Coffee_Johnny

"Anything can happen," heed the word of King Eddie. Hope it is rocking tonight.

They're welcome to it! Last time I was in there someone lobbed a glass at my head! (ok, it was 1985... oh! and not talking KFC obvs )

If young Lewis didn’t look like his dad (with hair…) I could be convinced he was Eddie’s love child.

Me too! Question, who is the most fitting coprophage who comes to mind: Serbian agent (of you know who) Vlado Lemić? Fabrizio Romano? Other suggestions welcomed @Mike

Yep, unless the underlying bodily weakness/damage throws you/your body alignment out of kilter and makes you prone to other, seemingly unrelated, injuries.

I’m trying to enjoy the delicious anticipation of the occasion and allowing the occasional fleeting positive thought of what might happen to linger. Try and enjoy Matt. These are the rare old times.

He’s a fine young man. Love that he is confident—and rightly so—without any hint of underlying arrogance.

Gameweek 30 Burnley 1-3 Bournemouth Sunderland 0-2 Brighton Arsenal 1-0 Everton Chelsea 2-2 Newcastle West Ham 1-1 Man City Palace 1-2 Leeds Man United 1-2 Villa Forest 2-1 Fulham Liverpool 2-0 Spurs Brentford 3-0 Wolves

Think I really meant exasperating 😉

No complaints about losing that match. Plenty of disappointment, but no complaints. Any chance of Reijnders moving on? A bit out of our usual age range but just the kind of player we are missing.

You are becoming very, errr, entertaining, Holmesy.

Worried replacement centre mid and right back will become top priority.

Think I should take one for the team and head up for a game of golf (lovely course). It’s been a while and I may well wing a couple with some wayward drives.

Until the Metropolitan borough (e.g. Tyne & Wear) mid 70s, local council shenanigans, great swathes of Tyneside were classed as County Durham. Why would they be Sunderland supporters rather than Newcastle supporters? In fact, given Newcastle is our region’s capital why shouldn’t everybody in the North East just let lose their inner (wannabe…) ‘Geordie’ and support us? They’d be happier in the long term. (Am I being too RTG?? Answers to some other fucker 😉)

Our identity is trying to win football matches against opposition who pose differing challenges often with a diminished squad. This necessitates flexibility in coaching and approach.

You couldn’t have made up a credible worse run of games to have before ‘round 2’ against them at home. I was so looking forward to slapping them daft after the sucker punch at their place. Eddie and more senior leaders seeing the possibly of progressing against Barca to a CL quarter final game as more important is understandable; and through the lens of our profile in world football probably is ‘the biggest game in our history’ thus far. Not least as a QF against Atletico Madrid (13 points below Barcelona in their league) or Spurs is a game we’d have a great chance of winning. However, potentially fielding a patched-up team of heavy-legged and demoralised players who have played 8 games (Man City H, Qarabag H, Everton H, Man Utd H, Man City H, Barcelona H, Chelsea A, Barcelona A) in the month before, whilst our local ‘visitors’ have had 5 games, somewhat deflates my confidence. The prospect of losing that game given what is likely to have gone before, places even more pressure on that match. Don’t get me wrong I’ll be lucky enough to be there and will whole heartedly support the team however the game is going (no doubt screaming/chanting like a berserker in battle) but it increasingly has the unhelpful feel of an absolute must win. Unlike the three remaining fixtures before, the fanbase will not be able to shrug off a defeat.

Red and Blue Manc double. 2-1 wins, their turn for the ten men!

Haven’t looked at this for a couple of weeks but have somehow smashed my way into the top 50. With top-six points totals for the last two weeks. Negligence is evidently the strategy I have been missing! 100 or so points to make up; game on! (…probably not).

I wouldn’t want to see Spurs or Forest relegated (…apart from increased, though still small, chance of us picking up a couple of desirable players). Less arsed about West Ham (still retain a little ‘80’s antagonism towards them). Wolves not at all bothered. Promoted teams have in the main broken the mould this year. I had them all as bang favourites to return to whence they came; quick smart.

We’ve apparently spent three or four times more than them, since Ashley vacated the premises, and are currently below them in the PL table. This is apparently great research and quite ‘astonishing’. Dear God… I can’t even be arsed to point out the obvious to the envious.

Big Joe is reportedly 6’1”. Ramsdale looks a good couple of inches taller than him. Confusingly though, Osula is supposedly 6’4” and Ramsdale looks at least as tall as him too!

Pop this in your favoured AI image generator: "A surreal digital art piece of an octopus with several legs snapped off, featuring the head of footballer Kieran Trippier, high detail, cinematic lighting."

Is it just me who was smiling thinking of Bruno ganning rage watching his mate tear it up.

Or is everything still fucked forever? 😉

Just beautiful. Effort, pace, skill, finish, reaction, crowd reaction, H&T hug. Beautiful.