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"So important.. hydration" staggering insights coming from the commentary team here

So obviously going to give them a late equalizer. From Berahino.

Played his last game for us

Nah it is. Season over

If we're not giving Shelvy the ball why is he even out there.

When we press the panic button, we PRESS THE PANIC BUTTON

On its current trajectory, MLS will be on par quality-wise with the PL in 20 years. Easy. Playoffs, mascots, hokey logos and team names n' all. And NFL's gonna have a permanent team in London within the next few years. We're coming. You taking the piss with the first paragraph? As someone who follows both the PL and MLS intently, nope. It's fact. You need loads of domestic players of decent quality to have a good domestic league. You'll also have to change the rules on only allowing teams to have 3 designated players. Also the draft system will have to move into academies for different teams rather than drafts which would be a big change in America I would imagine. That's without even getting into loads of other stuff like trying to coax ambitious European players in their prime into moving to America Ah yes, like the whopping 35% domestic talent in the Premier League, known for their fantastic escapades and world cup wins for their national team. You can't just buy hundreds of quality players in one season, you need a decent American player base. Let's say someone like Wijnaldum, gets approached to play for New York City, he's not going to go there if he looks at the rest of the squad and they're all shite. What you have to do is to get loads of good or at least decent American players there first and then foreign players might go. For example, I wasn't alive at the time but I've heard of guys like Ossie Ardiles going to Spurs back years ago when that wasn't the norm in England. Would be have stayed there if there wasn't English players like Glenn Hoddle there at the same time with similar quality? They're clearly improving though. I have no issues with thinking the US will be a powerhouse within football by 2035. The quality of the homegrown MLS players have increased massively in just the past five years. Aye well you'd know more than me about the quality of MLS but they still have a long way to go judging by how Robbie Keane seems to take the piss over there. 20 years isn't that long though to go from a poor league to a very good one but I guess we'll see in time who is correct As recently as fifteen years ago we weren't even sure if MLS would stay in business, never mind become what it is today. I wouldn't be surprised to see the likes of MLS and maybe even the Chinese Superleague be at the level of some of the second-tier European leagues in the very near future. Things change slowly, but still faster than we think.

I thin it was fair to have a "wait and see" attitude with Pardew until at least the Reading game and maybe a few months after that. He did lead us to our best season ever since we became a shit nothing club. Given the magnitude of that 5th-place finish, it's perfectly natural that a lot of people needed a bit of convincing before deciding it was an aberration.

We've had so many of these "phew, turned a corner" moments this season that I'm pretty sure they're going to get destroyed at Watford just to put everyone on suicide watch again.

I think league parity is much more of an issue than drama. There's plenty of drama to be had in the league even when the title is sown up what with Champions League spots and relegation. While wage caps will be forever impossible due to the existence of big-money leagues outside of UEFA, I'd like to see some sort of draft implemented for English clubs at least. That said, parity in the league is admittedly a lot better than it has ever been in recent memory. It looks like the PL TV money becoming so obscenely large has mitigated a good chunk of the advantage from CL money/being a "big club." It's just a shame that NUFC is so shit going into an era where any ambitious/well run club has a chance to be reasonably successful.

What happened What team are we watching?

We can't score a penalty without getting two stonewall ones turned down.

Good play, no points. Seems about right.

"What goes through a players head to think you can get away with that?" -> "I play for Man United." "They're Newcastle." "Mike Dean."

Smalling was extra careful to make sure the ref saw him and awarded a penalty there.

Time for me to die now I guess

Colback shit scared of having to play football

I'll be dead before the next time we're given a penalty.

Video reviews of penalties and red cards. It's not difficult. It will never happen because this sport is retarded.

Football is a joke of a sport. Ref effectively decided the game 10 minutes in

That's amazing League wants us relegated

Marveaux is blatantly just on the bench to make up numbers. The odds of him playing are negligible.

Like Colback will be dropped man, no way. he's an upgrade on our cm options full stop You and i would have been a upgrade on that pathetic excuse of a CM man. Not sold on Shelvey at all, never rated him that much. Also, not fancy enough name, if he was named Pedro Gonzales mind... I guess i have to wait and see. "Jonjo Shelvy" seems like a much fancier name to me than "Pedro Gonzalez." Don't think I've actually ever met someone named Jonjo

I had mistakenly assumed that I didn't find Stifler's joke funny due to lack of cultural context. It is somewhat comforting to know that it was actually just shit to begin with.

He won't sign. If he does sign he'll be shit.