Vacamion

I would echo a lot of what @CWC1983 said. The actual trouble over recent fixtures is mostly young lads, faces covered, learning tricks online from ultras elsewhere, all trying to out-do each other. Probably a few coked up, too. It all seems to have escalated a bit in recent years and trouble has broken out away from the grounds and in the City Centre. Both general disorder among each fanbase "celebrating their culture" and a few actual running battles between opposing fans. The sad fact is that among the fans who don't initiate the trouble, many of the rest have grown up with bigotry, sectarian songs etc and wouldn't let their daughters marry one of the other lot, so if the young lads start kicking off, it wouldn't take much for the rest to join in and defend their own, and for it to escalate very badly. With such high risk and potentially severe consequences, I can't see much prospect of away fans at the league fixture for the foreseeable future. Whenever they play each other at Hampden, as a consequence of the Hibs v Rangers fight in 2016, they are policed in great numbers. It's all a sad reflection of Scotland's Shame.

Can't think what's gone wrong. Frank Lampard usually has such a good time around 9/11, too.

So this game has got Chowdhury, Ayew and Cannon for T' Blades, Jordan James for Wolves, and Gary Rowett on co-comms. And probably Filbert Fox as one of the linesmen.

This game is miles more entertaining than the snoozefest at Spurs, earlier.

Wow.

If they are penalising that, they need to penalise it in every game. There will be penalties galore.

Why are they booing Guimaraes ? He sacked off Newcastle for a bigger club, after playing the whole disruptive wantaway cliché and weakening them sigificantly, in a move Newcastle didn't want but the player did. The Sunderland fans should be applauding him.

Sunderland makes me think of Schlupp being unaware that the great escape had been achieved and needing to be informed by his team mates , and also of Ranieri welling up with tears as he realised the full gravity of what was happening, whilst the Sunderland fans applauded and the players strolled around in the sunshine. And then I remember where we are now, and I wake up screaming, covered in sweat and self-loathing.

The recent donations are just the ones out in the open. They are swimming in cash. That'll buy more oyster lunches. Facebook is already persuading pensioners that Traffic Lights are spying on them and our young working class is being whipped up via online rabble rousers into menacing gangs that demonstrate at hotels, block roads and threaten lifeboatmen. Remember that Farage's mate Aaron Banks was closely linked to Cambridge Analytica, who farmed the data of millions and micro-targeted voters to swing elections. I can imagine people being bombarded for the next two years in subtle and not so subtle psy-ops that will persuade many more of them that poor brown people are the root of all their problems and that some imaginary 1950's white Herrenvolk themepark is achievable, if they will but lend the far Right their vote. It's not good.

We're still bottom half of the table. Going to be a long hard season.

Ding dong game. A win's a win, but we were fairly unconvincing and did our best to chuck the points away. Good stuff from Lundstram (who ran out of gas second half) and how nice to actually have a atriker in Riis. Souttar, Thomas and McCarthy were our wek links and I'm not sure what the thinking was making Alves defend so much. Still, the relegation threat recedes a little.

3 mins is a joke, given all the goals and subs.

Hearing Matt Elliott attempt to say "Kangasniemi" gave me a stroke.

Blimey, we are honking.

I had chucked a quid on Riis at 90-1 to score a hattrick before the game, so of course, I was delighted to see us exchange our new in-form striker for a wingback.

Hoof it, FFS.

Man of the match ? Linesman.

PARP !

Luckily, we've shown time and again that we have cojones and will not fold under pressure.

Here we go.

What was McCarthy doing over there

Yaaaaaas. Is this.... what a comfortable away victory feels like? It's weird.

He started out at the back, but it was a pleasant surprise that he was repeatedly able to hit the target when pushed up top.

Cullen hardly got a mention after his goal, which was, admittedly, a well taken one. I think Lundstram is a positive addition so far, Page is levels above. We are still playing that to-me, to-you rubbish at the back and it's really risky.