Sunderland v Stoke (15:00 GMT)

Can Jack Butland break a club record set by Gordon Banks 45 years ago? By keeping clean sheets in Stoke’s past five away games in all competitions, the goalkeeper has already equalled it and now hopes to create a bit of history.

With survival Sunderland’s sole concern, Sam Allardyce is expected to retain his new, opponent smothering, 3-5-2 formation. Considering Mark Hughes’s otherwise impressive team often struggle to score, the thrill factor could be on the low side.

Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce makes one change from the team that won 1-0 at Crystal Palace on Monday – American DeAndre Yedlin replaces the suspended Billy Jones at wing-back.

Top scorer Jermain Defoe is passed fit to start despite suffering an ankle problem at Selhurst Park, while forward Fabio Borini returns after missing that game through, again, an ankle injury, but only makes the bench.

Stoke manager Mark Hughes names an unchanged side from the team that won 1-0 at Southampton on Saturday – with midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri and defender Philipp Wollscheid both passed fit to start.

Sunderland: Pantilimon, Coates, O’Shea, Kaboul, Yedlin, Larsson, M’Vila, Cattermole, Van Aanholt, Fletcher, Defoe.

Subs: Borini, Johnson, Matthews, Lens, Toivonen, Mannone, Watmore.

Stoke: Butland, Johnson, Shawcross, Wollscheid, Pieters, Adam, Whelan, Shaqiri, Krkic, Arnautovic, Walters.

Subs: Wilson, Afellay, van Ginkel, Diouf, Cameron, Crouch, Haugaard.

Referee: Mike Dean. This season G11, Y42, R3, 4.09 cards per game.

Kick-off: Saturday 3pm

Venue: Stadium of Light

Last season: Sunderland 3 Stoke City 1

Could >we collect points in back to back games for?

Somehow manage to beat Stoke at home now and again

Shit why does the football league have my email address and since when did they start sending out a newsletter.

Christ no early kickoff
'Super' Sunday

This weekend will be wank

God I love banter, who else here fucking loves bants?

I'm such a lad, holy shit. Gonna watch the darts later too with a cheeky maceydees since my netflex and chill partner backed out. Almost chundered when I read that text !!

this is shaping up to be one of the best PL seasons of all time

What part of Stoke are you from?

>>7

stoke

hahahahaha
no

underland attacking the end in the first half

wat

>>9
Yes you are mate.

>>10
Lmao, why would I care?

I don't get this. Why the fuck would I care what some people who pretend their life is about football think of me?

It's this natural assumption that supporting a team means you have to be the most devout follower and show it otherwise you're a bad person.

I don't go watch shit bands just because they're shit.

I literally couldn't care.

fuck off defoe

should of passed

>>11
You'll never understand, bandwagoners never do, it's ok I just pity you.

>>14
I pity you for feigning some deep connection to a sports team mate.

If oyu feel some sort of supernatural connection and that makes you feel above others and worthy, you're more than welcome to feel it.

>>11
You obviously do care based on your instant furious responses.

You're the generic stoke bandwagoner, kill yourself my friend. Get your selfie stick and half an half scarf out

Villa down
Newcastle down
Mememouth down

17th is ours, easy as fuck min

Holy fuck that Sunderland tiki-taka. Can someone webm that passage of play? That many intricate passes may never happen again at the SoL.

>>16

Furious
Immediately asks me to kill myself.

Top kek mate.

Enjoy paying over the odds to watch shit football because it fills an empty void in your life and makes you feel special.

>>19
Enjoy sitting in your armchair watching mark shit like the bandwagon scum you are.

I'm sure you'll be a hull fan within 3 years anyway

>>21
If only you were posting anonymously and no one could tell if you had previously posted

>>21
You were either wrong and embarrassed yourself, or the stoke fan who is a complete toilet.

the meme ends today boys

>>25
typical bandwagonning scum

Why aren't you paying 50 quid to watch your local pub team it's like you hate football?

Stoke can sit back knowing that we'll never score.

>>28
o u mad

>>28
I'm not him, it was a joke.

Cool your autism, mate.

what would the score be if adcovte was managing right now?

why /sports/ so mad at me?

Jeremy Corbyn here.
Stop swearing in this thread, it's not nice.
Anyway, we should put an end to this whole "league" thing. It's barbaric. Teams should just play each other, finish the games in a draw and that be that.
No incentives to beat the other team and make them feel bad, no positions or relegations. Let's just all have a kick about, have a good time and let everyone be winners

>>34
Fuck off with your /newpol/ shit nobody cares

Death to all.

>>37
you mean ali?

Donald Trump here.
Stop being PC in this thread, it's not nice.
Anyway, we should put an end to this whole "foreign players" thing. It's barbaric. Teams should just play each other with a massive wall down the centre of the pitch
No ability for any hispanic shits to sneak into our country and make us feel bad, no handouts or. Let's just all have a kick about, have a good time and be American.

>>39
Can anyone stop this man?

David Cameron here.
Stop talking about working class sports in this thread, it's not nice.
Anyway, we should put an end to this whole 'working class sports' thing. It's barbaric. Teams should just go back to working in coal mines or attempt to become middle class and start playing cricket and rugby.
No ability for poor people to keep shitting up our culture with their attempt at it. Let's just have a few overs, have a good time and be rich.

Genghis Khan here.
Stop having your head attached to your body in this thread, it's not nice.
Anyway, we should put an end to this whole "countries" thing. It's barbaric. Everyone should be under my control, your wife is my property as well as everything you own.
The main incentive to beat the other team and do anything in life will be so that I don't send my hordes to rape your entire family, in many positions and relegations. If not then they'll just all have a kick about with your head, have a good time and let everyone steal your shit

Genuinely can't wait for Newcastle, Sunderland and Villa to get relegated.

Ed Miliband here.
Does anybody even remember me? That'd be nice.
Anyway, we should put an end to this whole '1980s Labour' thing. It's barbaric. We shouldn't let radical members who have no idea about winning elections decide who the leader is.
Bet you thought it wouldn't get any worse than me, at least I like bacon and don't want to outlaw it to please Hezbollah, let's just have a good time in our human skin suits and vote Burnham to lead Labour.

inb4 we concede to btoke in the 96th minute

Just bought sackpardew.com for a quid lads

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi here.
Stop bombing in this Kaliphate, it's not nice.
Anyway, we should put an end to this whole "planes" thing. It's barbaric. Teams should just shoot and burn each other, finish the battles in an overwhelming infidel slaughter and that be that.
No incentives to spare the other apostolic dogs and make them feel relieved, no hostage exchanges or draws. Let's just all have an infidel burning contest, have a good rape and let everyone be beheaded.

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>>47
you all have something in common then

this de bruyne meme is terrible

/sports/ really has gone downhill when it comes to meme production

stoke down to 10 after 47 mins

WATMORE

YOUR TIME IS NOW

shawcross off

game ovah

watmore has caused all kinds of problems since he came on

>>50
Man city to buy him £100 million.

>>50

tfw Sunderland will simply never get relegated

Literally the new Wigan

>>53
But Wigan eventually got relegated, never to be seen again.

>>50

ginger
called Duncan
not scottish

u wot pal

when did sunderland start playing football again?

The future is bright

people just sit there videoing the game why both going

>>56
team isn't even that bad on paper

>>59
football's played on grass though mate

20 minutes to go! lets open that gab between us and shitcastle!

meddlin' Yedlin

pacebabby

how many times does Fletcher need to be kicked over before the stoke player gets a card!

Stoke will play in Europe next season.

>>64
did pretty well in Europe a few seasons ago

Are the benches covered or open top?

Am I expected to believe that players worth millions are supposed to sit in the rain?

I keep thinking its Sunday lads hahahaha

Should I go to my autistic friend's birthday party and hit on her challenged friends or stay home and watch laal get banged instead?

Blunderland are really struggling to play football atm

Stoke confirmed 1-0 smash and grab

>>69
only coz stoke players are just kicking the fuck out of the sunderland players, shitty stoke!

GET THE FUCK IN

stook

THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

MAGIC OF BOG SIM

BOG SIM
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FUCK OFF BLUNDERLAND

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WATMORE

lel

stoke

>>77
Honestly couldn't give a shit anymore.

BIGSAMBOOZLED

When was Big Sam appointed?

>>79
Was wondering when you'd show up.

DESIGNATED

stoke what the fuck are you doing

You now realise that Watmore has a first class degree in Economics and Business from Newcastle University.

>>86
YOU WAT WAT WAT
YOU WAT
YOU WAT
YOU WAT WAT WAT

>>86
he's the son of some FA bigwig IIRC

Has Fat Sam got 9 out of the ten points Sunderland have had this season? What match did he first manage Sunderland?

>>89
holy shit did this really happen

hahahahahahha holy fuck thats hilarious

somehow, magically, there are three clubs that are worse than sunderland again

extension and pay rise to o'shea, larsson and cattermole ASAP