Relegated already, on for the worst ever points hall in the Premier League, without a full time manager, unable to fill a stadium, having a kit made by Chavwear/Vikki Pollard brand 'Lonsdale', relying on a man with "Disco Pants" to save them, three nil down at home to an Arsenal side putting in a poor display up north again... its all gone wrong for Sunderland in recent times.

Frustrating? yes, but is that an excuse for Dan Smith to go out to smash Abou Diabys ankle?

No.

But I have a word of advice for Mr Smith. Remember the name of the bloke who threw himself to the ground to get Patrick Vieira sent off at the Stadium of Light a few seasons back?

No. And nor did I, til I looked it up.

Step forward Darren Williams... latterly of any number of shite northern lower league sides.

And you Dan Smith are thankfully likely to head down that same road to footballing oblivion.

See ya


On to the match and apart from a brief purple patch, we didnt play like potential champions of Europe. Which is ok, because it wasn't the final.

Some notherner scored our first with a blinding own goal. Cesc rattled in the second with a cut finish before a Henry free kick bagged the third.

Not a lot else happened until that tackle.

Oh, I nearly forgot Real Madrids Ashley Cole made his comeback on the left side of midfield. How big was the sweat band he was wearing? mahoosive.

Not a lot else to report really. Saw a Spurs fan at the shops who told me he had ordered his Barcelona shirt...

JimmytheCuckoo

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PS... The final word on the black kit saga/scam/wind-up.

Nasty, Nasty, Nasty and Nasty... It always looks worse in slow motion... tell that to Wayne Rooney and Now Big Abou Diaby. That was just reckless beyond belief. And how Ball can stand up and defend him beggers belief as well?

All in all a shite game to watch, never laugh so much with the 2 ronnies on Fanzone, nice one fellas

If the next 2 games are going to be like this, we should get some more youngsters into the squad. I cant see why we should now risk players when we know that the spuds arent going to slip up at WHU so we should protect our big players for the big game. Barca will be doing this so why give them the advantage. Going to be a very nervous 2 weeks!

All the best to Big AD hope its not serious mate!

Indeed all the best though from the tv shots it looks like we wont be seeing AD for a while. Gutting for him and so totally pointless too. Just a bit of frustration on Dan Smith's part was how the commentary put it I believe. And that makes it ok does it? Sky is pi**ing me off

its been confirmed on skysports that AD has dislocated and broken his ankle!

It almost reminded me of that challange frank lampard made on Alonso! reckless and now he might not even be back for the start of next years campain!

Poor bastard. Hope he gets a CL medal because he would have been on the bench at least.

How come Dermot Gallagher didn't give a red card for the tackle on Diaby ?? And why didn't Macarthy get at least 1 yellow card and wrninigs about his tackling???
The tackle on Diaby looked bad at normal speed but in slow mo you can see exactly how bad it was - we aren't getting the right protection from this sort of play - Bolton set the standard to use to stop us playing football, now the referees have got to clamp down on this sort of play before more skilled players are kicked out of the game - and I am not just talking about Arsenal now!!

Message to jimmy the cock, There is a site where some cunt who lives in south Africa and calls himself gooner for 59 years??? has been talking shit about you and the rest of your audience. I find it my duty to inform you about this as he has previously done it to me. Beware of the cunt and his mate who runs the site. The site is called Arsewars.com and from what i gather they have ripped off alot of your work in the past.

I know mate. What can you say? He fell for the joke and is now crying fowl.

Hello chaps. long time no speak! i have just come home with a copy of the Evening Standard and the two page spread by Michael Hart has made me cry! We are the Arsenal and we ARE the Best! fuck off united and fuck all the rest. fick em all! have you got your tickets for Paris?
i still can't believe we can win it but i will go there "with hope in my heart" (to quote the sousers last year)! I am now getting more than emotional about Sunday (ask my missus!), the closer it gets the worse it becomes> i have been going to highbury for 31 years and as good as the Emirates Stadium looks it will never, NEVER, replace Highbury! Unless TH14 will lead out a Champions League winning side in July for DB10s testimonial! i have to go now as i am filling up! I love you all and if you can not get there on Sunday or Wed17/5/06 don't worry we are still ARSENAL and we will always be together!