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Suarez is bordering on Ronaldo/Messi good now

Really should have scored the winner. Southampton were defending very poorly after their goal and gifting us some amazing chances. That miss from Remy

It happens every time the World Cup is awarded to some place that isn't Europe and such a narrative will no doubt continued (perhaps justifiably) in 2018 and 2022 as well.

Now that he's improving Ashley will probably sack him

I enjoyed the whole game and I can't remember when that's happened last in the league. We have the players, we just need to use them correctly and we can do really well, fingers crossed it's not a one off. This - absolutely. Everyone is entitled to enjoy today but some are going completely OTT...the time to do that is when we have won something or qualified for the CL/Europa League, the season lasts until May. I would have thought that anyone with a few years following NUFC would have realised that after so many false dawns.... Take your victories when you can. If you're not allowed to be satisfied until we win something you might as well accept being miserable for life.

Iranian Scouser

I wouldn't bother with that distinction at all. Judge a fan by the quality of his support, not by his place of birth. Glory hunters can be born in Newcastle, Manchester, or Seoul. Real supporters can be born in all of those places as well. to add a caveat to that "judge a fan by the quality of his support, when they are down and have been down for a while and don't look like coming back" Behavior during down times is highly probative, of course. That's why everyone here gets free passes.

I wouldn't bother with that distinction at all. Judge a fan by the quality of his support, not by his place of birth. Glory hunters can be born in Newcastle, Manchester, or Seoul. Real supporters can be born in all of those places as well.

If you think there's something wrong with foreign supporters, you should be willing to adopt the same attitude with foreign players.

At least they're not holding the World Cup in the middle of a desert or something, right?

The behavior of both managers was utterly embarrassing. The only reason you guys get to brag about it now is because you won the stupid game.

Iran the football team or Iran in general? Unsure what Shola would be able to do to Iran in general.

I could talk about what I'd like for Shola to do to Iran but I think I've antagonized enough people for the day

Minnow, ffs. No one feels pity for your struggles. Win the matches or don't. Why the anger? Sorry, the word annoyed me. Talk to the 180 or so teams that will be at home. South Korea as minnows. A team that has qualified eight consecutive times and made a semi-final. You should be favoured to exit from your group and should have a decent chance of the quarterfinals. You should not act surprised if you accomplish it and should feel disappointment if the result is anything less. We make the tournament every time because we're on the worst footballing continent on Earth. We're perennially between the 24th~32nd best team at the tournament. In World Cup terms of course we're a "minnows", just like Crystal Palace or Hull are "minnows" in the Premier League despite being gigantic clubs in comparison to Gateshead or Blyth. As with every tournament, I'll be happy if we make the second round and disappointed if we don't, but to suggest that we should be favored to survive from our group this year or any year is a bit of a stretch.

Minnow, ffs. No one feels pity for your struggles. Win the matches or don't. Why the anger?

Our group is tough but it's the World Cup and we'll always be underdogs regardless so we can't really ask for much better than this. Belgium has loads of talent but I'd rather have them than Brazil/Argentina/Spain/Germany. We have experience with Russia and they're a team we should be able to beat on a good day. We're just better than Algeria. We haven't been pre-emptively knocked of the tournament in December and at the end of the day as a minnows that's all you can ask for. Recent draws have been kind to us really. Haven't had a tough group since the bullshit one in 94 (Spain, Germany, Bolivia) In retrospect ours actually looks slightly better than Japan's. None of the teams in that bunch are going to be an easy out.

It will be funnier when they don't http://static2.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/af-no+_be7b68c381ccc3210a3dcdab805f21d4.gif http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/23/1277307182688/Yakubu-miss-006.jpg Totally uncalled for bro. If you got drawn against us again it would've been my profile for the next six months

And the starting left back!

Demarcus Beasley is still alive?

It will be funnier when they don't http://static2.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/af-no+_be7b68c381ccc3210a3dcdab805f21d4.gif http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/23/1277307182688/Yakubu-miss-006.jpg

It will be funnier when they don't

Knockout matchup is going to be shit if we qualify though

Everyone on ESPN looks suicidal

Happy with the draw except for the Japanese getting a powderpuff group

YEAH!