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? Pretty much, by implication.

When they were talking about Eddie yesterday I had to laugh at the number of times KD felt obliged to say, 'No disrespect to Steve Bruce, but .....'. ?

? Love to see her celebrating and happy.

Didn't seem to see him coming! Like he has no peripheral vision.

He sounds exactly like Gary Lineker - only any good if his first touch is a finish.

Agreed. I mean, if they lose today it doesn't preclude them catching Everton.

No lines, 5 seconds to look at the still frame, if it isn't absolutely bleedin' obvious it's offside the play stands.

Suck on that Don, you frizzy twat.

Let's hope he's crying again tonight.

Co-commentator Don 'Biased' Goodman FFS. ?

Change of thread title? 'Eddie Howe: Fraud' ?

The 1986 World Cup was pretty much ruined by the 'professional foul'. Uruguay's games hardly featured any actual play at all - they were just an endless succession of free kicks. A Scots player went off injured when he was hacked down by a Dane as he broke across the half way line. The Danish player said afterwards, 'If I hadn't fouled him I'd have been an amateur, not a professional'. Subsequently, FIFA issued an instruction that any foul which the referee deemed blatant cheating should be punished with a red card no matter where on the pitch it was committed, in an attempt to stamp out the 'professional foul'. That was trips, shirt pulls, everything. The problem was the refs bottled it. Most famous example was Koeman pulling back Platt in the WC qualifier. He should have been sent off, wasn't, then scored from a free kick. That was the incident when Graham Taylor said the ref had just cost him his job. There was another qualifier against Finland - I think Bobby was manager. Someone went round the keeper who had come out of his area. The keeper grabbed his ankle and held him back, thus preventing a certain goal. He wasn't sent off. So the whole effort failed because a generation of refs didn't have the balls to implement the instruction. So we ended up with 'denying a goalscoring opportunity' while the 'professional foul' is still rife, only now it's known as 'a good yellow'. IMO all blatant cheating should be ruthlessly stamped out. Completely ruins the game for me

Loads of people say this, but I just can't have it. There is such a thing as peripheral vision. While looking at the ball you can still see an opponent coming from the side perfectly well. If this were not the case nobody would be allowed to drive. Not arguing for a definite red in this case, but keeping your eyes on the ball is irrelevant.

Looked to me to be behind the ball. Point would stand otherwise, mind.

? He presumably hasn't cottoned on yet that the new owners are not in Mike's mould. The thing that staggered me was that no-one jumped in to contradict him! Jeff mumbled something about the owners seeming ambitious. Merson reckons we need 4 or 5 or we'll be down the bottom again next season. Darren Bent said we had a good window. Merson didn't comment.

'Merse' has just said he hopes for Eddie's sake we don't finish top half, 'cause the owners might think the squad's good enough and not buy in the summer! ?

Fuck, that's why Charlize never replied then.

Does the club DJ take requests? Dunno if this has been suggested, but it might be nice for N-O to ask for a tune dedicated to Mandypanties at the Spurs game in recognition of all she's done to bring this about. My suggestion would be Pete Frampton's 'You'.

When he was talking about Arsenal being unwilling to loan Willock he said, "So we had to go and buy 'im." Sounded like some cunt moaning that he wasn't able to repair his old subwoofer.

Be brilliant if they actually made him do Fat Mike's garden.

When our keeper gets man of the match it's all you need to know I remember Trevor Francis saying once that if anyone was going to get something from St James' the away keeper had to be man of the match. Now it has to be our keeper. ☹️

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Fraud.

From Football 365. Top of the Premier League non-champions table. "Newcastle (360 days) Last day top of the Premier League – August 13, 2007 It is almost impressive to spend five days short of an entire year at the top of the Premier League without ever actually winning it. Newcastle have been top of the Premier League for a longer total time than two winners (Blackburn, 238 days, and Leicester, 187 days), as well as being at the summit almost three times as long as Tottenham (50 days), Bolton (38 days), Everton (38 days) and West Ham (1 day) combined. It all started with Kevin Keegan’s infamous title races – and collapses – but the baton was gamely picked up by Sir Bobby Robson, and even Sam Allardyce at the start of the 2007/08 season. Oh, those heady early days under Mike Ashley’s ownership."

Aye I heard that too. We can live in hope. What he say? Towards the end of his interview he said he was going to try to enjoy the job because, "I won't be here much longer, I don't think". But before that he said the takeover seems to have gone away, although he wouldn't know. Eh, quite an odd thing to say if he doesn’t know that he’s gone, no? Yeah, although it might have been just a slip of the tongue because he knows he's out of his depth.