HaydnNUFC

This. We'll improve with Wilson back but even he couldn't save this shower. Sack Bruce over the break and we may have a chance. Bit late now but better late than never, we're out of the bottom 3 and Spurs and Burnley with our better players back fit aren't the worst games to come.

"Managers matter, but our manager is desperate for you, and his boss, to believe that they don't."

Shame its not the COVID that his colleagues from that Tory paper have attacked people for dying from.

At least a good chunk of the wider press are turning. He has to go.

Where's Edwards gone? Hope he's snuffed it the bald tory cunt.

Taken the only footballer in midfield off. Superb.

He's tried to play for 0-0. Gone wrong. The fat cunt won't have a clue what to do.

Hendrick ffs. May as well have gotten sent off.

This is absolutely rancid.

Aye. Like isn't an accumulation of points how a football league table works?

S uness

I remember him retweeting something a fan said which was along the lines of Pardew kept on playing him in spite of him having injuries in the first few games of 14/15 to save his job. Which was probably the case, dragged us through that Palace home game which we still threw away.

Only watched Soccer Saturday once or twice since the first lock down last year. Even then I only put it on at 3 and switched it off at 5.

Stocked up on beer and whisky for tonight. No way I'm watching this shit sober.

Tony Green, Paul Gascoigne, Andy Cole, Les Ferdinand, David Ginola, Didi Hamaan, Clarence Acuña, Jonathan Woodgate, Habib Beye, Abdoulaye Faye, going to chuck Andy Carroll in there due to the form he was in during 2010-11 and his age all sans his injury issues, Demba Ba, Hatem Ben Arfa, Loïc Remy, Mehdi Abeid, Florian Thauvin, Kevin Mbabu, Mikel Merino, Solomon Rondon. Big list, like.

Aye, Bruce will be looking for a point and will probably get it the fucking coward. Refuses to go for games without ASM, Wilson and Almiron it seems. 0-0. Shame as a win would put us 5 clear with a game in hand and will probably be the springboard to seeing us safe. Ugh.

What a fucking save.

If we don't win at Brighton it's just because the players didn't want it enough.

Didn't Souness always call Shearer 'a proper man'? Whatever that means

There's issues with players coming from Germany due to Covid restrictions. Interesting they list/view Saka as a forward going off the graphic. But Bellingham is there?

Is Sancho injured?

That seems like its a community hub rather than a training ground. The Foundation are building something similar tbf. That hub still looks better than our training ground though tbf.

When did Soccer AM stop being widely watched? As a kid always seem to remember it being on on a Saturday morning before going to the match, then just, well, stopped. Cold turkey pretty much as well. I know loads of people say it went downhill when Lovejoy left but I only remember it with Max Rushden.

We'd be where Villa or West Ham if he had stayed imo. If he or another manager that'd excite people came in when the takeover should've happened in the summer a la Pochettino, Allegri, Naglesmann or even someone like Marco Rose then we'd be catching up to if not already beyond Leicester. A lot of things are required to make NUFC successful: an ambitious owner, an intelligent manager in the dugout who conducts himself with honour that the fans can relate to and whom possesses a vision for Newcastle United and the ability to communicate that to a squad that is talented and has a bit of nous and flair. Rafa ticked one of those boxes and allowing him to go for daring to challenge the petulant cunt of an owner on what the club needs/needed to do to become successful was and still is so ridiculous, childish and rancid it’s untrue. He’s the biggest tick we've had in the Ashley era in any of those criteria, much more so than the squad we had between 2011 and 2014. He’s, arguably, the only thing the club has had going for it since Sir Bobby Robson left. A PIF takeover or any sort of takeover that leads to a bit of substantial and sustained investment will lead to an injection of quality and just overall improvement in the playing staff. A takeover sets everything up like dominoes tbh, one required event for success at NUFC is inextricably linked to the next event. Obviously in football there are no guarantees and it may all go to shit but any of the bell ends amongst the media and in our fanbase that have tried to justify replacing Benitez with Steve fucking Bruce want shooting with shit, to put it lightly. Under Ashley results and performances from the team 80% of the time have been and will be poor, shite decisions have been and always will be made regarding managerial appointments, transfers, starting XIs and tactics but all in all its all moot given the due to the glass ceiling imposed and all of it leads back to one man. It’s Ashley who needs to fuck off, it’s Ashley oversaw such a massive scale of regression in standing and expectation at this club, it’s Ashley who has neglected to invest in the squad and it’s Ashley who has run this club to suit him and only him. He’s the cancer, the ball and chain, the millstone. Ashley out, for the love of god allow this arbitration to work in some way. As soon as is humanely fucking possible.

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