Tyne-Wear derby: Souness' last stand?

[Shindig]

Aye. It's that time of the year when mackems dust off their 'sewpa Kevin Phillips' shirts and get their arses up to Tyneside for one afternoon.

This fixture has a history of shafting many a manager. Ruud Gullitt being the slightly more famous of them. It's a must-win game for Graeme, so it should give added spice to the fixture.

Of course, it used to be a fixture with a history of violence, but those were shortly put to bed after the deformed season where away fans were banned from derbies. It'll also herald the return of Steven Caldwell. A decent defender, in his days for us. Sadly, he ruined it by handling on the line one too many times.

It'll also see a return to a former club for Lee Clark.

So who's going to win this bottom of the table battle for bragging rights?

Newcastle: Home of Jimmy Nail, Mark Knopfler and that bloke who does the Big Brother voiceovers?

or Sunderland: Home of Wearside Carlos, the bugger who inadvertantly assisted Peter Sutcliffe's killing spree of the 70's-80's?

 

[TOON ARMY]

Looking forward to this one, watching it with fellow Geordie exiles down the pub.

I can see us scraping through with a less than acceptable performance but not being poor enough for Souness to get the chop.

 

[Shindig]

Difficult to predict, really. Owen's made the squad and Nobby's back for his debut.

 

[Fernandez]

Sunderland are a very difficult team to beat and they always attack, even though they play with one up front. I think this is Souness' last match if he loses today.

 

[Fernandez]

Great game for the neutrals so far. 4 goals in a space of 8 minutes and they were all good, especially Sunderland's both equalisers. Elliot and Lawrence with strikes that are deserving of winning any goal competition.

 

[Siawash]

Newcastle can't hold a lead, 2-2 right now, Amoebi getting 2. If Souness loses, i'm sure he'll get the sack.

 

[Voltaic Borusse]

They've probablu got Claudio Ranieri on stand-by.

 

[MaSsiVe]

Nah, it's Burley I tell ya

 

[Fernandez]

Newcastle won 3-2 and Emre with one hell of a free-kick

 

[Siawash]

3-2 FT.



Emre to the rescue.

 

[Shindig]

That went rather well.

 

[Emre_5]

anyone have the video of emres goal?

 

[TOON ARMY]

 

[Emre_5]

Toony do you have the video of the goal?

 

[TheBlueBalla]

haha, that banner is rather amusing

Saw the highlights, fantastic match from the looks if it. Ameobi's goals were good, but the marking on the first was non-existant. That said, both of Sunderland's goals were breathtaking. Fantastic that Emre has been such a hit for Newcastle

If they cant get Burley, they could do worse than Ranieri. And im being serious

 

[Fernandez]

Sunderland played good football to be honest. They passed the ball around and created decent openings. McCarthy has done a decent job for Sunderland back in the Premiership.

 

[Shindig]

Aye, they had a dodgy start but they've started to actually play recently. Boro are f**ked.

 

[Vagegast]

True, and so are Pool.

 

[Bobby]

Yea, they could have gotten a draw when they hit the bar.

McCarthy was right, they were fantastic. Newcastle were just too much tho.