themanupstairs

Joselu. Stoke City reserve. 5M. JOSELU. Wake the fuck up.

No it doesn't. That is the simplest way of looking at things, with absolutely no depth of reasoning at all. He's right man. Rafa's Liverpool teams thrashed the likes of Real Madrid and Man Utd playing turgid defensive hoofball. You know nothing m8

Mike Ashley is a boa constrictor squeezing the life out of a helpless little lamb. Vile individual who must be ousted at any cost. The only way is to keep attacking Sports Direct and bringing it down to its knees.

If that's true about the way the flag lads have been treated/flags binned then it's fucking outrageous. The club deserves nothing but the worst in its current format.

Just off the top of my head for this season, we should have had penalties for the following: - Handball away to Man U - Elbow on Perez vs Wolves - Tackle on Yedlin just before he shot wide (can't remember who it was against) - Some fucker holding Kenedy before pulling him down (can't remember against who) Also Perez goal vs Huddersfield should have stood, and arguably Rondon's against Watford. Potentially 7-9 (maybe more) additional points we could have had, provided we scored from the penalties awarded and went on to manage the game well.

Unchanged. Lejeune, Shelvey and Kenedy on the bench.

The absence of an s or h at the end of his name makes me slightly uneasy tbh

Love this little gem from the original Ashley thread. Martin Lol knew exactly what Ashley was up to: "A little more info: He's thick with Levy, Lewis and Kemsley leading to rumours that he would do a buy out at Spurs, although he'd never given any indication that he would. Genuine football man so, in many ways, a better person to buy a club than an Abramovich."

Reckon if Rafa leaves we'll get Solano.

Fantastic. Ensuring the precious 3 pts go back to OT. Sky have some headlines to write and drama to build up for the end of season race for CL places. Can't be letting those pesky Geordies have a chance of spoiling that.

Aye but could he raise his name in the PL?

Fantastic

100%. They've spent the money now they can have it.

Is he the last of the al pards mohicans?

Welcome to yesterday

James Collins He said no crazy ideas

No but he's a mackem.

Unfortunately this may be true. Possibly sacked even. There's no end to Ashley's malevolence and determination to destroy everything he touches.

We'll win this. Manquillo to score in the 93rd.

Good point that. When VAR is in use, could we get a situation where attackers delibarately try to kick the ball at defenders arms in the box and claim penalty? I am all for VAR by the way, but it will obviously have some downsides. Yes why not? If they're skilful enough to hit their target and the arms or hand were not tight on the body, it should be a penalty. IMO the whole intention thing is arbitrary and doesn't really work. The best way to handle penalty decisions (hehe) is to determine whether or not the arm or hand changed the direction of the ball. It's simple and eliminates second guessing. VAR will help tremendously with this as slow motion replays will help the ref decide. If more penalties are given as a result then so be it. It's the only solution as it stops inept refs/bent refs from making decisions in their own little world.

Nearly everything about the club is just awful at the moment. No quality on the pitch, and none in the stands either (at home). We may look organised defensively on the face of it but we're actually vulnerable to set-pieces and can't score for toffee. Mike Ashley has signed his bankruptcy -and our death warrant- by letting it get to this stage. No spending in the summer and now the fake takeover stories so as not to spend in January. NUFC will be finished as a top-flight club if we go down this season and there's still every chance of that happening. Grim days ahead. Happy Christmas lads.

In what version of this lifetime was this cunt ever selling the club? The story about him wanting an advertising deal on top of the 300M is ridiculous enough that I don't believe it. I would believe it if he were to ask for let's say a 3 year deal providing he knock 50-60M off the asking price. Either way he's not selling what is in his eyes his most viable business at present.

Give it Giggsy

But how does playing wing back mess up his passing? You would think it should be easier when you are playing deeper. Yup. It's not like we're a team that's always on the front-foot these days anyway. His position shouldn't have been that alien to him especially that he will have played there a few times with Chelsea.

Not sure what he was playing at today. Can't be the first time he's played that position. Hoofed it and lost it pretty much every time he touched the ball. Something's not right with him. I hope the hoofing wasn't an ironic dig at being played as a wing-back.