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Allegedly the media have the wrong end of the stick here; Zaniolo and Tonali have been sent home in disgrace for not being involved in match fixing.

Well we are still waiting from the final investigation from the Sunderland Amnesty International branch? We wont have closure until thats done and dusted

I'd have said Knacker Dan and if they said which one I'd say the whole lot of you.

Come on! What low effort bullshit names are these? Mr. Chiltern should’ve been Black Belt, as he was the third Dan.

For maximum fewm, the captcha should just be a picture of the San Siro with "Select all squares with MACKEMS. If there are none, click skip"

I always remember a piss take out of Danny Dyer's football hooligan docuseries (called Wheel Football Factorweez or something) from years ago starring "Danny Dire". He did an episode in Sunderland and the opening monologue started with "Sunderland - famous for Newcastle" Found it.

I’ve introduced my boy to the backstory of mackems and Sunderland. He keeps mistakenly calling them Maggots Close enough Son.

What a wild bunch.

I'm sorry, it's not savagery for Israel to murder thousands of civilians in light of what Hamas did, but savagery for Hamas to do what they did in light of what Palestine has been subjected to over decades? Tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and children slaughtered? Occupation, blockade, apartheid, violation of international law and countless war crimes? I'm curious at what point does Israel become 'savage'? Whatever the history, what Hamas did is inexcusable and indefensible. I apply the same standards to Israel and put them in the same bracket. Possibly worse actually if you start thinking about it because they have a well armed military to defend themselves, Gaza does not. I was trying to not get into that gutter game. Children murdering terrorists are children murdering terrorists. I dont care what they call themselves, what they look like or what language they speak. Fucking terrorists the lot of them.

What Hamas was trying to achieve last week I honestly don't know, can't get my head around it. Desperation, anger, pure madness, attempt to bring the issue to the fore? It's lunacy whatever it was. A vastly different situation to this of course but I go back to my own experiences with terrorism growing up in a post 9/11 Pakistan battling with insurgents who claimed to be resisting the US invasion into Afghanistan. Over 50,000 civilians dead for a war we weren't even directly fighting. Vast majority of people in the country opposed the US invasion and the logistics/intelligence support from Pakistan so no one could understand why these insurgents were exacting 'revenge' from the average civilian, killing kids? Muslims killing muslims? (not exactly a holy war eh). Was the violence helping to keep the matter relevant in national politics? Were they just angry and/or mad? Pushing their agenda to flare violence and recruit more people? I don't know the answers. Its just mad right? Wrong on so many levels. Yet this has been the common response to occupation/invasion throughout history. This is why the mindless statements of support for Israel's brutalities from many developed nations are so important. There is no hope if we cannot exert some level of fairness into our reactions. It really comes down to the age old adage for me, no justice no peace.

Still not dead.

This is what should’ve been done in the 70s or 80s under a UN mandate. Land should’ve been purchased from Egypt for a new Palestinian homeland.It’s probably the only way of achieving anything approaching “peace”. All it will take is the US to apply some thumbscrews to all those affected. Mossad/IDF can simultaneously take out the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah without killing 10s of 1000s of Palestinian kids, because if they go ahead with the current plans they’ll ironically be Hamas’s best recruiting tool for the next 50 years of conflict. Pity we’ve got an apparent senile old duffer in the White House. Maybe those around him can grow some balls and do something that will actually help the situation instead of inflaming it. Perhaps Israel need to be told that they can do what they like in Gaza but all (legal) arms sales from the US, GB and EU countries will cease if they carry out this war crime in revenge for what the Israeli people suffered last weekend. And that the US will suspend any other aid to Israel that involves US tax payers money. The situation needs clear heads, vision, bravery and billions of dollars. Am not holding my breath…

How do you feel this is going, lads?

“Have a go, you must, if hard enough you think you are”

Reported

Worst thing to come out of Yorkshire since Savile.

Barry Gibb is apparently a decent Chinese cook. He is fond of saying.. 'you can tell by the way I use my wok'.

Also is it just me or has Wiky managed to post about 275 tweets together?

Out tonight for work pints, so.

Before you became Comedy Dave then?

Oh, okay. Yeah, G&T, you're a cunt.

What the fucking beep is this cunt on about now?

right up there with the young ones.

love the cages bit, never grows old!

I think it might’ve been Billy Furious who was on about how they bang on about football not being invented in 1992. But they’re the ones who moved to a flat pack stadium (for which they couldn’t even come up with an original name), had a huge influx of extra fans in the 90s and even, as per the article, had to hold a vote for a nickname, such was their lack of identity*. *Some things never change

Ffs

Some want you do

The second worst thing to happen to Reading after Jeff Hendrick turned out for them last season

Every now and then twitter goes mental for AI which is when this lad popped up

It’s the Guinness

We have one that @wykikitoon has even posted in.

How big a cunt would you be to think the tories are still too soppy and vote Reform?

I'm not sure it would be that straightforward. Might be easier just to get Big Joe to dish out a two footed career ender in training.

I said at the time, they changed their crest to a shield like ours, they changed their socks to black, they changed their ground and named after benfica, they had a poll for an official nickname, they did indeed gain more 'new' fans percentage wise than we did, they had to put haway the lads on their seats as we had howay the lads in the tunnel, obviously spelled it differently to ours even though throughout the years their was no right or wrong way to spell it. They would never admit to it but there was definitely an attempt to try and replicate what we had done under Keegan when they saw how it took off.

I don't really disagree. I do think maybe there is a qualitative difference to the brutality and methods used in this attack by Hamas. Executing children in the way that has been alleged promotes a visceral response. The question I ask myself, presuming this is true (and the audio I heard certainly seemed to be), is did Hamas do this because they are desensitised psychopaths, or did they do it deliberatley in order to provoke the extreme response by Israel we are witnessing? Or could it be both? Dropping bombs, shooting people in conflict, civilians dying as collateral damage, is detached, it feels different. But the end result is very similar in terms of the hate and vacuum it leaves in a familys life and the next round of violence. Hamas knew this, but did this anyway, presumably on purpose. In a way, they have done this to their own people. They could rerlease the hostages, after all, then the moral burden would be shifted to Israel. Why won't they?

is that UM's mate?