Ghandis Flip-Flop

I genuinely don’t think elocution training is a thing for BBC presenters anymore, it’s just a natural softening of the accent when speaking to a different audience (or convergence if you want the sociolinguistic term), I mean everyone recognises we have a "phone voice" when speaking in a professional capacity for instance. It’s generally not even conscious a lot of the time, it just comes from a desire to be understood.

Yup it’s well studied in sociolinguistics, called convergence/divergence which is part of accommodation theory https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118540190.wbeic082

They might be mates, but they’re not fellow Geordies are they? I find the idea that people aren’t aware that they alter their use of dialect and soften or harden their accent, depending on their audience are either thick, or disingenuous.

I mean I’d imagine he slots back into a Gosforth accent when on the lash with his mates, but tones it down when on National Media. I am pretty sure my accent has softened slightly after being in the RAF for 23 years, despite it remaining obvious which part of the country from which I originate. But not being funny if I hadn’t altered the way I spoke from leaving Bedlington Station, I’d not have been understood for most of my previous career. i imagine some would describe me as scenty bottle now, but I reckon throwing the odd bit of Doric that I’ve had to adopt in the new job would make me less intelligible than a pissed, toothless owld gadgie from Ershinton like hoo

Just popped into here to check if something had been announced tbh, as my YouTube feed was full of videos saying Mbuemo wants to move to Newcastle🤷🏻‍♂️

This ☝️ think of your own mates you played football at school with at 16/17 and how many you bumped into two or three years later and were suddenly massive. Physicality plays a big part in competitive sport and knowing how someone is going to physically develop at a young age will always include an element of guesswork. IMO Academy football shouldn’t be primarily about results, but be about teaching technique, skills, tactics and patterns of play.

He also said he knew nothing about Harvey Barnes signing, whilst Barnes was already with the squad. How many years of Eddie Howe's press conferences do we have to experience, before people understand he will never give anything away and will obfuscate plans, often and deliberately?

We potentially do, but there's no way Brentford are going to be open to selling him this window in the position they’re in. It’s as daft as some suggesting Isak would move if Arsenal clicked their fingers

Remember both Mitrovic and Luque having similar very near misses on their competitive debuts and thinking the same too. Mitro in particular was definitely trying too hard to score at times in the first season

In fairness that downplays Isak's skill for finding space, he was left in similar acres of space by Arsenal's CB pairing, who are generally considered pretty decent. At what point does Isak's movement get the credit, rather than it always being shite defending?

I have them on my podcast playlist too, but they don’t do the rival fan chat in the run up to games etc.. which was the main things I enjoyed tbh, especially when it was Norman that hosted them

Thought he was really good against us in the first half at their place. But I did laugh when they were all saying Joelinton had to be sent off, as he had been every bit as physical and nasty as big Joe, but seemed to have a free pass from the ref to do so

Was what finally saw me chuck in the Patreon, had enjoyed having the podcasts on when out and about CPNing. They got rid of the actual match going, local lads and have been like Chicken Little at every slight set back since towards the end of last season. Got to a point where I couldn’t finish an episode without calling them twats and turning it off

Did we win at Stamford Bridge this season like?

Unless you look on FaceBook where this is an insult to Salah and proof of a conspiracy against him 🤦🏻‍♂️

Needs to done by 'Boro and the Mackems then, as despite what the Daily Mail would have you believe Teeside and County Durham are the worst places per capita for knife crime on this Isle.

Which is just proof that XG is deeply flawed in its calculation. How they had an XG of nearly 4 in their game against us was wild. They had two good chances, but the rest was punt and hope

Odd take, his touch and technique was fine, he was just physically outmuscled. Not really a surprise he's a slight 17 yr old ffs

UEFA

That Cruyff turn to mug off a Spurs player was beautiful just then 🤣

I mean we haven’t been out of the PL for nearly a decade either, they suffer the same situation as Man City used to. They had a hardcore of somewhere between 25-30k which can be boosted when they’re "doing well', but isn’t sustainable in the lean times. Which is why them building the SOL solely to have a bigger capacity than the 36k SJP had at the time was always a folly

I mean he won them a European trophy and saw them qualify for Europe for a few seasons too, which in my lifetime is a fair over achievement for them.

I’d hope being at home would mean the officials were less likely to allow those kind of tackles to stand tbf

Actually think Palace get a fair few tourists due to Ted Lasso, as bizarre as it sounds

I'd understand that logic if they had and recent history of young players realising their potential at that club. Rooney and Ronaldo was a LONG time ago now man, there is no patience for players to learn on the job there in the last 10 years, they need players who can not only hit the ground running, but can deal with the weight of the shirt. FFS we've seen players wilt when pulling on our shirt when things weren’t going well and I’d argue the pressure at Newcastle is nowhere near that at Man Utd, even if in reality it’s probably been closer than Froggy would like to admit these past 3 years.