Kid Icarus

Love you Edward

I only saw the last 10 minutes of the first half and the last 20 minutes of the second so no ratings until I watch it in full, but that looked more or less flawless. Beautifully done by Edward. Isak, Gordon, and Schär looked amazing, but defensively we looked like the team I remember from last season that are dogged, relentless, and ridiculously difficult to break down. 4-0 with that backline is brilliant like. Perfect start to the weekend, now we can sit back and enjoy the other matches, there's nothing like it. Love it!

Are his shins okay?

Why on earth are clubs, particularly ambitious ones like us and Villa, voting for this man? Makes no sense.

Not surprising. The ridiculousness of Neom has been posted about a fair bit on here since we were linked with the Saudis.

Without looking there is absolutely no chance that he bought Lacoste.

I don't mind it. Didn't Burberry do something similar because the shops their stuff was being sold in was causing reputational damage and effecting sales from their target customer? If they won that (can't remember if they did) then it's absolutely the case that the same applies with Newcastle products in Sports Direct shops.

If Joselu does literally anything good it'll be so funny man.

Real Madrid deserve this. Club full of cunts with cunt fans.

TWAT! Did you see that!?

Bellingham's a right fucking diver and whinger like.

I agree with pretty much everything he says there.

Newcastle 2 v 2 Spurs Brentford 2 v 1 Sheff United Burnley 1 v 2 Brighton Man City 4 v 0 Luton Forest 2 v 1 Wolves Bournemouth 1 v 2 Man United Liverpool 2 v 0 Palace West Ham 2 v 1 Fulham Arsenal 3 v 0 Villa Chelsea 2 v 0 Everton

And this sort of thing is how I end up reflexively defending him.

Fucking hell, I've defended Southgate a canny bit because his record is still very good with England, but fucking hell, I would shit my legs off laughing if Man United appointed him manager. There's no way that can be true, it would be incredible.

2 points has such a feeling of triangulation about it like.

Is it not like the watch thing where it's that you wear it on your weaker arm?

As much as I really disliked the bloke, I think you have to look back on how he was with the hindsight that there's a good chance the way he went on had something to do with his dementia. A truly awful disease and at the end of the day, it's fucking football, it's as trivial as it gets in the grand scheme of things. Rest easy Joe.

Posters crying about xG not being real despite no one claiming it is, in 5..4..3..2...

Think it's as simple as win on xG = 3 xPts. It's fairly crude, but useful with context. Eg Man United are indeed lucky and are relying on individual moments, Chelsea would be better with a goalscorer, we'd be better without relying on back ups etc. For Spurs it's context again innit? One season you might over-perform xG because you're class, another season (like last season) xG is over-performed because you're playing shit and over-relying on Kane/Son to bale you out. Agree with the xG for your match today btw You were obv the better team and the devil's in the details (ie you were much more threatening and had tons of balls fired across the 6 yard box), but in terms of the actual shots taken they felt pretty even.

Only thing to disagree with is that xPts is on a game-by-game basis, so no skewing with the Sheff United match. 3 xPts and 3 pts achieved and that's the end of it.

Funnily enough, despite already feeling like where we are is a huge achievement in the circumstances, if you're a believer in xG and the related xPts, we 'should be' 5th. A good indication that we're still doing the right things, but that our injuries, fatigue, lack of quality back up is making us fall short in front of goal (despite still also scoring loads) In the same table I think Chelsea are 3rd, Man United 11th, so you're about right there.

Some people don't seem to have heard of...just not saying anything. Gotta get that opinion in.

Basically consolidated 8th for next week with the possibility of 6th. Not bad at all.

No one wants 6th