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What's this song they're playing on BBC Newcastle right now?

Ah, sweet memories of 2002. I remember what it was like out on the streets after the matches against Italy and Spain. I live right next to a massive 8-lane road and it was completely filled with people in red going absolutely mental. Traffic was completely fucked over all across the city but nobody cared. A couple mates of mine were jumping up and down on a car and actually caved the roof in. The crazy thing was, the owner didn't mind! We just apologized, offered to pay for repairs, and everyone went right back to celebrating. Certainly hoping for some more of this this year.

Lee He's been one of my favorite players since he made his pro debut and I'm ridiculously happy that he's making it in the prem. We should definitely look to sign him if Bolton go down. I would for a full calendar year.

Gerrard. None of us want to admit that he's a great player but unfortunately he just is. I don't think any of he others on the list would be able to hold up an utter turboshit side to the extent Gerrard has been doing for years. The caveat being that my interest in English football started around 2004-ish so I haven't seen scholes or becks in their primes.

You should have posted that earlier. Have lost about 15€ just because of that game (had a single bet on Ivory Coast and two accumulators involving that game) Honestly wouldn't have backed us to win either mate, Drogba and co. Were in very poor form today

South Korea 2 - 0 ivory coast lee dong guk (the ex smoggies flop) scores a magnificent volley in the 3rd minute Our midfield basically rips them apart. Definitely the best Korean team ever.

Crap, I wish I had been here for the draw. Could have had some epic banter with babatunde at least

Like I said. Why? Why do you think he's a disgrace? Because so far the only reason you've given is not dropping our top scorer.

Fair enough. When and how?

As far as I can tell you just have very strong pre-determined opinions about players and managers. Those you like can do no wrong, those you don't are guaranteed to screw up everything. Am I wrong?

Hillarious. Care to tell everyone what tells you that Hughton won't sign a CM this summer other than the fact that you don't like him?

Which card are you trying to pull here, the foreign one, the bandwagon-jumper one, or the armchair-fan one?

Why? They may play "pretty" football but we have been more effective, "pretty" football doesn't do much good in the premiership either unless you have the players and I can't see them spending £100m+ to do it. Where did I mention pretty football? I think Bob Matthews and Nigel Pearson (I'm convinved it's Leicester winning the playoffs) will go into next season fully aware that the weakest aspect of the team will need to be addressed. Wont happen with us, I just can't see it. We addressed some weak spots in this transfer window, we still didn't get the central midfielder we needed but we did pretty well. True, but who displaced within the existing squad? Kadar, Ryan Taylor perhaps, Pancrate and Ranger. I have zero faith that Hughton will go out there and try to bring a central midfielder to the club that will edge Nolan out of the team. You think we'll go down based on the assumption that we won't strengthen at CM during the transfer window, your justification for which being "you can't see it." ...Can't argue with that, I suppose.

We were away on a s*** pitch in pouring rain with half of our first-choice squad missing. It's hardly surprising that the quality of football was less than epic. I see it as a plus that we were able to grind out a comfortable win under the circumstances.

This is exactly the kind of soft, unremarkable win that Championship-winning teams should be able to pull off week-in and week-out.

Was expecting a let-down once I found out that my first match in 5 months was going to be away with half our first-choice players missing. Pretty much what I anticipated so far. We're getting dragged around but thanks to the gulf of quality they're not really looking threatening... Really doesn't feel like they could score. Should be fine as long as we stay focused.

My opinion on Shay Given is pretty much the same as my opinion on Kevin Keegan.

Saturday midnight kickoff, match on tv. Looks like this will be my first match since september probably means we'll lose

Since they brought in a new, young manager who's made wholesale changes to their squad and tactics. They're no longer just shameless cheating bastards, they're shameless cheating bastards with loads of pace and skill. That plus us lacking our foreign-based players, not having trained together almost at all, not taking this tournament seriously, and a f***ing blind ref. (Is it just me or is it a terrible idea to assign a ref from Hong Kong to a China match?) Still an absolutely shameful performance though.

Titus Bramble and Newcastle United is just about the worst footballer + club match ever. Surely we can find someone decent who isn't completely incapable of handling pressure. Shockingly lazy scouting if this is true imo.

South Korea 0 - 3 China. Out first loss to them in 32 years.

FFS their population is 50k. Considering that half of that is female and another half of the rest is either too old or too young, you literally only have to be the best player out of 50 people to make the national squad.

You've picked the right place to commiserate

I highly doubt any manager actually TELLS his players to go play long ball (possibly excluding fat Sam.) It's just that we end up playing that way naturally due to not having a center midfield. It's been that way for several seasons and even more managers now. Hardly a hughton specific issue.