themanupstairs

This is incredible

He'll be sacked before the season is over. March is my guess.

I wonder if Short pronounces Sunderland correctly. Be funny as fuck if he calls it Sunn'er-laand.

"Matty's ball, I'm open!"

I agree that Perez has had a couple of games completely pass him by and isn't looking great but I'd have serious reservations over whether Atsu would have the positional discipline to play at 10. I'd have Merino there ahead of Atsu personally. I'd also try Shelvey there. Shelvey definitely as Merino is having a very good in CM. Shelvey at least has a good shot on him. Perez needs a spell out of the side as his decision making has been atrocious of late.

:lol: I'm sure PSG generate 400m a year in croissant, liquid natural gas and cigarette sales at the PdP. I'd be confident as well.

Women not woman. Canadians' lack of...

"famous stadium" Makes me happy in a way that most football media hate us and don't lick NUFC hoop at every opportunity.

Agree with this. The way the club's being run is eventually going to end up in relegation. Bye.

Moronic "Liverpool family" guff as usual. They will try to make the case that he didn't see Ederson which is impossible to prove. Hopefully gets increased.

Rather have the grit of Steve Stone and Dean Saunders.

Moronic decision by the same idiot who paid us money to take al pards back down to London. No surprise really.

Thought it was the right decision to bring on Gayle but not for Joselu. He should have come on for Ayoze to run at their defence as they pushed for an equalizer, with Joselu taking up the number 10 spot to try and hold it up for us.

Not his time yet. Probably start improving by March or so as his nerves settle and he starts believing in himself a bit more.

Scenes when he scores his first for us from a bullet header to beat Liverpool!

Some saying Merino's arm was pulled before he went down. Was still no excuse for his legs to go, but need to see a replay again.

I reckon Rafa will do what he thinks is best for the team. Lejeune to come back in for Liverpool is my prediction.

Such a good read that! Love that F365 understand what NUFC is about.

Boom Si for me like

Captain, hero, beautiful man.

Don't think that's all that outrageous. He doesn't have any command of his area. It's a worry. In the context of a fantastic result just thought it needed some balance. Maybe s*** is too harsh but it's a weak link. He's probably the "best" weak link we've had in recent squads considering we've had to contend with Colback and Dummett for the past few years stinking up the place.

A Benitez team is always set up to get this type of away win. We held our shape and our nerve, and it's paid off. The players look so well drilled, its a far-cry from the teams put out by the clowns of recent years gone by. Lascelles MOTM for two clutch moments. With Merino it feels like we have an extra man in midfield as he does the work of two players. Starting to think he and Shelvey together against the weaker teams just might work. Hayden got booked early and that just took him out of the game. Not a red for Ritchie as he didn't catch the opposition player in the f***ing face running full pelt and head-on. Yellow a correct decision. Have to give Jones credit for not letting the blood rush to his head given the furore over yesterday's incident. Didn't use Yedlin, Lejeune and Shelvey which gives them a chance to be fresh for Stoke. Renato Messi Ronaldo Suarez is the best player in the world and I'm surprised he could still walk off when subbed considering the massive BSkyB tongue lodged firmly up his arsehole.

Excellent post!

He should/could have realised the keeper has gotten to the ball first, it's at head height, and that a Liu Kang flying kick isn't going to achieve anything positive. As soon as he realised that he could/should have simply jumped for the ball hoping for a block or just to put the keeper off. Some players jump and turn their backs mid air for example. It's actually quite common to have this situation where it's a 55:45 ball (as opposed to 50:50) and the player on the 45 end will change their attempt to get to the ball first instinctively, especially if it's a keeper who is favourite. Absolutely no way is trying to get a foot on the ball at that height reasonable or acceptable, let alone when he's running in at that speed and jumping off the ground. What he did is the exact equivalent of jumping in studs up with 2 feet aiming for a ball that's on the ground but which the opposition player has gotten to first. That type of challenge is deemed a highly dangerous potential leg breaker, an instant red card, with zero consideration of notions of intent or "what else he could do if he wants to get the ball". Players are simply expected to know not to do something dangerous when challenging for a ball. It's hardly unreasonable. Exactly. Pulling out of a dangerous situation isn't cowardice IMO. He's a professional athlete, not William Wallace!