im sure they will find some replacements and sturridge could well go back to them permanently or on loan again

Perhaps, but they faded from top 6 to about 12th, so I fear for them.

'Ryan Giggs accused of '8-year affair with his BROTHER'S wife'

Oh dear, Ryan. Cat is out the bag.

Pep Guardiola: "The LFC Academy is the only one who can compete the Barcelona one"

it's certainly looking good

Yup Rafas lasting legacy, built the academy back up after Houllier scrapped it.

jordan henderson deal sealed

and we have kept ngog!

NEw FIXTURESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs

Stokes first 3 home games:

Chelsea
Liverpool
Man Utd

What a start 9 points will do us nicely

Looking forward to this season

Fixtures are fixed, when was the last time that united had a decent team first game?

stoke away... sheesh hoping our lads are on form to get past huth and co

Carroll will bully the soft lad into submission

Our first game is the Mackems att home, so a quick return for Jordan if he plays. Just hope Ngog doesn't score against us, if he does end up there

Hope for once we get of to a good start, don't want to be behind the chasing pack after 5 games like recent years.

I cant wait to see Liverpool play again after the transformation in the last couple of games. If they can keep their best fit i think they will be in the champions league area

This year Kenny will handle Gerrard correctly I think as he won't play him every game of the season like hodgson and rafa to some extent did

hopefully this will reduce their injuries and if Carroll can stay fit im expecting 15+ goals from him because he looked great last season when he played. could turn out to be 35 million well?spent.

Carroll...He does have alot of good spells but he is all up and down with his consitancy, but atleast he has already baged a couple of goals and aslong as the Midfield can give him the supply he won't be saying no and yeah 15+ goals, I would want 20+ just in Premierleague alone after spending 35mil

15-20 goals per season would be a decent return. More than anything, I think he will be a great partner for Luis Suarez.

The power, and the glory

A lot of stuff about Chelsea bring in Andre Villas Boas. That would be a great move for Chelsea.

Excellent young manager with his whole career ahead of him.

Good Riddance Jack Warner

^ That we can agree on.

Wait for this though. The clincher.

They will no longer be looking into his activity around the World Cup bid.

"All ethics committee procedures against Jack Warner have been closed," says Fifa.

Hahaha I wonder why?

I also wonder how much money he has been given to resign!

Corrupt c***

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SAFC-want-justice-for-the96/155823741154661

Also pages from Newcastle, Everton, Chelsea, Celtic and Rangers fans now, first of all these pages was only released at 1pm yesterday and now there is many, wow.

^^ That page there has fully restored my faith in all football fans, after having to hear Everton fans* (even people who had family there say it, who I know personally) and United fans* (Who have had a major disaster happen to themselves also) constantly going on about us murdering our own fans blah blah blah, for Sunderland fans to come out and support our fight for justice is brilliant.

Thank you SAFC, NUFC, CFC, CFC, RFC And EFC

* = Minority of fans.

On a seperate note, did anyone see the mass brawl between Santos and Penarol at the end of the Copa Libertadores final?

Heard about it and seen about 20 seconds of a clip and it looked to be be rather messy.

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