sunderland

[Wolfcastle]

If being booed off after their final game, all of a couple hundred fans stopping back to show appreciation for the season, then having twelve people wave flags around and setting off flares in a car park to make up for it doesn't motiviate them then nothing will.

[TK-421]

7 minutes ago, Wolfcastle said:

If being booed off after their final game, all of a couple hundred fans stopping back to show appreciation for the season, then having twelve people wave flags around and setting off flares in a car park to make up for it doesn't motiviate them then nothing will.

 

40,000 tickets sold already for Tuesday's 2nd leg.... allegedly. 
 

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by TK-421

[Hudson]

That’s a nice round number.

[TBG]

[The Prophet]

 

[ChrisMcQuillan]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

 

Those three seconds will stick with the players, I'm quite sure.

[CoreOfNUFC]

Surely can't be the only person wanting Sunderland promoted? I quite miss derby days and the opportunity to shag them twice a season.

[Izakaya]

1 hour ago, The Prophet said:

 

 

That's hilariously pathetic 😂

 

One thing to turn up with a few flags, it's another to film it from a drone as if it was some rousing pre-battle scene from a Ridley Scott film. 

[TheBrownBottle]

1 hour ago, CoreOfNUFC said:

Surely can't be the only person wanting Sunderland promoted? I quite miss derby days and the opportunity to shag them twice a season.

No, there’s apparently some people on wearside hoping for a similar outcome 

[CoreOfNUFC]

20 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

No, there’s apparently some people on wearside hoping for a similar outcome 

Shame it won't happen given the fact Cov are about to stuff them 4-0

[Wallsendmag]

2 hours ago, CoreOfNUFC said:

Surely can't be the only person wanting Sunderland promoted? I quite miss derby days and the opportunity to shag them twice a season.

 

What happens if we don't shag them twice a season? What happens if they do what Luton did and take 4 points off us?

 

Let them rot where they are. We've got bigger fish to fry than playing that lot. We'd have everything to lose and nothing to gain. When we beat them last season it was the most underwhelming win against them ever due to the huge gulf between the 2 clubs. Had they somehow beaten us we'd never have heard the end of it. The high of victory can never be as extreme as what the low of a defeat would be.

[et tu brute]

3 hours ago, CoreOfNUFC said:

Surely can't be the only person wanting Sunderland promoted? I quite miss derby days and the opportunity to shag them twice a season.

One of a very few yes, I've been seeing derbies since the 70s and I'm quite happy for the cunts to spend the rest of eternity in the lower leagues

[et tu brute]

Pleased Bristol are getting knocked out (unless some miracle happens) as they have looked total shit every time I've seen them play live. Sheff United will be a lot harder to beat than Bristol, if the mackems do get through. I would have heavily fancied Coventry or Sunderland to win the final if Bristol had somehow got through. 

[Wallsendmag]

1 hour ago, et tu brute said:

Pleased Bristol are getting knocked out (unless some miracle happens) as they have looked total shit every time I've seen them play live. Sheff United will be a lot harder to beat than Bristol, if the mackems do get through. I would have heavily fancied Coventry or Sunderland to win the final if Bristol had somehow got through. 

 

Aye it's 4 utterly shit teams in there battling it out to see which one of them gets the glory of finishing 20th in the PL next season but if that honour is going to the mackems they've got to beat the 2 least shittest teams to do it. Bristol City are absolutely pathetic.

[Paully]

2 hours ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

What happens if we don't shag them twice a season? What happens if they do what Luton did and take 4 points off us?

 

Let them rot where they are. We've got bigger fish to fry than playing that lot. We'd have everything to lose and nothing to gain. When we beat them last season it was the most underwhelming win against them ever due to the huge gulf between the 2 clubs. Had they somehow beaten us we'd never have heard the end of it. The high of victory can never be as extreme as what the low of a defeat would be.

Summed absolutely perfect! 
 

Never want to play them again!

[Paully]

First time I’ve heard the full story!

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6341911/2025/05/09/sunderland-coventry-bristol-hill-merrington/?source=user_shared_article
 

 

The sports editor of the Bristol Post, David Solomons, was there and delivered a lyrical account of the evening, writing of “the immaculate, suave Jimmy Hill, managing director of Coventry and football pundit extraordinary, rushing like a demented bison to the public address box behind where I was sitting yelling, ‘Sunderland have lost. Announce it, you bloody fools’.”

 

On Highfield Road’s giant scoreboard, the Sunderland result appeared and suddenly both Coventry and Bristol City engaged in “non-football”, as Solomons put it.

“I am not kidding,” Hunter recalled, “Coventry had the ball in their half, then it was passed down to our half and we knocked it around a bit.”

[Nucasol]

31 minutes ago, Paully said:

First time I’ve heard the full story!

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6341911/2025/05/09/sunderland-coventry-bristol-hill-merrington/?source=user_shared_article
 

 

The sports editor of the Bristol Post, David Solomons, was there and delivered a lyrical account of the evening, writing of “the immaculate, suave Jimmy Hill, managing director of Coventry and football pundit extraordinary, rushing like a demented bison to the public address box behind where I was sitting yelling, ‘Sunderland have lost. Announce it, you bloody fools’.”

 

On Highfield Road’s giant scoreboard, the Sunderland result appeared and suddenly both Coventry and Bristol City engaged in “non-football”, as Solomons put it.

“I am not kidding,” Hunter recalled, “Coventry had the ball in their half, then it was passed down to our half and we knocked it around a bit.”

Police officers ushered Hill away as travelling supporters shouted “cheat” at him. They shout the same at the statue of Hill, who died 10 years ago at age 87, outside the new Coventry stadium when they visit.

 

“Cheyyyyyt”

[Sima]

That video of him waving at them at Craven Cottage is class.

[geordiesteve710]

9 hours ago, TK-421 said:

 

40,000 tickets sold already for Tuesday's 2nd leg.... allegedly. 
 

 

 

 

Not sure why they're making such a big deal out of it when it's such a normal everyday occurrence for them. I mean, going off the attendance figures that's what they sell for most home games right?

[bobbydazzla]

6 minutes ago, geordiesteve710 said:

Not sure why they're making such a big deal out of it when it's such a normal everyday occurrence for them. I mean, going off the attendance figures that's what they sell for most home games right?

 

 

 

[Groundhog63]

1 hour ago, Paully said:

First time I’ve heard the full story!

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6341911/2025/05/09/sunderland-coventry-bristol-hill-merrington/?source=user_shared_article
 

 

The sports editor of the Bristol Post, David Solomons, was there and delivered a lyrical account of the evening, writing of “the immaculate, suave Jimmy Hill, managing director of Coventry and football pundit extraordinary, rushing like a demented bison to the public address box behind where I was sitting yelling, ‘Sunderland have lost. Announce it, you bloody fools’.”

 

On Highfield Road’s giant scoreboard, the Sunderland result appeared and suddenly both Coventry and Bristol City engaged in “non-football”, as Solomons put it.

“I am not kidding,” Hunter recalled, “Coventry had the ball in their half, then it was passed down to our half and we knocked it around a bit.”

 

Brilliant 😂😂😂

 

 

[Optimistic Nut]

Shame we're not going to have a Bristol City v Coventry final.

[Fenham Mag]

11 hours ago, TK-421 said:

 

40,000 tickets sold already for Tuesday's 2nd leg.... allegedly. 
 

 

 

 

What’s with the Star Wars font?

[Sid]

Many, possibly most of those posting about Jimmy Hill on RTG weren't even alive in 1977.

 

Would they have not done the same had the boot been on the other foot? Possibly not, but probably yes.

 

If things had been the other way round they would have thought Coventry pathetic knackers for still whining about it nearly half a century later. They would be right.

 

They should just let it go and enjoy tonight for what it is, a chance. I will be watching, my first Sunderland game of the season on TV ( I occasionally attend the SoL if I can get in for free) and I hope they win.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Sid

[Sima]

10 minutes ago, Sid said:

I hope they win.

 

Ban.