The Prophet

I know we're in a pretty wretched run of form, but we're two points off a Champions League spot and in a League Cup final. Sure we might run out of steam simply due to lacking sufficient quality, but I doubt you'll find a more likeable group of Newcastle players for some time. Unfortunately, that kind of entitlement and disdain towards the players is pretty common in SJP.

It is, I have no arguments with that. But I can't imagine when offside was brought in, it was ever envisaged that an "unfair advantage" would be a player leaning his upper body a couple of CMs past the other side of the last defender.

Yep, they're doubling down with the semi-auto tech too. They're trying to make football as supporter unfriendly as they can on and off the pitch it seems.

It's offside for sure, but fuck me the offside law is a mess.

May as well appeal it. Maybe send the ref some death threats, get the socials to call it the worst decision ever, etc.

There's been far bigger upsets in cup finals before.

We're in a bit of a rut at the moment. We look tentative on the ball and our game is littered with individual errors. He'll turn it around, he always does, I just hope it's in time for the cup final.

No I don't, bit I've been given no reason to doubt Bunce. We've had a very low amount of injuries this session.

It's pretty end to end like.

Both sides understandably look pretty leggy.

What the fuck is Taylor playing at?

Save Dubs.

I'll trust Bunce, Howe and the sports scientists call like

Thought it just looked a routine sub?

Tonali should bury that.

Totally lost his head. He's a moron for giving the ref a decision to make, but it did feel like a soft red for what was effectively a shove.

At least it's one position where we have decent depth.

The absolute fucking worst.

I've been quite critical of recent performances like, it's just been a bit of a scrappy game.

Didn't even celebrate, fuck VAR.

The second half performance hasn't been that bad like.

I think we've been better going forward. What a miss.

Nice proactive subs from Howe.

Really poor from Gordon for the goal.