The Fish

"He knows the best boozers and makes a cracking ham sandwich.... where are you going?"

Aye it's like an email notification that say "We have some news about your lottery ticket", I'm cautiously optimistic until I open it and it's a free lucky dip for the next draw. ...

He'll still turn up, like Costanza after he quits, pitching up at the meeting regardless.

Well nowt else is going on at the minute. There's no new news. Want to talk about formations or the French Non-League kid we've allegedly scouted?

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How do their nicest parts stack up against ours? Do they have somewhere like Benton, like Jesmond, Gosforth etc? I searched on Rightmove and was shocked to see a listing at £1.8m not five minutes walk from Sunderland station. Nope, don't worry, it turns out it's for 19 houses and a flat!

Not done it in years and it was only on reflection that choosing to use a much used door key wasn't much an improvement in the grimy stakes...

Cruel Intentions style?

Lad

Whatever you fancy, just dead easy with a key, innit?

Beer, lager, gin, whatever floats your moppy boat.

When you're in a club/bar, scoop some coke onto your key, lift to nose, snort, job done. Means you don't have to use grimy surfaces or roll up notes or owt.

Have another can Vileda.

when I was doing coke or MDMA a key was literally a door key with whatever on it. I know a Key is a Kg in films, but this is real life mother fuckers.

Or Bong Eyed Mal

No, a key. I'm not an Escobar ffs

That's me in the middle with the shades on

Bit early, but I'll take a key.

Apparently that, while they admit that the city is shit, it's unfair to say all of Sunderland is shit. Mostly because Walker exists, or something... Apparently Seaburn and Roker are nice? Dunno, don't think I've ever been there, but a quick check of Rightmove says there's maybe 10 houses worth more than £200k on the market there. If they're the nice areas then what does it say about the rest of the city?

Mbappe to Aubameyang, Aubameyang plays the 1-2, Mbappe pulls it back to Joselu!!!! And that's 5 for the former Stoke man at Old Trafford.

It's often intangibles like "classy club", "proper people", "normal", and more often than not it's a direct comparison to us. "Not as deluded as them", "not arrogant like Geordies". Actually, speaking of "Geordie" I've seen a few on there complaining when "Geordie" is used as a blanket term for fans of Newcastle. Insisting that although they're born in Newcastle and consider themselves Geordie, they're a Sunderland fan? It's like the "all lives matter" bullshit, for me. Wouldn't they want to be distinct from us? Surely they'd prefer to be called a mackem, a Rokerite, a black cat, than a term that the wider world immediately associates with our football club? Surely they prefer to associate themselves with that club, those people, rather than their nearest rivals?

Same here, I was out with a mate after the Huddersfield game and his Man Utd supporting mates were telling me Newcastle wouldn't come back up, Benitez didn't know how to manage in the 2nd tier and would leave before Christmas, we were broke and wouldn't spend any money, and that the pressure from the fans would be too much for the players etc. Basically every talkSport/606 cliche going. The sole Man City fan was much more informed, saying we'd bought well, that the championship is a slog but a team that is well drilled defensively can do well and that Benitez' style would suit that league well. The Man Utd fans were that confident, they were happy to put a tenner down if they were wrong about promotion. £40 profit which I had no qualms about claiming the next time I saw them.

Did he really get that much stick? Sounds like most people on here were agreeing with what he claimed forced the move in the first place?