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Folk on the front row should be forced to sit down, if needs be by stewards armed with water guns that soak them every time they stand up without a need to. Every time the selfish feckers stand up, they cause a ripple effect that spoils the view of those sat behind. Youngsters and the infirm cant stand and see all day. I pay my £25+ to see a game of football, not some fat bloke’s or spotty yoof’s arse.
I’ve had it out with these selfish types before who were persistently standing on the front row at Craven Cottage when my wife & I were in row 2 – told them to either sit down or if they want to block our view of the game then fucking entertain us to the value of our ticket. I must have looked angry enough, because they sat down!
Ellis Short will have lost Hundreds of millions during his tenure – enough to fill a ship full of war chests. The last published accounts showed a debt of £130m, of which around £60m was to him. This last year has been one of austerity, so a fair amount of the debt will have been reduced. Pickford went for £30m, but only £1.5m was made available for player purchase – most of which went on James Vaughan, before he was flogged to Wigan for the same amount. There will be little difficulty attracting the cream of that standard to Sunderland, because its the only chance some of these players will have to play in front of 20,000+ crowds on a regular basis – same with whoever comes to manage.
I doubt the likes of Scunthorpe, Southend, Walsall, Oldham, Gillingham, Charlton, Plymouth are going to turn down the opportunity to have that end behind the goal full instead of the handful of supporters they generally accommodate – 3rd tier depends on attendances, and the difference between 400 paying £25 and 4000 paying £25 means a great deal to the home side’s finances.
Enjoy the championship next season – with or without Cook.
They’re in talks to be taken over by a guy who owns Eastleigh with little financial backing of his own. Contracts mean they have to discard most of their 1st team, and have numerous multi-million transfers still to pay. It’s difficult to imagine a much worse option for a manager like Cook.He’s fronting a consortium that are planning to take over the club after the current owner has settled all debts, meaning we start debt free with a £38m parachute payment due. Not a bad starting point for a 3rd division club. I seem to recall Latics being dubbed the Man Utd of League 1 with their £9m parachute payment in 2015 – that must make Sunderland the Real Madrid and Barcelona of League 1. 16,000 season tickets sold before it was announced that Ellis Short is on his way – probably another 10,000 sold once the new owners take charge. Its going to be fun at some of these grounds next season – they’ll never have seen away support like it.
Onward and upward!
A mutual friend on Facebook uploaded a video of himself in front of the City fans before realising the potential ramifications and removing it!
Many congratulations on a speedy return to the Championship. The league table doesn’t lie – you have been far and away better than the rest, and have demonstrated twice in three seasons that a relegated club can pretty much double their points haul in league 1 if they are organised and have a decent coach.
It’ll be much tougher next year, but stick with Cook and you’ll be fine.
I know politics & sport shouldn’t mix, but the withdrawal of top countries from the World Cup would be the one thing that would really hurt Russia, and its the one thing that they cant tit-for-tat retaliate on because nobody would give a shit if they boycotted the next world cup, and they have already been booted out of the Olympics.
I hope that if England withdraw, other countries follow suit quickly.
Go on wear one next season for your Checkatrade Trophy match against Newcastle Academy.I am actually hoping for a glamour tie at the DW against the Latics Academy.
At the end of the day it has to be the most ridiculous rivalry in sport in no other town would there be this much hatred of sporting success. The arrogance and disrespect of the thugby lot towards the Latics in the early days of league football was unbelievable. It is no wonder that Latics fans now hold the klumps in utter contempt. Fair play to the likes of egg and others on here who follow both but for me as a fan of almost 50 years having to put up with all the vitriol that that lot have aimed at my club for donkeys has left me filled with the same pointless hatred towards them. Petty it maybe but there is only so much you can take before you bite back.You keep it up egg lad as someone has already said your a better Mon than me.
You win the award for Ironic post of the week!
Yes you are.
You might be stating a fact but not comparing like for like. Perhaps there’s no thread because no one has been seen at a rugby match paraded a Latics shirt with a provocative message. And who’s mentioned anything about wiping their arse on rugby hats?As I said nobody would have bothered about two kids wearing woolly rugby hats at a Latics away game because it was cold.
I know i’m not comparing like for like. One is a rugby team and one is a football team. Warriors’ rivals are St Helens – Always have been, always will be. I’ve not seen anywhere that a provocative message was on this shirt until you brought it up as a retort to justify any ill feeling. Personally I wouldn’t give two shits what someone wore if they were at a game supporting the same team as me.
So mutt would you wear a barcodes shirt for any reason marrer?.If it were for Macmillan and the donations were high enough I’d put one on!
I’m not. I’m just stating a fact. You wont find a dedicated thread on it on the rugby forums where old men would talk about burning them or wiping their arse on the hats if they had seen it either.
It was cold. They wore blue hats with a latics badge on. Nobody bothered.
There were a couple of kids sat near to me at the Widnes game wearing Latics woolly hats.
It didn’t bother me, nor did it appear to bother anyone else.
The fact that Southampton have dispensed with their manager the week before a QF and just before an international break tells me that premiership survival is more important than an FA Cup semi final. They don’t play again in the league until 31 March when they have a massive match at West Ham.
They are there for the taking on Sunday.
Shrewsbury & Blackburn won yesterday. Wigan drew. Unless i’m very much mistaken, you are now further behind them with the same number of games in hand than you were at 3pm yesterday. That constitutes “losing ground” in my book. Maybe it doesn’t in yours, but hey-ho!
I think Southampton reserves will show up next Sunday. Their first team have 8 games left, of which 5 are away. Two of the three home games are against Chelsea & Man City. £100m+ or a day out at Spurs’ home ground where they’ve already played this season – no brainer for them. Whether Cook sees it as a straight choice is up to him I guess. I also guess the possible takeover plays some significance, as DW isn’t prepared to bankroll higher level football, so a cup run with an “unfortunate” missing out on promotion due to fixture congestion and fatigue may be his preferred option if the Hong Kong set are not going to buy the club this season.
As for Sunderland – so be it. Its been a long-time coming and shows what happens when the turd that stuck to the side of the toilet for too long is finally flushed. I’ve long-since resigned them to 3rd division football next season, and nothing a non-season ticket holder at Wigan Athletic says will make me feel any more anger or frustration about the collective bunch of tossers, so save your energy fella.
