Is today the yesterday we'll look back on tomorrow and think what a great time ...

I wake each morning and think 4-1.
We rise majestically from despair to parity and make those other teams near us think "oh sh*t".
Two cups in our sights.
Two Manchesters , Chelsea , Everton and Newcastle dispatched.
A team growing in confidence and a manager garnering more respect with every performance.

It was the best of times......

 

Strangely, also the name of an album by Supertramp ....... one of the tracks is "You Win, I Lose" is that an omen

 

It was the best of times......

The opening line from a Tale of Two Cities?

What was it again? Ah yes. iirc.

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times.

The way we go from week to week this ^ is rather appropriate.

 

Could just be mate, great post

 

I've often thought if Dickens had been alive hed have been a Mackem as that opening line in Tale of two Cities should be our motto as Sunderland fans.

 

Just sitting in the sun drinking Smug beers again

 

Great ending line in that book too!

It is a far far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before.

Or along those lines, maybe that will be for giacc's mazy run round 4 city players to help us lift the cup...... ?

A hope perhaps....

 

Or MacBeth?

There`s certainly plenty of toil & trouble.

 

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Coincidently he wrote a short story called the Black Cat

IT DROVE HIM INSANE!

 

Wasn't it bricked up in a wall?

 

The Pit and the Pendulum.
The Monkeys Paw.
The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

Wrote some brilliant stuff.

 

an ode to sunderland fans far and wide

I'm just a young wildebeest, and to say the very least,
Not all that appealing to the eye,
Though 'round these plains, between crocs and manes,
By the grace of God, go I.

Now it's fair to think, I'm a food-chain link,
But that's not what irks me the most,
More the continual strife, of the migratory life,
The tough slog from pillar to post.

Incredulously, we do this annually,
As we are genetically predisposed,
Whoever got it in their brain, to follow the rain,
To me that name must be disclosed.

See we're a million strong, and our tumultuous throng,
Trek for kilometres in countless degrees,
Our way's riddled with foes, but it's me that they've chose,
And so I must the crocodiles appease.

Now they line the river-banks, in reptilian ranks,
Now as its this time of year,
Making their moves, upon hearing our hooves,
And smelling the quadrupedal fear

So it's me who goes first, disobeying my thirst,
To summon the croc king close by,
'Excuse me sir, ' in nerves I slur,
'Make way for my friends and I'.

'You what, ' he said, and I watched in dread,
As his suppressed vexation grew,
'You loricates won't feast, on fresh wildebeest,
For all of us, we are gnu'.

'Oh! ' he replied, as if he'd just denied,
All his ancient ancestral genes,
'I must be confused, ' he perplexedly mused,
'All is not quite as it seems'.

'Then won't you make way, as we musn't delay,
We are all travelling toward pastures new, '
And we gambolled across, without solitary loss,
And slaughter did somehow, eschew.
Greg Costello

 

I like that.

 

I adore his work. A mad man but a genius.

 

It just gets better!
"Man City 5-0 Blackburn: Gary Bowyer hails 'best in world'"

.......and we beat them so therefore ...........!!!

 

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"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)


The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.".....PDC.

 

The difference between a madman and a genius is success and failure. PDC failed so he methods were mad, if he had succeeded we'd be hailing him as a genius.