The Fish

Weddings don't get really good until late on anyway,

Lad I worked with used to come in with a Starbucks every day, buy his lunch from Pret/Eat or the like every day and he'd more often than not pop to the snack machine for a Twix or whatever. Nigh on a tenner a day on food, or £200 a month spent on pretty bang average food and drink. He wasn't exactly raking it in either.

Why am I not surprised. You were definitely stuck on the table of misfits, weren't you? The old teacher, the 2nd cousin, the bloke from work that overheard the bride inviting others.

There's definitely a sense that some fans know they have to have a negative opinion of another team, so they'll accept any claim without consideration as long as it's easily digested/repeated. Considering form, on and off the field performances, public relations and so on is too much for a Spurs fan to handle, when it comes to Newcastle it's easier to recite the cliche.

Was my dad's 70th, so I was up there and being paraded around as his greatest achievement. Better than his charity work and the job he retired from 10 years ago. Went to a restaurant and there were 50 odd friends and relatives there to surprise him. Good times. To be honest I spent most of the weekend avoiding his bigoted cousin, the same one who genuinely asked why a mate of mine "Couldn't find a nice white girl" to marry.

Some heroes don't wear capes.

No, you pack of cunts, that is not me. @Gemmil is having a lovely old time at my expense and for that he should be ashamed. Oh, and no, I'm not going to post a picture of me holding todays paper and a sign saying "I'm not Paul Wynn", either.

Yeah, it's clear. It's because he's a cockney, right?

What?

Someone put his 2016 win % on twitter; 28%. His 2016 win % without cup games? 15%.

Burton have just one win from their last seven games; At home to Rotherham.

It's Vic and Bob.

I'm not sure if their fans have the will to demand a rebirth, being a Premier League club (even if it's in name only) seems to be enough for the majority of Sunderland fans. Some on RTG genuinely said before their loss to Chelsea "This is what it's all about, playing the best teams in the world". Now, I've enjoyed watching us go toe-to-toe with Ferguson's Man Utd, Wenger's Arsenal and Mourinho's Chelsea, but the point wasn't to stare wide-eyed as the superstars roll into town, it was to compete. They genuinely seemed to be delighted that little old Sunderland got to play hosts to the Big Boys. Like Burton Albion are doing for us this weekend. Going forward, the best thing for them is to draw on their decent record of producing young players, stick with a manager like Moyes, and build an identity that isn't the "turd that won't flush". But that is most likely going to come at the cost of their Premier League.

Can I be the Theon Greyjoy before he betrays/is betrayed. I'm very attached to my wang y'see and my lass is too.

3-0 to us

Ah cheers. That'll be another reason they're in the shit, <£15m in "Merit payments" over 3 years. 3.0 13/14 6.2 14/15 4.9 15/16

I've been searching for a reliable website with that info, where'd you get it?

Oh sure, but I meant that they don't even get the top of c£1m every so often by being on tv.

Burnley, Boro and Hull will get mentions because they're the promoted sides. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City and Spurs will be pored over because they're "big clubs". Leicester will get loads of coverage this year because they're champions and doing shite. There's 10 teams ahead of sunderland in the interest stakes already. Then you've Everton and West Ham who're decent sized clubs that have it in them to either flirt with Europe or Relegation in any given season. Pardew is Box Office, so Palace get more coverage than they should. To most neutrals Sunderland are just that side that should have been relegated a while ago and haven't been, they don't play attractive football, they aren't experiencing huge tumult on or off the pitch (that's of interest to neutrals), they're just not very good.

Ours is more "wasted potential" than "fucking fucked in the fucking fuckhole".

Pay over the odds in transfer fees and player wages Almost never make a profit on a player sale Rarely get televised games Can't do brilliantly in merchandising as surely it's only the surrounding area that buys the shirts and SIX IN A ROW FTM VHS tapes? Don't get much in sponsorship because they're not very good and rarely on tv. actually here you go