Ashley17

Ruud Gullit was a twat, pass it on

Apparently in talks with Inter Milan

Gary Speed runs through the NUFC squad before the 1999 FA Cup final.

This was a lovely moment

The Carabao is gone but Villa showed yesterday they are far from infallible and missing a few too.

Squad will hopefully be healthier than when we last played them in the Champions League

Obviously this has been surpassed by last year now but fucking hell, look how many people turned out to applaud the FA Cup runners up, 13th in the PL and shit to watch.

I think the only saving grace this season is that so many teams are shite. Or have been shite for spells. It must be the stodgiest season of all time, every weekend is a slog.

Thank you, so much of this stuff I had forgotten about. I have just watched Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet sing Abide with Me before the final

I have been in a 1998 FA Cup final rabbit hole so you can marvel at John Barnes pretending to use a computer and analysing our squad

It just felt like it was sell to buy, and those being sold were proven and loved but ultimately approaching a time where value would start to dip. Those that came in were obviously much worse. It would have been interesting to see if things would have been much different if Shearer had stayed fit. Other than Gillespie there wasn’t an awful lot of creativity left, I don’t think Barnes was part of the plan he was just a freebie roll of the dice when Shearer got crocked. Even after selling Tino he got Andreas Andersson who was absolutely shite. The money really wasn’t invested well.

I’ve watched most of the 97/98 season on vhs this week (that is my video being quoted above) and I fucking hate the bloke. Yes, there were circumstances - we had little money, the squad was ageing, Shearer got injured and so on. But he set the team up so negatively, he even said he was happy with a draw at Stevenage. He was lucky Barnes played as well as he did because Rush was tragic. But even off the pitch, I don’t feel like he was ever really into it. He was also the polar opposite of KK, I mean look at this and contrast it to how full of beans Keegan was unveiling Warren Barton Also some Stevenage stuff: I know the narrative was Bobby turned us down but on the day Keegan left, Dalglish was odds on with the bookies. He was definitely first choice in my view.

The size of the table for the press conference

You can hear the fans singing it here

5,000 people turned up to watch this. The 90s were a mental time in football

It did yeah. Typical it would be us like. Totally agree though with the time taken on set pieces. Maybe not 8 seconds but it takes Arsenal well over 40 seconds for every set piece, it all adds up. I feel like when the scores are level time wasted is never added on, like it somehow only applies when a team is blatantly wasting time.

Dollars isn’t it?

What a bloke man

Of course you want to see a montage of Peter Beardsley set to Carly Simon for a Question of Sport

Yes he had just turned 35. Apparently we bid £500k but Pleat wanted £1m, which we wouldn't pay. So we basically tapped him up on national television.

Had forgotten we tried to get Waddle back in 96. Wonder if it was instead of or as well as Tino?

It's mostly MOTD highlights, local news snippets or he'll have stop started record on a live match. I'll have a look at those specific matches, I don't want to upload them to YT in case they get pulled for copyright but I can share them via other means.

Fans of Still not worthy of a thread will know I'm in a 1995 VHS bunker. The news hit me hard as I've watched so much of this recently. Imagine a manager being this nice to the opposition now!

A lot of money for a full back. Often wonder what becomes of these mad cunt fans .

Class that finishing 16th nor losing to Grimsby was enough to get him sacked but upsetting Jason Wilcox? Sacked immediately