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

Ouch. The thread title reminds me that I saw a clip of Aiden McGeady scoring last night and I had no idea he was still playing.

Are Sunderland.........stumbling?

Could there be another date with playoff destiny?

Tonight's shirt 👌

Looking good, @strikesltd!#htafc

— Huddersfield Town (@htafc) April 21, 2021

lool, yes this isn't a style TBEU parody.. it's real!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzhDGeCXIAc9j7c?format=jpg&name=small

leg-breaking sponsor's account was posting pro-Trump stuff as well

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzhDHkjXMAAJ-91?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Looking good!

literally this

Can't believe @StreathamRovers has now been suspended by Twitter. An account that tweets only non-league football satire.

Have to say their chosen kit sponsor Herod Eviction Services now looks highly ironic #streatham pic.twitter.com/BDSFSIAYtO

— Kris Griffiths (@KrisGriffiths) November 21, 2019

I know!

but... worse?

on such things people make relegation wishes

well I'm still going to try and enjoy watching us arsehole Barnsley in 5 mins .. despite everything 🤮

they've deleted the tweet and presumably the sponsor in the last two minutes lmao

felt like covs recent results should have us safe this year but if we can hold this tonight, glory days :)

they might have deleted the tweet but they haven't deleted the shirts

there is no way we deserved to lose this game - oh yeah hang on a min we deserved to lose 10-0 actually!

about 3-4 players returning back on the pitch in various states of unfitness tonight that would have had us at least 20 pts ahead if they hadn't got injured in january

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ezj4r-bWQAAkDX8?format=jpg&name=900x900

just parking this here so it's on the permanent record in the annals of ilx.

is this still not a news story anywhere?

no it should be a story and there ought to be a grovelling apology from the chairman and the commercial dept. I'm getting even more angry about this - feel like switching my allegiance to Bradford Park Avenue it's pissed me off that much. Not just the proud anti-GRT stuff on their twitter banner and the pro-Trump stuff and the fact that leg-breakers are even lower vermin than payday lenders. I perhaps naively expect better from a club that makes so much noise about all their outreach work in the community blah blah blah.. oh just fuck 'em.

plenty of 'strikes' going in today

I believe it's often referred to as "sowing and reaping"

omg come on Millers, one last push and you get a trophy

Still no tickets on sale for the Trophy final. Rumours beginning to circulate the FA are making it closed doors because it's only non-league.

just adding a thank you to Dejphon Chansiri for helping to bring Sheff Wednesday back to where they belong.

I don't really dispute that they're a big club to be in the third tier, but my word, they do seem to spend a lot of time in it

i recall their on-live-TV sliding-doors-moment relegation playoff against your lot 11 years ago with a certain measure of distaste aye

the Millers have a golden opportunity to not only dump the Rams into L1 but also take a dump on that ridiculous hair weave made out of transplanted arse hairs tonight. I hope they're ready.

hmm it's still on - unlucky Rotherham were denied a goal by a fingertip save and GLT. In fact Wednesday could still win and stay up or win and go down - I didn't realise their gd was only one worse than Derby. The last playoff place in L1/L2 still alive as well.

We’ve a chance at (what’s becoming) an annual playoff humiliation again. Can’t believe I want it to happen but I do.

I can't believe it was only four years ago I was getting drunk on rioja and beer on a chartered train en-route to Wembley. It feels more like a decade ago at least. But most of the enjoyment of the playoffs for me was the travelling and boozing and stuff..

That’s the best bit generally.

(For me, I mean. Occasionally football itself is really exciting I suppose.).

three of our playoff final wins have been where both sides are insanely cautious and paralysed with fear by the occasion and it's gone to extra time and pens. Including the epic shootout against the Blades where even the keepers had to step up. We've been quite lucky in the playoffs - but the games have generally been absolute garbage, but still quite exciting.

In fact Wednesday could still win and stay up or win and go down

Rotherham away to Cardiff who've found a bit of form since Wednesday did them 5 nil so could well be a straight winner stays up shootout between Derby & Wednesday.

come on Millers, hopefully the Cardiff players are already at Butlins.

Wembley have given up on selling direct and are giving them to the clubs. We've got 3000, which suggests they're going with the roadmap 10k - a ridiculous decision since they'll have had 20k at the FA Cup Final the week before and 22k three weeks later for the Croatia game.

That’s infuriating.

I think we've got about half that in season tickets and volunteers. There's definitely not going to be the demand of five years ago but we could probably sell double our allocation.

I just can't understand the logic of dropping the numbers when there are test events either side - bearing in mind there were 4k 'locals' at Leicester/Southampton and it's a Vase and Trophy double there's little chance it wouldn't have sold 20k.

Millers 1-0 up, come on lads make this happen!

Koroma is back!!

so glad this is a nothing game. The ref is a cunt and it was a disgracefully soft pen. But still Town can't defend for shit.

Wednesday 1-0 up now, this could be a perfect afternoon.

shit I cursed it. But still Derby down as it stands.

fuuuuvk!!!

2-2

this game being 10 minutes behind all the other champ fixtures today feels like some kind of fuckery

Seriously

Wednesday find out they're down, give up etc

3-2 Wednesday