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Maybe. See if he puts in a transfer request next August. Doubt any club would match the salary we're paying him.

F***

I'd tend to trust Eddie's judgment over Louise Taylor's musings.

Think we should just forfeit the rest of our games this season, get relegated, have a much easier season in the Championship and start building a new team. Or maybe the club should just disband altogether. Howay the lads.

This is a decent watch for those who are able to get it.

Didn't realize he had a kid already. He's only 17 FFS.

Well, y'know . . .

"Manchester United did some good things going forward against Galatasaray in the Champions League on Wednesday, but they also did some bad things at the back. Newcastle United will feel hard done by after the way they lost to Paris St-Germain on Tuesday and I think we'll see a strong performance from them back at St James' Park. Eddie Howe's side hammered Chelsea at home last weekend and I think they will overrun Manchester United too. This could be a difficult evening for Erik ten Hag, and the end of his side's run of good results in the league. Sutton's prediction: 3-1" The BBC actually pay Chris Sutton for expert analysis like this,

It's really hard to understand. In that last 45 minutes there were no goal celebration delays. We made no substitutions to justify added time (granted PSG did, but they did them in a tearing hurry.) No stoppages for VAR checks. No lengthy injury stoppages -- no stretchers brought out. Even if you assess 10 seconds each for delayed goal kicks, we didn't take anywhere near 48 goal kicks in 45 minutes. Seems so random.

No one likes us. We don't care.

Same is true of Villa, and their 1 was 8th placed Brighton

Has he been taking Tiddles with him?

Terminate the lot tbh.

False 2 and 3. The opposition won't be expecting that cunning plan.

She did this without gloves. I can't find any FA or FIFA rule that restricts outfield players from wearing gloves of any sort, as long as they're not adjudged to be potentially dangerous.

Cat astrophe averted, then.

Catts for me like.

Can see why McDog liked it.

From BBC Sport today What a feeling two years on. "On this day two years ago, Newcastle needed a saviour. The Saudi-backed takeover had happened a month earlier, but under Steve Bruce the performances had nosedived and the Magpies were making up the numbers in the Premier League. Check out the standings on 8 November 2021. With no wins from their opening 11 games, even at this early stage, relegation was starting to look like it might be a formality. Enter 43-year-old Eddie Howe, fresh from a year away from management after some outstanding work at Bournemouth. Could he replicate what he had achieved on the south coast at a much bigger club with a far more intense level of scrutiny? In short, yes. The current Premier League table, again after 11 games, underlines the level of progress masterminded by Howe in such a short time. Sure, they are not currently in the Champions League places as per last season, but Liverpool and Tottenham have bounced back this time around and Howe’s players have been placed under much greater stress with European games against heavyweights such as Borussia Dortmund, Paris St-Germain and AC Milan to contend with. To be in the top six – after beating Arsenal last weekend no less - is and will remain a remarkable achievement. They are also the second highest scorers in the division so far this season with that goal difference of +16, far more palatable than the grotty days of shipping goals and struggling to create that Bruce oversaw. Two years on, Howe has been an unimaginable success in the Newcastle hotseat. His next challenge is to finally break that devastatingly long wait for silverware on Tyneside." Joe Bradshaw, BBC Sport

Might be the coolest person in the world. A lot of people are saying that, anyway.

It's a very good sensible article, tbh.

This is verbatim from the FA rule book. "A player is in an offside position if: any part of the head, body or feet is in the opponents’ half (excluding the halfway line) and any part of the head, body or feet is nearer to the opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent The hands and arms of all players, including the goalkeepers, are not considered. For the purposes of determining offside, the upper boundary of the arm is in line with the bottom of the armpit. A player is not in an offside position if level with the: second-last opponent or last two opponents" So if you are behind the ball, you can't be offside (see above). If you're behind the ball and it is played towards you, the ball has necessarily gone backwards. So you can't be offside if the ball goes backwards.

It's "deserts," man. As in, what they deserve. Desserts is like peach cobbler or tiramisu. Or, er, stottie cakes.

Not very promising, but everyone was saying that about Joelinton two years ago.