Pilko

howeh man. I'm not even a particularly fan of Iraola but that's just a totally trash, mental comment.

He's still crap with the ball, that's every fourth pass that didn't hit a black and white shirt. Using our "fuck I've got the ball" Track and Field FC players as a benchmark or a like for like foul merchant like Hughes doesn't prove he's any use with the ball.

The pace at which substitutes appear on the touchline after we concede a goal is hilarious. It's like he preps them and says "soon as they score you can get straight on". Genuinely think we'll look back at that Wissa and Elanga sub as his Capello & Heskey 4-1 down to Germany moment. Ridiculous.

I can't believe a) Howe trusted him to go out there and not get booked, b) how thick he was to get booked and c) why we couldn't just play Ramsey today and have him guaranteed available for the next two. That said he's so totally fucking shit with the ball it's ultimately a blessing that we'll be forced to go with Ramsey next week. Get the feeling that he'll be away in the summer, particularly if Howe is too.

Was just reading that article about Hopkinson again. Makes sense now this. Both are on UK-wide stadium tours churning out the same old stuff every time and their headline is "Born to Run".

2-0, get in.

O'Reilly dragging this City side along at the minute.

He's a big part of the reason why we can't control games or keep the ball for toffee. Another one who'd smash the Premier League School Sports Day competition if it was ever span up but is about as much of a technical footballer as I am an astronaut.

I can only assume when he talks about uncharacteristic of us to be bad at defending and giving away late goals he's referring to last season and before, rather than this season. He can't mean this season, surely.

Edward Woodward's character got burned alive in a straw man which was smaller than this.

Three weeks to prepare for that More leads pissed away, more inactivity on the bench when we look like conceding, more shit defending. Same old problems. Not good enough.

Tino's positioning is fucking horrible.

Can't be arsed would settle for a 0-0 tbh.

Definitely worth a little bet for a playoff place when the odds come out IMO. Elliott's got them riding the crest of a wave.

Buzzing for Gateshead, what an incredible turnaround job Rob Elliot has done!!

Anyone else immediately feel sick when they see the name P*rtizan B*lgrade?

Kind of not bothered how these final games go, in a strange way. Obviously I would prefer we played well, won points and ultimately got some kind of European position. Either way I expect Eddie to be here and to lead us into next season so it feels lower stakes than it might otherwise. I'm more concerned about the player turnover in the summer and whether we'll make moves to fix some of the underlying issues with the side, like the midfield getting ran through at will, the goalkeeper and striker conundrum, and our overall poor levels of technical ability with the ball.

It's like choosing between a punch in the face or a kick in the balls.

Most people think he looks about 30.

That's an absolute all timer own goal by Porto fuck me.

How the hell didn't Forest concede a pen there? Murillo basically had the entire shirt hauled off the striker's back

https://www.instagram.com/bingameoriginals This page is class, it's a bunch of lads on their lunch break from graft basically playing heads and volleys but into a head height wheelie bin on its side and taken as seriously as the Olympics

Would love to bring back the keepy-ups game we used to play (called "Elims") Players stand in a circle, ball is thrown to someone to start. You can have as many touches as you like, once the ball has touched three different players it's "away" or "live". Everyone has three lives. If the ball hits the ground the last player to touch it loses a life, unless someone blatantly dodges taking a touch when they could have done in which case they lose the life. The ball bouncing off walls, curbs, lamp-posts, cars or anything other than the actual floor means it's still live. Anyone who runs out of lives stands outside the circle, if they can play an errant ball back into the circle and it gets three touches from different players they're back in on 1 life again. This continues til you have 3 players left at which point people can't get back in again and it goes to a final two for a winner. Hopefully my explanation has done it justice as it was class if you played in an enclosed area with plenty things for the ball to bounce off of.

We did this too, I forgot to include it on my list of rules. Keeper would immediately throw it up for an easy header for someone but risked the new keeper just catching it and them immediately returning to being in nets.

Can remember a brilliant moment when one of the lads hit an absolute blasty volley perfectly from about 25+ yards, it smashed another lad in the face, the keeper had already dived and the ball agonisingly span over the line whilst everyone ran to pile onto the prone lad with the bloodied nose in joyous celebration.