Kid Icarus

Finding it a lot harder to detect the sarcasm in this post than in mine

I know I said the World Cup 2018 squad was shit at the time and said we'd get slaughtered. But we got to a world cup semi final and a European final, so they must be the best English players since 66. Ferdinand, Terry, Scholes, Lampard or Gerrard, and Rooney couldn't hack it against Romania, the Yanks, Algeria, the Germans, and Iceland, but Maguire, Stones, Rice, and Phillips did so are better! Southgate did fuck all but hold them back with his negative shit. We only played easy teams in 2018 btw! The good ones we beat had nothing to do with Southgate, it was the players and home advantage and luck I know easy teams beat hard teams at tournaments but we could have done better and would have won the Euros with a better manager. Ask anyone outside of the Southgate wank along on here and they'll tell you all that togetherness, team bonding, restored pride bollocks had nowt to do with him. It's just bullshit spread by his mates the guardian and Gary Lineker

Always love how so many football songs sound like they were written by a first school kid His name is Hugo and he is from France and he went to Newcastle to score loads of goals

Some people are honestly psychotic like.

Who had 'post-golden generation Rentford Rejects inexplicably reimagined as the best players we've ever had' on their daft cunt bingo card?

Howe is on record as saying it would be his ultimate job. Thankfully he also said it would be something he'd want to do much later on because he enjoys being able to do regular coaching too much.

Ah no way, he was probably my favourite caller. Was only on the phone the Monday after Burnley.

You should want Southgate to be the manager for as long as possible if you're a Newcastle fan anyway, because Howe's name will definitely be in the mix.

Citation needed tbh

I didn't say you couldn't? I just said I don't. Yeah, and worse teams have done better. Like I say, no guarantee at tournaments but I don't consider what Belgium have done as successful in the context of the talent they have. No point getting into a player by player analysis of whether they're a golden generation or not really, but I disagree that it's just De Bruyne and Hazard and think their squad would have done better with a manager better than Martinez, I don't even know how that's remotely controversial tbh.

His track record is exactly why you can look at that Belgium squad and then look at his achievements and make the case that they'd have achieved more with a better manager. I thought he was naïve at Wigan, and terrible at Everton. The improvement that he'd need to have made for me to not make that case is massive and I definitely don't think he's made the case for a counter argument with Belgium. At least not yet. Like I say, you can't guarantee success at tournaments, but there's no way you can look at a semi at the World Cup and a quarter final at the Euros with that squad and think of it as mission accomplished or successful. In the context of Belgium's history, definitely, but not in the context of the talent they have.

Yes, definitely. You can't guarantee success at tournaments, but the level of talent they have is obscene and he's a manager with no real track record of success in tournaments or anywhere for that matter.

Honestly, Google 'ticketless [UK team that reached a European final] fans final [year]' and you'll see how common it is. Just as an example Man United had between 10-20,000 ticketless fans turn up in Barcelona and Rome.

I honestly think the idea of Liverpool being worse than most as a set of fans is a hangover from the '80s and more correlation than causation tbh. Every set of English fans abroad has had bother - the England team, us, Leeds, West Ham, Chelsea, Man United. The only team's fans I can't ever remember getting into bother is Arsenal. Generally, I think you'd get the same bother with other teams regularly in Europe though.

If we're ever lucky enough to get to a CL final, we might get to see just how well behaved our cunt/horse punching section are and how comfortable we are with being tarnished with the same brush. When I went to Bruges and got chatting with some of the locals, they weren't complimentary about us, put it that way. Yet all I heard about from our fans was how badly the Belgian police had treated them. Likewise Palermo.

Considering the comments were being made before what was and wasn't true was even known, I'm gonna go ahead and say it was from people with an agenda and that it was embarrassing, particularly considering the ratio of heavy handed police vs misbehaving fans.

Was fucking embarrassing seeing "it's never their fault though" posts on here yet again

Dortmund being after him (if true) is the biggest thing for me. A huge endorsement from a club that seems to rarely miss when it comes to young talent.

So what's the sitch? Is this looking likely?

There's probably like 50 dril tweets that apply to Luke Edwards.

Can you get this over there? It's decent/serviceable.

The cheese is getting better tbf. I had a vegan mac and cheese the other week where the cheese sauce was made from blended cashews and flavourings and it didn't make me want to kill myself. They're getting there when it's melted, I'll give them that.

Conversations always go off on tangeants. It's better than the same relentless drivel over who the sponsor will be or whether we can knock down Leazes Terrace etc imo. It's in the Not Worthy of a Thread section as well, so not like anyone's coming in here expecting updates on something.