Dissing our ground is fair game, it is holding us back as a club, bit racist re cockneys and London though, and Sunderland ... not a great place, Newcastle have always had an attractive side, Middlesboro always played quite progressive football, Sunderland though, similar to Birmingham City, has always been like a vortex of grimness and struggle, there was Peter Reid's flash in the pan and the '73 cup final, apart from that I can never remember their team being anything other than consistently dour, apart from Saturday. Roy Keane and Martin O'Neill both got bogged down by this oppressive atmosphere, they, unlike us, do get the max out of their catchment area, have a state of the art stadium, but it does them sod all good - they're about as successful as we are, so no wonder this bloke's bitter.

Poor b*stard: not only did he have to spend a couple of hours in Selhurst Park, but then he had the indignity of having to go home to Sunderland. Ouch.

Thing is it houses over 40,000 each 'Home' game which is excellent support.

Ok then.

Sunderland suburbs vs Beckenham or close to it.

PVA said "F*** this, take me to Beckenham."

Fair and accurate enough?

COYP

Our support was almost non-existent and the reaction of many Palace "fans" was downright embarassing .

Location scouts for the next Mad Max film rejected Sunderland as a shooting location because it was too unbelievably bleak to pass as a post-apocalyptic wasteland.