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I’m going for blue star on mind in keeping with Keegan one from the 80’s.

We would have a two legged qualifier for conference in August, not that it would make up for same cash. That in itself wouldn’t be ideal but didn’t seem to harm Villa much this year, it wouldn’t be too taxing a tie I’d imagine.

We would certainly be among favourites for Europa too, especially with no champions league teams dropping in next year. I’d imagine spurs would be other favourite off top of head. Bilbao are hosting final and have already qualified so they’d be another big favourite, what a place that would be to go back to for a final.

Got the pro home and normal away totally sponsoorless on sleeves. The quality of the badge on the away is pretty poor.

The weird thing is he’s not even a mackem, sure he’s from Wigan or somewhere. Used to be on at cozy joes, no idea if still is, was a bad enough night to end up in there anyway and couldn’t believe he was on there too. I’m sure he played the hilarious yogi beat song which was as painfully unfunny as when I first heard it in the 90s.

Tempting on the plain shirt

Just noticed this years are heavily discounted without a sponsor. Not sure if these were always available

Bad craic. I was on the official club coaches they put on (dry) as only 15.

Just about the association with shirts. That away and that team was a real low point, was one of my first aways with my mates.

We had the ropey away on that day I believe.

More worried about spurs and villa than Man U and Chelsea at this point if we accept arsenal, city and Liverpool are out of reach. Brighton won’t be consistent enough.

Was on uefa site checking the coefficient and ended up checking out next years champions league. I’m sure it’s probably been mentioned already but I had no idea that it was changing so much, as is the Europa, 8 guaranteed games all against different teams with a giant league of 36, top 8 straight through and next 16 playing off to make last 16. Don’t like sound if it but makes it more important to get in, 8 guaranteed games with more chance of at least another two.

Waugh picked it up just before our pot tbf to him, Taylor was clueless

Listening back to the pod on the Tyne live recording during yesterdays draw, alarmingly for journalists they hadn’t done homework at all and didn’t realise we were restricted to three groups after the second pot. Was pretty obvious to anyone who had spent five mins on a simulator. I wonder when they’ll catch on.

Kiev are odds against to beat Porto who they beat away two weeks ago, Porto are also having a tough time domestically, putting Kiev on with Real and Manu in a trixie.

Oba anytime with a Toon win 3's with Blue Square, you can get about the same odds for Agbonlahor or Carew anytime with Villa beating Stoke, nice.

pains me to say it but as long as anyone here is alive we will win nowt. We should just play 11 geordies so at least we can take some pride in our team. Bilbao style.

Probably 0-1 v Man U in 96 and the two recent mackem defeats at SJP. Also the charity shield game hurt a lot at the time as I was fairly young and it was my first time at Wembley, remember there was only about 20'000 Mancs and Beckham chipped Pav from range. Also the Spurs defeat in our first premier league game and the Grimbsby game with ended the winning run in 92 were traumatic childhood games.

would be happy with a draw and Chopra not scoring then hope they go down and we don't have to play them for ages so we might actually sort ourselves out. Hate derby's now, the nerves are too bad and we have too much to lose.

I shall be hoying a load on the mackems next week for insurance purposes. They will probably be poor odds after yesterdays display.