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Looked like a penalty to me tbh and pretty painful (Trippier wanted him to be subbed). He did well to roll back on the pitch; I’ll give you that.

We’ll certainly need a lot more strength in depth if we’re in Europe and want to be competitive in the league. I don’t see us spending silly money on players we don’t need. We look like we’ve done our homework, go for the “right” type of player (attitude as well as ability), with the potential...

There’s no love affair with Liverpool. Loads of links with players and the like but they have a large selection who act like complete arse holes when we play them.

I think a lot of it is keyboard warrior stuff, certainly hope so. We’re not a bigger club, we’ve both been starved of any kind of success for far too long. Good luck for the remaining games.

There’s no chance Gordon starts or gets any playing time unless absolutely needed for this one. It’s going to be charged enough already without Gordon adding to it.

You’ll be disappointed to learn that as soon as loyalty points dropped to 50 we sold out our remaining allocation.

No idea what that means 😂. What is happening is that fans with loads of loyalty points are buying tickets even if they can’t get tickets and giving them to fans with less loyalty points who wouldn’t get one otherwise. The result is that the non attending fan gets another loyalty point and the...

Ours is currently a minimum of 50 points to get a ticket. It’ll be the 4th away game in 20 days and it’s on TV. Those are facts. We may or may not sell out, we regularly don’t at your place. There’s good reason for that and it’s been a regular outlier for us. The other away games in that period...

I take it you’ve noticed that for about the 19th time out of 20 (not much of an exaggeration) we’re not playing 3pm on a Saturday at Goodison. This time it’s Thursday night and a 6 hour round journey or more. The last time we played you 3pm on a Saturday was Ben Arfa’s debut. I was there, I...

Sunderland have won less trophies. They’ve won 2 more league titles (in fact they won their 1st two titles when we weren’t even in the football league and a 3rd the season we were elected to the 2nd division with Arsenal). Bottom line is that neither of us has won anything for nearly forever.

We didn’t have a board, we had an owner in Ashley and he employed yes men with a strict remit of doing enough to finish above 18th. It didn’t always work. The structure of the club was almost non existent under Ashley.

You should look over the years for both teams; it’s an absolute joke every year. I think we’ve had 1 Saturday 3pm at Goodison in the last 12 years or more (Ben Arfa’s debut).

He went to my old school (well before my time) and played in the same team as Bryan Ferry. You probably know that already, I didn’t have a clue. You’re right that Kendall hardly ever gets mentioned as a great manager. http://www.raggyspelk.co.uk/washington_pages/selections8/two_stars_bf_hk.html

The above should really be put in context. On the Bobby Robson post, Freddie Shepherd was the driving force behind him leaving and Shearer wasn’t squeaky clean as he felt the dressing room was becoming an issue. Souness then came in and made it 10 times worse. The large majority of fans were...

It’s true we regularly take less than 1500 fans to your place. The fact we haven’t played on a Saturday at Goodison since 2010 goes a long way to explain why. Almost all have been evening weekdays with no trains and a 3 hour drive back starting at 10pm if you’re lucky. There’s not many ex pats...

Nah, go have a look at RTG. Take football away and we’re all the same, my best mates support Sunderland. Forums tend to track the worst and loads of WUMs. Have a good read on RTG, there’s some amazing stuff on there. Sunderland, despite having Nissan voted for Brexit; that’s a whole swath of...

Armstrong will struggle unless he’s become an awful lot stronger on the ball. He’s very quick and can take a chance (other than when he played 1st team for NUFC), but he’s very small and was constantly bullied out of the big. Wish the lad luck.

Wow, too busy getting the digs in to see what has happened here. The PL has bowed to pressures unrelated to the O&D test and made a request that could never be satisfied. At the very start of the process the PL recognised PIF as a separate legal entity, they have now asked that the country be...

Cheers, just the reply you’d expect. Well done. Try and complete the full house on cliche responses.

That’s just bollocks tbh. He’s done with the club, he wants out, he needs the cash this would have brought. The £17M deposit is small consolation to what he’d have got. There is no other better offer, there’s no other offer full stop. The hate for Ashley will only get worse, he’s not to blame...