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At least he's gone now rather than waiting til Feb and still stuck at the bottom with no hope

Well that was pointless, back the manager with enough dosh to by a new team, then sack him before he has a chance to get them playing well. If Short didn't think PdC could do the job, why feckin give it to him??

Sunderland fast becoming as a big a joke as Newcastle.

The statement added: "The club would like to place on record its thanks to Paolo and his staff and wishes them well for the future......"

... at west ham

I was in cardiff this weekend and at the game today. We were excellent, completely bossed the game against a side defending for their lives who not many will beat on their patch.

Townsend had a good game with his direct running and created plenty of opportunities. Dawson did make a couple of mistakes with his usual raking balls and ironically enough paulinho was having a poor game and didn't really seem with it... Until that Amazing finish though right in front of us. COYS

He'll be at West Ham within 18months

The statement added: "The club would like to place on record its thanks to Paolo and his staff and wishes them well for the future......"

... at west ham

Won't happen.

To that I say..
Big Phil
AVB
Di Matteo

He won't last a season.

Sacking order
The fascist
The happy special needs one

Di Canio gone.
Fuck me I got one prediction correct. Fingers crossed for the other one

Disgusting result for Liverpool on Saturday. Within one game we drop out the top 4.
That is the precise reason we will never finish top 4. We are the biggest bottlers in the league. Fact.
Bunch of cunts. Especially Brenda, the fucking idiot. Who starts with 4 CB's at home and then starts abusing them after the game for being woeful?
He does need a slap at times I feel.

Only good thing is seeing Man Ununited out of the title race. Poor results against other 'top' sides means they will probably finish around 6-7 this season.
Thankfully

So who next for the SUnderland job.

I'm going with Mick Mccarthy. Unless he is currently employed by one of those obscure midlands clubs?
It's impossible to keep track of what goes on up there

RdM.

Some TLA in any event.

DoL.

LoL

TLA?
DoL - David O'Leary?

DoL.

This would bring tears of joy.

Alex Mcleish's name has been thrown in there I see.
That's always good for a laugh

I had £5 on Di Canio going first, quicker then I expected that's for sure

in other news Lukaku doing well with the efc fans

Saying that if he keeps scoring they wont care

Swindon

http://www.chelseasupportersgroup.net/2013/09/driver-on-the-wings-weather-for-swindon-town-v-chelsea/

^^ at least he's honest about it

Chelsea are mugs for letting him go

Chelsea are mugs for letting him go

they could recall him, but I suspect pride would stop that

Paulinho's goal was a beatuy, and we applied enough pressure to have scored more than one.

In terms of AVB losing the dressing room, its probably a case of players wanting to play and not wanting to be eased back into the squad/team, after being an automatic first team selection (lennon) and going from getting significant playing time, to being the go to super sub in a world cup year when you have aspirations of playing in it (defoe). Don't think its the same as at Chelsea in that Spurs haven't won anything, and those players don't carry the weight of title winners, captains of their countries, huge wage earners, which the Chelsea cabal had.

Also the new players aren't part of that hierachy, and so probably don't feel the need to join the dissenting voices, they've been brought in to play and improve the competition for places, and AVB has the right to say if you don't like it, there's the door.. Clubs backed his and Baldini's judgement in the transfer market, now its time for AVB to quash all dissention and mould this team into winners...

Which on the early season form, he seems to be doing. This isn't our best start to a season, but we look hard to score against and we're winning by the odd goal here and there without looking at all like having come together yet.

Still optimistic.

Feel like Sunderland bottled it with Di Canio. They knew what they were getting and should have sucked it up, after bringing in so many players (that I'm assuming he wanted) in the transfer window. No surprise that Cattermole seems to be at the heart of it as well. Another manager brought down by the overweening ego of a mediocre english footballer, being paid too much money, unwilling to buckle down under a new manager..

Sunderland should have stuck with Di Canio even if he'd taken them down, they've given him the remit of cutting the wage bill, changing the style of play and keeping them in the premier ship, staying in the top flight shouldn't be the be all and the end all. Sometimes going down can be the making of a team..

No Spuds fans care to comment on how lucky Lloris was to have stayed on the pitch then?

Short has made himself look like a dick backing PDC in the transfer market then sacking him...and in a weird way you have to admire him for it.

He could have kept on with PDC and spun the narrative of lazy players rallying against a new regime and hoped for the best. Instead he has seen how an egotistical megalomaniac has begun to tear the club apart from the inside, sucked up his error and limited the damage.

I don't think this is knee jerk....just the realisation of huge mistake on Shorts part and the begins of a fix.

I'd have prefered PDC to stay.