Novocastrian

You see the same from a lot of the ex-pro pundit crowd. They are too arrogant and self satisfied to prepare properly and do their homework. Especially for European games where the players and managers aren’t as familiar.

He’s been poor for weeks, the Colbackesque grabbing and pulling against Villa was infuriating. He’s the only player I worry about in possession. He’s a great backup CB but I’ve seen enough of him at LB.

Beat Spurs and Brighton and we should be almost there.

Can’t see where anywhere said that, I think Howe had been tactically outthought today though.

We look absolutely clueless in fairness, our only tactic seems to be a long diagonal ball over the top. Emery has done a number on Howe here.

Pathetic.

Very poor, Villa are playing very wide and stretching our midfield, they are finding quite easy at the moment.

Is he a made up person for tax (FFP) purposes?

Yeah, I want him to be a Bellamy or a Suarez, just driving at defenders and relentlessly attacking like he has done before. He’s playing within himself but maybe improved his decision making and he’s getting assists.

Stick Schar in CM and Lascelles at CB.

It’s a risible record - scored 1 goal in the last 5 cup finals.

At least Dubs will be happy.

We’re done now, disappointing performance. The curse of the final goes on…

Conversely Burn’s support to ASM and his passes are awful.

Honestly couldn’t care less about CL football at the moment. Win this and a real go at the Europa League next season would be fantastic.

Good, my senses aren’t suitably dulled by alcohol yet. Can’t go into this game dry!!

Been done before!!

Current ‘song book’ is atrocious. I know it’s not the Eurovision Song Contest but a basic familiarity with the original tune would help. That Joelinton one….

The last two cup finals were against the newly crowned PL winners. We need to do things the hard way.

Nah he’s from Coventry. Been poor last couple of months though.

Sky Sports is LTV tonight. Bunch of cunts.

He’s genuinely hopeless. Michael Owen was better at heading the ball.

An NUFC with Bruno and no cup final distractions would have won this game comfortably. Better times are coming.

Fair enough, there’s too much on him at the moment. He needed a loan to the Championship but has found himself involved due to squad depth.

You don’t rate him? Fair enough, but there’s no way you can pin the first half performance on him.