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He was fucking shocking, man. I dare say he'd have been just as generous with us if we were fouling left, right and centre but that wasn't our game was it?

I've said for a while I wouldn't want Adidas doing our strip again and this is another example of why......

Man City getting ex-Everton prick Andy Hinchliffe on the sky commentary by the sound of it? If they still don't have one of their own commenting on them by now with that team then I'm not too confident we'll have a look in with sky either in the future? Just remembered he played for man city as well. He's man city's version of Dyer then.

If there was a swear box in my house yesterday I'd now be bankrupt. OJ Simpson didn't get away with as much murder as their players and who could blame them when they had the footballing equivalent of diplomatic immunity from the ref who went out of his way pre-game to pat their players on the back and shake hands in the tunnel. You just knew watching that we going to get one of those ref performances. If he'd been a bit more on it I think we win that game, saying all that by the time we were winning we've only ourselves to blame plus a bit of bad luck with the flukey equaliser. I was a wreck by the end and that was sober as a judge. Can't be doing with this stress, like. Fortress SJP again on Thursday, please. The good news for everybody is I'm at work.

Anyone see the ref in the tunnel with the Leeds players? We're getting fuck all from him today.

Yes I'm nervous but that's natural, we'll get a response from last week, (not that we were poor), these are desperate but so are we, desperate for champions league football and I think we'll get the first three out of the hopefully four points we'll end up needing rather than the seven. (I think we'll get the seven anyway).

Someone sent me a link to this, nothing we don't know or feel but still made me chuckle a bit.

I still had those shorts with the 'new' badge on from the following year and sold them for small fee really a few years ago, 32" as well I think. Still got the green away shorts which just about fit the waist but it's like wearing underpants. (I went running in them once much to the dismay of Mrs HMHM but to the thrill of the female population of Tyneside.....

I loved that kit and the players wearing it weren't too bad either.

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As bad as sky are, BT just go one step beyond like madness but not as likeable.

"Yes. Well the report started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle & the less said about the end the better! But apart from that, excellent!"

Apparently they doorstepped Howe on NUFC's heinous crimes......

Why couldn't BT have just put their usual serie a commentators, presenters and pundits on instead of the fucking tedious PL/CL ear pollution arseholes like Fletcher, McManaman, Ferdinand etc? It got so bad halfway through I couldn't even get angry anymore and just softly said 'stop talking' in the general direction of the TV. Sad.

Of course it was a rogue Black Op special forces Mag. I mean, what else could it be?

Well? What you waiting for? Show and tell, show and tell FFS.

Muted till second half KO.

A good game to watch being polluted by the noise from Darren Fletcher and Steve McManaman.

"Vodka calling Coke. Vodka calling Coke. Come in Coke." "This is Coke calling Vodka. Did you get the ticket? Over." "Vodka calling Coke. Affirmative. Got it outside the Labour Club. Over." "Did you see any good families? Over." "I saw loads of them. It was the family enclosure. Over " "Get out of there, Coke. It's too dangerous. That is an order. Over" "Not a chance. Over and out."

How conned must Ancelotti have been when he took that Everton job and how long into it must it have took before he started working out his exit?

Inclined to agree however just before the manhandling began his face told a picture that he was pretty pleased with himself. Nobody comes out of that smelling of roses very much including him. I'd fucking love to know how people like him get in especially in that part of the ground.

It's a bit sad really, getting a tattoo of a 5% owner of your football club in a bid to try and stay a bit of a minor local celebrity, obviously the likes of the Ronny Gill and BBC Newcastle have sadness and desperation ingrained into their institutions so no surprise they've put him on as it's another days content sorted early doors before trying to forget they've another day just around the corner to try and get some 'news', any shit, to keep themselves in a job.

I was about five rows down from the altercation in the family. I think the trouble was he celebrated, people got pissed off but he then doubled down on it, although by the time it kicked off my view was partially obscured. The wife's cousin had his young'un and was closer so moved down the stairs to get him out the way as his bairn and others were upset. According to him the lad is a well known knacker from North Shields, I don't know who's right about him being a decent lad or a knacker, UM or the wife's cousin but in a volatile atmosphere he should've realised he was fucked celebrating or even put his hand up, it might've helped, steward was clearly out of his depth and knew little about anything, possibly even English. The lad must've seen where he was, (family enc) and should've really have took the hint. Bad crack all round tbh and yes, I've celebrated in an away end and was perfectly fine but it was in a more sparsely attended stand at a half full goodison. I wouldn't have done it had it been chocka and in a high tension match.

'black spot'

Sunderland getting into the playoffs undoubtedly the second best thing to happen to them this whole weekend, fair play.