Theregulars

Wonder what Shefki Kuqi is up to

Perhaps different players just have different priorities, circumstances and opportunities that align at different times.

But literally everyone wearing or seeing it would (and does) know better

Quite like it, simple but effective. That in long sleeve will do me nicely.

I don’t really think most journalists are journalists these days, no. I don’t think what I said constitutes endorsement of the standard of his information-sharing, and yeh I’d rather he provided concrete information or wrote interesting opinion things. But watching him poke fun at people scrabbling about for minute-by-minute transfer updates like crackheads rustling through a bin is quite funny, because he’s taking the piss out of their eminently pisstake-worthy behaviour. If you actually get riled up or offended by a regional football writer not giving you the hit you crave then you’ve bigger problems than Luke Edwards, in my view.

IKEA nonce club

Think it’s quite funny to see him on the wind-up, and as set out above think he’s genuinely emotionally invested in Newcastle and wants the best for it. Once you adjust to the reality that none of them really have full or accurate information, the club knowingly and deliberately use them and that their career viability depends on how many clicks and views they can garner, it’s quite funny to watch someone openly bait people and for them to fall for it every time. Not to say he’s not embarrassed himself or seemed to have mislead people on occasion, his guehi stuff last summer was not helpful.

Yeh that literally repeats blocks of his last article.

Insisting on the EFL and Carabao branding shows real commitment. The QR code is another highlight.

I think I’m fundamentally convinced he cares about the club, city and region. He takes the piss a bit too much and works for an awful paper but my dad worked for their sports desk and from my experience their sports people don’t have the same politics as the paper.

He doesn’t help himself at all. I do quite like him though.

So, so spot on. Completely accurate. The hipster Billy Bean narrative is so inaccurate.

I’d like to think that players who go there realise they’ll never make a meaningful connection with a properly obsessed fanbase who will worship them as heroes, and want out accordingly after establishing themselves. There’s no excitement for football in that area.

Bale took a few seasons to become what he became… totally different player though, I’d be so surprised if he ever became that offensively proficient

An lo, the circle of piss was born

Surprised no full kit wanker among them

Pathos certainly the word

TraffyNoBalls25

If he wins and scores us pens most of our fans won’t give a shiny shit I reckon

Yeh that tracks, my impression from watching him is that he is quite an effective diver.

Interested to see how many of them he's won himself.

Interestingly enough I was at a conference with some of their people yesterday and asked about it after reading this thread, they directed me to the same webpage.

For the sake of context I only buy the real ones, but mainly because I find the fakes are horrible to play football or exercise in. They’re like truck tarpaulin sometimes.

I’m sure every step of the production chain of the real shirts has also been paying a legal and fair wage… I think if the clubs didn’t show such frequent contempt for the fans and nakedly display that we’re seen as customers there’d be more merit to getting animated, but their conduct makes it fair game in some ways.

Whole thing was just dripping of a personal agenda, obviously Ange took the piss out of him or something.