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While 2 or 3 of our players were giving their shirts to the fans Emenike took off his shorts and lobbed them in ,i swear to god ,top 4 not so unrealistic now and could it have been any sweater than coming from 2 down to beat this shower of thugs
Please some one slap me in the face so i can wake up from this dream ,I'll be late for work

With the irons facing a prolonged spell in London in the coming weeks in the PL. Against, Chelsea, Palace, The Arse and I suppose you could count Watford as it's only a stones throw away. I was thinking about how the game is progressing. With the massive amount of foreign players in these games. Does the London Derby mean as much to them as it used to. I expect, when Nobes talks to his team about a derby match I wonder how many of them say "explain what is derby"? I think the days are long gone now for players being extra charged up for days like these. The fans will always be up for the derby games, and often talk about them weeks in advance, there's no denying it's a special intense atmosphere for those fans concerned. But apart from the scattering of English players involved, how much extra is the sense of occasion for the players I wonder??

So here we are, as Bloc Party sang (one for the kids).
Teetering on the brink of joining Handel’s classical piece (apparently Tony Britten wrote it but we know the truth), it’s been difficult to take stock this season. It been tumultuous, surprising, rubbish, brilliant, bewildering. The bookies have had a whale of a time (therefore Japanese bookies must be living the dream).
Such a strange set of results, let alone title contenders, tipped into a melting pot of “last seasonism”, the Black Friday style rush for OS season tickets, Slaven kissing men and half n half scarfs for the Tottenham (really, I mean WTAF?).
A measure of the drama is that I’ve literally not been able to write a Monty. The gift that keeps on given has dried up and presented me with an awful dilemma. A wonderful young, charismatic and tactically astute manager, leading a team of similar characteristics. B*stards.
Of course, we have regained some sense of old West Ham with at least ¾ of our available centre halves being injured in time for an FA Cup Q-F. My worry is Slav will merely introduce promising youngsters into an already confident side, or formulate a system of such intelligence and creativity even commentators notebooks cannot fathom the code. Next thing you know he’ll have us at Wembley in the sunshine. What sort of monster is he?
Signing these foreigners has particularly annoyed me (old ones at that – 28 year old Frenchman, where’s the sell on value?). Stopping our talented youngsters from coming through. As if to rub our noses in it, one of them then takes a London POTY award from a genuine English talent (Dele Ali) – and we are happy with this? Bet Slav is…..git.
What’s the betting the Frenchie win HOTY too? Next thing you know our anthem will be La Marseillaise and it’ll be snails and onion soup on the concourse at the OS (careful what you wish for).
Of course this could all be a flash in the pan too. We had 35% possession against Tottenham (champions elect don’t you know?). So technically they played us off the park. Their loud raucous fans will tell you so. Of course our manager was too busy kissing his star striker (as a warm up for hairier men later no doubt).
I guess your all too busy crying about Nobles non-inclusion in the England squad (come on, he’s no Drinkwater or Cleverly, man up) to notice, or laughing at Antonio’s dance routines – which, by the way, is completely ungentlemanly act and one the FA should come down hard on.
In fairness all of our wins against the top 6 have been more by luck than judgement. At one point all of these teams have missed key players, or had to play 3 games in a week, not to mention the alignment of the planets being wildly out of kilter for each of these fixtures, causing a gravitational pull away from our goal. You can argue with science.
So as you all regale in your claret specs, smiling and riding on your wave of crests, just think of the car crash our esteemed leader is leading us toward. Big Sam continue to lead Sunderland with authority and respect. We can only admire from afar now.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Paul Ince of all players has labelled Woy Hogdsons continued omission of Mark noble from the England Squad as "An absolute joke".
Following yet another passion fuelled, energetic, in your face performance from the Captain the the defeat of Spurs, the clamour for including Mark in the squad for Euro 16 is getting louder with every passing game.
Now no one more than Mark splits opinion on the Org and those debates are well documented throughout, however, from a personal POV his omission would probably see the final nail in the coffin for me watching England in major tournaments.

I gave up many years ago watching England friendlies and qualifiers. The continued baffling decisions by a succession of overpaid numpty's to include players not fit to lace the boots of past and many present quality players did it for me.
But the continued failure of England in major competitions, no more so than our woeful performance in the last WC really is sucking the last of the passion out of International football for me. The ridiculous, continued comments by the press and players that they could actually win one of these is nothing short of hilarious given our almost guaranteed failings. Yet the manager and previous managers continued with the same players game after game, qualification campaign after qualification campaign, tournament after tournament almost defied logic.

With the Euro's just around the corner and after a Premier League campaign that has had me jumping out of bed in the early hours more than most in recent years, I was actually looking at the Euro summer as the perfect opportunity to catch up on some sleep. The clash with Wales is probably the only game that may have me waking in the early hours, UNLESS, one of our own is finally included. And he's earned a shot I feel. I can't think of too many English midfielder's who drive on their teams more than Mark. Sure he's got his shortcomings but sometimes the difference between winning and losing is passion.
It's time for Roy to wake up and smell the coffee on this one and if he doesn't well, I'll be sleeping like a baby and not worrying how Engerrrland will be going.