BlueStar

Can't even slap your lass with a Christmas tree nowadays. World's gone mad mate.

Liam's saving grace is that the cringe stuff about being a "man ager" and "respecting the ball" probably sounds smart as fuck to someone as vacant as Cole Palmer

Mustn't have respected the ball enough

Any idea which bars in town are opening early for this?

Michael Bridges was on the table next to me in a Monkseaton pub watching our match

Ultra VAR just dropped

6:20 - "Outside of Liverpool if I ever wanted anyone to win the league it would be Newcastle. They’re my number two team in the Premier League."

I've never seen a kick off which was a sliding tackle scattering the entire opposition like bowling pins, but now I want to.

It was still going not too long ago wasn't it? Very small userbase but thick as thieves. Very cliquey but had some well respected users from back in the day.

It's such a weird thing to do, and it makes me wonder about the motivation - "When we want to do a huddle around the match ball in the centre circle just before a game where we're not kicking off, there's the ref and opposing players in the way" OK, so do it somewhere else. Or are they thinking this is their haka and it proves their superiority that everyone else has to walk away and give them respect and space for their sacred ritual that they've just invented?

He's definitely told them "When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me". His nutrition regime is probably telling them "What do you get if you take the C off chips? That's right - hips."

I mean, he managed to age those Chelsea players, in the last ten minutes they were plodding around like they were in their 50s.

You mean your "man ager" shitlist

Apparently celebrating any successes our team has had recently is a direct dig at them not having experienced the same.

Getting themselves angry about hypothetical displays they've made up in their own minds, normal behaviour

The natural enemy of the clean sheet, perfectly apt.

It's Paul Tierney, who reffed our second leg semi-final vs Southampton where he kept pulling out random drop-balls.

Hadn't seen this Newcastle United vs Barcelona referee escaped punishment for alleged kick out at player this season https://www.fourfourtwo.com/person/newcastle-united-vs-barcelona-referee-escaped-punishment-for-alleged-kick-out-at-player-this-season

I put this in the nonce megathread in GC, but it's footy related too so...

I mean it's not tinfoil, the ref doesn't have to have an email saying let Barca win, he's just a fucking nobody who's far less powerful than the teenage millionaire with hundreds of thousands of rabid plastic fans who he's meant to be dishing out discipline to. He knows that if he's seen as being responsible to Yamal missing a game and supposedly devaluing the next TV event it's detrimental to his career.

Also you're not allowed to kick the ball away when the opposition have a free kick, but a Barca player can pick it up, throw it away to be caught by another Barca player, who throws it further away to be caught by another Barca player, and while they're doing this netball drill taking the ball half way up the fucking pitch all their players get back into position, and that's OK. Then as soon as we go "OK, we'll do that as well then" this prick of a ref is suddenly "Woah woah woah lads, you can't do that"

Did it look as bad on the telly as it did in the ground? Did they show him repeatedly put his whistle in his mouth to give us a free kick, see Barca break with the ball and change his mind?

Absolutely incorrigible wanker, never going to change.