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Ref is from Hartlepool and it's only his second Premier League game.

Smilie material

For a split second he's about to whip his pants off as well as his shirt

Even more so that he fell on a nun.

Ah, head injury?

The fan should siu him.

Hot take, I don't think Wolverhampton are actually by far the greatest team the world has ever seen.

I guess the calendar month of March is probably the kindest little window of results you could look at for Steve. Two draws (both against teams in the top three) and two wins, so unbeaten in the period being considered. Conveniently just dodges the home loss to Swansea at the end of February and the derby defeat to Birmingham at the start of April.

Facebook algorithms have somehow deduced I like reading about Steve Bruce failing at things, so they served me up this unpleasant mental image this morning

Spurs: Lloris, Romero, Dier, Davies, Emerson, Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Doherty, Kulusevski, Son, Kane Subs: Sanchez, Winks, Rodon, Gollini, Bergwijn, Lucas Moura, White, Scarlett, Bowden NUFC: Dúbravka, Manquillo, Schär, Burn, Targett, Shelvey [C], Willock, Joelinton, Fraser, Saint-Maximin, Wood. Subs: Dummett, Lascelles, Ritchie, Krafth, Murphy, Darlow, Gayle, Longstaff, Bruno Guimaraes. Referee: Paul Tierney (Greater Manchester) Attendance: 57,553 Final score: 5-1 Schar 39' Davies 48' Son 54' Royal 63' Bergwijn 83' Booked: Saint-Maximin Burn Bentancur Sent off: Television coverage: Sky Sports Radio coverage: BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Newcastle. Online radio coverage in the UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_five_live/ Online radio coverage outside the UK:https://www.nufc.co.uk/liveaudio.html Post-match reaction can be found here https://newcastle-online.org/topic/37258-tottenham-hotspur-5-1-newcastle-united-030422/page/28/ PLEASE DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DISCUSS, REQUEST OR PROVIDE LINKS TO ILLEGAL MATCH STREAMS. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL BE BANNED. .

"But you can't change it, it's on the block-chain!" What happens to the Liverpool NFTs when stuff like this happens? You "buy" an NFT you think you own of Salah, but he goes to Real Madrid and typical agent shit happens where someone else claims to own the rights to his image and hits a cease and disist? Or, like 3 did with Chelsea, the sponsor on his NFT image's shirt demands not to be used on merch any more?

Short version, it doesn't. Long version...

Even more recently there were some daft scores

Of course, after the 5-1 they started bringing up the 9-1 result from literally over one hundred years ago

Throwback Thursday

Viz artist sticking the boot in

We're their any photos of the Saudi Flag in our end on Sunday? My mum is convinced they just mistook Brazilian flags because there's lots of reports about it but very little in the way of photographic evidence.

Sorry, I'm too thick to work out which way round this is - do you mean buying Chelsea would be seen as buying a second-hand car because someone else has already made them big, or buying a smaller club is like buying a second hand car because if you were minted you'd have bought Chelsea?

Blimey, they're crazier than I thought, those things are terrifying.

Why buy Chelsea? They don't even have the decent sized ground of most big clubs.. Rather than spending 2bn on Chelsea, why just pull a club out of a hat and buy *rummage* Bradford for nowt and plow £2bn into it, instantly making them much better than Chelsea? I mean if you want a London club pop down the road and buy Fulham.

I'm a bit fucked off for pundits to go "Oh, we need to look at this now and stop this happening, poor Chelsea, reverse the Newcastle takeover". Now it's gone to shit for a London club you think it should change? Are they going to give back their titles? No. They went from being sold to Ken fucking Bates for a quid to league titles, cups and champions league, they get to keep all their titles and memories, get bailed out from the fallout and then nobody else is allowed to get a leg-up to the top six in the same way? They shouldn't be punished for what their owner did? We were punished for what Ashley did for a decade and a half, that's not our fault. Same with "Oh, we don't think owners should be able to sponsor the clubs" now it might give us some money, was fine when Sports Direct was plastered everywhere for fucking nowt. Assuming Chelsea don't go out of business and become a mid-lower table premier league club, or even a championship club, I'd have fucking loved us to have been them. I'm 40 now and I'd have loved to have spent my years from 25-now following us in Europe and winning titles, even if it came crashing down in the end.

Has anyone checked if the VAR official's wife and kids are OK, or if they're duct-taped in a basement somewhere?

You see, I wouldn't mind if the mackems came up with something like this instead of "ISIS United"