Off Topic Non-Sunderland games

I'm sure you're right mate.

If they were lucky they'd be reported to the nearest polis, if they bumped into some of the 'more forthright' lads they'd have the shirt ripped off their backs.

I was sadly involved in a pre-match altercation with some QPR fans near the Halfway House and one had his nose broken. I was surrounded by Sunderland supporters who wanted to know why a visitor to the town ended up covered in blood.

When the situation was explained they said 'fair enough, f*ck him' but they would've put me in bother, one way or another, if I'd behaved badly.

My only experience with a 'kangaroo court' and quite scary ...

... but I was quite proud of the way various strangers rounded on someone who could've been showing up their club/town.

 

I seen it happen once around 86/87. It was after a midweek game, and walking from Roker Park to the Wheatsheaf there was a big bit of wasteland everyone used to cut across. Whatever had been there had been knocked down, and was now just rubble.
Two Sunderland lads picked up some big rocks and hoyed them high and forwards. They were going to come down into a big crowd of people.
A bloke in front said to his mates "you can see what them have for brains". No sooner had he said it and the knackers picked up another rock each, ready to throw again.
That was it...the blokes were straight onto them, gave them a right going over.

To this day I still wonder if anyone was hurt.....I would be amazed if they both missed anyone.

 

VAR is coming to the Championship this season

 

Oh no. I thought I'd read somewhere that it wasn't coming in this season.

 

Bollocks, not saying your wrong just Bollocks if that's true.

 

I already miss football. Feels likes MONTHS since we played Luton at the SOL

 

Give me ten minutes to decide if that's a good thing or not

 

it ruining football FFS

 

Interestingly this is how the premier league would have finished without VAR

 

Source?

 

Maybe you did, but Var pulled it back to the comment in the previous paragraph and said their was clear and obvious ambiguity.

 

Yesterday didn't hear exactly the question/suggestion put to Liam Gallagher, but it must have said something like City winning all just because they have most money. His justification was a) players aren't bought and sold at an auction where City turn up and out bid everyone, and b) in some of the last 5 out of 6 seasons they have had to come from behind and haven't been ''running away '' with the title. So, it must just be a good manager and tactics then

 

Most players that Abhu Dhabi go for are effectively " auctioned". When they aren't it's because no one can compete with the signing on fees, wages and other payments. The fees are affordable by loads of clubs.

They have a squad packed with very expensive players, most with experience, plus a few token young players getting a few minutes. Winning the league is a minimum for them given their built-in and over whelming advantage.

If St. Pep enjoys glorifying an odious Islamic hell hole fair enough, but until he goes and does a job against the odds, which he'll never do, then he is nothing like "the greatest coach", or any of the other compliments showered on him by a fawning media.

He's very good. But so are many others who have to deal with difficulties he has never experienced.

 

I want them to win everything every year forever tbh.

It's excruciatingly embarrassing for the PL that a club which was another Derby or Sheff Wed is now changing history through money ...

... it's so relentless now that some Man City supporters will have been happy to watch at home yesterday while they ticked off another trophy.

They're watching a foreign owned club with mainly foreign players managed by a foreigner in a stadium sponsored by a foreign airline. Nowt inherently wrong with any of that, of course, but they're supporting a location.

If Mansour had bought Liverpool, as he desperately wanted to, the location would've been slightly different but the trophy count exactly the same.

I suppose we can thank him that the accent is slightly less annoying

 

Good manager and tactics (and a huge bit of good fortune) could have described Leicester winning it. They can paint it however they want but City have a squad that means they replace a top class player with a equal or slightly worse (and I mean marginally in the case of their players who are up there with best in the world in their positions). Arsenal had a very good first 11 a good manager and good tactics but they aren't going to last the pace against a team that can swap and rotate their starting 11 and hardly notice.

Pep is good no doubt about it but he is helped out by a blank cheque book. I won't fawn over them they are everything that is wrong with football, same as Chelsea and PSG. Chelsea gets a special mention cause of the amount of players on their books, they buy them planning to never play them! Absolute arseholes.

P.s I haven't really paid much attention are Chelsea still looking out 40 players a season?

 

Pens in the Scottish playoff game. Haway Jack Baldwins lot. (Ross County)

 

Nailed on he would miss a penalty! Bloody hell man.

 

Baldwin has missed his pen

 

Cool pen that from Harman

 

out of the ground.