I have had a shower today!!! That's the first since January. Oh it's wonderful to be clean all over. While moisturising the scar from the Event, I discovered a stitch still in it so I have pulled it out and kept it. It is blue. When I had my head stitches removed, years ago, they left one in there too and the nurse at my GP's place had to remove it ( Read more... )

Ok, not too excited then, but I have to say a 0 - 0 draw at Arsenal is one of our better results there in a long time. It's particularly gratifying when we had Djibril unexpectedly injured so only had Kenwyne up front. Wenger was his usual graceless self in the interview on 5live. So you had 70% of the play : still couldn't score could you? Neener ( Read more... )

Just watched the game. Pah!  We're not lucky with penalties. especially if your name is Steed Malbranque. Last week he was fouled in the box and Howard Webb deemed he had fouled Taylor and gave a penalty. This week he is heading the ball into the net from 3 yards out and Danny Pugh armed it off the line. Not the best of games but how Styles missed ( Read more... )

Another penalty claim denied in the first half didn't matter in the end as we stuttered to a 2 - 0 defeat of Stoke. I will watch it later to make my own mind up about how they did. We're up to 11th anyway which is all that matters. Next two games Liverpool and Arsenal away will give some clearer idea of how we're doing. Heck! Portsmouth have just ( Read more... )

Faintly flurrying flakes for February -5pm. Well it is snowing. We wait to see whether it means it ( Read more... )

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New Who Matt Smith. Who?

Meanwhile FA Cup 3rd round day is always a thrill and usually the last we see of the competition. However, not today. Sunderland 2 Bolton Wanderers 1 (Jones 57, Cisse 67) and theirs was a fluke late on. So there's something else Sbragia has managed that Keane didn't.

Elsewhere, there were some upsets: First Division ( Read more... )

This always happens. Everyone relaxes when the manager's position is sorted out and they immediately lose. At least it wasn't 7 like last year, but 3 - 0 is not good and Stuart Hall says they were poor. Now we have the Cup against Bolton again and they're coming off the back of two defeats. Still, without these kicks in the teeth football would be

Well that's over for another year and I'm back from the family hols. Sparkling (no not like that) turkey this year too. I will have to turn out for soft drinks and eggs tomorrow but other than that it will be a quiet Sunday birthday, I hope ( Read more... )

Hull City 1 Sunderland 4. Would you believe it? Not after 70 minutes no, when it was 1 - 1. But the boy done good (see icon) and that's 8 goals and 6 points without the Irish lad being in charge. In spite of his name, Sbragia is Scottish, and I would let him carry on for the moment, even if he doesn't like the limelight, the lads obviously like and ( Read more... )