What is going on at Sunderland

They couldn't score in a brothel if they had £50 notes wrapped round there knobs...

Is it just me or does Di Canio seem to be losing the plot the way he goes about business, doing things like slating players in the press, his strict discipline, dont get me wrong, being disciplined is good, but it does not need to be so public, is there a chance he could be losing the dressing room with the fans not far behind, one positive i will say about him, yesterday he could have just put his head down, give a quick wave and thumbs up for the fans and he done with it, so I thought it was different for him to face the crowd down, whether he should have done that is another question as Match of the Day it was a very tense and seemingly quite hostile atmosphere with emotions running very high...

I actually like Paolo Di Canio, I always have, and while I am not really a Sunderland fan, I want nothing more than to see him succeed at Sunderland, but he is quite hotheaded, he has a passion for the game, and he is ultimately a fan himself and I think he can identify with fans, and from what I have heard about him over the last few years is that when his team gets beat it hits him hard and he is not afraid to stand up and take blame where it is due to him.

Must say, he was a fantastic player, everyone seems to bring up him shoving Paul Alcock at Hillsborough, but people forget his sportsmanship, in a game between West Ham v Everton, Paul Gerrard, the Everton went down after injuring his leg, play went on around the keeper, the ball was lobbed towards Di Canio, just think, play had not been stopped, Di Canio could have controlled it and walked it into the net, he didn't, ball gets lobbed up to him, Di Canio, seeing that Paul Gerrard was injured and was not getting anytime soon, caught the ball to ensure play was stopped, I think PDC even got in the Refs notebook for Handball for his trouble, he later won a Fair Play Award for that incident, what he did was probably one of the most selfless acts I have seen from a footballer, especially in the game today, I wonder if people like Alex Ferguson would have tolerated a show of sportsmanship in todays money driven game.

One of my favourite Di Canio antics was his argument with Frank Lampard with Di Canio winning the argumemt and went on to score...

Back to the original point, what is going wrong

Just been looking through OK Travel in the Bygone Era and they had quite a few daily runs to Blackpool, what was the purpose of this as it is a long ride and buses/coaches must have come close to being run into ground, did OK have tendered work in Lancashire and used these services as way of putting Vehicles in place to fulfill contracts, I cannot figure who benefitted from that service and they always seemed a canny presence in Cumbria around Keswick and Penrith...

I know OK specialised in finding gaps in the market to run commercially, but how sustainable was it being miles away from there base, some services being 100+ miles away, did they operate outstations in deepest darkest Cumbria

http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/19/dog-is-dop...n-4055039/

How much does that dog look like Vladimir Putin, lol, does anyone remember the cat a few years ago that people said looked like Hitler, one scary looking Moggie if i remember correctly...

Any other good lookalikes anyone can remember, a few I can think of

A potato-Jimmy Hill
Jesus in a slice of toast
And there is a GNE Driver at Deptford who is the absolute spit of Adrian Chiles

Just another of Mista Fozzs daft threads, lol

Heres a strange one for you, i signed up with Facebook and my profile pic of facebook went as my profile pic on here, i changed it to a bus photo on here and then i noticed it had changed back to my facebook photo the following day, this has happened twice now, dno whats causing it.

Is it me or has the website being going off last few days

As an attempt to bring the North West to you i decided to post some information about my North West, North Wales and North Yorkshire based Bus Group.



1. Website
2. Blog Site
3. Stagecoach Chester and Wirral Fanpage on Facebook.


So what do we offer?

North West Bus News (some of it comes to you first before anyone else!)
Up to date Fleetlists (With more to come very soon)
Links to over Websites (This Forum will have its own area on my homepage)
Blog Posts about Things that are going on in the area/s we cover
Photos of Buses
Video Clips of Buses
and much more....

We have Facebook Page for the Blog Site and for the Website (see our links page) all have 100 Likes or more! if you look at the home page you will see a coming soon area, this will be changed to advertise this blog site as good will as we would like to be able to help this forum expand and the Group members like what they see.

Give us a like on Facebook and Admins if we can help you in any way to get more people using this forum just give me a message and i will try your idea

(Link to Website in my Sig)

Think that covers everything, Enjoy!

Hi guys
Just been planning a possible future 'Key bash' where I can use my Get Around Key for a £3.65 day ticket.
I am maybe thinking of a Citaro bus bash - basically, trying to run on as many routes that utilise Mercedes Citaros on a regular basis (bendy or standard).
Can anyone therefore help me please? I understand that Winlaton, Stanley, Deptford, Gateshead and Percy Main use the buses but can anyone please list the routes that they are normally used on please?

Might sound a bit odd but I love these kind of days out!

TIA
Sean

A National Express coach has been blown off the motorway near Darlington.

Martin Emmerson from Radio Newcastle has just tweeted a photo of it too.

@Martycricket dangerous conditions on the A1 near Darlington.
Wind caught this coach. No passengers onboard. Driver escaped. pic.twitter.com/q5xOy

Yesterday Runcorn Bridge had to be shut due to the fact someone climbed up the Bridge and started saying he would jump, ended up being shut for 17 hours as it took Police that long to talk him down!

more info: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/live...es-6024624

As well as my passion for Buses and Football, I love playing Video Games on my Xbox 360 which I have had 2 over the course of 6 Years due to my first one Breaking beyond repair.

I have played over 100 Games since I first got an Xbox, and my Gamerscore is just over 25,000 which isn't too bad. I personally love playing Fifa/Racing Games and of course Call of Duty and various other War Games.

I'm not a fan of Assasins Creed - Halo - Gears of War and other games like similar to that, otherwise I'll play anything

Having mentioned Games I love to play I have missed one out which is Grand Theft Auto, My all time Favourite Game from when it first came out on Playstation 1. But out of the whole lot so far GTA 3 and San Andreas have been my Favourite, Although GTA 4 wasn't far behind.

But this Tuesday GTA 5 comes out, in which I am positive is going to be the Greatest Game ever made, And I for one can't wait to play it. As i'm sure are many others across the world.

So the Question is what are Favourite Games etc.