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"eeah, that mafiosa ya met in New York has come to visit wa, Billy!" "Gerrin! Ahll invite'm for tea. Mak him spaghetti Bolognese as they're Italian Americans and they luv it!" "Ahm on it now!" (Goes to open tin of lidl spaghetti hoops) "What ya doing, man! Eeh wants the propa stuff, man, not that cheap shite! Go down to Sainsburys and buy their tin of spaghetti Bolognese, instead!"

"We own an acting agency in New York for extras and such like if I remember correctly?" "Yes, 'N-E-Schmuck-will-do' I believe?" "Good, get me the cheapest American-Italian actor you can get and tell him to watch out for any wandering Wearside tourists. Instruct him to let on he's a made man and that John Gotti and his successors are 'connected' with Sunderland AFC. Spin them a line about a phoenix or some such shite that they'll lap up." "I think we can manage that, no problem, sir." "Excellent, I love it when a plan comes together." "That's the A team, sir." "Ooohh! The fucking balls on this one!"

Is there a limit this season? I've no idea, not seen it mentioned.

Been busy at work, just on a break now and an hour's wait for membership, 17,000 ahead of me in the queue. Fuck off, man!

In a ideal world we stay at SJP, we expand and everyone gets in but I can't see this happening either, I've got to say the upper tier of the East Stand is the only small part of the ground that exists from my first games attending so change doesn't bother me too much it's just location, location, location. If it's too far away from home then this will have a pretty big negative impact despite the extra seats. I just can't believe it can't get rebuilt close to where it is now, somewhere behind the Leazes end. As things stand I doubt I'll be back again.

Not his wife at the time so it must've been her audition or her pitch for the job he tried to get her.

No mention of the Carrie blow job story on here? That's how much he's normalised this shitshow.

We'd batter them as there'd be a massive will on the part of the new management to keep on side with the fans so no scratch teams.

Only see their tweets on here! I hope you're getting commission from them?

'Ah wuz theya'

It blows my mind they sell memberships but someone with a season ticket can just buy a ticket as well for any given match. If it's a league game they almost certainly won't be together and it makes a mockery of the whole point of the membership thing. Closest I've been to calling the whole NUFC thing a day since chucking it when I was smugly told I'd be easily replaced by a club employee when I had a genuine complaint and the club sharp fucking forgot about the daft cunts who went home and away to see us get beat by clubs who aren't even in the football league now.

Plus I've had three hours kip after a 12 hour night shift so I'm a clear and present danger to every fucker crossing my path let alone any cunt chucking a barricade on that path.

It's really pissed me off tbh, I'd have been happy having the same chance as everybody else, young kids, new fans, old fans, whatever but this fucking stinks. Because I refused to give him my money just before this date I'm locked out?

The eligibility wasn't fair, though. I had this with someone on twitter. Somebody could have been to one game in their life after July 2019 and got a season ticket ahead of others who have decades of support. I said nobody should've had priority, decades of support, handful of games or none at all, it shouldn't have mattered. His argument was there would've been moaning if somebody hadn't been to a game and got one ahead of me but my argument is at least I'd have had the same chance of a ticket in my scenario rather than none at all!

It's up to the agent to tell him his options and advise him of them. It's up the lad to weigh it up and decide. If the fee is agreed and he's not happy with the money then don't sign but I've read the lad is happy, the club is happy but the agent isn't. If the lad wants the move he'll instruct the agent to get the best deal he can within reason. If the agent says they're offering X amount I think we can get more it's up to the lad to make a decision to get the agent to carry on negotiating or walk away. I can't see how he's happy with everything yet can't sign because his agent won't let him. It's laughable.

One thing that's bothering me, how come they can change the sponsor to blend in better with an away shirt but not the home? The sponsor wouldn't look as bad if it was black with a white border or vice versa.

I reckon it's loosely based on the Northern Ireland 80s away shirt, ewerk reckons the 80s Republic of Ireland away shirt. Republic, Northern, Northern, Republic, let's call the whole thing off.

Unless the kid has signed some sort of waiver giving total control to his agent then I reckon maybe he just doesn't fancy it enough which is reason enough for me to not be that arsed. The agent works for the kid, not vice versa.

Roy Hudd's character, the dirty celebrity Wurlitzer playing bastard.

It's great, man.

Re-watching Dennis Potter's 'lipstick on your collar' on channel four's iPlayer. Tremendous stuff.

"From Smurfland where we belong."