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Ashley. Ran us well, so the counter arguement went. Despite Leeds and Leicester spending time in the 3rd tier during his reign, starting out well behind us, having far less PL money over his reign, having smaller fanbases and smaller stadiums they somehow are ahead of us.

Sold Andy Cole pretty much this very week. We were 4th and on the fringes of the title race with a good chance in the cup then too. Other than that not similar at all really.

Satisfying score. Always fearful of a reaction to a bad run or particularly bad defeat - Palace have nipped that in the bud. "there are other runners if the front runners should fall" - round up narration over our win at Ipswich in 95

Any replacement would likely enhance our reasonable chances of finishing top 4 and in the league cup.

Might be more obligation than option, predicated on them staying up for example. Unfortunately they'll have Charnley on the case (last I heard) so this could take some over the lining yet

Serves absolutely no purpose unless there's an incoming. Can't believe we'd be putting our trust in a not yet fully returned Isak and injury prone Wilson at this point.

There was an article in the Mag reprinted from the Sunderland Echo about their gates in that promotion season at the time of writing being lower than ours were in the 91/92 season pre Keegan and calling on them to start going to game (will have to dig it out). Even though their gates might have picked up the back end of that season through glory hunting it remained the case. Newcastle 91/92 pre Keegan and having our worst ever season: 18500 Mackems winning the league in 95/96: 17482 (their biggest in years)

Grew up in Washington. Sunderland is a 12minute drive away and have never once gone or been dragged there shopping and had one night out (work). Travel has nothing to do with either of those. Its reasonable to conclude similar applies to football.

The implication must be that if it wasn't for our influx of fans in the 90s that their support would be better, but only if you include their own 90s influx. Some gibberish like that.

Chelsea cup replay in 95/96. Ten men for half the game, out on pens. Shed a little tear at having to settle for just the league. (little did I know)

You know when they got promoted in 95/96 and football was a lot more popular and everything. Why didn't they have their version of '1992' where we got promoted to 30,000 full houses every game and thousands locked out, instead of averaging 17,000?

Easily. Literally took being owned by a saboteur and managed by a washed up madman to relegate it. There's no other way you could relegate Harper, Krul, Given, Barton, Butt, Beye, Bassong, Milner, N'Zogbia, Viduka, Owen, Enrique, Jonas, Colo, Carroll, N'Zogbia, Martins. Duff, Smith, Saylor, Nolan We were on the bones of our arse at the back end of 14/15 added Mitro, Thauvin Wjynaldum and McClaren. Would have been long gone were it not for Rafa making a fist of it and wouldn't have been a surprise

Main man berth going begging for a few weeks (please no more than) if he's interested

Aye come to think if it that ITV show was called the Premiership and that was from 2001.

FA Carling Premiership Was around 97 when it stopped being called that

Yeah would like to have seen a few replays to see if wasn't hand-ball in the Burn incident, looked like it and our players appealed for it but not enough replays to judge. Definitely makes a meal of it, they did for both incidents. Instinctively the second didn't look like one and the ref might have been savvy enough to know they were looking for something, anything after the first.

Pretty Green Eyes too. The song, not the bloke.

Ball went in the complete opposite direction to what he was aiming for and sent Pope on is all

Its not just this season we've been lucky "week after week, year after year"

One of them (Spurs fans) got on the pitch and attacked their own keeper against us in the 7-1. They scored at the other end as this was happening. So Spursey,

Niall Quinn - done for drink driving Sunderland player, manager, figurehead owner and legend

Hesitate to says its not the plan and what happens is plan A doesn't work so they have to abort it second half because it was like that under Dalglish here. Plod along and if we need to score go for it in the 20'. F*ck knows the reasoning behind it.

Makes our performance at Arsenal where they didn't do enough to deserve a win look even better. Conte joining Moyes, Rodgers and Lampard on the brink?

Wasn't worried about Spurs anyway but even less so now. Not saying they wont catch us cos logic doesn't always come into it, just that I'm not worried.

Know its not much but Pope was straight on the double touch. Feel some of the keepers we've had wouldn't be. Soon as he was I realised what it was. (something similar happened against Bilbao years ago)