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Just got back home. Spent the day in the centre circle section of Club Wembley before getting guest list for Limp Bizkit at Wembley Arena Its hard to put into words how mental that was & the feeling of seeing the players lift the trophy in black & white ribbons. Best day of my life. 🏆🥇

Back home after an unforgetable 61 hours. Absolutely awesome Went out for a quiet couple yesterday lunchtime, nine hours later crawled into my bed Still feeling a bit emotional. Love this team, love Eddie and Jason. Love all you daft bastards Sitting down with a medicinal couple of cans and about to do a full rewatch, as to be honest can't really remember much about the match

"That ice you're skating on is looking thin as fuck, believe you me. Consider this a warning, son."

This is how you know we've won a trophy. Even Luke Edwards is getting praise today. Any moment now someone's going to come along and announce that Louise Taylor's a fine writer and Ian Woan was all right after all.

A club legend-worthy 8.

Don’t underplay their achievements, the same set of players got relegated that season too

Guessing they're not expecting too many folks to show up for it then?

At the end of the day they are melancholy, they are from Sunderland, and they were born illegitimately. If only I could express this more succinctly.

Only because the staff were all "But Mr. Strode, you were the drummer in Kajagoogoo"

But just like when Gemmill rewatches Titanic for the 600th time, you'll still cry at the ending.

Really good. The bloke gets pelters from fans, but he properly loves the club and the city.

Excellent from Edwards https://archive.ph/HPrJQ

A frankly unforgettable cup tie for those of us in attendance

been well and truly pipped to the post by this tragic fucker here i think. so look north a regional news broadcaster runs a story about a football club from the area they report news from winning a trophy at wembley for the first time since 1955. in fact, unless you count the papa john's pizza cup it's the first time any club from the north east has won a major trophy at wembley for over half a century. I know what to do says this stupid cunt, report them to OFCOM, not only will it make look north squirm like fuck while they're being investigated, it'll give you immense pleasure at the same time.

Scenes from the Trent? https://www.facebook.com/share/v/159VVLtjYt/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Gemmill was thrown out after he hired a limo and turned up wearing shades before attempting to autograph one of the guitars on the wall

I never knew he was black either

This is the new high end corporate bar opening at the Stadium of Light. Looks about as perfunctory as you could get, like maybe a the entrance to a cafeteria for a sixth form college. What I find amusing is how excited the fans of massive lads are. Main benefit seems to be priority pass for the toilets so you don't have to shit on your seat.

Capacity is 25 and there's 15 of the Milk Cup heroes appearing.

Edwards was always alright and a good lad from what I’ve heard people say. There was just that weird thing where he went to war on Twitter around the time of the on / off takeover. If I see him in Aldi again I’ll tell him how much you all liked that article and I might even buy him a bottle of Pinot Grigio

According to Hope, the Chairman left to return to Saudi with a message to the hierarchy that they are NOT to lose Isak in the summer. That being the case, Eales and Mitchell should be calling his representatives in and giving him a good portion of whatever he demands in this next two weeks off. Strike now before his head gets turned, and while he's still basking in the afterglow of the cup win. He might push back and say he needs to know we've got CL first, but the bloke is gonna need more money to stay, or someone is gonna turn his head this summer. So we should at least start talking to him about that.

Darren Bent's been on Talksport saying he can't see why Isak would want to leave. He's done it in public, and he should have known how upsetting this would be to Sunderland fans. I hope he's happy with himself.

Like a pathetic bloke when his ex lass puts a picture on Facebook of her with her new fella.

The fucking timing of this btw: https://www.safc.com/news/2025/january/29/safc-milk-cup-heroes-reunite-for-40th-anniversary-celebration/

That‘s the plan. And the day before I will relegate a local team.

I’ve been thinking about Sir Eddie’s admission that he’s had the tactics for the game for two weeks, and purposely didn’t play them in the league game against the Dippers. This is a side who we have not won against in fucking ages, and Howe had never beaten in his managerial career. Given how superstitious footballers are, I reckon he’s put the hex on them now We let them have the one match, knowing we were going to fucking paste them when it mattered. He’s some boy, wor Edward.

Fucking hell. I take it back about looking like a sixth form cafeteria. Looks more like a primary school dinners hall from the inside.

If they'd scored another he would've still written his name in cloobs history just not the way he envisaged.

So that's what MF sounds like?

Tell him we blagged it outside the paywall though, no money for the tory rag.

Actually I just looked at it and I couldn’t get past the first two paragraphs

Dear me, they are getting very upset now because our celebrations are planned on a Saturday, the same day they play Millwall in a now meaningless league game. Apparently anticipated crowds of 250,000 show how needy and cringey we are, whilst at the same time are very low for a proper "big" club. If they had won in 2014 they would have been too classy to celebrate as well. Oh, and it's all a ploy by NUFC and Nexus to shaft Sunderland on their match day. I was gonna go but too scared to now in case this hilarious thing happens.

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/ian-harte-issues-response-to-angry-sunderland-fans-after-newcastle-united-post-sparks-social-media-drama-5036599

Milk Cup "losing" heroes.

"We must put pressure on the owners so they know this is unacceptable." "Okay, you going to start paying the going rate to watch a higher level Championship team/Premier League ready team, then?" "WHAT?!"

I've been saying (and wishing) for a cup win at the end of what is essentially phase 1 of this project. It's clear this period is coming to an end and players like Trippier, Schar, Wilson, Longstaff and many others will either leave or have limited roles in the future. This cup win is the perfect culmination to what they've done over the last 3.5 years and they deserve to go down as club legends. Upto the club now to back Eddie and bring in the resources for phase 2. A CL finish obviously will be a massive help. We need to channel the euphoria into one big push for a top 5 finish. You can be sure Howe will be on it once everyone has had the chance to celebrate and rest.

Right lads, whip round for a mackems ST for Wolfy?

Wife and daughter binned off

Back in Germany, sitting on a train that managed to go in the wrong direction. It was already 25 minutes delayed. Vorsprung durch Technik my arse.

Got back from London about 1pm……and immediately watched the entire match on catch up Am still stunned and unable to properly process everything….think I’m happiest for Geoffrey who I mentioned the other day, he was at one of the PL games we played v spurs at Wembley (we lost both, obvs) so it was 8 games he’d been at without victory at Wembley…this is him at full time with his son Chris ☺️

I'll give it a month before one of them's had a shit in the corner.

Pickford turning up with his gear in an Everton carrier bag.

Yeah that's really sad. He was Newcastle daft as well, I think.

Aye.