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Ah man my friend from America was here that week - he’s taken me to all sorts of Philly sports matches and that was his first Newcastle game. He had me buy him the custard / banana away strip with 23 Ameobi after it. Screamer from Raylor! We started in the home end and when I told the Palace steward he’d come here from America to watch the game, he let us shift into the away end. Offered him a tenner and he refused to accept it. Sometimes people aren’t awful.

That works for me

Que?

BBC commentator called him Manuel Schär.

Next Wednesday (26th) good for me and Morty!

Keen

He looks like a melted waxwork of the “let’s get ready to rumble” guy

With the obvious caveat of sour grapes, an idea to improve the game and stop Guardiola’s strategy of boring the opposition into defeat: you can’t have more than 40/50 passes without a shot on goal. They have won the title - for entertainment’s sake, why bother with the keep-ball? Desperately boring. Still, a great day for Abu Dhabi.

If you ever wanted an illustration of what happens when you have an actual coaching structure vs life under a complete chancer, there it was. Totally outclassed by a team playing largely in second gear who knew all they had to do was narrow the passing options of our centre halves. It was that easy.

Extraordinarily poor, twice.

Sides are well matched, but one has a real manager and therefore plays with intention and strategy.

All Mimmsy were my borogroves

Peréz cost 100k - sometimes there’s just good scouting. Whether good scouting is worth a fig with our coaching set up is a different issue.

It worries me that he considers Almirón a reserve

Well don’t I feel stupid

Do the dhgate ones actually come with the puma logo, crest and sponsor? On their website the pictures are always missing at least one of them

Ah, the wisdom of superstition.

He still owes me £25. (He’s a genuinely lovely chap and witty as fuck.) £25!

He’s a Bein pundit

Yeh man - he just runs into Antonio and falls over. Weak as cats piss

This is legitimately the same cycle every week

This thread would make for an amazing PhD analysis of the human psyche during lockdown and having to interact mainly online. You can now almost time the pendulum swinging between optimism and dread, and you can actually predict patterns in the way posters react to tweets based solely on who they’re from, not what they say.

You’d imagine he’d get a game for a championship side in their run-in. Glad he’s gone though, another really hard-to-flush Ashley nugget finally embraces the u-bend. Looking forward to Charnley’s nosedive next.

It’s so tiresome how black and white it has to be for most people. He has done some good things, but against a backdrop of pretty low expectations and a lot of apathy. However, he’s still what most of us thought he’d be at absolute best - mediocre, uninspiring and lacking in long-term plan. The football is unsustainably bad if you understand most normal modern metrics (we are criminally reliant on our diamond in the rough goalkeeper, for a start). That’s before we get to the fact that no actual Newcastle fan would get into bed with Ashley that gratefully and try to temper ambitions. It was even evident after the last game - “if you’d have told me we’d be just 2 points of arsenal with 8 games left....” - it’s the same banal and really transparent attempts at spin for the purpose of self-preservation you see in the government briefings. It’s unconvinced and awkward and it’s super telling that he has to keep doing it and getting his white English drinking buds from 90s Man United to do the same. I just think it’s a really fair solution: he got to manage a club way out of his league but for Ashley, enhanced his reputation, earned some good money and can now cry off about how hard done by he was and get a few more managerial gigs out of it. Nonetheless, in the interests of balance, I think some highlights have been that he’s clearly got a tune out of Shelvey, the players are willing to throw themselves about and “put it in” for him and he has, undeniably, played some part in making the side difficult to beat in most games. I don’t even think it’s rude or harsh - thanks for being an acceptable steward at the fag end of a largely crap time for the club, you didn’t embarrass us or yourself really and you helped us stay up / got us to mid table or whatever the end result is. Cheers, no hard feelings, but the situation has changed and unfortunately we have higher ambitions that we think we need a more successful manager to satisfy. Here’s lots of money for your inconvenience.

Well put. That’s perfectly analysed - well done.