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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/12/05/truth-time-grow-deal/

Six days before the match?!

Top of the board and 21 pages so far! https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/how-long-can-rafa-last.1405980/

Spurs away will get moved to midweek if either team gets to the quarter finals.........well, if Spurs do!

UK broadcast details for our @FIFAWorldCup group games have been confirmed: Tunisia Monday 18 June @BBCSport Panama Sunday 24 June @BBCSport Belgium Thursday 28 June @ITV

Ha ha get in Silva! Silva said: 'When he made this comparison it does not make sense. It is the same thing if I compare his work with a national team coach like Gareth Southgate. 'It's like me comparing the goals Richarlison scores in the Premier League to Peter Crouch. Crouch is 37, Richarlison is 20, Crouch has played so many games and Richarlison far less. 'If you want easy work for you, go to see what he was doing when he was 40 years old or see his first seven seasons as a coach what he was doing. Then look at what I am doing. Or you can wait until I am 63 years old and we can compare what I have done. That is the best solution.'

Clattenburg 'allowed Tottenham to self-destruct' at Chelsea in 2016 http://dailym.ai/2km31hR

Our recent form Last 10 FAC Third Round ties: 2016/17 Birmingham City (a) drew 1-1 2015/16 Watford (a) lost 0-1 2014/15 Leicester City (a) lost 0-1 2013/14 Cardiff City (h) lost 1-2 2012/13 Brighton and Hove Albion (a) lost 0-2 2011/12 Blackburn Rovers (h) won 2-1 2010/11 Stevenage (a) lost 1-3 2009/10 Plymouth Argyle (a) drew 0-0 2008/09 Hull City (a) drew 0-0 2007/08 Stoke City (a) drew 0-0

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rafa-benitez-feels-the-strain-of-newcastles-deficiencies-29thmg9gl?shareToken=2de55f2390dd8e9ae26c3ed585351bd9 Rafa Benítez feels the strain of Newcastle’s deficiencies George Caulkin, Northern Sports Correspondent December 4 2017, 12:01am, The Times Benítez has repeatedly switched personnel and tactics as he struggles to find a formula that works Rafa Benítez was not in an expansive mood, but defeat is the enemy of chit-chat. Newcastle United have lost five of their past six matches and won only once since mid-September. A team that was revelling in overachievement two months ago is now hunkering down into a familiar sense of restlessness. Would January be a big month for Newcastle, Benítez was asked after his team’s loss at Stamford Bridge. “I have no idea,” the Spaniard said. Really? He did not know? “I have no idea,” he said. Because of the drawn-out uncertainty over the club’s prospective takeover? “I have no idea,” Benítez said. Conversation, meet brick wall. Newcastle are about where they should be in the Premier League, but their route to 14th place has been deflating. Momentum, whether good or ill, can be fierce on Tyneside, and the encouragement of those consecutive early-season victories over West Ham United, Swansea City and Stoke City, bolstered when Mike Ashley declared his intent to sell the club, has dissipated. The agitation that Benítez felt during a long summer of missed opportunities in the transfer market had only been buried, not banished; he always suspected results would turn. “We knew from day one that we will be in the bottom half of the league,” the manager said. “It’s not a surprise to anyone.” Newcastle left themselves short, particularly up front, where Benítez scrabbled to bring in Joselu from Stoke for £5 million. It was never enough, not when there is no luxury of a go-to player; if any component of the team dips below its maximum, they will lose. They can carry not a scrap of excess flesh. That was how it was at Chelsea. Newcastle grasped the lead through Dwight Gayle, but their energy was undermined by three defensive mistakes. They are not good enough to be anything other than 100 per cent. “Yes,” Benítez said. “That is very clear.” Newcastle are again in limbo. If Amanda Staveley (or any other bidder), fails to buy the club, there will be more austerity next month. If she succeeds — and Ashley’s muddled ownership, the division and incompetence, has long since run its course — Benítez will have a chance to regroup. Longer term, he is more likely to stay. That tension is bubbling back, but in the meantime Newcastle need points from successive home games against Leicester City and Everton. “We can’t keep saying we are still OK in the table,” Ayoze Pérez said. “This is the moment to turn things around.” Benítez constantly switches his personnel and tactics — there were five at the back at Chelsea — groping for a formula. Is he learning about his players during this difficult run? “Yeah, we know a lot about our team,” Benítez said. “But at the same time we know about the other teams and still we can’t stop them.” In its own way, that was pretty brutal.

Liverpool, Everton, Leicester - 9/2 PP enhanced

Bore off man! Two away matches for us as well! 'Honestly, it is very difficult to think this is a coincidence,' fumed Conte. 'Once it can happen. Twice it can happen. Then you start to be perplexed. The Qarabag situation was incredible. And I must be honest, it has happened again. Newcastle played on Tuesday, we played on Wednesday and now we play on Saturday at 12.30”

Wow! Idiotic, deluded fat-headed clown! Sam Allardyce: Let’s put it this way. If you look at my track record why wouldn’t I be here irrespective of Marco Silva? I have every respect for MS and I’m not criticising MS, but Marco Silva’s track record has got no comparison whatsoever with mine because he got Hull relegated

Ha ha embarrassing that! “Erm referee, we are waiting on you”!

Rafa thread 4853836! The usual bitter plebs all over it! https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/how-long-can-rafa-last.1405980/

Win the group; 2R - Mon July 2 - 7pm QF - Fri July 6 - 7pm SF - Tues July 10 - 7pm F - Sun July 15 - 4pm Runner up; 2R - Tues July 3 - 7pm QF - Sat July 7 - 3pm SF - Weds July 11 - 7pm F - Sun July 15 - 4pm (I think!)

:lol: "When I left Newcastle, people still came up, some geordie fans, saying: ‘We’re disappointed you got the sack’. I didn’t get the sack, I left, and when I did leave we were ninth”

One thing for certain is Rafa will be massively up for this after how their wanker fans went on when he was appointed there especially after he won them a trophy! 0-2!

Fuck me - did anyone just hear him on SSN?! It’s incredible the amount of bull-shit this wanker spouts!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/nov/30/gianfranco-zola-maradona-asprilla-chelsea-west-ham-manager It is tempting to wonder how certain former team-mates of his might have engaged with social media had it been available during their playing days. What might we have seen from a young Diego Maradona, with whom Zola won a Serie A title at Napoli? Faustino Asprilla’s Twitter account is raucous enough even in retirement. Who was the wilder of that pair? Zola has no hesitation. “Tino by miles. Tino was another league. But always in a nice way. Not that Maradona was in a bad way. But Tino was really, really, a constant search for trouble. Good trouble.”

Good read! Graham Taylor spoke of World Cup failure and Gazza in his final weeks http://dailym.ai/2BAbORx

Link? Quotes? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42035411 Scroll down for his interview. "Congratulations to our players, our fans, they support the team. But congratulations as well for the fans of Newcastle. Fantastic, what I saw. At 0-2, 0-3, they support always the team, very very good. I think they are a good example for everyone." He was massively praising us pre-match too! The Mackems will be FEWWWWIN!