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Accept it lads and lasses and simply crack on...

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wednesday1957

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Gonna be the play offs you lot, I mean thats where the rubber hits the road isn't it?
Newcastle result was probably as galling for you as the Derby was for us yesterday,but fair play to The Blades, they got a difficult job done..without the help of a whole bloody country funding them/....
Newcastle?...I Honestly don't count that..Its a purchased pot...I honestly have no problem with The Geordies..apart from that particular point.
In any play off game, looking at the top 6..I'd back Sunderland,.... cos look at it
Its going to come down to passion, support, and simply screaming your team on....its not as though you lot are behind the door with that sorta stuff
I'm sure you will mump and moan as the season progresses, but doubtlessly you will have at least a say in it before the end...Thats when the rubber hits the road and the fans make a difference...be there to do it
 

ultimately pleased for my closest mates who are all Mags. Their reactions have been what I'd expect from a Sunderland fan, just massively thankful, amazed and a bit emotional! Saw a lovely photo of my old neighbour too (who's about 80) with his 2 daughters at Wembley. They're not all nobheads.
 
To be fair NewcaKSAtle winning a trophy has no impact on us - they had to get new ownership and spend more than we’ve spent in the last 40 years to win something :lol:

It’s like me winning the euro millions and bragging to my mates about buying a yacht. I think part of the fabric of Sunderland is it’s a working class club that has links to its city. If we sold to any state that would be lost.
 
splorty said:
Newcastle are no longer our rivals, and haven’t been since the Saudi takeover. Football is fucked.
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Seeing the man who was named by various groups to be the mastermind behind the murder of Jamal Khashoggi lifting the EFL Cup summed it. A football club sold their soul to a dictatorship for a trophy. Football is no longer the people's game.

You can't even say they are customers. They're puppets.
 
Black Cat Gypsy said:
Seeing the man who was named by various groups to be the mastermind behind the murder of Jamal Khashoggi lifting the EFL Cup summed it. A football club sold their soul to a dictatorship for a trophy. Football is no longer the people's game.

You can't even say they are customers. They're puppets.
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Aye, and more than willing puppets at that.

A fan led campaign to push this all through is a particular low point for football that hasn’t been grappled with. Particularly when you consider that it involved an immense amount of outright lying, pathetic behaviour pretending their mental health was being ruined, and abusing amnesty international and Saudi regime victims.

What does it mean for football when a group of fans campaign to represent a despotic regime rather than their own community?

Journos find it easier to portray supporters as helpless victims of the greater forces of global capitalism - that is not really what happened in this case and even the more critical journalists shy away from this. The fans should be held accountable an awful lot more than they are.
 
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