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Meanwhile on RTG...... Wortsnaga: "Greetings mackems, I am Wortsnaga from Mordor, our lands are twinned. Do your fan groups have any interest in Mordor? Who are your rivals?" FTMJordan: "alright marra? I've only just found out about this now reading your post but av alwas thought you were the goodies on lord of the rings like. Them hobbits were proper thieving cunts if yas ask me? Very much Mag beyhaviour." 1973safc: "Always great to see how much places like Mordor respect our club for being a real club and a classy club. Your welcome any time. FTM." Dangermows: "Our rivals are the Saudi loving mags at Sid James park, ah bet you hate them anarrl?' SonofRowell: "ah dinna knar if yas like music in Mordor but if yas dee then there's loads of concerts at the SoL from Elton John to take that. Yall not be seeing Sam Fender as he's shite and won't be allowed as he's not famous enough and he's not even a real mag, ah heard him and his sexy phone player are from South Shields and got took to Sunderland games when they were little but deny it these days. He doesn't even know who Joe Linton is." MarcoGoalo: "How many punches do ya reckon it would tak ya to knock out a skunk? Yas seem big lads so I'd say a one-a so just like us. FTM."

@Craig can you please set him straight?

Its Wunderbar in The Gate, as a 50 something ex furniture salesman taxi driving grandfather I think you’ll fit in a treat mate

Aye, supporters of Schalke are going to wake up soon to find they've actually been in a previously unknown but deeply intense 30-40 year relationship with Sunderland based on a Schalke fan once having a pint with a mackem who he probably mistook for a Stoke supporter.

I think Newcastle's level of official engagement with the twin town relationship varies depending on who's in power on the city council and how much funding is available for that kind of thing (which isn't much nowadays, since there are more pressing priorities locally). For example, a delegation from Gelsenkirchen council came to Newcastle for the Bobby Robson Trophy match in 2009 and there were football-related meetings between local officials as part of the same visit, e.g. so that Gelsenkirchen could advise on what it learned in 2006 that would be useful to Newcastle as a potential host city for the 2018 World Cup. Anecdotally, I get the feeling that the intensity of such twin town relationships tends to rise and fall with the personal interests and contacts of the people in charge at the respective city councils at any given time - which is why they fluctuate over time, and one reason why there probably isn't as much focus on the twin town relationship with Gelsenkirchen right now. But I'm writing this from London so obviously there might be things happening that I'm not aware of. I've never been to Gelsenkirchen myself, but a few years ago I had a nice chat about our cities' shared industrial heritage with an old boy from Gelsenkirchen at the top of the Tetraeder in Bottrop (this is not a euphemism). I'm not sure that counts as the partnership being especially anchored in anyone's minds, but it's a story, anyway.

Schalke lad, give us a massive Christmas Tree then we'll talk. NOT this one though.

He needs the practice

MF schooled in punctuation by the.convicts.

Always thought the people who get into reffing are wrong’uns tbh. As a kid you want to play, not be Keith Lard enforcing the rules, fucking virgins

I can feel the fewm about this from here.

Well tbf, that is quite a lot, they manage to fuck up on a weekly basis and have zero self awareness.My favourite was after taunting us with "Enjoy Burton", the very next year them getting relegated by Burton with the crucial goal goal scored by Darren Bent. Filmed for posterity by a Netflix documentary supposed to be about their promotion. I mean, you couldn't make that shit up, pure kismet.

I always think there's another really significant distinction between the way we talk about them and the way they talk about us though - mostly their threads are discussing NUFC itself, so the club, its results, etc. Their focus and obsession is Newcastle. This thread is discussing their obsession with us, not so much Sunderland itself. Most of their games don't even get a mention on here. We don't talk about their players unless they turn out to be paedos, and only talk about the club directly if its doing something hilarious. If you took out all the discussion in this thread about their obsession with us, I doubt it beats 200 pages in full, even over however many years. None of their threads are focused on what we think about them, it's all directed fully at the club itself. That is the purity of their devotion to NUFC. This thread is schadenfraude, their's is a jealous love letter.

Miguel Delaney absolutely rinsed by Gary Lineker

Enjoying Joe Lycett completely taking the piss when being asked to react to a series of non-answers from Truss.

A few more games like this and he might start gesturing the other way to Joelinton.

VAR is ruining the game. Every single match now features at least one poor VAR decision. It's having the complete opposite affect of why it was created in the first place.

Tha thinks tha's a sex God, but tha 'as a penis like an acorn lad

You had to mention Stoke…

This is what he's going to point to as evidence of him being "balanced" the next time he's carrying on like a bellend.

Have his gaffers had a word with him? Where has this reasonableness come from?

It is now.

You're a Yorkshire lad then? 😂

Wuppertal always sounds like a shite 1940s comedian’s catchphrase.

Who can forget this classic example of a non-political guest on a political show?

Family potato empire? No wonder he thought he was entitled to an Irish passport.

That yesterday seemed bent for the reasons you and others have outlined . Others not so much as you say. There wasn’t a massive outcry from Man City fans & the football public in general when it was used in that game in our favour because VAR reached the correct decision that no one could reasonably argue with . Before VAR we did have the frankly ludicrous situation where the commentators and gimps in the studio could assess contentious decisions and incidents better than the refs on the pitch. The ref only has one view in real time. So now we have the equally ridiculous situation where the media have got their way with VAR but it’s being used to overturn demonstrably correct decisions as called on the pitch by the ref

This is a quality of his that I think he’s quietly instilled into the club. Take Trippier yesterday - wanting to go talk calmly with the referee to understand the rationale whilst at the same time using his left arm to gesture that he wanted Joelinton to fuck off, who clearly wanted to rip the ref’s head off.

I should imagine what Eddie says to the media, and what he says behind closed doors will be somewhat different. He comes across as a man of integrity who is extremely and naturally media savvy, but I doubt he suffers fools. I imagine he is directing a lot of anger in the direction of PGMOL but we’ll never get to witness it, nor will the media,

I honestly don't think it makes any difference. All the decisions were covered at length on MOTD, ours included, and it'll be pressure from the media/the Premier League itself rather than post match rants from managers that lead to change. The whole thing with Howe is his measured, analytical approach - he was absolute class last week in response to the Liverpool result (the additional time and the incident with the bench). I don't think you can expect him to be like that AND go off on one on camera about something else a few days later. Howe will be bang into all that control the controllables stuff with his staff and his players, so for him to then lose his shit over something that's been and gone makes no sense.

Yeah, was thinking that myself yesterday. Having a good public moan about shit decisions will definitely subconsciously affect refereeing decisions in subsequent games. Fergie was a master at it

SpellcheckedYP Twat 🙂

I really dislike that he is so heavily involved in the punditry that we get served up in Australia. One of the last things you want to see after being dudded by a horrible refereeing decision is his face, regardless of what he is saying.

Steve Marshall Barnes' dyslexia is no trivial matter.

Friends fear he’s on the vodka and talking shit again

This is my key takeaway from todays game. Someone tell Gary Gloryhunter to fuckin stay at home next time, Adam P will end up taking a court order out against him

Save this fake shit for Mams on Facebook

Disallowing that Brighton goal because Welbeck attempted a ridiculous overhead kick is tantamount to treason. Should be a rule where if an absolute rip snorter is scored, it overrides everything else around it

I actually think Truss may have a personality disorder, like Johnson, like Trump. Pure narcissist and sociopath. Can't remember who said it, but sometimes when you feel you have impostor syndrome it's because you really really are an impostor. Fair enough, this applies to a few tory MPs, but it doesn't explain why so many people don't see the traits and vote for them anyway. Guess that's where gaslighting comes in. Won't work this time.

Even more mental when it's apparently the VAR who determines which angle(s) the on field ref gets to see.

Ref: "I'm a big four-eyed lame-o and I wear the same stupid sweater every day and ... TO THE SPRINGFIELD RIVER!"

The referees and their conceptual understanding of physical motion. Next question.

Happy Father's Day to the down under toon contingent.

Offsides should be calculated from the players feet or changed so there needs to be daylight between the players. Trying to judge which part of a players shoulder or shirt sleeve your drawing a line from is mental. The rule was designed to stop players standing 20yards offside, not their shirt sleeve being 3mm in front of the defender