NUFCDoog

Gerrard and Owen fucking hell - "Liverpool are the best team ever, yeah didn't win the league or this, but just unlucky init, Liverpool best team in the World, don't need to win things to know that, trust"

Open top bus parade already set for tomorrow to parade the EFL and FA Cup (I know we'd have one just for winning anything but Liverpool parading them would be like us doing one for winning the Championship)

No doubt there's some incompetence by stewards etc, but it's funny these sort of incidents always seem to involve Liverpool fans

Man just watching the build ups to the Cup Final the other week and now thus tonight, it's hitting me different. For thr first time in forever it doesn't feel like an impossible dream that it'll be us in these sort of games soon. It's making me a bit giddy now just watching it and thinking in the next few years it could be us, and thinking how it'll feel etc, so fucking special man, imagine the scenes in Newcastle City centre for us in a champions league final on a Saturday night

Sky are showing all the goals as they've gone in tomorrow as well now with Stelling on the Soccer Special, will be able to show them from all 10 games as well, so looks like watching that will be the best bet

One of the main reasons they are in the situation their in is their obsession with us, genuinely. Season after season in the Prem their sole focus was beating us, if they beat us then their season was a success regardless of where they finished or what else happened that season. This was never so obvious as to when they kept changing manager just before the Derby, subsequently beating us, then relaxing and being shite again until they play us and rinse and repeat. If they actually focused on themselves and building a club to compete in the Premier league rather than a team to just try and beat us twice a year, they might still be there. In a way us being so shit under Ashley actually fast tracked their demise because they were so happy to be able to beat us for those 6 times in a row, that that's all they focused on, there was no plan, no strategy, no aims to build an infrastructure to survive in the league and thrive, it was just make sure they beat us and that's it. It's no coincidence they were relegated the season we weren't in the league either. Then once they're relegated they don't have us to focus on to mask everything else, so what happens? Attendances drops no ones arsed (apart from if they go to Wembley) there's no plan, owners are allowed to take the piss and they have nothing to cling to. It's so shortsighted and so small minded man, it's obsession on another level and as I say it's one of the exact reasons they're where they are now, and one of the exact reasons they'll never compete with us on any level. Hope they get smashed today, but my one consolidation now is even if they do back to back promotions, we'll be so far ahead of them that 6 in a row will never even get close to happening again, and we'll go back to beating them all the time that they'll be more miserable losing to us in the Premier League than they would losing to Burton in League One.

Ripple of applause when they were carrying the empty stretcher off

Wilson doing his best Cisse impression tonight

Loftus Cheek has been shite since coming on

Not sure if sky have muted rhe Leeds fans as they usually chant about them, but the atmosphere sounds awful for such a big night game

Patrick Roberts far too good for this league/Sunderland

Wednesday are dreadful, got no confidence they'll turn this round like

Roy Hodgson loving life I mean fair play to him like he's earnt his retirement and deserves a rest, but fucking hell what a disastrous appointment, the fact he's laughing and joking around after being relegated shows he just wasn't bothered, was never going to be able to motivate a team when he can't be arsed himself

Will win the tie tonight the way things are going here

Aye, it's sad watching him now, looks overweight and just running round like a headless chicken, such a wasted career

Wednesday look hopeless going forward, Mackems don't look much better but are carrying more of a slight threat, think they'll win this

Be 3 or 4-2 now, villareal look spent and it's just constant Liverpool pressure

With the chanting over the silence thing, not to defend them too much but I know from experience sometimes when you have quite a lot of fans in the concourse making their way up, they start chanting and sometimes it's not always obvious to them that there's a silence. I know at our aways we have loads that only make their way up with seconds to spare and if youve just been going mental in the concourse you carry it over. Also with the ground being so quiet any sort of noise can easily be heard so it always sounds worse

Could be a big score this, City have not turned up, feels like one of those Anfield European nights where you feel they'll just keep scoring

Every single week man, unbeaten in 9 and heading into the play offs with some real momentum now annoyingly, think this will be the year they go up

Athletic saying he's been sacked

The lines made him look absolutely miles offside but I'm not having that like , no way was it that far off

Could end up being a good thing in a weird way this result. Not that our owners are stupid but as above its a reality check as to the limitations of this squad, and it'll show them how far off we are and that we need big recruitment in the summer. As great as it was the longer Howe made these players look like world beaters and was picking up great results, the more it possible made the owners think we might not need as much of an overhaul in the summer as we do. Days like yesterday won't be happening to us much over the next few years, the good times are coming and the majority of this squad won't be a part of it.

Mackems are doing the same this afternoon n all

It's such an awkward one as to be honest it probably is fair as it is, but it's definitely created an elitist mentality in some of our fan base which isn't fair. Everyone who has kept going over the last 10 years etc should have priority. However, personally, I had a season ticket from 2009 to 2019, I accumulated 104 points, gave it in after Rafa left, got one back this season on a whim as after Covid wanted to reconnect with "the old life" as such, now sit on 7 points, so basically can't get anywhere now. It just doesn't sit right that because I didn't have a season ticket for one season, all those years of going everywhere, through some fucking grim times, now stands for absolutely nothing and someone who say only got a season ticket in 19/20 has more points than me and is classed as more loyal in the system. I knew what I was giving in when I jacked it in though, and obviously if you start giving people back their points how far back do you go? So I accept the system is "fair" now, but its a shame people like me are now locked out of away games despite going everywhere for the last 13 odd years. I'm not sure anything will change but I do like potentially keeping 10% of tickets back for a ballot for season ticket holders with zero/a few points, but again that won't sit well with everyone.