clintdempsey

It's rather special this winning a cup lark isn't it? I was watching it at home with my son who's 7 and finally has started to fall in love with football. Mostly because of Alexander Isak. This game and this win pushed him over the edge for a lifelong love affair with Newcastle methinks. A lovely moment to share with him after a rough few months after me and the wife split up after 13 years. There's definitely healing in this feeling and. I've been easily irritated and not in the best mood for a while but when I realized we actually would go on and win it something changed within me. I fucking love this club, this manager and this group of players.

Legend. Plain and simple. I've had my doubts from time to time (which goes with the territory) but he and his team have answered that again and again. What a feeling this is!

Giant of a man. What a fucking legend he is. ❤️

Shitting it here. For the love of god bring us home!

What a boring fucking game this has been. Doesn't matter if we manage to hold on of course but it's been almost emotionless.

There’s all kinds of issues with us at the moment tbh. Guess we’re defending a 1-1 with an eye towards extra time and pens. ☹️

”Control” is an overstatement like. They haven’t had to get out of first gear all game, we’ve gifted them two goals and haven’t tested Alisson all night. We were defiantly defending a 1-0 deficit more like. 😣

Piss poor from Tonali and shambolic defending. We don’t make it easy for ourselves. ☹️

Been better the last 10 mins tbh. Next goal crucial.

This turgid. Which in someways is to be expected. But I fucking can’t stand when it looks like we’re not even trying. Sit deep. Absorb pressure and fail. Get played through time and time again. Let in a soft early goal. We look absolutely terrified.

Just like it did at the Etihad. 😬

Fucking hell. That’s a saveable shot. He’s done.

It’s a tough call that’s for sure. The kicker is that Popey hasn’t really been on it since his shoulder injury. So it’s a big risk which ever way you look at it. Hopefully it works out.

I sure hope you’re right.

Fucking hell. No Isak. And Pope in again. This will be a massacre.

Well, we’ll learn from this! Or maybe not. Good for 35 mins of the game again which in the end was enough. Proper shit 2nd half performance (again). Pope piss poor which in turn made Schär and Burn even more nervous than usual, Bruno poor. Hall great, Miley good for 65 mins. I’d definitely put Pope back on the bench for Wednesday. And tell the team to never, ever ever try and sit on a lead again. Go hell for leather with intensity and press, use subs proactively instead of giving opponents every chance to get back in the game.

PSR against us again.

Pope has been fucking terrible today tbh. Nervous as fuck and makes the whole back line shitter than usual.

Our inability to keep the ball is further enhanced by our ability to give it to opponents in the best possible positions. And if they mess it up we go again.

Really looking forward to taking this performance and mentality (at least the first 45 mins of it) to Anfield. 🫣

Let’s get a fifth and put this to bed sharpish. Step the fuck up.

The sad thing is that this isn’t really surprising. We’ve done this too many times. Against both better and worse sides than Forest. We don’t seem to learn which is a bit scary to say the least.

Pretty sure you are. This ain’t the first time we’re in this position. 😅

For the first 18 months under Eddie we went after another goal every time. Since then we have started trying to ”be smart” and it’s fucking frustrating. We give teams the initiative and here we are. Nervy last 30 mins. Fucking hell.

Same here. Frustrating as fuck. We do it too often tbh.