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Appreciate you’re approaching this fairly and it’s clearly a sensitive issue that I certainly don’t think Guehi has handled well. I sincerely hope the squad stays likeable when you guys get to watch them! But how do you know he doesn’t like you mate? This is the point I’ve been trying to say and I don’t think it’s helpful to anyone to infer someone’s views are hateful because of a poorly thought out gesture. He might love everyone but feel he has to have certain views on what is right and wrong based on his (in our view, backward) environment that he’s been brought up in? It doesn’t mean he likes the LGBTQ community any less or not want them at their games, clubs etc. I know this sort of thing because it’s the environment I was in for over 20 years - typically loving and kind people who don’t dislike people because of their sexual orientation and think everyone including themselves are sinners. I appreciate the topic of gay marriage becomes very difficult here, so it ends up becoming conflicting to them and likely that’s happened with Guehi here. There are many Christians the above doesn’t apply to mind, but thankfully no evidence of that with Guehi.

I don’t feel nervous about these games anymore really. It’s a hard game, we could lose, that’s sport. We’ll give it everything and they won’t relish playing us. We also have more than enough games to collect the points we need. Really hope we beat them obviously.

And he's gone

2 hours left for any tight arse stragglers 😉 The price of a bottom shelf Easter egg or half an Aldi special gets you the chance to dream. Put ya ££s where ya XG is 🤞

When I was young and had no sense I bought a flute for 50 pence The only song that I could play Was fuck Eddie Howe and the Toon Army* And after that I bought a drum And all I could play was fuck the scum And after that I bought a guitar And all I could play was fuck Shearer** Packet of sweets and a Portuguese tan, Eddie Howe has Maddie McCann * Pronounced Armay because Army doesn't rhyme with play ** Pronounced Sheerar because Shearer doesn't rhyme with guitar.

It's so weird when a player trains to the point that his crossing is much better, his shooting is much better, and his on field intelligence and runs are a lot better and this feels so wildly unusual, i mean if murphy can do it can every other 'middling' winger? In truth reflects marvelously on his attitude, and the fact that he has got better so steadily it was hard to notice. He went from pretty useless to being a reliable decent runner who didn't really contribute creatively enough to this. I wonder is the the trick is he did it so under the radar opposition scouts havent been reporting him as a threat back and so he never gets doubled up on? He also reminds me a bit of how Pep deployed Sterling when he was good, not so much in style of play but in terms of just making sure at all times there is threat from out wide to stretch defence and stop teams just defending super narrow and deep. Turns out if you have a player always willing to press, always willing to run at defence, always willing to be direct every minute of the game they pick up goals and assists

Fair, but the fans did by and large encourage the takeover. Hope my summary above explained things . I see no evidence he’s being the awful human he’s been made out to be.

Perhaps he just needs all things to be fair and equal?

I skim read that and added another word between cerebral and looking, was very confused what angle you were going for with the display...

Oooof, doesn’t inspire confidence

If Lewis Hall hadn’t been injured for the end of the season he’d be my player of the season. As it stands it’s between Tonali and Murphy. Tonali probably takes it but in terms of a player playing at their limit almost every game I don’t think anyone matches Murphy

Aye, needs to knock that shit on the head. You’re a keeper in the championship, have some humility lad. You can act the big lad when you’ve come to Newcastle and won the premier league

Dunno if there’ll be a right moment for this but it might be nice to do a dedicated Tindall flag when Eddie gets back. Maybe one mad dog, one cerebral-looking dog and Tindall in the foreground.

Maybe they're actually just one person who's an absolute beast and wants to earn two sets of wages?

Brilliant interview with Downey, bet there are very few assistant managers who could step into the limelight as seamlessly as Tindall has done. Don’t think there’s any reason to be worried, they’ve obviously decided that Howe will focus on his recovery and he trusts the rest of the staff to continue the work until he’s ready. I think this kind of stuff is almost as pleasing as the football results TBH, such a long way away from Charnley doing every executive role and How’s the Bacon giving everyone half the week off.

Watching Hearts v Aberdeen in the Scottish FA Cup Semi on BBC iPlayer. That bloody Mitov that had a worldie against us for Cambridge on Trippier's debut is the Aberdeen keeper.

That interview and growing up as a Chelsea fan in Cumbria...stay clear.

I'm a bundle of nerves already for this one. I think it will be a really hard game and I'll be more than happy if we don't lose

Feel like this is one we may miss Howe. Emery is very good tactically and their bench means they can change the game if needed. A point would be fantastic.

Just don’t lose and maintain the gap.

No lunchtime game on Easter Saturday is a travesty

Djurgården in the ECL and Bodø/Glimt in the EL, haven't beat better teams along the way, then? Does that make the ECL and EL "rubbish"? All competitions will inevitably start with some teams being "clear favorites", which most of the times sees those favorites win the competition in the end. That's been the case for the English League Cup just as it's been the case for most European competitions, but that doesn't mean the competitions are "rubbish". People would talk down our LC victory this season saying shit like "it's only/just the League Cup!" – but is it "only/just" the League Cup, really? Because for the last 12 seasons befre our victory this season, all winning teams had also finished in the top 4 the same season (which we will end up doing as well, for that matter...) – does that mean it's not a big deal winning that cup? Why isn't it a big deal for teams to win the EL or/and the ECL? Is it because the CL exists which is a "bigger" trophy/competition ran by the same hosts? If so, that would mean the FA Cup would be a bigger achievement than the League Cup for an English side to win, which on paper doesn't even make sense as the FA Cup is filled up by tons of "lesser" teams making the way to the final per definition "easier" for the teams getting there than a League Cup run would've been for them, as that competition only contains teams from the top four divisions in England. For Bodø/Glimt to get to the semis, they've defeated: Porto, Braga, Besiktas, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Twente, Olympiakos and Lazio. For Djurgården to get to the semis, they've defeated: Panathinaikos, TNS, Vikingur, Legia, Pafos and Rapid Wien. (teams in bold are teams they've defeated during their off-season period – meaning they've been doing pre-season friendlies and training at the same time, which is usually an absolute killer for teams from Norway/Sweden whenever they've advanced from a European group stage) For Arsenal to get to the semis, they've defeated: PSG, Shaktar, Sporting Lisbon, Monaco, Dinamo Zagreb, Gironoa, PSV and Real Madrid. Yes, there are more "obviously" good sides among those defeated by Arsenal than the ones defeated by the two Scandinavian sides. That said, based on pre-match odds set by bookies, Bodø/Glimt were only pre-match favorites for 1 (MtA) out of their 7 matchups. Djurgården for 2 out of their 6 (TNS+Vikingur). Why are people using teams like these two outperforming their expectations as a negative when discussing the competitions? If anything, cinderella stories like those two should be used as a positive when discussing them, as it shows the pre-tournament favorites to win aren't always likely to be the ones to get to the final four – or even the final – when all is said and done. Whereas, for the CL, the opposite has been true for as long as I can remember and the pre-tournament favorites have pretty much always been the ones left in it from the QF's onward? Yes, both the EL and ECL might still end up having finals made up of two teams that were favourites to win it before this season's competition began. But that's the case for pretty much any cup-competition, as well as league competition, throughout the history of football as a sport in all nations and in all continental-cups? But in the "shit" EL and ECL, you at least get to experience some late-stage upsets and get interesting, unique, stories of clubs and their backgrounds. I just don't get why people are so negative towards these two competitions attitude-wise when they're from one of the "big five" countries in Europe, whilst everyone else in Europe view them as legitimate, quality, competitions for teams that aren't "CL quality" at present. ––––––– All that said, I wish the CL consisted only of teams that had won the league in their respective nation the season prior and the ECL consisting only of the cup-winners (or the 2nd placed team in the cup if the same team won the league and cup that season). The EL, IMO, should've been where all the non-league winners and non-cup winners should've been fucking about. But we'll never get that again, because there's just not enough money in it for UEFA and the big FA's in Europe to back such options. At the same time, the reason we no longer see teams from "lesser" nations in Europe do well in European competitions like they used to do until the mid-to-late 90s is down to that very same reason; greed. When the "Big 5" european leagues started getting additional spots in the CL, the "lesser" leagues/teams suddenly started receiving less money than they once did and it cemented the "big leagues" as the "big leagues" in public opinion, probably for the rest of time. So far in the 24/25 season; Bodø/Glimt has earned £22.75 million in prize money – their total 2024 season budget was ca £12.5 million. Djurgården has earned £12.86 million in prize money – their total 2024 budget was ca £8 million. Arsenal has earned £100 million in prize money – you all know the size of a PL club's budgets... How are teams from "lesser" leagues ever to put up a challenge against the "big teams" when all the money's been diverted to the "big five" leagues and their clubs for almost three straight decades now? It's not like a club like Djurgården isn't well-supported in its home nation, either, as they had a higher average attendance for home games in Allsvenskan than Ipswich, Fulham, Crystal Palace, Brentford and Bournemouth has had this season in the Premier League. It's just another example of how money ruined the modern game

Both of the stepped up their game last season before going ballistic this season aswell 🤔