Okay, so this may be little more than a fledgling urban myth but I do hope it’s true.

Apparently, so the tale goes, ahead of kick off at St James’s Park today, the visiting Sunderland fans smashed up all the toilets in the away section.

Unfortunately their appalling lack of foresight meant they were left without “a pot to piss in” for the rest of the match. I am sure, what with them being kept behind at the end, those prematch beers must really have been starting to hurt.

Smashing toilets is silly. Smashing the only toilets you have is doubly daft.

That’s if the tale is true of course.

Oh and rather wonderfully we won.

*Update on the Louise loves Roy situation: All had been quiet on the Ms Taylor front. We’d actually started to believe that all the Geordie requests to have her removed from covering Newcastle had worked. But she’s back and bitterer than ever - thanks to Newcastle’s win over Sunderland. Check this out and ask yourself - how gutted is she that Roy’s boys didn’t win?

* Update 2.  The “other” Guardian Sunderland supporter Barry Glendenning takes a hissy fit on the Guardian footie podcast calling Newcastle fans muppets to incredulous noises from his colleagues.  Later he compounds this by defending his actions on the Guardian blog - calling commenters (including meee): “sanctimonious, paranoid and humourless cranks“.  Such fun.