Sunderland 'Til I Cry: EFL and beyond 19/20

ffs both Town and Blades 2-0 up now!

oh no blades are still 1-0 up - don't where I saw that phantom goal

go on addicks!

ffs lads!

i otoh will take a 96th-minute equaliser by our cult hero, legend and titan of inconsistent brilliance naby sarr

since A le Fondre rocked up in the A-League he's scored 27 in 34 appearances!

Knew he had to have a level somewhere

I watch a lot of Australian football as i am always up early and it’s genuinely terrible. Two of the best strikers in the league just went to play in India instead.

Birmingham- Leeds is now 4-4!

5-4 Leeds!

imagine conceding more than 3 goals!

(we've conceded 3 once and every other time less. but often 2. usually 2)

btw

you know how there's always football on during xmas/new year's

well there's only one game tomorrow

and we have 14 injured

that's right, give us 75 minutes against ten men, see if we care about scoring

should have been 50 minutes against 9 men tbf

Excellent penalty technique.

I knew eventually Duane Holmes would be a good championship player, we let go way too soon.

that is what 13 injuries will do to ya

https://lastwordonfootball.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/01/Richard-Stearman.jpg

going swimming today. Somebody wake me up when the current management duo have been sacked. Don't even give a shit if we stay up/go down.

Not good to watch? Form seems to have picked up?

the football has been awful from what I've seen. Too much thuggery, gamesmanship, time-wasting. Awful men they are as well. After having a class act like Wagner for a few years it does spoil you a bit. But these ugly bastards are such bullies I want to see them getting taken down a peg or two rather than the opposition. I was even glad when Leeds beat us, cos whatever you say about the vile revenant - the manager seems a class act.

https://youtu.be/2dqEv7KECPQ

Fantastic behind-the-scenes content from Other Deems; bonus multiple dry zings at prima donna footballer who turned down Charlton for no good reason

🎥 @nabysarr or circa-2001 David Beckham? 🤔

I see no difference... 🤷‍♂️ #cafc pic.twitter.com/G8JQ9Z2BDR

— Charlton Athletic FC (@CAFCofficial) February 12, 2020

my hero, my friend

Looks across, checks his stride, boom

Been saying it for 3 years now: we have had this forsaken Champions League player roaming about our backline for three seasons now as half our fans scream that he's shit and we should get rid

Screamer of an assist that.

You lucky bastards

Hull might be the only side that keeps us up, especially after calz's lot dismantle our negative injury-hit crew later. Keep going Leeds

Playing nice football Hull but hopeless in the box. Thing they might yet survive. Hard when they've sold their two goal scorers tho

Result didn't flatter Leeds but Hull weren't bad except zero cutting edge

with our current management duo i don't really care any more, hope they do go down tbh. I just can't accept these fucking PE teacher bully, sunday league dregs of humanity after the Wagner period. I'm all for 80's/90's football nostalgia, apart from the troglodyte managers side of it.

you won't go down with some of the dross in this league, as you're presumably witnessing rn

No I'm cooking rn with music playing, can't even be arsed with Radio Leeds radio commentary anymore. For the first time in decades. Oh Grant scoring is quite predictable!

took a brief look at the table, it's looking one of them seasons where someone in the championship will go down with 50 + points for sure.

that does it, i'm voting Starmer

now i loves the Towns again it's Nandy for me obv!

fuck sake

Just heard that Peter Whittingham has died. Fuck

oh god :(

Nothing confirmed yet so hopefully just a horrible rumour

Spread like wildfire if it is

Still shit news but not dead:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51928263

Glad the story was wrong, hope he makes a full recovery.

Gone now :(

No love for Cardiff but he was a baller. RIP

This season expunged completely for all leagues below NLS Step 2.

Seems like the Prem, EFL and National League 1 & 2 want to complete the season and have asked permission to extend the season indefinitely. Goodness knows what happens to players' contracts, transfer windows etc.

Not terribly stoked for the madness.

The season that never ended

As far as I know nobody in NLN is in a position to finish it and presumably there's no relegation if the leagues below have already been told their league is void so no promotion.

because i need cheering up

Hooray! It's another goalmouth scram...

Oh. Oh my.#LincolnCityFC #Imps #Macclesfield #Silkmen #Crap90sFootball pic.twitter.com/ksXCY0b2RL

— Crap 90s Football (@Crap90sFootball) March 31, 2020

Having spent most of the season in the top 3 in L2, we had a dip in form at the worst possible time and now the season's over we're in the weird playoffs rather than the auto slots (the only reason I care about this is because dirty Argyle managed to worm their way into the autos, the snotrags). All behind closed doors obv, but if we want we can pay £25 to upload a photo of ourselves to some website and they will manufacture a polypropylene cut-out to be placed in the stands to give an impression of a crowd. We get to keep our cut-outs, but the club can't help it if they're damaged. I'm half tempted as a way of bunging the club some case but I'm probably better just making an extra donation to the Trust.

The thought of picking up a cardboard cut-out of myself with half my head hanging off because it had been clattered by a Jake Taylor moonshot from the edge fo the box, such a feeling.

lol beautiful

if i'd got the money i thought of putting my dad in the fake crowd at Molineux, think he'd have enjoyed it

i don't suppose there was any good way of sorting out the broken leagues but i'm not happy with the ways they've chosen

I am not too bothered really - genuinely the only reason I'm bothered about going up is that being in League 1 would provide a one-division safety net for the next time we go tits up. Because of the way we're structured we just have to get used to watching teams piss past us while racking up millions in debt, which we can't do. Most of them will fail eventually but there seems to be an endless queue of rich tossers (at our level, mostly local rich tossers as opposed to the criminal classes higher up) who are happy to waste a ton of their cash on some small scale grubby financial doping. Even the dream of keeping ourselves going on good transfer windfalls (which is what's been fuelling or fairly decent run the last 3 or four years) has been taken away. So L2 or L1 is not that important, mostly it's about having a beer and a jump up and down.

(That last bit's not wholly true. The club's doing a lot of good in the community these days, which I'm pleased about obviously, but L2 or L1 doesn't make a whole heap of difference to that either.)

unlucky tim
good luck in the playoffs!