The Martin O'Neill thread (with added sacking #2188)

[Mortimer's Bear]

MO'N is a shitehawk of the highest order, why after 103 pages of lamenting are we still discussing him?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

MO'N is a shitehawk of the highest order, why after 103 pages of lamenting are we still discussing him?

Remember the spiteful way he left us?

Payback.

[Mortimer's Bear]

MO'N is a shitehawk of the highest order, why after 103 pages of lamenting are we still discussing him?

Remember the spiteful way he left us?

Payback.

Yes I do, but I'm sure his ego would be more hurt if we just erased him from our memories.

[Chris Smith]

MO'N is a shitehawk of the highest order, why after 103 pages of lamenting are we still discussing him?

It's like a group of women with streaked mascara crying into their Lambrini over what "that bastard" did to them. They've met somebody else who dotes on the kids but they just can't let it go.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

MO'N is a shitehawk of the highest order, why after 103 pages of lamenting are we still discussing him?

It's like a group of women with streaked mascara crying into their Lambrini over what "that bastard" did to them. They've met somebody else who dotes on the kids but they just can't let it go.

O'Leary's still not coming back Chris.

[Chris Smith]

MO'N is a shitehawk of the highest order, why after 103 pages of lamenting are we still discussing him?

It's like a group of women with streaked mascara crying into their Lambrini over what "that bastard" did to them. They've met somebody else who dotes on the kids but they just can't let it go.

O'Leary's still not coming back Chris.

Have you decided when to start the "Lambert Out" campaign, surely conceding a late goal yesterday is reason enough? ;¬)

[Rip Van We Go Again]

MO'N is a shitehawk of the highest order, why after 103 pages of lamenting are we still discussing him?

It's like a group of women with streaked mascara crying into their Lambrini over what "that bastard" did to them. They've met somebody else who dotes on the kids but they just can't let it go.

O'Leary's still not coming back Chris.

Have you decided when to start the "Lambert Out" campaign, surely conceding a late goal yesterday is reason enough? ;¬)

Surely you can't expect to not discuss a man who's actions have had a massive effect on us over the last 2 and a half seasons, we were constantly being told by his Journo mates how brilliant he was and we truly did become Martin O'Neill's Aston Villa, it's since been proved that he isn't all that, so adding that to the vindictive way he left us means he'll be ripe for discussion for some time yet.

What next?

Don't have a go at McLeish? 

[Percy McCarthy]

Perhaps we should revisit Tuesday's 'piss-poor team' assertion? More topical.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Perhaps we should revisit Tuesday's 'piss-poor team' assertion? More topical.

Go ahead if it makes you feel big.

[Percy McCarthy]

Touchy.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Touchy.

Not at all.
And for the record, I think we'll win the Champions League under Lambert.

[Percy McCarthy]

Good for you, it's about time you cheered up. (I never said that BTW).

How is Liverpool's thousand-year reign in the top four going?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Hold onto your wallet Mr Short

bbc.co.uk/football

Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill says he must strengthen his squad in the January transfer window as the Premier League relegation battle intensifies.

A 3-1 loss to Manchester United at Old Trafford leaves Sunderland in 16th place, a point above the bottom three.

"We have to be seriously looking to strengthen our side," O'Neill said.

"You only have to look at the back of the programme to see we don't have any great numerical strength, never mind anything else."

Goals from Robin van Persie, Tom Cleverley and Wayne Rooney gave Manchester United a commanding lead, with Fraizer Campbell's response doing little to disguise the Black Cats' shortcomings.

"We have got a few injuries to people, but you are going to get injuries and suspensions during the course of the season and it is up to us to cope with them," added O'Neill. "That is inevitable but we just don't have that strength in depth."

O'Neill retains the support of Sunderland owner Ellis Short and is likely to be backed to bring in a centre-back, as well as more attacking options in January.

Sunderland have won three of their last 25 Premier League matches

That may be all the more important given an injury to Steven Fletcher, who limped off at half-time having twisted his back in the warm-up at Old Trafford.

The Scotland striker could miss next weekend's game against Southampton.

"Steven [Fletcher] hurt himself in the warm-up, twisting his back," O'Neill said. "It was causing him a few problems in the 10 minutes before half-time and he couldn't continue."

When asked how long he might be without the player who has scored the vast majority of Sunderland's goals this season, O'Neill added: "I really don't know at the moment but it is a different injury to the one he has had in the last couple of weeks."

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Good for you, it's about time you cheered up. (I never said that BTW).

How is Liverpool's thousand-year reign in the top four going?

I know you never said that about Lambert, you said it about O'Neill.
As for Liverpool, yes indeed they fucked up their fourth place, but I thought it was a shoo-in that we'd replace them?

[Percy McCarthy]

No. I didn't say it about O'Neill. I knew what you were on about as you'd made it up before.

I said us, Spurs or Man City would replace them. I threw Man City's (pre-oil money) name in as I was arguing that they were a more attractive proposition to the billionaires who were apparently lining up round the block to lavish money on Liverpool, to much ridicule from some.

Anyway, fuck it, we're all friends now aren't we?