Yassassin

The sweet smell of sour grapes and indolence

Their defence was never going to be good enough and that was the area of the team that they chose to not improve

I’m thinking about fourth. With kind results we could be in the top four next weekend and if, come January, we are within touching distance the club might just be tempted to spend to accelerate our development. Pipe dream, obviously, but hey

I thought that today’s game showed what a very good outfit we are. They were struggling to deal with us before the sending-off, which only served to make the probable, inevitable, imo. We are really well coached, really fit and make the most of our considerable strengths. The fact that results like this haven’t come earlier is happenchance

Southgate is expert at losing a second-half

Southgate gets sacked. Howe gets the England job. We get Southgate. I’d give up because we’d never achieve anything under him. He’s not got it

If you can’t get a team of players as good as these English players are to produce even a half-chance for as good a player as Kane is then you are in the wrong job

OK, it was a compliment. Sorry

Plebs?

9 just for Isak

They’ll look back and regret that

It was cringingly embarrassing when he effectively corrected the co-commentator’s Player of the Match decision

The pitch at St Mary’s looks grim

I did; basically described his outstanding abilities in a number of attacking positions and said that West Ham should take care of him, clearly believes he is a massive talent. McCoist and Given(?) then took the piss a bit saying that Vickery had compared Paqueta to Pele; he didn’t say that, he compared Neymar to Pele and described how Paqueta was skilful enough and clever enough to play with Neymar so that Brazil get the best from him

Ref Watch Dermot thinks we should have had a penalty

We’re in a process, still; from today I get that the process has taught our players that we don’t lose. We may not be world-beaters, we will play teams better than us, we may just get away with stuff but we don’t lose

Tbf this is as definitive as the one that announced that the takeover wasn’t happening. You have to admire his conviction

Sky have just reiterated this, not clear if they have their own source for it though

He has no baggage. He just sees opportunities

Absolutely fantastic! How far have we come in a year? A beautiful story being written

That was sublime defending by Burn

Not read it for some time. It’s basically a board for fans of Sunderland but is about Newcastle (United and the city). It offers no insight into their travails (we’ve all had them) as most threads on the footy board end up being about Newcastle. Bizarre

A really poor performance from many today meant a point was gained rather than two lost. Brighton were impressive tbf and I thought that even though we played poorly, defensively we were resilient and intelligent

I'm sorry but started giggling at ‘tigger’

Christ, I corrected it from defecating and still got it wrong. It is me