Chris_R

He said easy money, not easy extra money.

Oh if you drag religion in, sure. I was talking about people who normally think rationally though.

See whilst I'm not comparing the derbies, I kinda disagree that same city inherently breeds more dislike. I think having your rivals in the same city, ultimately you know they're the same people, they're not really any different to you. You live next to them, you walk past them every day, they're your mates and your work colleagues. After the match, you've still got to be (reasonably!) polite to your next door neighbour. With Sunderland, they're a different people. A different accent, from a different town with clearly different ways of thinking. We don't just hate them for footballing reasons, we hate everything they represent. The Brexity little Tommy Robinson supporting, blue-pop-swilling little bell-whiffs that they are.

Impressive grift to collect £17k then just re-use some bits of card you've already got lying round. Guess their flag group will be off on a well-deserved holiday to the Seychelles after that nice little money-earner.

Absolutely love it. Get it up them. They've (rightfully) dished it out for years, now it's our turn.

I get your point but we're basically picking from a pool of about 13 fit players.

Just take their stuff down? Stick it in a back room for a few hours.

I refer the right honourable gentleman to my previous answer!

All these kit comments contradicting my memories just reinforcing how drunk I have to get just to sit through these matches, and how successfully I've since managed to blank any remnants of them from my mind.

My perception, rightly or wrongly (possibly wrongly!), is that whenever we play there we play in our change kit and that whenever they play at home, they play in red and white tops but white shorts. Can't recall them ever being in their away kit at our place, or us ever being in our home kit at theirs. Only exception I can think of is the 1-4 at their place when Shearer scored with his head bandaged up.

Hahaha, how small time, having to resort to calling it that. Do they put their addresses down as "Wear and Tyne" too?

No need anyway. If you wanted to alter your consciousness, just take a few deep lung-fulls of ICI's finest local air, but just hope it's not quite enough to make you go all Zaphod Beeblebrox and sprout you an extra head.

We've tried a few times to shut up shop and just defend for the last 30 minutes. I don't think it's ever worked, which makes it even more bold that were trying it from kickoff.

'Groin issue' technically true if the issue being that he's been putting his groin in other lasses?

It's irrelevant, doesn't matter who is on the bench because we don't adequately use our subs anyway.

Yeah Burn v Salah could be painful.

It barely ever does. Any team needs to offer a threat at the other end of the pitch or it'll end badly more often than not.

Smash FFP, win the league by 11 points then let them deduct 10. Simple.

I'd be astonished if at least some of the Newcastle players didn't occasionally read this forum. Ridiculous to think they wouldn't.

All human beings are worth the same respect. However supermarket workers are treat badly because their bosses, rightfully or wrongly, deem they can easily be replaced by someone equally as competent with very little effort and almost zero additional cost. Whether you like it or not, the same is unlikely to be true of Sandro Tonali. You can debate the moral rights and wrongs of that disparity all you like, and I'll likely agree with you on much of it. But it's still true.

I'm sure we could try to cancel his contract now, the problem would be that we then just let a £55m player walk off into the sunset for nothing and AC Milan have all our money. Getting the contract cancelled isn't massively problematic. Getting your money back from the other party is the tricky bit. (Not that I'm suggesting we should, I stand by Tonali and hope he comes good, which I'm highly confident he will)

It's neither of these things. It's just because we've been given lots of tickets and they don't like it. If we'd been given just 500 seats but they were all in corporate parts of the north stand, they'd be absolutely overjoyed.

Form is temporary, class is permanent. He's having a bit of a shitter at the moment, but he's been magnificent since he signed. He'll come good again.

We're not going to be able to just stick 10 behind the ball for 30 minutes.