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Hopefully Advocaat has more than a snowball's chance. In truth, any appointment we could have made at this stage would have been a bit of a question mark, but I'd sooner let him have a go than someone like Warnock or Redknapp.

Well, there we have it. You'd have to say that the best case scenario now is that we appoint a caretaker and that three from Hull, Burnley, Leicester and QPR do us a massive favour by getting themselves relegated. Whoever we appoint in the long term, we'll always be Sunderland. Great club, but terrible players with a terrible attitude, who see us as either a stepping stone to something better or a nice big payday when they've failed elsewhere. The next manager will be left with the same corrosive element in the dressing room and unless he's strong enough to stand up to it, the cycle will almost certainly start again.

Wazza not anticipating contact. There's a first time for everything. :lullaby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovewdru_Jjo&feature=youtu.be

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch poster reveal. I think the expectation was that the promo series would wrap up with Wanda, Pietro and Vision, but two out of three might have to do. Overall, it looks like the costume designers are doing well here. I like that Wanda's outfit gives a few nods to eastern European style with lots of rings, medallions and pendants, but without making it too comic book-ish to work on film.

Witnessed the game first hand, unfortunately. It was up there with the worst Sunderland performances I’ve ever seen, and trust me, I've seen some corkers over the years. If not for the Villa players visibly taking pity on us in the second half, they could and probably would have eclipsed our stuffing at Southampton in October. Credit where it's due, Timothy has instilled some fight into the team and even appears to have solved the N'zogbia conundrum. I think we can all agree that big changes need to be made, but when your squad is made up of weaklings and shirkers who aren't prepared to pass and move, track back and do the basics, you wonder what can be done to make things better between now and May. I'm not saying that the criticism coming Poyet's way isn't entirely justified or even that he deserves to keep his job, just that there must come a point when we have to recognise that our seemingly never-ending malaise isn't just about the manager. To be fair to Ellis Short, he's consistently funded deals for players who really should be decent performers, and yet we constantly seem stuck on square one. We continue to throw money at a problem that shouldn't even be there, and every dreadful signing and managerial appointment only seems to make things worse. I can't pretend to understand it, all I know is that it's been happening for far too long.

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The point of the game is to compare models from different eras, so we have to consider more than just the here and now. If you're a boxing fan imagining a fight between Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, you don't picture them as they are today. Victoria's Secret Gisele Bundchen Sports Illustrated Nina Agdal

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True enough, although the individual writers and directors of the original trilogy were all basically working to serve George Lucas's vision. If there's no-one around to oversee the franchise in the same way Lucas did back then, then the three films could differ quite a bit in style. That could be a good or bad thing.

They’ve a director there in Rian Johnson who could certainly deliver, although it's a surprise to see them ruling out a return for Abrams at such an early stage. Did they tell him he wasn't allowed any more lens flare or something?

Jose did the exact same thing last year in the first leg against Atletico and was spectacularly punished for it in the second. Masterplans and everything else aside, his approach to big games seems to be having his team do as little as possible. What a performance from PSG, though. Between this and Monaco at the Emirates, you wonder if Ligue 1 gets the credit it deserves.

Oh dear, Jose.

To be honest, I wouldn't rule that out. Apart from the bit about Fulham of course, it seems a little far-fetched for them to pay the £25m he'll no doubt be valued at by then.

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Superb game of football at the Bernabeu last night, end-to-end and very sporting on the pitch, if not elsewhere. Schalke wiped the floor with Real Madrid in the first half, and it was only thanks to Modric and of course, Ronaldo being Ronaldo, that they survived the onslaught in the second.

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I'm not really big on MMA, but even I have to admit that her gameface is something to behold. :jimmy: