If Muamba can keep Divey G occupied as he did in the first half last season and stop them playing through the middle, we have the team to take 3 points from this. My worry is that Hodgson will play one up front and look to catch us on the break whilst playing deep at the back. We always seem to stru...

So does this mean that fans will have to queue up in the shop to buy tickets on matchdays? It'll be carnage/Carnuaux's. How's that going to work??

Watched the match live in the pub (Thank God for dodgy Sky) and thought in the first half we were outnumbered far too often in midfield and we gave them far too much room to play the ball. When we got the ball down and passed it through midfield, at times we looked fantastic; quick, short passes, pl...

Choices , choices, £28 for a ticket or £10 for four pints, 2 bags of Linekers finest and a wide screen TV...............................

42 million quid. I make that a quarter of what Sunderland have spent in the last 4 years to finish in the bottom half/quarter in each of those seasons. Its a sound business model we have compared to other clubs, long may it continue until we are taken over by an Arab billionaire.

I think the saddest thing about this story is the gulf that now clearly exists between what our players earn now and what they earned just a few years ago. I dare say Patterson was never one of our big earners, but even so, you would have thought he'd have earned enough to make himself reasonably co...

I broke the 100m hurdles school record whilst in the 3rd year at Joseph Easthams. The record still stands, from 1979!! Playing in a schools cup semi final, the ball was curled over from the right wing as I ran 30 yards, dropped a shoulder and launched a screaming left footed volley into the top corn...

It kicked off good stylee both before and after the game last night. Just had a chat with a cop in the buttie shop who was right in the middle of it. According to him, several hundred Utd fans ran at the Italian fans who were stood peacefully waiting to get into the ground. The cops deployed betwen ...

Coleman always seemed a decent bloke but with no passion or flare. What suprises me is the board making him carry the can whilst simultaneously asset stripping the club. Hang on, its Al Fayed, why would I be suprised................

Don't you pay Council Tax as well? Therefore, haven't you just contributed to your own pay rise?[/quote] Just so long as you keep your longer than usual holidays, shorter than usual hours, higher than usual sickness levels and your earlier than usual retirement on your higher than usual pension then...

For all those of you who have posted your stories of council incompetency, might I just take a minute to thank you for your council tax payments which have just granted me a paltry 3% wage increase. Mind you, I'd also like to thank you for the pay regrade and the rather handsome increment that has t...

A farmer walks into his farmhouse and says to the wife " Get your coat, we're going huntin" The wife, none to impressed, replies " You can feck off, Im not going hunting with you" "Its either huntin, anal sex or a BJ, you've got ten minutes to decide while I load the truck" says he 10 minutes later,...

Nice to know BSA has the odd 10k to splash on a couple of tickets. Ill keep it in mind the next time he passes me in his Bentley whilst slagging me off for not buying a ticket to every game.