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That period was mental, poor kid

I get that, and I accept that any human will be biased. But I suppose the question is what basis we use to suspect that any individual might be biased in any situation. I would say the rule about not officiating the team you support is enough (although I would imagine most refs could do that without a problem). And in general it’s just a distraction that fans shouldn’t give a second thought to.

That conclusion doesn’t really follow from that premise. Of course refs are human and have the flaws that everyone has (although then again they are explicitly trained/focused on avoiding bias I assume). But that’s different to having any evidence that any individual ref is biased in any particular way. If we said “aye, this guy supports chelsea and has dinner with Thomas Tuchel, but we trust him to be fair”, that would be a different matter

I’m amazed people can be bothered to remember the names of referees or check who the referee is TBH. They’re not an important factor in anything.

Mad that Wilson and Fraser were considered one of the best and most productive partnerships in the league at one point.

Colne FC players having ice baths in bins.

I thought it was decent, lots of fouls of course. Nice to see some new players.

Bellingham is absolute taste.

Very smart management by Rafa as well IIRC. Eased him into form perfectly.

We need complete collapse and multiple relegations like, it’s the only thing that makes sense. Anything else is against the laws of nature.

Surely Bruce’s objections are just for show anyway? He knew we wouldn’t be buying any players when he took the job.

Makes me so angry They’d be better off just saying nothing.

Ridiculous offensive and pointless shite. As if any functioning club would ever have to put out a statement like that. FYI NUFC, you don’t spend anything on anything other than players either.

Maybe, or one of the fast ones like Greenwood. Doubt they'll do it, but worth a thought.

Is it normal that tickets for the next home game aren't on sale? Just noticed browsing the main site, it's only in 2 weeks.

Think Mount looks a bit lost, and Kane is always dropping into his space. TBH I wouldn't be against just playing Kane behind another striker, we have a few.

Beautiful man.

Townsend is pony, but I guess Rafa has a plan for him.

I mean, he's already agreed to come here and be back-up to Steve Bruce.

Sports Direct blades that you can’t even commit proper ritual suicide with.

That’s the thing, if Jones is the ready-made replacement then it doesn’t matter either way. All you’d get is a manager that looks less like he enjoys regular Greggs orgies.

Tend to agree but I think the fans are a different factor this time around. If the atmosphere becomes really hostile, he’s got a lot to deal with. As much as the fans get stick for being happy clappers etc, SJP can still get difficult when it wants to.

Break out the dusters.

Except this time with a shite manager.

I don’t see why you would even need to attend NUFC press conferences. I could write much better stuff sitting at home, it’s not like they learn anything.