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I'm finding the chat on my method of viewing this game to be more entertaining than the game itself. A few lowlights from the last 5 minutes: 'JETFUEL DOESNT MELT STEEL BEAMS' 'THIERY HENRYYYYYYYY' '2-1 ramsdale goal kick goal'

Don't understand why Havertz isn't given a yellow card?

Stadium PA playing The Rock's theme? Rate it.

A definite style shift, presumably with the added fixtures in mind. We need a happy medium, this is straying too far from what brought us to the table.

A lot of time between now and Brentford, fixtures start to look more favourable. It’s not panic stations, hopefully this serves as a massive kick up the arse.

Surely you get some minutes into the legs of Livramento now.

Dear me. Don’t think Brighton have looked particularly great, either.

The subs have changed the game.

A very England performance this. Play the pass, receive it facing the same direction, often under pressure, a lot of the responsibility being passed around and no real leader as it is.

That’ll do for me.

Assumed it was Amdy Abdoulaye was generally solid for us, can’t remember why he left but he was brilliant for Stoke as well.

Just watched the highlights of the 2007 Tyne Wear derby at Sunderland. Been on a rabbit hole of watching games from that kind of time. Horrific match like, Mike Ashley in the away end, Amdy Faye with a horrendous bit of play leading up to their goal, but the one good moment coming from 12 year old James Milner, scoring unexpectedly from a cross. I’d forgotten about Barton essentially assaulting Etuhu too. Cool little rabbit hole to go down, haven’t come across a great deal of NUFC highlights but love seeing some of the line ups from that time.

That's certainly one way for them to make the league more competitive.

We have a coaching team that works alongside a sports science team, which will guide decisions when it comes to how much load a player can take on, what type of running he has done, at which point a strain is more likely to occur, and so on. For me, it’s difficult to judge the substitutes without being privy to this information. Disappointing result, that we know for definite Howe will go through with a fine tooth comb to iron out our weaknesses and look to improve on. No worries at all with his management so far from me.

“Son”. Burnsie?

What a position to be in if this is considered embarrassing.

Oh no, Carragher has that look on his face that tells me he’s going to spit on an unsuspecting member of the public.

Embarrassing reaction from VVD, it won’t happen but he really should face further punishment. Defensively we are comfortable imo, need to up our game in attack, feel we’re a little complacent.

100%.

Really smart finish that, fair play to the lad. Hit the ground running by all accounts.

This craic with the pillows, how are they sleeping with only one?

I'm happy with the window, but I am still 100% in the 'wow, this acting like a professional football club thing is pretty cool' phase.

It’s something that the players have obviously seen and discussed. Not sure exactly what it is that has been said that has caused him to fire back but do think some criticism, particularly on Twitter, is ridiculous. Criticism is fair game but I do think some fans, probably a minority, need perspective.

In the interests of equality, now let’s begin the media inquest and the deep look into if any of them fly EasyJet or if they’ve ever bought their mother a house.

Full time whistle. “Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.”