Novocastrian

I’m sure I bought the bar code shirt in 1990 for about £20-£25, shirts in the mid 90s around £30-35. Sizes have definitely changed over the years. I tried on my 97/98 shirt that I wore at the 98 Cup Final the other day (L) and it swamped me. In the Castore shirts I’m an XL.

Anyone ever had one of the pro shirts? I know the price is insane even for a regular shirt these days but just wondering if there’s any significant difference - bar the stick on crest.

He’s this season’s Paqueta.

Back in the day was playing football in Killingworth and heard the Bruce Springsteen concert from SJP.

ASM was the one player I really wanted to see playing with better players post-takeover. I hope he stays, he’s been inconsistent but the few highs we’ve seen dwarf most of his contemporaries.

Never bought a Wonga shirt, thought the Puma shirts were pretty awful in the main. Whilst I hate the tackiness of shonky gambling sponsors I have bought the last two Castore shirts.

Or the 357 that Jimmy Greaves scored.

Good luck to Wood, he seems like a solid bloke and there’s no doubting his commitment. I really don’t think he was an effective player for us though. His ability to hold the ball up and be that ‘target man/focal point’ was vastly overated as was his heading ability. He huffed and puffed, lots of perspiration and not much inspiration.

Championship looks tasty next season.

Bet Bruno is delighted for him. Always hoped he’d breakthrough at some point. Will be a massive buzz them travelling together. When he comes back as a full international he’ll be 2 feet taller.

Are City really ‘hoovering up the best players across the world’? They’ve got a great squad and have strength in depth but there’s plenty of great players to go around and lots of other teams have spent a lot of money. Are we ignoring the ‘Pep effect’ here?

This is fucking hilarious, fuck Arsenal. We’ll beat Brighton and they’ll drop other points too. Not worried about them.

How have we done this season in the dark blue away shirt? Feels like we’ve been fairly successful. I’m becoming increasingly superstitious as the season goes on.

As hilarious as Everton getting relegated would be we do need Brighton to drop some points. Everton are already being punished by having Dyche in charge next season.

Can’t help but like Rice, comes across really well when interviewed.

Best result for us.

Need BHA to win this one. They’ll drop points elsewhere.

Ok, after some reflection I think we need 4 points from Arsenal/Leeds and 3 points from Brighton/Leicester. We won’t lose to Arsenal and despite Fat Sam’s reprise and Leeds bluster we are far too good for them. Either way I see us beating Chelsea last game of the season too a bit like the Fulham Rafa game.

Rather have an up and coming player from one of the Euro leagues for 30-40m.

Which one’s which?

I know I shouldn’t be but I’m shocked at how poor Leicester have been.

Only if we stop scoring altogether, we’ve hit 13 in three games, would need a huge swing.

Just about, another win and a couple of draws I think. LiVARpool will drop points.

Villa out, a draw or a Spurs win will do next.

They’re riding their luck, that doesn’t last for 5/6/7 game stretches. They were very lucky against West Ham. We win today and Liverpool are done.