Superior Acuña

Was meaning in England. Must be quite rare across continent too, but Juventus come to mind.

It's just so weird seeing this so soon after the Bruce days. It was just unimaginable.

That chance where Leao tried to backheel it. Not a good look for the CL from either team there. We must be the only team to have played in the modern CL, then the championship, then CL again.

Years ago in the toilets at St James' as 'have you ever seen a mackem in Milan' rang out a bloke loudly says "nar but ah fuckin aaalways see them in Matalan". Always stuck with me. Here we are again.

Were WC qualifiers weren’t they? Unless you mean meaningless cos Brazil always qualify.

The other weirdo:

Unnecessary ref/decision chat. Brief Howe interview on BBC national radio and it's all asking him about the disallowed goal and the cancelled pen. Who gives a fuck man, we won and neither of those decisions ended up mattering, nor were they particularly controversial.

I don't really take that as a slight on Newcastle or Fulham, I just take that as 'no looking back, I'm looking forward to my time here now'

Would love Michael Owen to see this discussion. edit: damn KI mentioned him just as I was typing

Yes, agree. Selfishly I like it at SJP as I find it's fairly easy to ignore the away fans up there if we're having a bad day. Would hate having the players celebrate with the away fans like we often do away. As an away fan it'd be shit. Sunderland away was significantly impacted as an experience when they moved us up a height.

Happy Matty Targett Frank tapping up Schar?

They yellow for Gordon is bollocks man. It’s a momentary outburst. Different if he was ranting on. Totally disproportionate.

I agree with that, but thought it would be given these days with his arm up like that.

Level with Sir Les

Think it was technically a pen. Harsh and soft, don't really like to see them given, but still.

Clever by Gordon. Never going to get the ball

What a load of bollocks

Reckon it's time to get the unpaid names on the yellow ticker.

I occasionally get irritated by guests but I still really like Totally on the whole. Love Jim Richardson.

I think when I was a kid it was a random ballot among Junior Magpies, that's what I believed at the time anyway. I was desperate to be one, but never saw it as likely. Closest I got was I went on a Junior Magpies away trip to Blackburn and they said they were going to pick one of us from the bus. Some cunt said it was his birthday straight away so they just gave it to him. Prick.

Yep, been there a few years. Roughly coinciding with Scotland's uplift...

Nee blasties?

'Republic of Korea'

Jesus Christ man reading through the comments on the Tyneside Life video. "Well done on calling out this person" and words to that affect repeated over and over. Like this is 'speaking truth to power' or some shit Oh no. I made a short comment saying it was embarrassing and I instantly got "I’m interested to hear how your views may differ from mine?"

I fucking hate seeing our fans being proper fucking thick dickheads like that. My blood pressure. With regards to the ownership of the club itself, I feel like I can largely turn my brain off to it enough to enjoy the football, given how pervasively rotten football is. But it's another thing when I see the people that I'll be celebrating with, joining in Trafalagar Sq etc are actively being shills and going after decent (if strategically poor) people protesting like that. (And that idiot calling people 'Marxist' , would love to hear him describe what he thinks that means) edit: See KI's gotten to this already^