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Someone knocked up a PC wallpaper after we beat them 4-1 away.

For a 5-1 tonking or a double over the champions yeah, but for a one goal margin home victory? Seems to be an even split of mackems between those who think the merchendise is great and those who think it's pretty cringy and makes them look very small time - like it's a once in a generation thing that won't happen again for another 28 years.

You can now get commemorative 2-1 wall plaques, t-shirts, mugs and mouse mats off the Sunderland website, I swear I'm not making this up. How embarrassing

How come there's never pitch invasions at St James when we score, with little charvers running up the the opposition bench and trying to get into the away end? Don't ask me why the mackems were kicking off and throwing coins and broken seats at us when they won, we were thinking the same thing. The fact the tramps on the turnstiles were letting people without tickets in for 20 quid probably didn't help the situation either. The mackems stayed behind for ages as well, maybe they were wanting their plastic bags back. Guess they've got to make the most of it, another 10 years till the next one - Can you get 2-1 commemorative t-shirts, cups and decorative plates yet? ETA: Anyway, as for there being no trouble after Sunderland lose, after the 4-1 mackems went around systematically smashing up their own bus stops (According to disproving Sunderland fans on their message board) and after the 1-1 last year the coach I was on got bricked by some fat mulleted bastards in red and white.

Were you there? Once again mackem apes made a disgrace of themselves, running on to the pitch, throwing stuff at newcastle players, punching coppers, knocking female stewards to the ground and and breaking through the police lines, wonder if the FA will take any action this time? Policing afterwards was a joke as well like, took me 2 hours to get back to civilisation after the final whistle and I nearly got crushed against a wall by a horses arse. On the plus side I did get to see a mackem get eaten by a police dog before the match as he slipped through the police and came running at us, nom nom nom nom.

Great news that he's available for the derby, got my 5 tickets through the other day : peace: Not taking the free official coach because it sets off at the stupid time of 9:30. My local is opening at 7am specially so just gonna have a few hours boozing in there then get the train or metro over Pressure's all on them for the first time I can remember, best chance they've got of a home victory for a long time (Last time they beat Newcastle on their home turf was the 1979 season, and before that 1967) :wink:

Uh, I didn't post it as a 'rumour', I said he was favourite for the job - which he was according to bookies at the time of my post, possibly because of him recently saying "I've got a soft spot for Tottenham ... the way they play football and the attacking players they've got" Sunderland are in a better position than Spurs are, certainly, but if he keeps slagging off the fans and they keep giving them shit then who knows, wouldn't be the first time he's taken his ball and gone home (I'm looking at you World Cup 2002) :wink:

I can't believe there's someone keeping us off the bottom of the league, thanks Spurs! From today's BBC Gossip page: Spurs would have to pay Ramos £15m if they sack him from his £5m-a year contract, which has three years left to run. (Daily Express) Martin Jol, the man Ramos replaced at White Hart Lane, led Hamburg back to the top of the Bundesliga on Sunday after a 2-1 win at Energie Cottbus. (Various) Favourite to take over at WHL is Roy Keane, would be nice for the mackems to be thrown into a bit of turmoil before derby day.

Please don't tell me it was The Great Global Warming Swindle by discredited kook Martin Durkin. If you believed that I have some magic beans to sell you. Did you miss the follow up where C4 were fined by the regulators for showing such misleading shit and the people who he showed supposedly supporting his conspriacy theories spoke out against him? EDIT: If I'd read the whole thread first I could have saved the engery of typing that

My dentist agrees, the acid which is present in both Coke and Diet Coke does most of the damage to your tooth enamel so going for the sugarless version doesn't make all that much difference.

Labour, not particularly because I want them in power but more because I don't want the Tories, and David Cameron in particular, anywhere near government.

Is was the Republican party, not the democrats that voted against it in large numbers. I think the majority of the house on both sides wanted it passed, but they didn't want it to pass with them voting for it because a lot of them are up for re-election soon. Ah well. US Economy: Beter Dead Than Red

Heard from two separate mates, one a footy photographer and one who works for a local paper that word's going round Gazza's been found dead.

Shhh, Chief Sitting Bull is really angry about these immigrants turning up to take advantage of America's famous Nationalised Healthcare. Zech's stance on politics is based on rooting for whoever's most right wing because he's got a phobia of communism taking over the world, although we've learned from previous threads that he doesn't actually know what communism is. I wouldn't take his posts on politics too seriously, seeing as he reckons immigrants are flocking to the only wealthy and industrialised nation on the entire planet without universal healthcare for the purposes of getting free healthcare.

If I remember correctly, West Ham were the first team at St Jame's Park after Northern Rock collapsed and gloated "Shit bank, no funds". Do I get to sing "Shit planes, no flights" when I go down there next week?

McCain used to be a maverick, going against his party on things like the Iraq war, Roe vs Wade etc. But that's what lost him the nomination last time. He's abandoned all his principles to get the nomination and he's still trying to ride on the coat-tails of that 'maverick' image, even while toeing the party line.

Yeah, like I say, it depends on which reports you believe and also if Palin attending a church which invites such views and sitting through the speech equals being complicit to it. Here's a link about the Jews for Jesus speech, including a youtube vid of what she sat through http://www.israelenews.com/view.asp?ID=3026 As for Hilter's religious convictions or otherwise, it's been done to death on the internet and never really been resolved - there are definitely many quotes where Hitler bigs up religion and pushes his own faith. People who want to paint him as an atheist respond to these documented quotes by saying he was just invoking religion to further his political ambitions. But that itself, if it is a trait we can attribute to the Nazis, is something that Political Christianity, of which Sarah Palin is a poster child, is often accused of - picking and choosing aspects of religion to invoke and using religious rhetoric to justify their political aims and garner support for them.

It's not hard to see where the comparisons come from though, although it depends on your viewpoint and which reports from the media you believe The idea of bi-partisanship has never been particularly high on the agenda of the right-wing of the Republican Party now, has it? That fringe of the party supported Bush being able to do whatever he wanted, no matter what the public, other members of the party or the constitution said Palin's church recently invited a speaker from Jews for Jesus, and Palin sat in the congregation as he told them terrorist attacks on Israelis were God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. According to the waitress who was serving Palin on the day Obama beat Hillary she told those on her table "“So Sambo beat the bitch!”, and refers to the native people of Alaska as "arctic arabs" Oh, come on, "Aggressively nationalistic" is pretty much inscribed in latin under the blue and red elephant.

Firstly, Jimenez was not appointed at the same time as Keegan, but later. Secondly, the public and Keegan were told that it was Keegan who would have the final say on transfers. Dennis Wise: “I am here to help Kevin as much as possible with bringing young players through and also recommending certain players to him. He will say yes or no. He has the final word. No-one else. I am not going to do things like bring players in behind his back. I am not into that. Everything that happens will be run past him and he will say yes or no.” The club are trying to re-write history. Keegan on 30th of September http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7216921.stm If it had been established on the 16th of September, how come weeks later Keegan was under the impression that Wise reported to him instead of the other way round? Why did the club not clarify this when Keegan was telling the fans Wise reported to him and Wise was saying Keegan had the final say on transfers?

When I looked at the odds this morning on Ladbrokes, Keegan had dropped to 5/1 to be the next manager of Newcastle - probably due to the Anil Ambani takeover talk.

Allardyce genuinely could have taken us down. He'd either absolutely lost his mind or was hell bent on deliberately losing matches to the point where I honestly thought he was throwing them.

Uh, we've had a good start to the season, we've played three games, two of them Man U and Arsenal away, and have 4 points. He wasn't sacked for not winning, in fact he wasn't sacked at all.

Yep, gone. Well, time to get another manager and get this club fucking sorted! Still going down to West Ham in a few weeks!

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_4090086,00.html In spite of Sky Sports News running a "Keegan has been sacked" ticker all day yesterday. Don't believe all (or anything) you read in the media. :P

We do like giving ammo to the media and the mackems recently. Although the attention we get from both does sometimes become sad to the point of obsession - there are few other clubs where the rumour of the manager possibly leaving would move Man City signing Robinho off lead story, and at one point today 24 out of the 37 topics on page one of the most popular Sunderland message board were about Newcastle.