Kid Icarus

I'd link it so you could judge for yourself but it's behind a pay wall. IIRC a couple of days after Caulkin had put out an article about his deep-seated concerns over our ownership, where he said amongst other things that he was losing sleep over it, he put out another article with Alex Hurst and our very own Greg, where the tone was very different imo. The article is called 'How it feels to be a Newcastle fan now everyone hates them' which was very much a piece about a seige mentality and about fans being unfairly criticised. At the time it seemed really crass and tone deaf imo. Even if it was true that Newcastle fans were being unfairly criticised (which I don't think we were for the most part) , he knew the gravity of the situation with Saudi Arabian human rights abuses, so would know that football fans receiving criticism is nothing, it's a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things. It just seemed off to me, like he was undermining his own previous article, I didn't like that.

Jack Colback either absolutely did hide or was the single worst footballer I've ever seen for being screened by opposition midfielders.

It's fairly smart, I like classic designs like that. If it had the Adidas trefoil logo and a better sponsor I'd think it was amazing tbh.

I used to really love Caulkin like. Him 'getting us' was a huge deal in the Ashley years. I don't know whether he just stood out more back then because sports journalism was worse, whether I was influenced by him being on our side, my tastes have changed, he's got worse, or a combination of all, but I do find his style quite saccharine and overly dramatic now. Maybe it's just the context of the godawful world that he's writing in now, where the idea of football being anything along the lines of his ghost-written "What is football in any case?" quote seem naive and out-of-touch. I dunno. I still like him like, he seems like a sound bloke. Albeit his virtue signally (and I normally hate that expression) over the takeover while simultaneously putting out an imo woe-is-me article about our fans' seige mentality over it rubbed me the wrong way.

Ridiculous. Are they going to ban stuttered and Jorginho-style pens as well or should we just scrap pens altogether and give the fouled team an automatic goal.

Wonder how weighted home and away is. Chelsea aside all of our obviously tough games are at home.

Aye, I knew of him years ago. Was often trying to get in with my lass at the time, proper flannel and a nepo baby IIRC.

Or... https://archive.is/uOets Better than risking them ripping you off, which seems to have happened to a lot of people

Defending the Saudi ownership of NUFC is also definitely political like, whether it's a majority view, people want to admit it, or want to get into the details of it or not. He signed off with talking about getting taxed as well Not that any of that matters anyway imo. I get being open-minded like, but when it comes to thinking someone going on GB News to talk with Farage is some kind of act of neutrality or meaninglessness, the expression 'remember to not be so open-minded that your brain falls out' comes to mind.

He's a humblebrag hustler like. You can see it in that High Performance podcast he did with Eddie. Mainly harmless but really insufferable.

I've watched it like, I know it wasn't. He can obviously do whatever he wants, I don't personally care where he goes, what he believes, it's a free country and we all have opinions, yada yada. But the idea that him going on GB News to talk with Farage indicates nothing at all is just completely daft.

It says box, I was just joking

Yeah, he probably chose to go on GB News to talk with Farage because his views don't align with his in any way. You're right that's much more likely.

What conclusion are people jumping to beyond him going on to cosy up with Nigel Farage like? Hardly like he was going on to offer a political counter argument to Farage and Grimes is it?

I've always been fascinated by it and have watched it loads of times trying to get into it. I enjoy the hijinx but aside from the implication scene I've never seen why other people put it on the same level as stuff like Arrested Development, Trailer Park Boys, Community, 30 Rock etc in terms of it actually being funny like.

Diego's in a boy. He's saying Maradona is a nonce.

England were okay at the 2010 World Cup? Howeh, they were absolutely dreadful and you know it. Every match was awful, with that 0-0 draw with Algeria being one of the worst England performances I've ever seen. Euro 2000 was a disaster because despite beating Germany, we lost from winning positions against Portugal and Romania and went out at the group stage. Again the idea that on paper only Beckham and Scholes would get in this side is cloud cuckoo land stuff Seaman, Campbell, Adams, Scholes, Beckham, Owen, Gerrard, Shearer, McManaman, Fowler would all walk into this squad, with the first 5 to 7 having either been initially picked to start, or pushing to start.

I still think it's mad like. In every other situation, the buck stops with the manager. It's generally accepted that if things are going badly you sack the manager, it's also imo generally accepted that you can't just get great players, chuck them together and expect it to work - any England fan who witnessed 'The Golden Generation' should be very familiar with this - You need a manager with an eye for team cohesion and picking the right players for the system rather than the 'best' players. But for some reason all of that's thrown out the window when it comes to England under Southgate. Southgate apparently has everything to do with England's perceived failures and limitations, but on the other hand all of England's successes have nothing to do with him, could have been achieved by anyone and have happened in spite of him, through luck, and because everyone we've beaten just so happen to be bad, even when they won the Euros, beating Belgium, Spain, and England on the way, or when they beat one of the teams everyone accepts is good. It's incredible.

Considering it's literally only Phil Foden from those teams that now regularly plays for England, no I don't mean them and neither do you. We've been through this before like. Thinking that these players are man-for-man better than the golden generation is still utter lunacy in my view.

The old 'this generation (that everyone thought were a bunch of nobodies until Southgate came along) are actually the real golden generation that Southgate's holding back argument.

Yes, are we not people like? AM I NOT A MAN?

Other people just think differently to you Rod. It's not a fucking conspiracy

10 men England winning 2-1 against Italy, in Italy for the first time in 62 years. Surely this is the end of Southgate.

Really good pressing from Gallagher

Pleased he's not going to Spurs like.