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They've got so fucking much time on the ball, fuck's sake man. All the time in the world

Well less than five hours ago I was belting out Snow's "Informer" on a karaoke machine, and now I'm off for a fry-up and cans round a mate's house before our taxi to town, which is going to be kill or cure.

Lose today and that's six consecutive home defeats, must be miserable being a Palace season ticket holder at the moment. This would equal Palace's record strings of home defeats in 1925 and 1998. One more and he'll be a record breaker.

Awesome

Where's Nikos Dabizas these days? If he's not paying a visit back to Toon I think I've just seen his doppelganger.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3497826/Rafa-Benitez-tells-underperforming-Newcastle-United-players-no-days-new-manager-bids-up.html Think I'd heard of this 'tradition' before but for fuck's sake No wonder they took to the pitch like a bunch of strangers again every week and looking half asleep. You'd think when you're running out of ideas for what's going wrong to the point you take a punt on starting Riviere up front in the game widely tipped as your last chance to avoid the sack, you might have experimented with actually meeting your players for a quick training session before a match just to see if that had anything to do with it. "Hi lads, long time no see. Nice few days off? Anyway, just before we go out on the pitch, everyone remember what we went over in training on Wednesday? Was it Wednesday?"

rafu pls

Why on earth would you do that to yourself

Remember being massively disappointed with how cagey we were under Dalglish at the 98 final and the lack of changes to try and change the game until it was too late. Was seeing our last real chance of a trophy slip away before my eyes and he didn't seem too bothered, just wanted to continue keep it tight and not lose by 3 or 4. Remember the our fans screaming "attack, attack, attack" as we passed it about in our own half with 20 minutes to go Guess he got us to the final, so there's that.

More weird fantasies about us.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/former-sunderland-midfielder-cabral-charged-with-two-counts-of-rape-and-will-face-trial-next-month-a6931881.html So when a fringe player is accused of rape they sack him straight away before he's even charged. So much for all this "Oh, they couldn't sack Johnson or suspend him when he was charged because it's innocent until proven guilty innit, he could sue them"

BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-35811404

De Jong managed to come on without the fourth official dropping the board on his head.

Can't see us finishing a chance like. Shame, because some horrible wizened mackem (I presume) woman cackled and clapped loudly in the pub when they scored and made a really big show of it.

Leicester City: Schmeichel; Simpson, Huth, Morgan, Fuchs; Mahrez, Kante, Drinkwater, Albrighton; Okazaki, Vardy. Subs: Schwarzer, Wasilewski, Amartey, Inler, Gray, Schlupp, Ulloa. NUFC: Elliot, Taylor, Janmaat, Lascelles, Colback; Sissoko, Anita, Shelvey, Pérez; Wijnaldum, Mitrovic Subs: Darlow, Sterry, Saivet, Townsend, De Jong, Riviere, Doumbia Referee: Craig Pawson (South Yorkshire) Attendance: - Current score: 1-0 Okazaki '24 1-0 Booked: Sent off: Television coverage: Sky Sports 1 Radio coverage: BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Newcastle. Online radio coverage in the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_five_live/. Online radio coverage outside the UK: www.nufc.co.uk. Yes, that means you have to pay. PLEASE DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DISCUSS, REQUEST OR PROVIDE LINKS TO ILLEGAL MATCH STREAMS. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL BE BANNED. See www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php?topic=19161.0 for more information.

Telegraph article today Flashback! How Newcastle won nation's hearts, but not the title, in 1996 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/03/13/how-newcastle-won-nations-hearts-but-not-the-title-in-1996/

NAH NAH NAH NAH-NAH GETTING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED NAH NAH-NAH-NAH NAH!

So refreshing to hear stuff like this after the meaningless clichés and rambling wank from the last three chucklefucks we've had representing our club in front of the mic.

You've not encountered those ones? http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Atheist_professor_myth

The difference in stature to McClaren is startling. He has a "I will sort it" attitude. He's obviously very intelligent. The answers to the question about how it's a new experience for him to be in a relegation battle alone was a lot more insightful than the usual meaningless waffle from the likes of McClaren, Pardew, Allardyce etc.

Stelling's just playing devil's advocate. Generally speaks fondly of all the clubs in the north east. Yeah, definitely. Was at a talk in with him and he was very complimentary about the fans up here. Was particularly brutal when talking about Ashley.

Surprised Remi Garde hasn't jacked it in like, he looks absolutely broken. Someone asked him what positives there are at the club at the moment and he looked like he was about to cry.

They're like those wish fulfilment Facebook "true stories" about a Muslim woman in Tesco objecting to the Union Jack and getting a dressing down from a soldier's mum, or the smug atheist professor floored by the quick-witted response of a Christian student. "And THEN the Mag said "Well, Sunderland will never beat Newcastle by more than 5-1! Needless to say, my little lad put him straight on his history!" Mostly seem based on having some kind of trivial interaction with a Newcastle fan and then standing in the shower the next day imagining how they wish it had gone.

I love the "Mag in a..." ghost stories they tell each other