Kid Icarus

Big fan of the flamboyance of the city crest and also just think it looks the best, so definitely that one for me.

So many passes that you wince at for being dodgy/risky that just comfortably get to another England player

Robbed of 2 goals as well

Dixon: "looks like double figures is on" Matterface: "Well the fans want 10!!

VAR has become 'change the decision', fucking shite.

I wonder if they'd still waste their time on Wraith if they knew that the majority of Newcastle fans would join in taking the piss out of him and are probably more embarrassed about being associated with him than they are being associated with MBS.

Jack Grealish's kink is getting fouled

Lovely stuff, I feel like they're a rarity these days. Remember Gavin Peacock scoring a similar one in 92/93, Mark Hughes proper loved them as well.

Lolbania

Have I ever mentioned how I think Henderson is really good

This is canny spicy

I totally understand why managers are incredibly careful with the jobs they take on tbh, especially early on in their careers. One false move that doesn't work out and you're seen as an irredeemable failure

Of all the obvious names we're being linked with, I think it's only really Jesse Lingard that's near to being a realistic one at the moment.

Aguero was absolutely quality, he just never really wow'd me with the way he played for some reason.

Actively protesting against it.

Walking away is definitely an option but I do think for most it's an unrealistic one. I think most will pick somewhere on the scale between walking away and just outright lauding the owners. Personally I can't feel the excitement over this that I would if more or less anyone else had taken over, but I also can't stop myself from consuming all of it either - the new manager, the training, the potential new signings, the SD signs coming down. It's partly why I'm so convinced that nearly everyone's full of shit, because I was against the takeover and am against the takeover, yet here I am not just resigned to the reality but taking it all in. My more or less worthless promise to myself is that I'm still not going to buy anything from the club or fund it, which is honestly the most futile, pointless, genuinely virtue signal-y thing to excuse my conscience, but if fully walking away isn't an option and protesting it would be like trying to sell garlic in Translyvania, I'm not sure what else anyone feeling that way can do but to support the team, not the regime. I've made this point before, but they're not daft, they knew exactly who they were buying.

There was a lot of it around the original potential takeover in 2020. I can only speak for me, but when it came around again this year I just couldn't be bothered with the anguish of going over the same arguments again when it was so obvious that it would it would be a massive waste of time and energy.

Leaving the club that adores you to go and play with your best mate, only for him to be sold and then having to end your career must sting a bit like.

It sounds like the Trust turned into exactly what everyone on here specifically wanted to avoid.

Shearer's definitely talked like that for years like. I remember mocking the way he said Stoke about 10 years ago.

Roy Keane's absolutely spot on about the 'managers who play the game' by getting pally with everyone in the media like. They will all swear blind that being friends with someone makes no difference to their professional judgement, until they're suddenly in a position where they're advocating OGS as the manager for one of the biggest clubs in the world, or comparing a manager with a 20% win rate with one who's won multiple trophies across Europe and they look completely and blatantly compromised.

Literally everyone I know from Gosforth including my lass's family all talk like that. Howp, coawts, loawds, stowk. (hope, coats, loads, stoke) Couldn't tell you why like, but they do.

She absolutely is like Princess Diana in the sense that she seems to get the same type of seat-sniffing adulation that she had

I try to remember Freddie Shepherd doing these sorts of things and all I can remember is him going 'yiv got yi Luque's and yi Emre's'

'Couldn't have imagined bringing in a better manager' I mean, you nearly did that, never mind imagining it.