Wullie

6/5 for over 2.5 Motherwell cards in the Scottish Cup final. I think they'll try and kick Celtic off the park.

Just the way it was at the time. https://www.newcastle-online.org/forum/index.php?topic=48631.0

Most people were actually fairly disappointed when he was dismissed, including me (check the thread on here). Fog cleared once I saw the tune Keegan ended up getting out of the same players.

Is that an unpopular opinion? I bloody hope not. That bloke posted the other day filming himself for the entire Chelsea game was worse like, what a cringe.

I'd have thought the advantage of a versatile squad would be to free up a couple of places for wildcards, players who offer something completely different - Carroll or Shelvey perhaps, or Sancho. But there's none of that really. Just a mass of defenders who can do a ropey job in midfield.

without looking surely that would be the case for most major nations with a strong national league (germany, spain, italy etc.)? I doubt there is another nation that will pick 18 of it's players exclusively from the top 6 of it's own domestic league and have aspirations of going far in the competition. We are shit from top to bottom and hope the big teams can prop us up as we have nothing to offer from decent foreign teams and don't trust players outside the top 10. Embarrassing really. 17 of the Spain squad that won the 2010 WC were from their top six. They've not announced their latest squad but the last one had 15 in. Don't really understand the correlation.

If he wanted a player who could reliably cover at full back and in midfield, he should have been on bended knee to James Milner imo.

Ten defenders and four midfielders.

Needed a Traore booking tonight for £250.

Vardy

Great attempt that.

How did you manage that when Spurs Leicester was BTTS after about ten minutes?

Pickford's another Mignolet imo. Looked miles better than he is down the road because mackem goalkeepers generally just have shot-stopping practice all day.

Salah will win it. RAWK will have a dedicated team voting for it over and over again as we speak.

Fucking weird like.

3-1 Levante

Fucking hell, pitch looks like a warzone at Hamburg as they go down for the first time ever, fans throwing fireworks onto the pitch.

Had over 2.5 on all 10 Ligue 2 games tonight at 83/1. 9 came in, other game went 2-0 after 10 minutes and stayed that way.

Some strange related quirks are that the best team in the Welsh League (TNS) actually play in England, and Chester's stadium is in both countries as the edge of one stand runs along the border - the pitch itself is in Wales. Clubs from small countries playing in other bigger leagues isn't uncommon though, Monaco being the obvious example. Also Vaduz and Derry City in Europe.

I hate him aswell. His shit patter and analogies man. Fuck off I was creased at Squires' first panel today.

I'd be surprised if they didn't get something at home to a clocked off Arsenal.

I've been reading Johnny Nic's writing for 15 years and I'm pretty certain he won't.

We're a fairly unique case amongst the teams that make up 'the rest' in that we should be an established top flight club where only really awful mismanagement should see us below the Premier League, much like Everton (and Aston Villa for that matter). I think we're about 9th in English football's post war league table. Obviously relegation has to be a bigger deal at some clubs than others - Boro as mentioned in the article have always been a yo-yo club. The PL is disproportionately made up at the moment by historically small clubs punching above their weight - God I used to go and watch Hartlepool with my dad and see Swansea, Bournemouth and Huddersfield season after season, these are clubs who are lucky to be in the second tier, never mind the top flight. Relegation should hold no fear for clubs like this. I absolutely detest the attitude of journalists as cited in the article - that the Premier League is everything and the rest not worth bothering with. Someone like that shouldn't be writing about football because they know nothing about the game in this country.

It's the negativity that makes the stays in the PL seem grimmer than they should be. Bournemouth are an example of a club basically going nowhere in mid-table but I doubt their fans are sick of things in the way some fans will be, and not least because they're a tiny club. They're consistently entertaining and score plenty of goals - usually stay up with plenty to spare as well. Them and their manager are a credit to the league.