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It's a great gesture TBF, Sunderland no doubt inspired by the game being red and white vs. a team that plays in black and white at St. James' Park. The reverse fixture was first vs. second at the time and was a hard fought 1-1. Blyth Spartans have stolen most of our goals this year through signing Euan Potts and Jamie Clark but hopefully will still be a good game

Everybody said that about this season too

I haven't seen it myself anywhere but Sunlun AFC and Livescore apparently teaming up to let 500 folk into Seaham Red Star vs. Alnwick for nowt this Saturday for non-league day; advert apparently says free entry and a drink on the club. Canny gesture if it's legit

There were definitely chants like, I had my season ticket in the Gallowgate that entire time and there were plenty of big, noticeable "you don't know what you're doing"s directed at Robson when he made his traditional late and predictable substitutions. There wasn't a sustained campaign or anything but it's just not true to suggest there were no chants at SJP. There were, and I distinctly remember a shot of him with his fingers in his ears trying to ignore it when it was at its worst.

Yeah going to be a hell of a run in. I think this was the game; if West Ham pick up a couple of points I just don't see spurs having the mental strength to keep up

A limited team successfully playing to their strengths and getting results. Can't object to the way they went about it given the relative lack of quality.

This sense of shame and humiliation is proper weird to me like it's the Champions League, which contains literally the best club football teams in the world. You get scores like this, even the established clubs get tonked. Arsenal shipped 10 over two legs to a german team (Bayern? probably) in the last ten years or so. It's not like we got howked by Dagenham & Redbridge in the 4th round of the FA Cup.

No injury time coup de grace, classy move ref

Elanga 2-2

Fucks sake man, 2-1

Elanga 1-1

very good

Yeah, absolutely - but it isn't actively rigged against the have nots, which makes all the difference (to me anyway).

*elite level football. Lower than that the football is shitter but at least it generally feels like a sport and a competition

Feels like they've been all over the place for months if not years and this has been inevitable. Is it not them that did the sUpPoRt uS oR wE fOlD campaign a couple of years back? There were rumours last week that they were rebranding as Morpeth Reserves, given that they play at Morpeth now anyway, but I'm not sure whether that would be possible or if they'd have to start in the Northern Alliance, or Tyneside's equivalent of the North Northumberland League, if they did that

Huge number of terrible haircuts in this game

Anfield like a library, shocking atmosphere by the sounds

Would stop the cunt scoring against us if nowt else

Yeah it doesn't seem too complex a situation like they 100% knew what would happen and just wanted to play mind games with the ref by having him be party to that, imo. The fucking ludicrous cock ends that they are Bang average player with a point to prove (to himself), I hope he's there for years

Bebble busst Hopefully

Aye there's this view that it's like a cathartic post season ice bath, short term discomfort in exchange for long term health and wellbeing and coming back the next season ready to challenge for the CL places with all the dross replaced by hungry new talent but it generally isn't the case like

Do you think their players have got the arse for the battle though? The fear has already set in imo

They don't mind as long as the loutish oafs in front fucking sit down so they can see what paid for (autocorrect made loutish into porridge, then oafs into oats, what were the chances)

Gallowgate middle tier, 2027-28