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Your body doesn't give a shit what sort of goals you score - if you don't maintain it, you're more likely to be injured or not in optimum shape for action. It doesn't take a fitness genius to work it out. wat I don't give a fuck about how Hatem's body feels. I care about what kind of player he is. And none of those things have actually happened.

We've already won the Intertoto and that massive castle thing. Not a huge deal different to the League Cup nowadays. Bag-of-shit 2nd division Newcastle team flukes league cup via not actually playing anyone of worth and then beating Arsenal's U18s on pens. Something to tell the grandkids. If you can guarantee we knock out the first teams of Chelsea, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea again, Arsenal and Barcelona, then I'll consider changing my vote.

was really gutted he didn't do his push ups properly when he was scoring two of the best goals i've ever seen Newcastle score

Look at fucking Pastore(?) next to him man He's just gyrating against the ground, on his elbows ffs. Hatem is clearly far more experienced a slacker.

Or, your life has peaked and you should probably end it all right now because nothing will ever be better than this very moment.

Aye, it's not feeling like the statement I was hoping it would become.

Nah it was last night mate. 2-0.

The ref was correct though, it was Serious Foul Play "A player is guilty of serious foul play if he uses excessive. force or brutality against an opponent when challenging for the ball when it is in play. − “Using excessive force” means that the player has far. exceeded the necessary use of force and is in danger of injuring his opponent." None of those things are even remotely true. It was Vurnon. There was zero force/brutality. It was just a late tackle. You absolute vagina. You conveniently missed out.... Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force and endangering the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play. Both feet were off the floor which means he is not in control of the tackle, studs were showing and endangered the safety of the opponent, its a clear red card and if it was the other way and it was a Wolves player you would have wanted the same outcome no doubt. The fact it was Vernon and he's about as big as an Umpa Lumpa has nothing to do with it I "conveniently" just pasted the first thing google showed me. I also "conveniently" didn't post the whole rule book. http://i.imgur.com/v08o8TZ.png In conclusion, "excessive force" is laughable. He went for the tackle in slow fucking motion, didn't go anywhere near him with studs, and kicked him with the top of his foot. It's a booking at the very most. And even then that's bordering on vagina territory. tl;dr: Absolute vagina.

The ref was correct though, it was Serious Foul Play "A player is guilty of serious foul play if he uses excessive. force or brutality against an opponent when challenging for the ball when it is in play. − “Using excessive force” means that the player has far. exceeded the necessary use of force and is in danger of injuring his opponent." None of those things are even remotely true. It was Vurnon. There was zero force/brutality. It was just a late tackle. You absolute vagina.

Football should be about winning trophies (not the Championship). Being able to get thumped of Sky's big boys wouldn't bring as much joy as a cup win. Aye but it isn't. There are different trophies with different levels of gravitas. And winning the league cup as a Championship team is just pointless. There's no pride in winning a tournament in which half the teams barely even try. It'd be slightly different with the FA Cup, but the bigger teams still don't really give a s*** until later rounds. Just seems really pointless being the shitty club that fluked a cup. I want to win trophies because we're the f***ing best, not because no-one else could be arsed. We aren't really going to be the best though are we. Man city and Liverpool both got to the final and took it seriously last season and Arsenal Chelsea and Leicester all had a decent team out last night. The better teams take the league cup more seriously than people think. If we had beat Arsenal in the final in 99 that wouldn't of made us the best. I'm sure we came about 11th that season too. Winning that final or the league cup as a championship team would both be as good Alright, I'm happy to downgrade from "the best" to "one of the best", or "competing to be one of the best". We finished 2nd the season before we finished 11th, so it's alreet. Achieving what the great Birmingham City achieved doesn't appeal to me a great deal.

Football should be about winning trophies (not the Championship). Being able to get thumped of Sky's big boys wouldn't bring as much joy as a cup win. Aye but it isn't. There are different trophies with different levels of gravitas. And winning the league cup as a Championship team is just pointless. There's no pride in winning a tournament in which half the teams barely even try. It'd be slightly different with the FA Cup, but the bigger teams still don't really give a shit until later rounds. Just seems really pointless being the shitty club that fluked a cup. I want to win trophies because we're the fucking best, not because no-one else could be arsed.

Commentators wish Fat Sam was our manager by the sounds of it.

Ando(?) ejaculated and it didn't even go in.

"the government set minimum wage, what am I supposed to do?" Pay more than the minimum wage? Especially to those contracted for 30 minutes of work every month. Maybe then you'd get a few non scumbag charvs applying for jobs there.

Can you be better prepared for an away game than they are? Beat the team on Saturday, no need to travel home and back, beat the team again on Tuesday. 0-7

I feel like there's something even more damning about being a FKW in an away kit.

Shit championship team fluking a cup win doesn't exactly feel like a proud trophy winning moment like. Nee point. No matter how near to death I am.

We scored six goals once so we're not allowed to criticize his tactics.

Apart from there were loads of bars showing the 3pm games last time I was home at least. With dodgy European satellites and the like.

Got to say I'm pleasantly surprised about how the Daryl Murphy signing has worked out.

Aye its on BeIN sports USA.

I mean, he was also born in the suburbs of Paris. If Newcastle were the best team in England and wanted to sign me even though I knew I might not make the team, I'd still be signing for Newcastle over signing for some mid table alsorans. I'm sure he's being fat lazy Hatem in training, which I'm not defending, but you know what you're getting when you sign him, so banishing him like this seems ridiculous. Still hope he can turn it round and be the boss on the big stage, but not hugely shocked it's gone this way.

People who haven't clicked in here must think there's an excessive amount of post match analysis going on for a single midweek game against QPR I'd say this would be thread worthy but I'm not sure what we'd get from it other than relentless circular arguments.

The trouble is that if you start allowing clubs to provide access to matches on an ad-hoc club-by-club basis, you're getting closer to a La Liga type system where the TV money pours into specific clubs and everyone else is left with fuck all. The Championship/Football League has tried before to provide more access to games and it took an entire TV network down with it. The demand simply isn't there even in the UK, outside of a few clubs with big enough fanbases to support it, so I suspect the one camera setup will remain for the foreseeable future. That and the costs of doing it would out-weight the money that comes in from it. For example if only newcastle fans had access to watching every game live, then we would have to do the setup for all away games. It doesn't have to be fancy sky coverage with flying cameras all over the joint. There are cameras at the games already. The goals arrive on SSN within minutes during weekday games. All of this is already being done in the championship, and likely in league one and two too.

The trouble is that if you start allowing clubs to provide access to matches on an ad-hoc club-by-club basis, you're getting closer to a La Liga type system where the TV money pours into specific clubs and everyone else is left with fuck all. Perfectly easy to get round that by funneling all the money into one big pot, or a pot per league or something. Even if it was available per football club website, there'd still be price structure and the streams would likely come from a single source. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say something like this could benefit the smaller clubs should the money be shared out equally.