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I don't mean to be too much of a dick by saying this but they must have had to trawl for fucking hours to find footage of Shay saving a pen for us he probably faced about 6-10 a season and I can only remember the Nolan one in the video and a one away at Villa under Roeder.

Totally understood why Given wanted out after that Liverpool game & then I recall his final appearance away at Blackburn he spent the dying minutes breaking up a fight between Enrique and Barton. No wonder he reached the point of no return as we were an absolute bloody cowboy outfit.

Most reliable pen taker we've had since Shola is Wood. (although I don't believe Wilson has missed one either?) He did alright-to-decent again generally but he's basically a guaranteed no to score from open play and we could really do with reinforcing the front line in January. Not necessarily another Isak mega buy, but an option of a youngun, an Ekitike or cheaper equivalent would be nice.

What a minute that was for you @jack j well done. Must be about the fourth or fifth time this season I've won on Kane anytime header. I had £20 on Paisley Park too with the Sky money back offer so it's a belting start to the day!

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Big day today. Mainly keeping powder dry for 3s and lates but small stakes on the following: Kane to score a header 9/1 Mbuembo 2+ SOT & Kane assist 18/1 Tanganga & Roerslav cards, Toney & Kane score 180/1 Over 1.5 corners in first 10 mins of Spurs and Sunderland games 12/1

If you scroll through Undr the Cosh's back catalogue, the ones with John Beresford, Alan Thompson and Steve Howey are well worth a listen. Some class stories about the Keegan era as well as their general careers, all very good story tellers. Steve Watson did one too although I think it was one of their Patreon paid subscription ones & Trippier was on recently although given he's still active his is quite tame and feels very "media managed". Andy Woodman part 2 also has some interesting stuff on the Pardew era, although I'd recommend both parts anyway as Woody is very funny. Andy Griffin has one on there too but as it's the second or third pod they ever made it isn't quite as good as the other ones. There's one or two other ex-Toon players who've been on although they skim over their time here a bit - Marlon Harewood and Bradley Orr spring to mind.

Given will always be a club legend and as said above, best shot stopper we've seen and had that ability to pull a save out of nowhere that you didn't expect. Then again, I have lots of memories of him waving at 30-yarders flying past his hand and whilst I think some exaggerate it a bit, he wasn't always great at coming off his line. Shit at kicking too but you can say that about virtually every keeper we've had in my lifetime. Pope seems like the complete package. He's also playing behind a way better defence than Given ever did and that's worth noting; you could say it gave Shay many opportunities to show how good he was because of the divvies in front of him, or that Pope has less to do and therefore looks solid as the defence do more work for him. I think if Pope plays another 2 or 3 seasons for us after this one he may well be remembered in a similar light as Shay not for longevity but for his sheer quality.

He probably went and swapped the labels on his and Paul Ince's pressies after reading that.

Good win for them last night, but then again they were playing a managerless side from League 1 who've barely won a game all season. I think this will be tight but I don't think we lose it. 1-1 or 1-2.

Who the fuck was that clown tonight? Had the feeling of being back in the Championship with the lack of VAR and refusal to give the big calls our way.

That'll do nicely.

Schar injured for 2 mins and probably a minute of general stoppages = 0 mins added on Few subs and a goal and very little else = 5 mins How on earth do they get away with this shit ffs

It's like being back in the Championship with these refs tonight. Fucking blind useless cunts all round.

This goes to pens like.

Correct call hooking Willock, he's been out of sorts particularly second half. Hope we get Maxi on form here and not having a dickhead day like Vs C Palace last time.

Decent half all told. A sitter and a dubious offside call away from being in cruise control. They're created nowt, we just need to carry on and get the goal second half.

That's 2019 Miggy right there

Absolutely nowt wrong with that goal. Bent officials yet again

What's with the late as fuck flag?

Why is it now we have a crowd who make noise there's seemingly loads of head injury stoppages in every fucking home game to kill the atmosphere?

Joelinton & Mepham cards 25/1 Billing, Schar and Bruno 110/1 Almiron to score 2+ goals 25/1

Yes, he's signing for Sunderland and popping over to do his Christmas shopping.

Allan Seen Minimum

he'll undoubtedly come good. I think it's just the nature of how the injury has been reported that's getting people all uppity about it. It's been "he's a week or two away, getting there" since about October which I can totally understand is canny irritating.