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We're going to have finished ahead of Spurs twice, Man United twice, Liverpool once, and Chelsea at least once in Eddie's three full seasons. We've also won more trophies than half of the big 6 in that time.

Was thinking the same -- that's 7am here and I can't recall that ever happening in the PL in recent memory.

At least three non-league games that are all more important. If they are able to manage all three competitions well from here out then hats off to them.

Brentford winless away from home when trailing at halftime this season. We've been largely terrible in second halves at home. Something's gotta give.

He seemed confused about something (being offside?). Was weird.

He is so good and I'm convinced he's going to start contributing more goals than we've seen so far.

16 years ago Chelsea and Barcelona played in an infamous and enthralling CL semifinal. Now the two of them compete to see who can bend the rules further.

https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/eddie-howes-programme-notes-ahead-of-brentford

Stats wise Forest are much more similar to 2022/23 Man United with a better story. The problem for them and their style is the margins are so thin. They've scored first in 77% of their games. When they've conceded first they've won 0.50 points per game (league avg. is 0.73; NUFC at 1.13). They haven't trailed at halftime at home all season. In the five away games they've trailed at halftime they've earned one point.

This could have gone badly so fair play to all involved, and Bunce especially, for making it work.

Hilarious that Inter Miami "qualified as host." Can't see through that one FIFA. The only good news about this is it's going to annoy Liverpool / Man United / Arsenal / Spurs as much as it does us.

"Not the best, ok" It's like he took over an out of shape U11 team. Having to remind professionals to move, to be calm on the ball, to find space is something.

Players look dead on their feet around 2:35.

This is the most annoyed I've been about any of the financial imbalance. I guess it's better than a Super League, but completely ridiculous all the same. Chelsea and City are going to walk away with £50m+ without even trying and very likely quite a bit more. @JacobsBen BREAKING: FIFA confirm the Club World Cup winner will receive $125m. - Participation prize pool is $525m. UEFA entrants to receive the most, and a variable fee based on ranking and revenue. Range is $12.81m-$38.19m. Chelsea, Manchester City, Real and Bayern to get top end. - Conmebol clubs will receive circa $15.21m to enter, Concacaf, CAF and AFC ones $9.55m and OFC teams pocket $3.58m. - There is a further $475m for sporting performance. This covers win bonuses for each game/round, which will be the same for every club. The breakdown of finances is based on sporting performance is: Group Stage: $2.0m per win and $1m per draw. Round of 16 qualification: $7.5m Quarter-Final: $13.125m Semi-Final: $21.0m Finalist: $30.0m Winner: $40.0m

We are now winners…

Going to be very interesting where we do our buying. I'd be very surprised if it's all these PL players popping up in links.

They were out on the 13th. We kicked off our season on the 17th.

I still think we're going to sell at least one of Bruno, Joelinton, Gordon, or Barnes (assuming we don't sell Isak). I think the only way that maybe won't happen is if we qualify for the CL and even then I think it's pretty likely.

It's been quite surprising, I must say. Helps when their manager has no excuses and nothing bad to say. It's amazing how this all unfolded. Obviously any way of winning would have been fine (penalties, controversy, easy run, etc.) but the way it all happened has left everyone with nothing to complain about. We beat the best teams, we thoroughly outplayed the likely league runners-up over two legs, and then dominated the champions elect in the final. There's no "if only that had gone in" or "the xG shows we'd likely have won on another day" or "Newcastle cheated this way or that." Which is also why the only thing left for anyone to say, if you don't want to just let the fans enjoy it, is to bring up Saudi.

Nine clubs that have won the first division and FA Cup, but not a League Cup:

One more!

Follow-up question: Until two days ago we were part of a different group of clubs who have won the league and FA Cup but have never won the League Cup. Can you name the remaining nine clubs in this list?

That's it. The full list:

That's 14. Missing one collectively.