Tiresias

Cancelled it for yellow now, right it was a harsh red, but equally by letter of the law it is a red isn't it? It's just not enough actual force so normally would be yellow but dunno if you can overrul as the red card is technically correct so not a clear and obvious error

Did get a red in the end

After defending Potter a bit in other thread Chelsea are really rubbish like, yes you can dominate possession if you don't attack much but it's not like Pep's Barca dominating possession...

Having said all that in Potter's defense his love of playing forwards as wing-backs feels flawed. Yes Pep does it too, and yes it doesn't work half the time for Pep either.

Problem is the media is wedded to a sort of hero narrative where a manager is a lone genius who is able to dictate everything at every club. In fact there are a lot of factors at every club that can boost or diminish a manager who isn't actually soley responsible in practice for how a team does. If Chelsea do stick with Potter, which feels less likely every week, maybe they can rebuild their club ethos and structure around him and he can get some of the results that he got for Brighton. Chelsea are clearly a basket case, and famously their dressing room is difficult. I wonder if Boehly is not taking calls from them, under Abramovich if a manager so much as made one of the star players run a bit more defensively he'd get a phone call whinging about it. Equally however adding a bunch of new superstar players on big wages and long contracts does not feel brilliant for dressing room collusion. I have no doubt this Chelsea team will improve drastically but for all the money I see no sign of anything special.

Its because they're very busy travelling to Manchester so they can pretend they come from there and travel back down to london

No excuse for sending death threats to someones family like. Honestly these melts should have "I sent someones family a death threat because I wasn't enjoying football" tattooed on their forehead for all to see for all time

No no 300 mackem legends will block the roads like spartans of old and fight back and decapitate every single mag and carry their trophies back to their partners (who are tied up seagulls)

So, I am currently in Toon sat in a cafe. I got a big promotion last week at work so thought i would celebrate at short notice, I live down North Yorkshire way and haven't been up in a while, thought I'd see if any old mates about (they weren't lol), went round old haunts (one of which has been ruined by new management I guess booo) and went to the Cluny for a Terry Hall tribute night where all the bands had got Covid, but oh well was fun. The town feels very quiet though, like one big intake of breath. (I am aware probably cos a lot of people aren't here) Everywhere I've gone snippets of conversations about it. Sat in Trent House yesterday guy at next table was discussing his plans on phone, lucky bastard had tickets and was setting off at 5am today. I am driving back down to Teesside shortly to sit cramped up in the living room of friend who nearly 15 years ago dragged me to newcastle matches in the days I was tentatively getting into sport. The only sport tolerated in my house growing up was Tennis, but I was free and at uni and casting about for new connections. I fell in love with the city and part of that seemed to be falling in love with NUFC even though it was already clear to me then it was a shadow of a club. I'll sit with his kids, the oldest is football mad, and he will probably grow up thinking this is normal, ambition, cup finals. Hopefully me and his dad can keep him grounded. The last decade and so have still got me thinking fatalistically. I am still expecting us to roar into a 2-0 lead then lose to a Rashford hat trick. Always assuming the worst. But how magical might it be if I'm dancing round the room in a few hours?

He publically told her to get back with him in the immediate aftermath of the incident

Well yes I guess, but my point is more at mad man u fans who want him to stay because he's learned a lesson, I guess our jails would be empty and cost less i guess if criminals could lose a nike deal apologise and that was what repercussions were

Meanwhile Man U look twice the team without him in the squad

I'm all for people learning and changing but that also has to go hand in hand with actual repercussions. Not just losing nike deals or anything like that. I get that the cps was screwed over by dropping off complaint but i don't know how anyone who listened to that audio couldn't think this man is dangerous and needs to be in jail.

Whoever printed the second label had been having a mare with getting the right template to print...

refers to man u as united, get rid

Well earned

If it just me or are managers getting angrier and angrier these days? Really think it needs to be addressed as it's ridiculous and a poor example all round. I do wonder considering how much most refs get screamed at if you are way more likely to get anything by going calmly "i dare say old chap you may have made an oversight there, would you mind taking a second look?" The shock might produce results!

We have eerred on the side of letting players go probably because in the long term getting wages of players not of new standards required as quickly as possible will help with financial fair play and bringing players in. No it is not ideal, yes the squad is too thin. I just can't bring myself to be overly upset, this is all because we have overperformed for first part of the season, we are ahead of schedule. If they'd started the season saying top 4 aim, then yes in that context looks a little foolish, but in context of, we are not going to rush into buying loads of players we are going to take time, build a squad piece by piece, only sign players we want and are good enough rather than just who is available or at an inflated premium then this approach still makes sense. Of course a little bit of me thinks we could have got top 4 had we maybe kept Shelvey but if we do finish 5th or 6th no guarantee Shelvey would have been the difference. Loaning out Dubravka looks more a mistake now sure but he was apparently very unhappy, what would the impact of an unhappy player on the bench have been, who knows? Equally the dividends of everyone in the club knowing that Howe will respect their wishes, players coming in to a club with a reputation of treating players fairly are not going to be easy to quantify but they will be there. Anyway just to say maybe club got that a bit wrong, a bit daft in retrospect, but I can't get angry about it. I am dreading us finishing 6th and there being fury all round, when we all would have been delighted at season start. TOp 4 would be great, but City and Arsenal have been better than us for large parts of the season, Man U have a big head of steam and form and we have dropped off. Spurs may well implode at any moment so there is a chance to overtake them again. I do think Brighton and Liverpool are most likely other ones to overtake us which would be disappointing, but we will get form back.

Absolute rubbish, confident we will respond, but cannot lose concentration like we did for 20 minutes... Once a down to 10 men we played well but Liverpool hardly had to do too much to contain.

I hate football

Shocking defending howe out!

Horrendous news

I mean I can almost sort of understand the flat out immediate abuse homophobes, but it's the "Why should I care or need to know about his sexuality, very strange" replies it gets that bother me most. You're the one who has gone out of your way to comment on it...

I hope he's going to be alright. I hope a bunch more feel brave enough to follow.

like everyone else is playing at half speed