Decky

Unbiased, impartial, descriptive, world class co-commentry. It's what he gets paid millions for. Are they not supposed to be biased for teams from their own country? It's unprofessional as fuck IMO. The english broadcast of a continental final with an English team is the local broadcast. Of course they're going to cheer for the local team. Has nothing to do with professionalism. This.

Unbiased, impartial, descriptive, world class co-commentry. It's what he gets paid millions for. Are they not supposed to be biased for teams from their own country?

Benfica's style of football reminds me of ours.

That does look a lot nicer than the leaked image. Hopefully the others are the same.

Pardew won't go for a cup run man. If we win the thing we're in the dreaded Europa League and no one wants that.

I was joking btw, I couldn't really give a shite about what the mackems do.

I'm going for a Chelsea win tonight. I've no particular reason to want either team to win so I decided to just go for another UK team.

No EL next season for him to hide behind. Although, if we play well we might qualify for the Europa League for the following season, what do we do then?

Fuck that shit.

The stress continues. I'm absolutely worried sick about the battle for NETDs.

If we just had a manager who wanted to win the FA Cup as much as we do we might actually stand a chance of both instead of just getting bummed in the 3rd round.

Yeah there's no way the players will be mentally switched on for this, whereas Arsenal will be really up for it.

You're saying that comfortable in the knowledge that we got straight back up and are ok now, who wouldn't go back and throw in an FA Cup as well? The fact is not every relegation goes as smoothly as ours last time. We'd be relying on players like Cabaye doing what the likes of Nolan did last time around, and can we realistically expect players like that to stay? The instrumental players we had last time have all either left us since, will possibly be leaving us this summer (Colo) and have simply got worse since (Jonas), so if it happens again it'll be completely different. I think a lot of fans are underestimating just how bad a relegation can be because of our season in the Championship a few years ago.

There's still the epic conclusion to the NETDs title race tbf.

The Championship season was simple, we were winning games and after a while knew we were coming back up so everyone was happy. I think people might look to that season and think yeah sure I'll take another season of that and the FA Cup, but there are no guarantees that another Championship season would go so smoothly.

They haven't improved much since being in the PL either. Of course they have man. We've players that are much better quality than teams in the lower leagues. If we had a manager of much better quality than lower league managers who actually wanted to win a cup we might actually do well, but to say our chances are no better than lower league teams is just stupid.

I'd take survival. Not only would winning the cup be somewhat dampened by the relegation, but what about long term when the joy wears off? What if we can't get out of the lower leagues for years like so many teams before us? Winning a cup would be absolutely amazing and a dream for all of us obviously, but I wouldn't take it over the potential future well being of the club. For me when you're in the Premier League you should have a much better advantage over teams in the football league and lower in terms of trying to win a cup, obviously for us we've had both bad luck and bad managers which have mean't we've gone without, but we got to finals since we last won it and our luck can change. Our chances of winning anything while in the lower leagues are much harder.

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Nah Wigan have no chance tonight like. I'd love to see the mackems go down, but this will be Wigan's third game in a week and it's one of the hardest in the fixture list.

If this season doesn't get him sacked then we're probably in for another 7 seasons of it.

... but you're sacked.

Fuck sake, what terrible news. Hopefully it's not true.

He should be sacked tomorrow now that we're safe, but I think we're in for yet another Pardew inspired hammering next week.

I sense you're going to be disappointed on at least a couple of those requirements Yep

No bullshit gameplans tomorrow please, just go out and batter them for 90 minutes. No trying to be too smart, no trying to change it up with daft subs, no sitting back and protecting a lead, none of that shit, just fucking win so we can put this nightmare behind us.