Wullie

Can't get over how much I've managed to lose this weekend.

Had an absolute fucking nightmare today like, possibly my worst ever betting day.

Another piss poor result.

Scunthorpe are similar. 2nd in the form table at home to 2nd bottom in the form table Barnsley - 5/4.

What's the best way to guarantee profit on this? I'm not clever enough to work it out.

Got Sampdoria over 1.5 and Galatasaray -1 double, as well as a single on the former. Should have done it the other way round, got better than evens for Gala against the bottom side.

Not keen on Number 3's high viz jacket.

Sampdoria are extremely good value, noticed that last night. Very strong at home.

Nice went over 2.5 and both scored again.

Boro win

Arsenal

Wow. Very surprised, not because it clearly wasn't a foul by their own rules but just because they're cunts.

I thought we had no chance. If there's any debate they usually back the ref. Pretty much no one in football thought it was a red apart from Madley and Andy Gray. Apart from everyone on Sky Sports' coverage which is why I expected us to have no chance.

exactly man, i've asked for some examples of teams coming back from a similar situation in a derby (any derby) and not heard any yet, i'd doubt there were many especially away from home it just doesn't happen, yet accordingly to some we definitely should not have lost despite being absolute shite for most of the season i just don't see the point in whining and fucking moaning about ashley and recruitment when we entered the game beforehand knowing how shite that all was, the game turned on the decision and that's that...we still went at them to win and conceded a shite second after missing a good chance to equalise but that opinion is "weak" or whatever ron et al have dreamed up Why should it being a derby make any difference? Not every team that goes 1-0 down and a man down ends up being thrashed, especially when playing such an awful side. It happened at the weekend in Italy actually. Sassuolo conceded a penalty and lost a man against AC Milan in the first half. They then equalised midway through the second half before going on to lose 2-1 right at the end. This attitude of "the red card was game over" is pathetic given the state of the opposition. Why should derbies, that are always considered 'different' games, be considered different games? They're not different though. If we're treating it as such then we're at a handicap before kick off. Which we didn't, and we dominated the game. The sending off galvanised them into believing they could get a result and then the derby side of things became important - to them. As I said earlier we denied them and the crowd any hope or attempt to get into the game, the sending off changed that even though they didn't immediately play better as a result. A sending off and penalty at Leicester away would not evoke the same reaction from the opposition as it does in a derby, this should surely be obvious. Leicester are better so we'll probably end up spanked 5-0.

exactly man, i've asked for some examples of teams coming back from a similar situation in a derby (any derby) and not heard any yet, i'd doubt there were many especially away from home it just doesn't happen, yet accordingly to some we definitely should not have lost despite being absolute shite for most of the season i just don't see the point in whining and fucking moaning about ashley and recruitment when we entered the game beforehand knowing how shite that all was, the game turned on the decision and that's that...we still went at them to win and conceded a shite second after missing a good chance to equalise but that opinion is "weak" or whatever ron et al have dreamed up Why should it being a derby make any difference? Not every team that goes 1-0 down and a man down ends up being thrashed, especially when playing such an awful side. It happened at the weekend in Italy actually. Sassuolo conceded a penalty and lost a man against AC Milan in the first half. They then equalised midway through the second half before going on to lose 2-1 right at the end. This attitude of "the red card was game over" is pathetic given the state of the opposition. Why should derbies, that are always considered 'different' games, be considered different games? They're not different though. If we're treating it as such then we're at a handicap before kick off.

exactly man, i've asked for some examples of teams coming back from a similar situation in a derby (any derby) and not heard any yet, i'd doubt there were many especially away from home it just doesn't happen, yet accordingly to some we definitely should not have lost despite being absolute shite for most of the season i just don't see the point in whining and fucking moaning about ashley and recruitment when we entered the game beforehand knowing how shite that all was, the game turned on the decision and that's that...we still went at them to win and conceded a shite second after missing a good chance to equalise but that opinion is "weak" or whatever ron et al have dreamed up Why should it being a derby make any difference? Not every team that goes 1-0 down and a man down ends up being thrashed, especially when playing such an awful side. It happened at the weekend in Italy actually. Sassuolo conceded a penalty and lost a man against AC Milan in the first half. They then equalised midway through the second half before going on to lose 2-1 right at the end. This attitude of "the red card was game over" is pathetic given the state of the opposition.

Keep forgetting De Jong exists.

Whoever it was that gave the ok to sell Abeid for a pittance given the three options remaining in that position needs a good kicking tbh.

A "couple of goal scoring chances" against the worst team in the division. Impressive. We weren't anywhere near as good in the first half as people seem to think we were imo. A lot of the ball and very little genuine threat posed with it.

We didn't just not come back though, we got fucking thrashed. Again.

I've seen Newcastle dominate a first half then come out for the second and look a complete shower of shit hundreds of times, including several times this season. I've also seen the opposite where we improve dramatically after half time. That's football. We got screwed by the referee, no question, but we should have made sure of being at least a goal to the good coming up to half time. Nobody's fault that we didn't other than ours. What if they'd made tactical changes at half time and improved? What would the excuse have been then?

Aye, it does. It also continues after a red card. Really fucked off by how readily people have accepted a 3-0 shafting off such a wank team just because of that one bad decision halfway through. We passed it about nicely for a while, whoopy fucking do. In our position, and after five defeats in a row to this lot, the result was everything. You'd think some people had never seen a football match before: "We dominated the first half without creating a real chance. That means we were DEFINITELY going to win." Aye, football always works like that.

yes he was If he's got a pair of gloves we should give him a game in nets.

It's impossible to prove and he knows it. I don't have any reason to think he's not enough of a cunt to do that. Everything I know about him says that he is.

I don't know how you can all bear continuing to consume the media circus that surrounds football. I've pretty much given up on it all, TV, radio, podcasts. Occasionally I'll leave the sound on a broadcast and inevitably get wound up. Had 5Live on in the car before the games on Saturday and some presenter was being completely patronising to some Villa fans. He poured scorn on them really insultingly when one of them suggested they didn't want a new manager who would shut up shop every game and try and grind out 40 points, as he suggested they should. I hate absolutely everyone employed to talk and write about football.