Ann Stuart-Heath

@gofishh77 Get your fecking dog off that chain, you cruel barsteward 🤬 The wrong one's chained up!

I have no words! I’ve watched it several times and I’m ashamed of that.

@davestokes66 @JamieSAFC_ You don't know what a paedophile is if you think Johnson is one. Look it up, and then look up the age of the young lass he met. He's a scumbag and didn't get long enough in prison for my liking, but he's not a paedophile.

@JamieSAFC_ Didn't Sunderland once employ paedophile football Adam Johnson? Now they're attacking someone who objects to child rapists being allowed into Britain. What kind of people are these Sunderland fans exactly? Mistakenly think they're morally better than everyone else

Fuck Reform. Fuck Farage.

@AdamFulwell_ @JuanSartoriUY "A socialist & trade union football club" What? It's a FOOTBALL CLUB, there's nothing socialist or trade union about it. Is this because there's a miners banner displayed on one of the staircases? I've never heard anything more bizzare in my 61yrs of support.

Disgraceful and distasteful from a director (@JuanSartoriUY) who’s clearly barely spent any actual time in the region to know this is a massive slap in the face. A socialist and trade union football club being used to peddle some political bullshit is shameful. Reconsider.

@tenchylad @SummersidePaul @Philip_RJ89 No. He's been invited by Sartori.

@SummersidePaul @Philip_RJ89 Whats happened is the worm trying to use the club for his platform ? Hopefully they will see sense and dont entertain his advances.

No to Nigel Farage. No to intolerance, bigotry and hatred — and no to Reform’s Trumpian poison. All in Sunderland’s hands. Let’s hope they see sense and do the right thing. There should be ZERO association with that man at our club. #SAFC

UK Has Fallen! An illegal migrant who assaulted British child was jailed for 1 year. 3 British men protesting his action were jailed for up to 2 years 4 months. British people must vote the entire political establishment out of every position of power!

@benonwine A big, fat, bloated leech.

If Keir Starmer was an animal what would he be?

@ALS_Fanzine That's so true. One thing I don't believe has been mentioned tho, for some obscure reason some of us had our BCP's emptied from our accounts. The club had no idea why this happened and made no attempt to rectify the problem. That's us unable to go to an away game again.

WHAT PRICE LOYALTY? BY SLEEPY_G That derby win on Sunday was mental, wasn’t it? … celebrating that Brobbey winner with your mates, going nuts at full-time, and watching the crazy scenes in the away end on TV. But for around 60 of our fans that joy was tempered with the feeling of, ‘hang on, I should be in there, right amongst that lot’. And they should – they had the points and they’d done the miles. These people had qualified for tickets, many in phase one (70+ points). Those tickets were purchased and assigned to their SAFC ticket account within 24 hours of going on sale... right until the club then unceremoniously removed them without notice or reasoning given. It’s worth revisiting that again. Some of our most hardcore fans, who’ve acquired points by attending a high number of aways (in some case every away match) across the preceding three seasons and likely before, had their tickets, for our first visit to the landfill in ten years, removed from their accounts without explanation. The club responded to the understandable complaints by saying they were ‘investigating widespread misuse’ of the away ticketing system. No timescale or further explanation was offered, they weren’t told if they themselves were being accused of ‘misuse’, or why the club felt it appropriate to give out such a draconian punishment. They were told (perversely) that they could apply again for the same tickets when they went back on sale! Unsurprisingly, only two fans were able to achieve that. The club could have undertaken this investigation after the Mags game with four weeks till the next away game. Doing it just seven days before the derby smacks of proving a point at the expense of these fans. Some will read this and the mention of away tickets will already have them on their haunches, ready to pile in. Away tickets in the PL have been like rocking horse shit for almost every match. General sale never happens and those with a relatively small no of BCP’s are not even getting close. If you’re well down the loyalty list, with little chance of stepping up it, you’ll feel it’s an unfair system, and it’s not difficult to see why. If you then find out people have passed tickets to their mates, whilst also retaining their own loyalty point, it’s not going to make you feel any better about it. No system is ever perfect and it’s entirely reasonable that the club should try and make it fair and equitable for all. However, it’s likely that whatever approach the club takes when it comes their away ticketing process, they will get derision by those on the wrong side of it. And here’s the other unfortunate truth, fans will always pass tickets onto fellow fans. It might be their mates or family, but sometimes, if circumstances demand, they’ll sell on at face value to a fan they’ve never met before. I’ve benefited from it myself, and so have many thousands more… standing outside away ends on a wing and a prayer, hoping to catch lucky from someone who made a promise that you hope they’ll come good on. I hadn’t qualified for tickets for those games because I wasn’t a season ticket holder at the time. It didn’t matter that I had been one, at both Roker Park and the SoL, or that I’d been to a substantial number of homes and away games since 1975. I knew the rules, understood them, resented them… but struggled to see a better approach. I had to look towards fellow fans, and keep my fingers crossed. That optimism has sometimes paid me back, and I’ve always ensured I’ve made the same gesture back when circumstances dictated. This season the club had warned fans against passing tickets onto others and checks had been put in place, which was fair warning. If I’ve been informed correctly, three of such transgressions were discovered at Leeds and they all came from the same supporters’ branch, so the branch secretary was asked to explain. The response from the club to his honest response was him being given a ban from away matches across three seasons and home matches for the rest of this season; whilst the 60+ others were then (presumably) considered guilty by association. However, this hardline, some would say brutal, position the club has taken actually creates more questions than it answers, and I can’t imagine there’s a single supporter who won’t be questioning what it now means to them, for both away and home fixtures. Under what circumstances can you pass a ticket on? What happens if, at last minute (as happened to me last season), you have a family crisis and you can’t make the game. You’re likely gutted, out of pocket because of travel, etc. and the real kick in the balls is if you can’t get a penny back on the ticket, even if there’s a long queue of potential purchasers desperate to see the club they love and snap your hand off. Will similar sanctions be taken in every instance? If you do cross that line, whatever your logic and reasoning, will you suddenly find out that a ticket purchased legitimately has been removed without notice? Or will you face a much-longer ban? What’s more, if the current system is deemed to be unfair to those wanting to do more aways in future, but who do not have the necessary points, what are club doing about it? Will they run a ballot for those with not enough points in phase1 and if they do, which segment of fans are most likely to miss out? Perhaps even more importantly is why now, and how does it affect fans relationship with the club going forward, particularly in relation to our Supporters Branches? Is this the club’s doing entirely, or are the PL standing over us? Let’s remember, digital tickets and tightening up on who is attending, and on what basis, is now becoming the norm in the PL. Man City are installing cameras at all turnstiles with a view to introducing a facial recognition system as you see at airports. Another thing seen at other PL clubs is the disregard for Supporters Branches. They are seen by some as archaic and full of fans who’ve done the away trips by coach with their mates for many years, but ask awkward questions at liaison meetings, and spend more money on pints than merchandising. The Glazers were quick to target even long-standing supporter’s clubs as an unnecessary irritant when they purchased Man United and it’s taken a long battle to establish a Supporters Trust with over 200k members. In the case of this particular supporter’s branch, they don’t run coaches. They organise train travel, to the point where they are (well, were) LNER’s biggest non-business customer and as such were able to negotiate discounted tickets, significantly lowering the cost for those making long trips across the country. What’s in it for LNER? Well, they’ve got one block booking, all in 1 or 2 carriages. No worries about railcards or the general public complaining about the lads with the cans arguing over the merits of 4-3-3. British Transport Police also like this arrangement as this large group of fans are entering and existing stations en-masse, at the same time. Speaking of the police, isn’t our fans base one of the best behaved in the country? You rarely see bother, no matter how many aways fans we meet on our journeys... so we must be doing something right. It’s very easy for a business the size of SAFC to take the corporate approach, point at the T&Cs and decide it’s necessary to take a hammer to crack a nut when those pesky fans haven’t followed the rules. But our ticket office haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory in the past, and I‘d argue that sometimes the DIY approach of our fans in moving tickets on is done by necessity as much as anything else. It is ridiculously difficult to get a call answered, whilst emails (or the frequent waste of time that is the ‘ask.SAFC’ function) are often ignored. Getting the paying punter in through the door should the priority task for any business but they make it unnecessarily difficult for people simply wanting to come and watch the team. The whole saga described above must have been damaging to the club. Many fans, even if not affected directly, cannot believe how they have removed such sought-after tickets, from clearly the loyalist fand on a whim and without any meaningful rationale offered. They’re even more appalled when they realise the sanction taken against that one particular supporter - who is not only one of the nicest, easy-going men you’ll ever meet - but who has single-handedly ensured hundreds of our fans have been able to get to games over many years, as well as supporting them in numerous other ways. And never for personal gain (worth highlighting here that is absolutely zero suggestion anywhere of anyone profiting from other fans, cos it doesn’t happen) - but always because it’s what he’s done for such a long time (he’s also, absurdly, assisted the club often in getting tickets sold at short notice when they’ve cocked up, or finding a spare for them when a photo opportunity cropped up with an overseas supporter). We’ve all been enthused by marketing teams work in the last few years… ‘community’… ‘connection’… ‘we’re nothing without our fans’… ‘fans are the lifeblood of the club’… our players praising the vocal away support, etc. But the marketing-speak means nothing unless it’s backed-up day-to-day interactions with match-going fans. Showing distain and disregard for fans at any point is never a good look, whatever league you’re in. The issue of fairness when demand far outstrips supply isn’t unique to SAFC. There’s no magic fix and there will always be winners and losers. The club are 100% right in closely monitoring where and how away tickets are used, but they also need to be pragmatic, have processes that are fair, understandable and consistent - and if sanctions are taken, to ensure they are appropriate and proportionate. Those 60 fans will never get the moments they missed on Sunday back. The day has been and gone and future memories of will also have the postscript of ‘oh yeah, I wasn’t there because the club took an unreasonable, over-zealous action to unfairly ban me’ If the powers that be at SAFC are serious about fairness and connection, they need to get hold of this quickly. The dismay of many will have been tempered by the result but the bigger picture can’t be ignored. They need to ensure the fine words in the words from on-high, match the actions taken in the day-to-day fundamentals. The fan who has been banned needs bringing back into the fold and the club need to ensure the ridiculous action taken against the others is never repeated. And most importantly they need a proper review of the away tickets process, where supporters’ branches fit into that equation, and to sort their own internal processes out into the bargain. Contact with the club needs to be much easier and supporters queries should be responded to much quicker. They need to consider how to move the bottlenecks and obstacles for all fans in obtaining tickets, home and away, not as a nice-to-have but because it’s good business sense. Perhaps they need to think of a better ‘membership’ scheme than we currently have, goodness knows how many unused membership numbers there are out there. The only way this debacle can be a good thing is if the club works with fans to ensure such nonsense never happens again, and that future actions are consistent with the values and culture it wishes to engender. Over to you, KLD and all before more of our most loyal fans are ostracised.

Repost if you are Proud to be Christian. ✝️❤️🇬🇧🙏

@DaveAtherton20 @y_alibhai @NJ_Timothy This woman is nothing more than a professional race baiter.

Journalist Yasmin @y_alibhai Brown has penned an article & comments "This column will be pounced on by racists, but I have to write it," & adds "Racism is flooding the lives of Muslims like me." She's is most critical of Nick @NJ_Timothy's criticism of the Trafalgar Square open praying. Many see it as an arrogant sign of dominance. Well Yasmin did you not say in 2006 on BBC World’s Dateline of white men: “I don’t like them. I want them to be a lost species in a hundred years." Your racism aside, 500,000 white, working-class British girls were groomed by mainly Muslim men, while 98% of all terrorist deaths of Britons from 2000 have been perpetrated by Islamists. Much of the problem is the whining cry-bully mentality, & you are always play the victim. British people are not racist by instinct, it is learnt from reading the news.

MISSING 👇👇

@JamesCopley_ Meh... we're used to them up the road flapping their gums. We just sit and laugh at them.

✍️ | OPINION - Anthony Gordon’s derby remarks drip with arrogance and entitlement after Sunderland's win #SAFC | #NUFC sunderlandecho.com/sport/football…

@Kevjarm @Powell_Matthew Ohhh... whey aye man is making a comeback! 🤣

@Powell_Matthew Wtf is that coming down the stairs

46 seconds of mags getting very upset followed by a tremendous big Jerlinton reaction? Go on then

Can we all Retweet and Share Please. We all want to know what is happening with the Violent thugs who broke a female police officer’s nose at Manchester Airport. @YvetteCooperMP @ukhomeoffice

@kingcreole24 @paul666g @AwayDays_ @NUFC I remember having my car bricked by Middlesborough fans at their place. Crystal Palace fans invading their pitch & attacking our fans in wheelchairs. Leeds smashing the windows of our supporters coaches. Cardiff fans bricking a friend's car down at their place. Its all wrong

@paul666g @AwayDays_ @NUFC I remember when Sunderland fans did that to a Middlesbrough disabled supporters bus

Newcastle United fans launching bottles at the Sunderland team coach today.

@Mr_Husky1 Walk

I’m about to get married, and my fiancé knows I have an inheritance that was left to me by my grandparents. It’s in my name only, and I’ve been saving it for years. Now he’s saying that before we get married, I should put the entire inheritance into a joint account so we can “start fresh together,” or he doesn’t think we should go through with the wedding. I’m 36 already and this is something my family worked hard to leave me. I’m torn between wanting to build a life together and feeling like I’m being pressured to give up something important to me. What do you think I should do? By isitmeaitah

@ALS_Fanzine Apparently we time wasted. Quite why we'd want to do that when we were losing, I don't know. We didn't have to "time waste" during the second half because we had the run of them.

WHAT ARE THE EXCUSES NOW? BY JACK DODDS Beating Newcastle after years of torment felt like poetic justice last December; the ridiculous remarks from them that we had no right to celebrate as we won via an own-goal, however, meant the winning feeling just wasn’t quite complete. Turning up to ‘The Region’s Capital’ in poor form, with almost all of our best players injured or un-fit and the home side in desperate need of a win, only to leave as the victors has firmly cemented Sunderland as the North-East’s superior football club once again. There can be no more excuses. It’s a cliché that form goes out of the window for derbies but still holds true to a certain extent. Even looking back on the majority of our six-in-a-row victories, we went into the game in dreadful form, with the Mags almost always being significantly higher than us in the table. Even with that being said, however, we couldn’t have been in a worse position going into this game. In our previous eight games (including our embarrassing cup exit to Port Vale) we’d only managed a single goal from open play, won twice and drawn once. Having struggled immensely to create chances, we were relying on our defence for getting us through games. With our first choice goalkeeper, right-back, left-back, centre-back and attacking midfielder all doubts (and the rest of them) therefore, we spent every day in the build-up to the derby pondering how we’d fare against the front three of Newcastle, who can be ferocious on their day. Seeing the starting line-up and realising that Alderete was the only of the doubts to make the starting eleven made us all wince. As much as we all love Luke O’Nien for his infectious positivity and love for the club, he’s already managed to drop a few clangers in the few occasions he has featured, and you just never know when his antics could land us in trouble. Lutsharel Geertruida started the season excellently but has struggled for minutes and been very inconsistent since the turn of the New Year. Trai Hume’s versatility has been pivotal throughout this season so far, but the lack of a natural left-back in the starting eleven meant we knew there’d be limited support for Talbi on the wing. Even Alderete has had some shaky moments over the past few months, and the thought of him starting in one of the biggest games of the season without the towering presence of Dan Ballard only added to the anxiety. Melker Ellborg has pulled off some great saves and decent performances since stepping in for Roefs, but it’s clear that he doesn’t yet have the composure and class that the Dutchman holds in abundance, which is exactly what you need in a derby. That is without even mentioning Enzo Le Fée, who has been our most creative and probably consistent performer this season. Him managing to set up the second goal mere moments after entering the field is proof of that. Le Bris would have undoubtedly brought him on earlier if he thought his fitness could handle it, so it’s obvious that all he thought he could manage was the few minutes he got. Whilst they could claim that they were without two of their best players in Bruno G and Sandro Tonali, who would have started in midfield if fit, their midfield three yesterday still cost them a staggering £154M, two and a half times what we paid for ours. They also only had one notable unavailable player in their squad, Fabian Schar, who has been out with an ankle injury since January, meaning Eddie Howe had basically a full squad of players to choose from. Whilst they could still argue that they were playing away in the Champions League in mid-week and it’s possible that some fatigue may have been carried over, it was Howe’s decision to only make three changes for the game, they had three full days between the two fixtures to recover, and (unlike ourselves) had the luxury of making three changes just after the hour mark, and another roughly ten minutes later. Due to literally half of our squad being injured or unfit, Le Bris was forced to stick with the eleven he’d picked for basically the entire game. Their tie with Barcelona was also over shortly after half-time, as opposed to them still having to fight to the very end. We even gave them a head start, with O’Nien’s poor pass allowing Anthony Gordon to convert a chance which any professional forward would be able to, not to mention the general lack of cohesion evident from ourselves in the opening thirty minutes. Our injury woes also saw Chris Rigg start on the right-wing, who they’d snubbed all week in the lead up to the game, stating how they had nothing to worry about defensively. How perfect, therefore, is it to see the ex-Mag-now-Mackem wonder kid play the full ninety minutes and be instrumental as we beat them on their own turf again. Newcastle United, whose current playing squad has cost them over £625m, were turned over by a Sunderland side cobbled together with simply whoever was fit to play from a squad costing less than a third that. Having come from behind to win the game fair and square, with almost all of our best performers this season injured in their own back yard, one simply has to ask the richest club in the world, Carabao Cup Champions and alleged European giants, that they like to think of themselves as: what are the excuses now?

Been 9yrs since PC Keith Palmer was murdered by Islamic terrorist Khalid Masood. Although unarmed, he single-handedly stopped the knife-wielding jihadist from entering parliament and killing MPs. Despite this, Starmer & his Labour government IGNORED the recent anniversary.🇬🇧

@Art0fThinking Heaven. Also, I need new chairs as my old arthritic joints can't get me out of those.

What's the first word that comes to mind?

Like Edwards, journalist. How disgusting. The racist abuse... yeah very regrettable as was the goalkeeping... My god. He's been called out on it as he should be, and is now apologising, kind of.

@SunlunTickets @LukeEdwardsTele Wow, just brush over the fact and make light of it. You're supposed to be a seasoned pro, you should hold yourself to higher standards than that. Looks like it's time for a reset in your thought and reporting processes.

For those who didn’t see it. Absolute joke @LukeEdwardsTele