I know all about that and sympathised at the time. I often mitigate defeats and problems by remembering our season in the 3rd division and the pre-Quinn days. TBH, it was only of limited comfort when we had 1 point for all that time. As I've said many times my 2nd club was always Hull City, it's only this board that's turned me against the club.
Anyway, i'm off can't make it tomorrow cos I have to work. Joy! May the best team win (hopefully us). I hope Vito makes a name for himself up there. He was class for us in the championship. Less said about Jozy the better, but you'll say that about all your rejects at our place though.
I'm often reasonable mate and have Mags, Mancs and all manner of supporters who I can have a good row with and walk away friends. The Hull people badly let themselves down, around the last game, and proved to be arrogant & humourless people. It's only since then that I've made it my business to fight fire with fire ........ few people can be as arrogant and humourless as me when I put my mind to it
tiz the stroke of midnight and i'm going hell for leather 2moro, up and out early doors, so i'm turning in 24hr bender, if i come on being a cnut towards our own send me packing, i have said that in jubilation i will log off as a mod
Bright eyed and bushy tailed I feel like my team is set to retain KINGS OF THE NORTH EAST status.3 straight wins against our neighbours already.Steve Bruce has had his ups and downs but has now matured into the real deal. Great times to be a Tiger!!!!!
What the **** you on about now? - You are not in the North East - If Steve Bruce is the 'real deal' I feel sad for your life & ambitions - You can't spell your own name
If we were really your neighbours a few more of you would be popping round today ........ pathetic turn out from Hull expected. You're in the wastelands of Humberside, just accept it and get on with your life, you'll never get a laugh out of saying 'North East' over and over ....... God knows you've tried <doH>
Hull ****ty. What have they ever achieved in their entire history? Fack all. The ultimate nothing football club.
The Hull supporters were right, Bruce is NOT obsessed .......... definitely not, no way, he only Loves Hull and that's true! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...9/Steve-Bruce-ready-for-Sunderland-abuse.html Am I wrong or did we loan Bruce two players who were involved in Hull scraping promotion? He could at least just shut up and talk about Hull City.
Steve Bruce has insisted his mutual animosity with Sunderland fans is now a thing of the past - and then immediately challenged the home fans to shower him with abuse. That's right, after years of wholly false and entirely unfair accusations of engrained institutionalised bigotry on a region scale, old cushion-face has astonishingly tried to seize the moral high ground. The potato-headed berk told the Mirror: What I felt about my time at Sunderland and how it all ended has gone for me now. They are on their third manager since I left, and Gus Poyet is in there now and doing a fantastic job. Good luck to Gus because it's not an easy club to manage, and I hope he can be the one to turn it into a big club in the top half of the Premier League. Couple of lovely little digs in there. Presumably he means us irrational and unreasonably demanding hate-fueled fans are what makes Sunderland a difficult club to manage? After all, he was well-funded and backed, granted daily access to some of the finest training facilities in the country and had patience from his chairmen that most managers would kill for. Yeah, it must have been us fans who made it oh so difficult for the poor innocent lamb. Even when he is 'moving on' he openly attempts to antagonise fans. If they want to spend the game having a go at me, then that's absolutely fine. It's my players that are the most important thing for me - they are the ones who have got to handle the occasion and the atmosphere. And it's a hell of a lot easier if the crowd are on somebody else's back. So, if it's all geared to me, fantastic. Bring it on. I'll tell you the thing with Bruce's attitude and continued - either spoken or implied - defamation of Sunderland fans that really sits uncomfortably with me. Last month, the decision was taken by Northumbria Police to essentially treat Sunderland fans like animals. It was suggested that, where Newcastle is concerned, there was simply too much uncontrollable hatred to allow us freedom of choice whilst also protecting the public from our bigoted ways. Sunderland fans had to fight very hard to have that decision overturned and plead for the removal of the stigma such thinking attaches to our reputation. The result was a good one, but it remains a running battle. Now, all the while, there is a high-profile manager constantly running his mouth off, taking advantage of his connections in the press to poor petrol on that fire by claiming that Sunderland fans abused him based on his 'geordie' heritage and forced him out of a job. They have been strong statements, repeated often and never retracted. What is more - they are completely unsustainable. There is a statue of a geordie outside the ground. There is one in the middle of the current Sunderland midfield. You can't miss him. He does stuff like scoring against Newcastle. And now, under the sheer pretense of 'moving on', he pretty much challenges the fans he has led that smear campaign against to openly abuse him. The whole thing is irresponsible, petty, and incredibly unhelpful to what has so far been an important and successful campaign. Steve Bruce is not an innocent victim of the great north east divide. Whether he knows it or not, his regular bitter face-saving selfishly vile accusations make him an accessory to it. From RR
