silva at the end of the window before it fell through. The problem wasn't a lack of ambition. It was just bad decision making. Not all that comparable to us maybe not, but I would personally class selling your best player, the one who made the biggest difference of all, as showing a lack of ambition. We showed our lack of ambition by spending f*** all, they showed it by selling their best player to Chelsea, a potential rival for them if they really had big ambitions. In my opinion no club who wants to stay at the top gives away their best player for just 30m these days. That's the same price as Sissoko ffs.

Indeed Leicester did get as complacent in the summer window as we did back in summer 2012 after finishing 5th. And now they're getting their comeuppance as we did. A relegation battle is on the horizon. If they're lucky they'll have a boring mid table season but not looking that way at the moment. They'll probably use the 'Europe distracted us' excuse that was used by our club for a shit season when we got to the Europa last 8 too. What a shame for them. They were in a brilliant position to push on and make and continue to make a name for themselves but they've showed a massive lack of ambition it's clear that they're more than happy to take last season as a once off miracle and they've no ambition to push on and make themselves as big a club as they can. They're happy to carry on now being a quiet mid table club that's their ambition. They might think they've a chance to win the UCL and make history there? Premier League's big clubs having an off season is one thing, Europe's is another. And never does every big club in Europe have an off season. They've got no chance and I expect them to be out the next round.

Yes. So we can watch them get relegation with 5 points and prove once and for all that Scottish football is utter trash.