Stottie

Three season ends under Eddie Howe. 21/22 P10 W6 D0 L4 Pts 18 22/23 P10 W5 D3 L2 Pts 18 Final game was dead rubber draw at Chelsea after sealing CL with nervy draw vs. Leicester 23/24 P10 W6 D2 L2 Pts 20 Massive plaudits to Eddie for working em hard but keeping it going at the business end of the season. The same again, say 18, would do very nicely and get us to 65 points. I reckon that would be enough.

I reckon the council will be too hard up to resist any offers of regeneration funded by the Saudis and the Reubens. They may have knocked back previous projects from the club to use Leazes Park, but that would have been a pre-austerity council with much more money and far less wealthy owners of NUFC with much less to offer as sweeteners. The council now will have barely a pot to piss in, never mind pay for things like park upkeep. Libraries and parks across the North East are now maintained by volunteers not the council.

Yes its grim and likely to get grimmer, thanks to rule changes like PSR and more and more subs letting big clubs face you with 16 stars, not 11. Since Sky etc. won't point it out to you, I'll stick this in capitals in an attempt to grab more eyeballs and make an important point about fairness and competititiveness in English football. WE WON THE FIRST EFL TOURNAMENT TO INCLUDE SEEDING OF TEAMS PLAYING THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND EUROPA LEAGUE THOSE SIX TEAMS ALL GOT AUTOMATIC HOME DRAWS IN THE THIRD ROUND (LAST 32) SO THEY WOULDN'T PLAY EACH OTHER The higher ups and their media lapdogs don't want to share trophies round. That's why they talk of "quadruples". Liverpool didn't even reach the last 8 in the Champions League. That's about as close to winning as some long-forgotten England manager, say Capello, came to winning the World Cup.

They should have it in Leazes Park as a bring your own shovel.

The speed of the decision was at odds with the complexity of the situation. The international feed thought that the offside was a wrong call and that the goal would be given. When it wasn't, their reaction was "oh it must have been Guimaraes", something which hadn't occurred to them from watching the action. The VAR decision looked like it was nullifying an incorrect flag for offside on Isak, but finding a different offside on Bruno which may or may have been correct. He was a yard in front of the keeper, so not impeding him, and not actually in his sight when the shot was taken. You can find the whole match with international coverage (US CBS) online. It sounds like the commentator was Jon Champion. When Isak does score, Champion or whoever it is reminds us that Isak also scored against Arsenal and Chelsea in this tournament. Bravo!

I'm sure we'd have seen more discussion of it had it been an equalizer for them. As it was, we barely got a replay. I would imagine the flag went up seemingly mistakenly for Isak, not for Bruno who the lino can't have known was in the keeper's eyeline. Unless Isak was clearly offside, it should have automatlcally launched a proper VAR review.

6pm here and just about recovered after getting up at noon. Still struggling to believe it. What a performance and the dream scorer in Dan Burn. Beating Liverpool so easily after all our struggles against them of late and without Gordon or Hall. Its a big step forward for the club. It mightn't be for someone else, but it is for us.

Has any other team limited Liverpool to seven shots all season? EH masterclass.

Carra is surprisingly magnanimous mode admitting Liverpool were shite and completely outplayed.

Lets lift up that fucking cup and hear from Eddie our king!

Well in lads! Bruno I love you Drury what a cunt. Easily Liverpool's best performer today. Enjoy it everyone!

Looking good lads. 7 to go. Let's enjoy it.

Gonna be a long half hour. Howay the lads!

Well, we've definitely turned up. Great half, and deserved lead. Just hope the lads have enough in the tank to keep it up. Howay the lads!

The silver lining is them being 10 points off the top half, with 9 games to play. They started their match today with the same goal difference as Forest.