Interpolic

"Areet you pillock, where's Joe Willock?"

Day before the season starts

I'd rather we signed him as I'll doubtless get sucked into watching a handful of games next year. Not particularly arsed though. It's laughable that we're charmless and gormless enough to run into issues with the kid's contract though. Pathetic, as is standard.

Worst club ever in managing to suck the fun out of even the most unlikely situations shocker.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/john-barnes-claims-absence-newcastle-21231284 ^ how well nufc do this year depends on how much they get booed.

yeah. My 2017-18 posts really cutting through in recent days. Slow burners.

A 3.5 year bump today, OK

Fkn 4 year bump?!

If it happens then it'll be interesting seeing how him and Foden fit together in the same side, and whether that could work for England. Even bigger implications for England if Kane goes there too.

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The fact Willock and Willems were loans is what's put us in this position. That's what happens when a big part of your transfer policy is kicking the can down the road.

It's a funny time to spend a daft amount of money on Kane imo. He's added new facets to his game the last couple of seasons but he really looked like he'd lost a step in the Euros. Might end up a bit like the Torres to Chelsea transfer. Probably not though, he'll doubtless score hundreds

genuinely thought Harold was a Brazilian I'd never heard of there. Thought that's a bit dear.

You get arrested for signing Wayne Hennessey these days.

That's the new club motto sorted.

Anyone watching that fat wanker make a meal of scraping 40 points next season needs sectioned. Think this is the season I finally turn into a MOTD fan, at best.

Can't wait to total up the amounts that the super cunts end up spending and seeing how many multiples more it is than the £20m fine they got for trying to ruin football forever. Still extremely annoyed they weren't just kicked out of the league and the crazy money they're spending again this summer after pleading poverty cements that.

Looks like the graffiti has been covered with positive messages already, restores a bit of faith in humanity at least.

When I saw Italy were kicking first I feared the worst. That clearly gives teams a huge psychological advantage. FIFA/UEFA seem intent on messing with many of football's rules the last few years, so for them to abandon the ABBA system so early is quite perplexing. The current setup for penalty shootouts is still a pretty big problem that needs to be addressed.

Depressing reading it all collated like that. I think the problem over the years has been at least a little bit cultural, a perception that bravery is defending for your lives, throwing yourself in to block shots, withstanding outrageous pressure from the opposition. When in fact it's far braver to continue posing an attacking threat, without going gung ho. Last night we didn't even have a Gazza in ET moment, there was the ball that was inches away from Stones' head tbf but that was about it.

There was a prevailing issue with the subs in the knockouts where Southgate was unwilling to take Sterling or Kane off, and also unwilling to to have anything less than 7 defence-minded players on the field. Arguably 8 or 9 defence-minded players when Saka and Mount seemed to be mainly in for their defensive discipline. That limits us massively in terms of who we can bring on, and meant last night we had Rashford and Sancho sat on the bench for ET instead of attacking tired Italian defenders. Contrast that with Italy who were willing to change their entire front 3. Sterling should have been off tbh as he was quiet all game and we weren't even keeping him on to take one of the pens.

exactly what I meant when I said last night unfortunately reverted to a typical old school England performance. It's a shame because the magnitude of the position we were in didn't seem to dawn on the players until about half an hour in.