I just cried for the 14256372828275256757575 time since Sunday
Th speeches man
RLB is our Arsene, give him time the success he will bring will be crazy
And god sake Luke, that finished me off
Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Chelsea FC – Sunday 24th May 2026 - KO 16:00
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Th speeches man
RLB is our Arsene, give him time the success he will bring will be crazy
And god sake Luke, that finished me off
Apparently he signed it at FT.
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Wilson and his daughterGranit and his daughers
Nordi with those kids
Noah with mum
Enzo singing the Talbi chant
Rigg with his family
Habib calling us a family
Granit before he did his speech… don’t think he’s ever left love like that at any club .
You can see how taken a back by it he was.
Something special is building here
Something rather unique is gathering pace.
Big Dan must be on the staff WIFI, because I can't get any signal when there are that many in the groundBallard dropping his crutches and jumping up and down after finding out the results on his phone
Watching the full 90 again tonight, I haven't had time with watching all of the other fantastic bit's shared on here
Dont know if anyone has mentioned it but what an assist by Luke for Trai's goal. He just moves his head to gently guide it into his path - great piece of awareness.
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It doesn't matter if TV in Stalinist Russia was free. That is not the point.
People who want nothing to do with the BBC are forced by "law" to buy it, and threatened on their doorstep if they don't pay up. They are now visited by debt collectors in the BBC's name. It is an indefensible scandal in this day and age. The coercion involved, the threatening visits, the endless propaganda it produces about itself and the attempt to demonise it's critics are indeed very Stalinist. He would have been very impressed.
And it does indeed have vast costs. Any organisation which doesn't have to earn it's money will have vast costs.
The BBC did not trailblaze streaming of films and TV at all. It lags behind them and attempts to bully small organisations with it's money. It cannot compete because it is lazy, bloated and would rather have competition silenced than take it on fairly. It took years for radio stations to get on the air in the 60's and 70's, because the BBC challenged every licence application all the way, forcing many to give up through lack of funds to fight, until the floodgates broke. It even challenged the right of ITV to exist at it's inception.
If it is so wonderful, then £5 a month would be a snip. Then, I'll move on. I'd even pay it!
I’ve never paid it and never will.
The letters they send out are disgraceful.
The clown they once sent to collect my debt thought he was Robocop, ‘I’m an appointed officer’ he said
Watched the full 90 again, just cos i can and to see if i could pick anything up that i missed in real time.
one thing i noticed through the whole game were the deliberate, disguised fouls by chelsea, they sort of half 'turn away' from a man but still get a clip onto thier heels...very clever and sly and the exact reason VAR should be used.
sadiki gave a foul away, fair enough but when he himself was fouled by an almost identical tackle just outside the chelsea box the ref waved it on, add that to the numerous fouls whenever we had a corner/free kick, now i am sure i read/heard that the ref does not give a penalty because the ball is not in play yet at one point the ball can clearly be seen in play but he blew and called it back for the corner to be re-taken.
for next season the hand ball and the offside rules need sorting out, no more millimeters off or arm not in a natural position crap...if the linesman/woman sees a player in an obvious offside then call it (the 'obvious' part to be sorted of course) and hand ball to stick with the original rule of 'using his arm/hand to gain control of the ball or to change the course of the ball' sounds good rather than the ball hitting a hand then the ref/VAR decide if it is a foul or not.
one thing i noticed through the whole game were the deliberate, disguised fouls by chelsea, they sort of half 'turn away' from a man but still get a clip onto thier heels...very clever and sly and the exact reason VAR should be used.
sadiki gave a foul away, fair enough but when he himself was fouled by an almost identical tackle just outside the chelsea box the ref waved it on, add that to the numerous fouls whenever we had a corner/free kick, now i am sure i read/heard that the ref does not give a penalty because the ball is not in play yet at one point the ball can clearly be seen in play but he blew and called it back for the corner to be re-taken.
for next season the hand ball and the offside rules need sorting out, no more millimeters off or arm not in a natural position crap...if the linesman/woman sees a player in an obvious offside then call it (the 'obvious' part to be sorted of course) and hand ball to stick with the original rule of 'using his arm/hand to gain control of the ball or to change the course of the ball' sounds good rather than the ball hitting a hand then the ref/VAR decide if it is a foul or not.
I used to sit on my Dad's knee watching final score while my Mam cooked our tea. We'd eat together and then while my Mam bathed me and got me ready for bed, my Dad would walk down to Savacentre and get a Football Echo. He'd come back and read match reports to me instead of a bedtime story.
Was trying to work out who. We signed two recently but because they have done so well and fitted in from day one I forget they were loans!
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Agree,these issues need some positive sorting from the authorities pdq.
Like you,I noticed at least 3 times when Chelsea players stepped across ours to obstruct them after the ball had been played away from the immediate area. Shame on them....it was obvious it was a tactic.
When I played,if you deliberately moved your lower arm....elbow down...to control the ball,it was handball. Other than that it was accidental. They seem to find that so very difficult to understand.
For a set piece coming into the penalty area,if you block someone moving it's obstruction,an indirect free kick. If you put your arms around them,or pull their shirt ( or hair
) and wrestle them to the ground,it's a foul and therefore a penalty. Deliberately throwing yourself to the ground,a la Gatesy...yellow card. Players would soon stop doing it if they were giving penalties or free kicks away every time.All so simple to solve....stop being conned by these players,revert to and enforce the laws of the game.
Offside has always been difficult....not easy to see where someone is when the ball is played from the other side of the pitch.....VAR can do a good job here, but it has to be substantive body,not a toe or a fingernail,a dreadlock or a Pinocchio nose.
As for the penalty area shambles of tugging, holding etc at the start of the season esp. the Brentford game which saw 2 pens given it seemed the Refs were going to do their jobs but sadly with any consistency it didn't last.Agree,these issues need some positive sorting from the authorities pdq.
Like you,I noticed at least 3 times when Chelsea players stepped across ours to obstruct them after the ball had been played away from the immediate area. Shame on them....it was obvious it was a tactic.
When I played,if you deliberately moved your lower arm....elbow down...to control the ball,it was handball. Other than that it was accidental. They seem to find that so very difficult to understand.
For a set piece coming into the penalty area,if you block someone moving it's obstruction,an indirect free kick. If you put your arms around them,or pull their shirt ( or hair
All so simple to solve....stop being conned by these players,revert to and enforce the laws of the game.
Offside has always been difficult....not easy to see where someone is when the ball is played from the other side of the pitch.....VAR can do a good job here, but it has to be substantive body,not a toe or a fingernail,a dreadlock or a Pinocchio nose.
PGMOL? or whatever it's called need to spend the summer sorting it all out.
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Agree,these issues need some positive sorting from the authorities pdq.
Like you,I noticed at least 3 times when Chelsea players stepped across ours to obstruct them after the ball had been played away from the immediate area. Shame on them....it was obvious it was a tactic.
When I played,if you deliberately moved your lower arm....elbow down...to control the ball,it was handball. Other than that it was accidental. They seem to find that so very difficult to understand.
For a set piece coming into the penalty area,if you block someone moving it's obstruction,an indirect free kick. If you put your arms around them,or pull their shirt ( or hair
All so simple to solve....stop being conned by these players,revert to and enforce the laws of the game.
Offside has always been difficult....not easy to see where someone is when the ball is played from the other side of the pitch.....VAR can do a good job here, but it has to be substantive body,not a toe or a fingernail,a dreadlock or a Pinocchio nose.
The offside is the strange one, as i said if it is an obvious offside then just flag, stop the game and take the free kick rather than a (sometimes several minutes) delay checking over the VAR and if it is a 'hmm, not quite sure on that one' then it is not offside.
i think the original offside was to stop 'goal mouching' not to stop a race for a through ball, attackers need to attack and defenders need to defend, stop all this people walking into the box before a free kick is taken or pushing onto the keeper at a corner, at that point they are offside and should give a free kick away.
If it's so obvious to you,me and thousands of others....why can't the decision makers see it?
Or,is it media driven by Sky and others,so they have controversy to talk about in their ad-free moments with their thick as brick pundits.