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Son should be banned for that celebration. You’re not a teenage Singaporean girl, donkey walloper.

Villa are a really filthy side under Gerrard in my view. They’re so needlessly aggressive in the tackle.

Shows how much the gap is growing between PL and Champo.

Chelsea loaned Giggs to Southampton

Really want Joelinton to snap Maddison like the mangy little twiglet he is. Horrible club, horrible city, horrible players and horrible manager.

In the game at half time and for some reason came out kamikaze. Bad coaching and even poorer play.

Extremely disappointing. It’s one thing to lose away to a better side, that’s ok and we can move on. But to take an entirely self-inflicted humping with the players looking clueless and the manager looking about the same puts us under needless pressure. Top to bottom from 43 minutes onwards has been a joke. Shameful.

Completely gone to shit. Embarrassing.

Missed the preparation for brazil games, no? Howe is consistent in that respect - those who prepare tend to play.

Think it was more because he was outrageously talented and scored / set up some blinders, as well as being a rare ray of hope in a bleak time for us. I adore him as much as the next guy but he had some indifferent games for us.

I’ll be following you around all weekend as per so I’m in for some scran. If I say chili, you say padi

I think this is persuasive, if that’s one of his perceived values then I guess the negotiations centre more on a provision blocking him from using knowledge acquired under their employment. When I moved law firms I had a 3 month gardening leave for that exact reason, so they could take first stab at the (very few) clients I had.

Either is fine for me - slight preference for 12 on Sunday but that’s purely because i have an allergy to morning exercise

I’ve not woken up earlier than 9AM for about 2 years so this should be entertaining

Yup, I’m available.

Ginger Pirlo looks up, emboldened. He surveys the landscape, he is hungry for goals, and ready for battle. can do first 3 weekends but in Canada for the final one.

I remember living in Singapore and watching NUFC get humbled by Sunderland and Bournemouth at like midnight - 2AM with the Singapore Newcastle supporters club, a few expats but mainly local Singaporeans who all fell in love with the Keegan or Robson sides on telly. Those were weirdly grim nights - everyone knew what was likely to happen, but it was like this odd ritual. That kind of crap makes this all so much better. When I arrived there we still had Pardew - I remember him making one of his double left back switches against Villa, and it was the only time I heard a Singaporean use the c word. When I lived there I couldn’t bring myself to wear a Toon top or tell people who I supported, so I literally would say Bayern Munich as my then girlfriend is from there and I could at least feign interest. It was like football become high end shopping, just following this nice to look at but ultimately meaningless designer brand. I cannot accurately relay to you how happy I am that is over. It was so discombobulating and stressful. “Bruce is doing a good job” / “what more do you want?” / “Ashley has you debt free” / “You don’t have a divine right to win the league” - all that kind of drivel is now proven for what it was and you can laugh directly in the face of the dickheads who said it. That’s another facet I love about this situation, just going up to friends and asking how Bruce got on last night or whether they think Ashley should buy Chelsea given his immense abilities as a benevolent club owner and debt-hater.

I was thinking about this as I drove home from St Mary’s. I realised that I had just had one of the best nights in years - I was purely and completely content, all sung out, felt smug and proud of the community. Letting all the love and excitement has been almost like a drug hit, I have let it wash over me over the last month. It’s been so beautiful to watch our club be competent and respectable, and attract plainly good players and decent people. I will bleat about it to whatever poor prick happens to be in the vicinity. So the circumstances that led to that being possible; that’s how it felt. The opposite of everything good about being a football supporter. If you’d have told me when I was a teenager / early twenties that Newcastle United would make me feel uncontrollably sad and furious on a daily basis, that id have to fake apathy, that id adopt other sides just like some cheap way to numb the pain, I’d have looked at you like you were pissing on my shoes while insulting my father in Spanish. In a really horrible way he was also my gateway to learning how awful and corrupt the world can be, and that having to like very viscerally understand that “bad” often wins. I genuinely couldn’t grasp for a few years why we wouldn’t try, it didn’t compute in how I used to understand the world. It really took away some innocence and joy. Just a bewilderingly slow, painful bleed which made you feel stupid and ashamed for still watching or following. I never could do the apathy, and I sincerely wanted to. I also hated the way it felt like nobody understood or really cared, because outside of us, they didn’t. It felt like someone you knew and loved was getting abused in broad daylight and nobody could do a damn thing. Fuck him, man. Fuck him. I wish him pure ill and I hope every unhappiness, misfortune and pain manifests for him. I sincerely believe that he’s a malevolent criminal sociopath. Whoever raised that should be so deeply ashamed and concerned. If he was run over by a bus then raped by a shark I’d still hope a bird shat on him. The Mike, The.

I'm in the away end for this - get in. Any fellow forumites? Last time I went here we lost 0-4 and @Neesy expertly trolled John Carver while Tim Krul looked sad yet understanding, kind of like your mate's old labrador.

Imagine this with trippier in place of Krafth and ASM in for Murphy. That’s tantalising. We look so well coached.

Circumstances have played out to leave Leeds in serious danger. Very high stakes time to appoint a comparative unknown in place of such a massive personality. I’m not sure they have the quality to stay up without whatever extra Bielsa was getting from them.

That Rodri handball decision is so blatantly wrong that it took the enjoyment out of watching Lampard lose, which takes some doing.

Sadly not, I don't use Twitter!

I’m not even convinced by the “need a squad” argument. One of the many players who have played for us during the Ashley years who you can’t conceivably see playing at another premier league side.

But what undoubtedly makes him right for the role is that he’s English. Dan can identify a bargain on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke, even through quite severe drizzle. Those limp-wristed chorizo nonces Monchi and Txiki Begiristain watch cycling and don’t even wear ties around the office, the fucking creeps. Ashworth means Ashworth.