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Apparently the loan deal for Wood stipulates he must play against us.

So we got a striker of our relegation rivals condemning them to the Championship, had him help us stay up in style, and then next season recover a significant portion of the fee?

No, as far as I’m aware you’re correct. There’s been a settlement since at least the Bronze Age but the first recorded name was Pons Aelius by the Romans. It was known as Monkchester due it having at least 5 different friarys in the city, the only one still remaining is Blackfriars. It was named Newcastle after the construction of the Norman Keep, but since they spoke French, it was probably known as Neufchâtel. Never been Novo Castria. In Roman times the tiny settlements around the wear were known collectively as Sextus Digitalus, and latterly by the Normans as Trou de Merde.

Anita man That lad had an arse you could balance a plant pot on.

On a 1 billion year contract so pretty cheap really when it's amorticised until the heat death of the galaxy.

I can’t get over how they can adopt enough of a mental denial to say that, not only have we been lucky in 22 of our 24 games this season but that luck has somehow extended to everyone else’s results over an entire cup competition and league tournament. But when they go up 6 places in that shit league because of results going their way, they’re the best team in the division and could bloody the noses of any Premier League side

First on the list should be these two:

Agreed. I mean I would be delighted with 4th and quite frankly pretty disappointed with 5th or less at this stage. But some of me just thinks..... maybe? I think Leicester doing the seemingly impossible has skewed my thinking on this but I can see parallels and us winning it wouldn't be as big a shock that tbh. This morning I looked back on this amazing streak ManU were supposedly on and in reality it isn't that impressive, they have won a lot of games by narrow margins which is why their goal difference is shit compared to ours. We have to play Arsenal, Spurs, Man United, and Liverpool at home and honestly I fancy a result in all those fixtures. We've won one and drawn the rest of the corresponding away fixtures (alright, Liverpool was a loss but shouldn't have been). Anyway, it's a cliche but all we have to do is focus on ourselves (with no FA cup or Europe to distract us). The other teams can take care of themselves. And a lot will depnd on our injuries and any signings we make. ALso looked at Man City's development when they were taken over. It surprised me how long it too them to establish themselves, we are miles ahead of them at this stage. Howe has done an amazing job.

One of the highlights of the trip to Rome for the Roma game was when the taxi driver taking us to the airport saw the traffic as we turned on to the motorway/autostrada and exclaimed "Mama Mia" complate with arm gestures.

Getting to see the matches now is my reward for being a scab during the bad Ashley years. The irony being I doubt any ST boycotts had any effect on our purchase ultimately but I am feeling somewhat rewarded for suffering under Bruce when it was a fucking chore to go to the game, about akin to visiting the dentist. I guess alcohol helped looking back. Fucking wish I had kept my superior seats in the East stand though instead of moving to the NW corner. Would have been perfect for me now, best view of the match, blanket on me knees and a thermos flask.

FUN88 are done in the summer? Then it will be FUCKFAIRPLAY100.

Fuck that, I want City to hammer Spurs.

If Spurs lose here it's almost the ideal manner for it to happen. They would've foolishly begun to believe that anything was possible before having that hope crushed in a display that should teach them that their hope is limited and it is instead their ignorance which is boundless. Hard to come back from that little reality check. Just ask those among us who thought a title challenge was on for the 10 minutes during halftime.

I was training a bunch of social workers in the civic centre today. There's a cracking scale model of the city on display there

Chords don’t exist. It’s a hoax by Big Music to make people take notes.

Had to google Daniel Neil. Picking a current first teamer, as a 'notable supporter' is fucking hilarious.

I think some of the older ones are right about the term geordie being applied to anyone from the North East, still is outside the area. Well known they chanted it when they won the FA cup. But they didn't like being associated with us when we the Entertainers, so they adopted an insult we created for them to be known as, and now are upset because no bugger else outside the North East knows what it means or even where Sunderland is. Cutting off your nose to spite your face really, but that's being a mackem for you.

'In 2000 a public vote was held for supporters to choose the first ever official nickname for the club from five options picked by the club.' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunderland_A.F.C._supporters Sunderland 'Nerd' AFC

wait till we get with the tractor sponsorships

Ah, Anita. Memories...... [Mist envelopes then slowly fades]...... The secret diary of Lee Ryder aged 44 and a half. 05/10/2014 Well diary, ah had a bit of a field trip today in the never ending quest to keep my readers up to date with all things black & white, where did ah gan, eh? St. James' Park? Benton training ground? a NUFC presser? Nah, none of that shit, Ryder's well ahead of the game, ah set off to the Metrocentre to kill two birds with one stone, one is to get some NUFC info, the other is to get me Mam something forra birthday. Ah walk into Nando's to get some scran and then eat and wait, ah wait to grab a surprise interview with the first player that I see in there. Ah'm no mug, ah knaa there'll be one along soon, there always is. Ah'm halfway through me Butterfly Burger, a freshly baked Portuguese roll loaded with skin-on, flame-grilled chicken breasts, topped with tomato and lettuce. It's big. It's available on its own or with 1 or 2 regular sides. Ah plumps for garlic bread and fries on the side and have the chicken extra hot as what's the point in being a fanny? Anyway, as ah says, ah'm halfway through it when bingo! Mehdi Abeid walks in! Ah grabs me plate and sits next to him, "Mehdi!, How's it going, mate? Great game the other day, mate! Fucking class you looked." Abeid starts to say something about fancying a Burger King instead and is about to make a sharp exit when ah have to interrupt him as ah spot a little black waiter walking past the table, "How! Chief! Can you give iz another bottle of Sagres beer? Cheers, Sinbad!" All of a sudden, the 'Waiter' stares at me and says, "IT'S YOU!!" Ah then look at him properly and fuck me, it's only Vurnon Anita! Bastard! Ah'd only written a story about him being sick at being dropped and kicking Pard's door down. It was my nark, Remi streete who told me but ah was only half listening and it turns out it was a pile of shite. Anyways, 'Big' Vurns doing his nut. "You are a dishgrashe to your profeshhhsion! How could I kick ze door down when I am only five foot four, for shure." I bite the bullet and leave hoping for better luck later on. I do however, manage to buy me Mam a nice vase from the Swarovski shop so it wasn't a totally wasted trip. The chicken butterfly was canny anarl. Laters.

I've got to say I thought 6th should've been where we were realistically aiming for as one of the inflated rich six usually has an average season and when you saw Man U in the last year or so you always knew they were eminently catchable, as it happens it's Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea who are struggling or in transition. It's a great opportunity which we look more than capable of taking advantage of, even pardew got fifth in a similar such season, the difference is we're a different animal as a club and won't be only signing an Anita or a Bowyer this time to 'strengthen' and letting one of the rich clubs back in.

Why, he’s not running a country.

For the first time in history Guardiola didn't mention tactics at half time and simply said : "Come on lads, its spurs"

Define success? Less than 100 balls hoofed into Derbyshire?

Them stole Geordie. Them bad beheaders.

The mackems are engaging in one of their usual monthly obsessions on what they should call themselves. Apparently we stole the term Geordies from them, several centuries before Sunderland actually even existed.

Hasn't Hayden just returned as well? Shortstaff? Plus Shelvey is sucking up wages and hoping to trigger an automatic extension. Why the fuck is Gillespie on the books still as well? A smart thing to do would be to ship them all off to whatever Saudi league team they own and let them suck back their wages from their books. The shit Ashley left stinking out the place.

this is the logical way to think about it. and yet I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest our form will slip up to the extent that we will fall out of the top four, or that the teams in the chasing pack are capable of catching us. it’s Brighton, if anyone, who look the most dangerous of the teams challenging for top four. what i’d really like to see is arsenal start dropping points

We should sign him then refuse to play him so he can't beat Shearer's record.

Aaaahhhhhhh. Them jammy mags marra! FtM!

So does yer ma.

He’s had an incredible career like. 3 grand slams in singles and two Olympic titles in an era where he’s played alongside 3 of the top 5 of all time, who’ve hoovered up 60 odd grand slams between them ( and counting). Like Meenzer says you have to admire how he keeps going. He’s such a unit he’s inevitably picked up injuries and there’s nothing he’s got to prove but he’s still got that never say die attitude

35 years old, got a metal hip, fucking hell !!!

Wearside Jack you say?

Steve Cram, Celebrity fan

Don't forget Monkchester Road in Walker. I'm an alumni of Monkchester nursery school where only the brightest and best attended.

That whole page is entertaining, especially the “ Notable Supporters “ section. They're fucking desperate to claim Jackie Milburn as one of theirs Mind you, reading the full list, at least half I was like “ nee idea who that is”.

Apart from anything, why the fuck would we steal anything from them? We’ve got our own nationally and internationally recognised identity. They had to run a poll to decide what their own nickname should be and couldn’t even think of an original name for their flat pack stadium

I grew up going in the East Stand. Right on the half way line. One of my first memories at a match was the noise of Brian Tinnion twatting long diagonal balls. Dad used to bring a flask of bovril in. Mix that with a smell of fags and booze. Magic.

I think you’re both right, ie we had sone wriggle room initially because of his frugality. But the lack of revenue streams / lack of sponsorship / shitty sponsorship deals that were struck / outsourcing of catering etc etc means we’ve now reached a point where wages are close to exceeding revenue. I think at worst it just slows us down, the ‘market value’ stipulations probably won’t stand up in any court and the amount of daft deals / partnerships other clubs have in place allows for getting around that anyway. But we know we’re under more scrutiny than almost anyone else atm so we’re trying to stay within the rules as much as we can

How can you steal a name OTHER PEOPLE CALL YOU? You don’t pick your own nickname unless you’re an absolute nerd.

Party time when we get the official noodle partnership.

It's true, he had some wierd hip anatomy that lad. I literally can't remember anything about Vernon Anita except he had a Kim Kardashian arse and walked like a duck.

It’s also worth remembering that this 95% figure is for the 21/22 season. So we were only paying wages for the likes of Trippier, Bruno et al. for half that season. Since then we’ve signed Pope, Isak and Botman so chances are that our wages are currently above 100% of revenue.

I think PIF & by extension Newcastle United, have better lawyers than the EPL

fuck financial fair play

Gemmill and his sex dolls…

Maybe Dwight Gayle is coming back 😂