Kid Icarus

Can only assume that Fernandez doesn't train as he'd play matches or something, because that one is definitely a head scratcher. Hopefully he can see what we all see, that Lewis, Schar, and Fernandez give us much more of a fighting chance at the back.

Pretty sure this isn't true. Wins maybe, points definitely not.

You'd probably guess he was DM who lacks mobility but is good at breaking things up if you knew nothing about him.

Have an unreasonable dislike for Pukki and had a feeling he'd score

Positives: Howe's been forced into not playing players who are liabilities - Ritchie, Lascelles, and Clark - and will hopefully continue to play Lewis, Schar, and Fernandez instead. Negatives: Everything else. Even with a man advantage, Norwich were absolute dog shit and although we would have crawled to the win, we could and probably should have. I'm not really one for saying you must beat team X to stay up because points are often lost and gained unexpectedly, but it's not looking good at the moment.

Never been to Sheffield, but lived in Leeds and have visited the others a fair few times. Birmingham's actually really nice where I went near the canals and the NEC. I was really surprised by how nice it was, I fully expected it to be a shithole. For me Leeds is canny but has no focal point, Manchester's too spread out for nights out, and London's very hit or miss. I love Liverpool tbh, for me it has that same compact feel that Newcastle has where everything feels within walking distance.

I feel like players quite often don't know their best position themselves and just go with the one they enjoy the most or the position they feel comfortable in.

Dreading this like. I'd gotten quite used to the numb comfort of my safety blanket of apathy

Things can change, but Carragher is by far and away the most knowledgable pundit out there at the moment imo. Find myself totally agreeing with him most of the time these days, including about Newcastle.

Always thought that about Mark King in Level 42. And Jussi Jääskeläinen looked like the baby.

Instinct says that Lascelles and Ritchie being out will be a blessing, but I also have a feeling that we'll see why they were starting and for all their weaknesses, they're just going to be replaced with different weaknesses.

Main thing I noticed aside from the shocking refereeing decisions was just how much Wilson was bossed by Gabriel.

I never buy the whole expectations thing about Newcastle fans but then I do also wonder what some people expect from Arsenal away with the players we have, like. Especially considering it's 0-0, have hit the bar, could have arguably had a pen, and the ref's been shit. We're not playing like we did against Brentford of course, but there's a time and a place.

Ref's a fucking joke

I read it as 433 tbh, but who knows.

If players and national teams collectively walk away from competing in the world cup it would be absolutely incredible imo and would pretty much be the only thing that would ever change anything. I'd also have the utmost respect for any player that walks away knowing that they'll have changed pretty much nothing and sacrificed player at the World Cup for what they believe in. Pretty much everything is probably cheap, including talking about it. We'll get to witness first hand just how full of shit 90% of the people who had a problem with the Newcastle takeover are.

Ah yeah that's what it was. Makes no difference to me personally, the club's owned by homophobic cunts whether its PR message contradicts that or not. I get why it might mean something to other people though.

I definitely saw it on the official twitter about an hour ago like

Today I read about how it's now almost impossible for any of us to avoid ingesting microplastics, that they cross the blood-brain barrier, and that they're probably poisoning our brains. Knowing that might help you make a bit more sense of posts like that.

Peter Drury loves talking about smaller teams like they're tiny fucking Tim. Patronising prick.

Beheddie's quite inventive for them tbf

Accessibility is a big thing with design these days.

I watched this thinking I'd at least get to some of Chiesa, who's been great to watch whenever I've seen him. It feels like he's touched the ball twice tonight.

You wait for years then England get all these outrageous right backs at once.