Coffee_Johnny

Glad you’re becoming diffused with our United’s expectations. We all would have loved a cup. Thought you’d be raging over your lowest ever PL finish. Well done that man. Welcome to the real world of football mediocrity.

Font nonces abound… (😉)

About as likely as St Peter’s Marina!

He was born in Stalybridge (I used to work there, has a kind of Consett of the North West vibe…), played for Wigan for a bit, retired early, did some other stuff, still only 42, et voila welcome to the toon!

Not suggesting people—panickers on the pages of NO—have gone have half-cocked, Shirley?

I love it when arrivals just appear like this. Welcome to the toon Phil!

If nigh in a quarter of the workforce has been deemed surplus to requirements, best hope the decision making was correct. Might be the case that a cull like that leads to all sorts of gaps and, paradoxically, inefficiency. The responsible managers, closer to the actual work, might be the ones who face the ‘karma’ for the human cost.

Garthe Shagoutte is his nom de porn.

Paraguay’s (waning) golden boy would/should never settle for being that far down the pecking order; anywhere. He deserves to be relied upon and loved somewhere as first choice. Preferably somewhere that’ll pay a good wedge for his services.

Spain 2-2 Germany Portugal 1-1 France England 2-0 Switzerland Netherlands 1-2 Turkey

Is it pronounced like Thor/Thaw?

Do you mean the free pissing terrace? Or/and the toe dampening urinals and ‘deluxe’ Izal style bottom damaging toilet paper?

Does sound like someone we’d pursue. Fits the profile we tend to go for.

You can take the boy out of Gateshead… . Good on him anyway, it was most likely a justified smacking.

Joining together @bobbydazzla’s Ceefax flashback and @Jonas’s view of the negative impact of a (otherwise top quality) new player, I remain one of the few with the view that buying Batty contributed to our downfall ‘that’ season. Changed the way we played, slowed down our devastating speed of attack. Regardless of it being an unpopular (and possibly dubious) opinion along with Anelka handling the ball in the build up to an Arsenal FA Cup final goal I’ll take it to my grave—like psychological big fat keloid trauma scar!

This evening’s inspiring factoid is that of the teams who played four games, only Italy (10), Slovenia (9) and Georgia (8) have had fewer than our 12 shots on target. Spain have had 29 and Germany 28. Switzerland have had 18. You’re welcome. https://www.uefa.com/euro2024/statistics/teams/attempts/

Thought I’d add a BBC news reader to give your purportedly accurate historical summary more authenticity.

I shall say there’s only once. Zee has ze l' audacité of a cheeky Robin de hooood.

First games looming, could be an exciting three weeks transfer wise. Hoping we get our main business done in the next fortnight. Big signing w/c 15 July after Euro final.

We need three for the bench in case we bet in the Champions League…

Well we’ve, very predictably, had Bruno, Isak and Gordon scaremongering. That’s probably it for now. Hopefully the real stories get an airing now.

Still don’t see it. Eales, much earlier, words of caution don’t provide evidence for this. I think our contingency plans will be multi layered and that kind of outgoing was, hopefully, one rung up from a never event.

There is no evidence that selling Bruno or any of the ‘difference makers’ was ever in the club’s plans.

The juice is definitely staying and young Alex deserves a chance 😉

Don’t believe it personally. Great cover story for ‘having no money’ when buying our next worldie! 😉