Howmanheyman

What a complete abortion of a thread. Have we the 7th largest fanbase in England? Of course we haven't, it's better than 7th and considerbloy higher than any club in the Midlands, loike.

Just heard the Police on the TV moaning about their lot and not being too happy with Home Secretary Theresa May. (Funny, her near namesake Teresa kept me smiling in the mid nineties). Think of any group of supporters, any, and I'm talking from the Eighties onwards for longer term Mags. Yes they'll be some you couldn't abide, but put it on a percentage rate, what was the percentage of canny lad to utter cunt ratio of fans from any given club? Work out your percentage. Now do the same to the Police you encountered throughout your years of following our club. I know and have met a few good lads in the Police but they unfortunately have been outnumbered by their more cretinous fellow 'boys in blue'. For them to complain about a Tory Minister takes the piss seeing as these fuckers were HRH Maggie's personal Secret Army and made (and still have a far better better financial/pension/sickness package) than most of us poor bastards in the real World. What about Maggie though? Well credit to her and her contemporaries, they never once hid their sheer naked capitalism and their 'fuck you Jack, we're alright' ethos so you couldn't accuse her and the likes of Tebbit of being liars but they were no friends of my homeland, TYNESIDE and many other Labour industrialised non-Tory voting areas. I won't cheer when she dies of course not, but she epitomised the 'I'm alright Jack' attitude that unfortunately large parts of this nation now has, ( including up here), and I can't stand her for it and hope it gets recognised in amongst her eulogies by the media.

Simply superb.

No it wasn't the Viz cockney wanker, it was the PL's cockney wanker instead. Sorry to disappoint.

Yep, 100%. The presenter on BBC Radio Newcastle Sunderland sports show tries to hide it but is definitely leaking red and white amounts of bitterness too. Johnny Anderson might as well not bother turning up as the place is infested.

I know it was last night but can I just say Sky need to retire the over-rated Martin Tyler and never put Niall Quinn in a co-commentator's role again. Thanks.

"......And you can read my four page Euro Diaries, who should start, who to leahve aht, what formation we should be starting off with and who will be my star men of the tournament.........starting in tomorahs current bun! We lahve it!"

You're going to see a fucking massive swing from the media comparing the stick we got for hounding Big Sham out (when we didn't actually hound him out*), to the actual stick he'll get from the unhappy Hammers if they crash and burn in the play-offs. *That's not to say we weren't relieved once he'd fucked off, mind.

I'm grafting on the Sunday we play the mackem mancs and the Sunday we play the scouse mackems as well.

Paddock lad beat me to Quinn the shit!

This when I was 18.

Very close, MF, very close.

What will happen this summer and January? "As we head into this SUMMER, the irregular and mixed weather pattern is set to continue. May will see some drier, sunnier, and less intensified rain showers than of late in places. However, central and southern England will be dull as they normally are, and parts of Wales might see some scattered baratone singers. July and August may see a low depression as the Tiote clouds will head further South and there may well be a likely continuation of a buy low sell high formation. Some of these low buys will pleasantly surprise and there could be more sunny spells around the Capital of the North East. WINTER will see temperatures plummet as certain football clubs in the Wearside area find it hard to keep up with the blustery hot air which arrived in the Sunderland district from the over the Irish Sea. There may also be the occasional weigh-in in Boldon/South Shields but expect it may also turn particularly heavy in these parts, as we progress throughout the year."

Apart from being better than Fergie and Clough at football management he also got the Birmingham four released single handedly as he proved they were not IRA bombers as the evidence was flawed before flying to Rome so the Pope could have an audience with Martin 'Spirit of Che Guevara' O'Neill himself. Pound for pound not even a Cricket can leap as high as the anointed one when his sides score one of their many winning goals.

I just caught the tail end of an excitable Mackem phoning up BBC Radio Newcastle Sunderland and he was stating that Sunderland have had the best season since something like 1947 as they WOULD have had over 60 points had the Apostle, Saint Martin of O'Neill BA HONS, FTM, MFI, SCS have been in charge all season. The way he spoke it was FACT they'd have hoovered up the points and been right up there but he was very much looking forward to next season and gave Aston Villa as an example of what happens to a club when the Omnipotent One with the Irish Whisper and serious looking face departs a club.

I did and it was a cracking read if a little bit overladen with gloom. The gist of it was on the money though.

Had a chat with Pav after he'd signed earlier in the week for us, I say chat but he couldn't speak much English at the time and he was buzzing off his tits at a fan recognising him and his new job in England, he had about 20 'Whatshop' bags on him and when I mentioned it he had a big cheesey grin saying just 'presents' and 'family'. I got my ticket and went home afterwards and was trying not to laugh on the Metro. Not surprised at all the players who said Pav was a lovely lad, he seemed genuinely privileged to play for us. Met SBR not long after he came back as our manager and he was top class, seemed genuinely interested in our new plant at the Tyne Brewery, (which was the reason for his visit), and wandered off with some of the lads from the next shift in to get a proper look at our workplace and let them show him around despite some S&N bigwig trying to usher him away.

Posts like that Mackem has managed to drag out of the morass of his mind do make me feel like some kind of superior alien life form observing a primitive species. They are so fucking desperate to lump us in with Liverpool as a club/support who have a 'look at me, I'm grieving' attitude. You can just imagine half of these utter whoppers talking to oppo fans in a bar before a game and coming out with all their 'Mag facts' (sic) in a clinging hope they'll take it in and have a new found respect for SAFC and take notice of their club. It's funny as I've worked with the occasional Mackem who are decent enough lads until the Newcastle/Sunderland subject comes up and then they morph into the bitter, (and at the end of the day, bitterness is at the heart of their attitude and laughable 'facts') supporters they undoubtedly are. Our club have put up a statue of a former respected Manager. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less, most clubs have done this (with the occasional bollock dropped by the sculptor) and nobody bats an eyelid. They are quite honestly pathetic when they go on like this. Sports direct Arena, gregg's pasties and stuff like this is just piss taking banter but stuff like the post highlighted borders on mass paranoia of a club and a support who have a massive inferiority complex.

I thought you might have bought them on ebay under the 'JFK movie set props'.

Ha'way J20, it's the Scandinavian style, man! You never been to IKEA? Five mins after that Pic wor LBT was out chopping some wood for his real sauna which has a 24 hour porn channel piped through to it.

They could canabalise Chelsea's anthem as their travelling Army platoon rampage through the 2nd Division. Bige is our culla, Boring is our gime Boring evrie fucka Isn't a shime? We're tha biggest club in Aston We're tha Man Yow of the Brum And Villa! Villa is our nime.

Think I prefer LBT when he's being Aeris.