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Gareth convinced that he just needs to get that second holding midfielder right

Modern football still doing its very best to alienate almost everyone then so fucking tired of all this

Aye, I would have expected them to have a few at least already lined up given how many have left / been unceremoniously booted out.

Could hear shearer changing his mind about the obvious penalty as the slow motion played out I reckon, but he's doubling down

lerl

Not sure 'they're knocking each other out' was the best phrase to use here

ridiculous couple of minutes

Must be an amazing feeling man

fighting the keeper for the ball so he could do his fucking shit celebration

You win nowt with OAPs

Pretty fucking dismal like

Much preferred Rio's team like but we'll see

Some things never change I guess. George Orwell in 1941: "England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals
are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of 
standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box. All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes
squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always
anti-British." They're singing a children's song from the best part of a hundred years ago and ultimately it's making the same point as, for example, Flower Of Scotland does and probably dozens of other national anthems do. Is it really causing any actual offence to anyone?

I'm talking in more general terms than just about our national team's traveling fans, but even then the only reason you aren't seeing the ones who are behaving is that they're not so very interesting I guess

It is, aye, but there's only one way to reclaim it from that sort of subculture and image, and that's to.. well, to reclaim it Like someone else posted earlier, the knackers of any particular demographic shouldn't be allowed to define it (other than the demographic that is specifically 'knackers'). Every reasonably sized group of people will contain members who make other members wish they belonged to a different group

They were among the first players we had that I really came to actively dislike (along with others around that same time) although at least Dyer did a job when he was fit. Just never saw anything in Jenas at all personally, always seemed a bit of a nothing player. I felt the same about James Milner like (didn't dislike, just didn't rate either), and he had quite the career in the end

Dance of the Knights is a grinding and lumbering fucking mess imo (I guess it's supposed to be, Prokofiev knew what he was doing) so pretty appropriate preferred us playing O Fortuna and would have preferred the Dies Irae from Verdi's Requiem even more

I couldn't see it when I went back to look for it but the signal here is terrible today so it might have been just an old cached page I got

The Instagram post attracted a lot of negative comments and appears to have been deleted

As it happens, that's almost exactly what a brand new stadium down in the abandoned industrial estates near Railway Street would look like

Just had my train back from Edinburgh cancelled, sat down for a pint to check the score what a day

That's what my mackem mate is expecting. 'we tried, here's doddsy'

As REM once sang, Don't Go Back To Sunlun. You'll wind up in some stadium that's full of filth and no place left to go.

They finished six points above the line that would have relegated them to the third tier again, who gives a fuck what they think