Superior Acuña

Does make me a bit nostalgic - tops off and tongue in cheek cheers for a consolation goal getting battered

Wellity wellity wellity

Conceded 2 or more in 7 of the last 8 league games. Miss that clean sheet streak

Watching this in a bar in Portland packed mostly with Arsenal fans (some Newcastle). Gone to watch outside after the second and hearing ‘geordie twats’ among some Shakira chant.

When I was back and went to the Palace game on a resale, the two next to me were season ticket holders - they missed two goals by making sure they got in early for the half time queue. Winds me up no end.

OTD, courtesy of nufc.com 2006 Speaking about the vacant position of manager, Chairman Freddy Shepherd said: "There have been stories sweeping Tyneside about who I'm supposed to be meeting and where. It is highly organised and designed to make people a lot of money. "There was even a 'leaked' full colour brochure doing the rounds in Newcastle which laid out Ottmar Hitzfeld's CV and his record as a manager. "It's amazing the lengths people will go to start a rumour which means they can bet for or against a certain person getting the job. "But I can state here and now that there has been no approach to Hitzfeld and there are no plans to approach him. "I've said all along we will take our time over this appointment. We've rushed into things before and we've made mistakes, I admit that. "That's not the case this time. Glenn Roeder is an excellent caretaker, a really safe pair of hands so we can afford to make sure we appoint the right man without the necessity of being hurried into it."

I really hope we fuck them over after the way they took the Honey Monster off us and moved him into net.

If this guy's really such a genius who can revolutionize recruiting and turnover players for big profits, surely he's easily worth 15-20mil.

Did anyone actually engage with your point that you're in the fucking standing section? Or just get abused?

Different managers in alternate halves. It'll freak the opposition out - "What the fuck's Roy Evans doing in the dug out. Jesus, I need a drink."

I think there's very little chance of him being replaced by/at the end of this season. He will be in danger if the season ends on a disappointing note and then we have a bad start next season.

Just watched his interview. He's got good skin. Sign him up.

Keep hearing that but seems strange. I don’t watch them like, but doing pretty decent in league overall and still going in Europe

Mourinho is spot on for Dalglish, our Gullit has to still be playing though. Virgil van Dijk

Arsenal against our defence

For fuck sake man, throwing away the gains from those good away wins.

Was thinking about that game before, we're unrecognizable from that team.

We're going to end up conceding double what we did last season. Was 33 last year and we're already on 52.

That's 2+ goals conceded in the last four home games.

i'm pretty sure he's taking the piss. ("btw (by the way))

I oppose mic'd up refs on the grounds that it's massively cringe (or in my gen's language - 'wouldn't dare')

3 goals off being our top scorer in the PL outright, taking over Beardsley. Seemed inevitable but not sure about that anymore!

I strongly oppose the beer in sight of pitch rule. I've been to games on the continent where it's allowed and it really pissed me off. I'm not arsed about the beer specifically, but it encourages people to be going back and forth to buy beers (or worse, if available, calling roving sellers over for it). It's a really annoying distraction.

By far the worst thing about the game for me is VAR, I would completely scrap it and encourage a view that the referee and their mistakes are part of the game. I would consider implementing automated offside calls if they're truly instantaneous. I would have another crack at the handball rule. Penalties only for truly deliberate handballs, fuck all that 'unnatural stuff'. What is deliberate is at the referee's discretion, but it truly means deliberate. Consider in-direct free kicks for non-deliberate ones. Re-assert that for a pen to be given contact is not enough, the contact has to have caused them to fall. Contact then dive is not a pen. Referee's call. There'll be mistakes, I don't mind, prefer that. Perhaps most radical thing I'd consider is awarding a pen for denying a goalscoring opportunity regardless of whether it took place in the box. E.g. think of when Wilson got taken out by the keeper at Brighton a couple of seasons ago. (He got sent off but there were a few mins left so it was totally worth it).