Interpolic

It was a funny season, 00/01. First season with the increased capacity and too many of the signings didn't work out. Bassedas, Cordone, Gavilan, Cort - none of them much cop for one reason or another. Remember Mick Wadsworth getting a lot of flack as the perception was he was recommending the South American players. Shearer was mostly injured too. Tbh Robson was lucky (and therefore we were lucky) that Bellamy and Robert ended up being such transformative signings as it might have all gone south if not.

I feel bad about Tyldsley as he does seem a decent enough bloke but I can't stress enough how much I hate his fucking commentary. Genuinely ruins matches for me with his incessant cheese, bullshit and arse kissing. Thinks he's a fucking poet, the daft cunt. He's such a modern football personality in all the wrong ways. That said, ITV have fuck-all football coverage atm so I was resting easy knowing I didn't need to deal with him much. If he pops up on Sky or BBC it's bad news.

Yep think I can join

Was starting to think is he just Iheanacho II? Interesting to see how he’d get on without the service he gets there. I think he'll end up having a pretty good career, but always thought he was a bit overrated for what he'd actually shown. There was a period where he was keeping Aguero out of the Man City team and Firminho out of the Brazil team, which just seemed mental to me and was presumably based on potential rather than actual output at the time.

Must still have the Requiem For A Dream DVD on the team bus.

You could probably buy Half of Norwich for that. That would put Norwich on the map.

Huge game.

"The supporters are now hopelessly divided on the manager, minds closed, views entrenched. Much like the political world. Nobody can admit they were wrong, two tribes blinded by own desire to be “right”" Which part of this is not Edwards himself? Except his view seems to be shaped mainly by who he's pal-y with.

Reet I'm off. Pointless, these games

Jermaine Defoe is annoyingly close but not quite. Peter Crouch ain't far off either.

These watershed lows aren't always the cliff edges I expect them to be personally. Instead I find my interest has been dwindling for a good while. It will take a considerable dip if we're stuck with Ashley again next year but I'll probably still have our game on in the background if it's on and I'm not busy. I'm largely bored of it though, and I doubt there's room for my enthusiasm to reach full levels again if the takeover does happen. How much of that is down to Ashley, the stacked deck nature of the PL and probably my age and lifestyle now, I don't know. Definitely a combination of all of those though.

Will be anxiously checking the other scores to see if we hang on to 12th.

Ambassador The cunt's avoided our club almost his entire adult life, until it finally suited his ego and pocket.

The PL should really commit to putting around 10 games a season on terrestrial TV, no matter what Sky or BT think. Can only help their "brand" and would be the right thing to do in terms of giving something back to the public.

Feel free to add that to the banner.

Creep is on par with virgin I think. All of us on here are creeps and virgins, I know that for certain.

Explains a lot if we were writing stupid clauses like that into deals. Also the epitome of "we tried look at us, we done a transfer" while lying to the fans.

Cheers. Just rephrasing Shearer's obvious joke then laughing in Lineker's face

Think it took Lineker by surprise!! "It's a long time since your day Gary, innit HAHAHAHAHA"

That was absolutely hilarious, the Richards/Lineker moment just then Hoping I can find a video on Twitter.

Results have been much better than performances all season so when we get a poor result the good-will is non-existent. Which is fair enough imo. If there had been more performances this season like the one against Bournemouth last week then most people would be willing to forgive the odd off day, however days like today are far closer to the norm performance-wise.

Aye, the freak. Was just about to say this is definitely the most entertaining game I've seen since the restart.

Scores

I don't think it was possible to get official names and numbers on the back of the 93-95 home one? The players' ones had that black patch on.

It's another case of pundits occasionally glancing at results, league tables and transfers, and thinking they know better than people who watch every minute of every game and follow every development at the club. And the usual bias towards anyone British. The arrogance of it is pathetic tbh.