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You don't have to factor in any seas unless you're a mackem clutching at straws this concept of a perfectly circular catchment area from which it's reasonable to assume fans will flock is compromised in most ways at best, and it's way more complex in virtually all scenarios. Mackematics indeed

Not quite a one man team but not that far off I reckon. They're still good without him but only exceptional because of 90 year old Mo Salah

I don't think you can understate how much VAR has changed the feel of premier league games as well. Time was, all you had to do was make sure you weren't the only one bouncing around like a loon in a silent Gallowgate with everyone else looking at the raised offside flag. All the traditional stuff that fans used to make a noise about is now up for debate. The game has changed and the fans that are going have changed. I honestly don't think it's any more complicated than that; epic atmospheres can still exist but are the result of exceptional circumstances rather than the rule now. At lower league games where it's cheap and easy to get in and the goals and blood and thunder challenges are decided on then and there, you still get some of that old atmosphere given enough spectators and a bar, I think.

Be fair, they got promoted a mere three years ago

Getting biffed 3-blanc HT in a league cup against higher league Shildon (who I'm told might be even higher than NL div 1 but demoted on ground restrictions). Great ground but the music man

Lasted a lot longer than I thought mind, but I reckon I was right at the time

Sounds like he knows he was getting the bullet if he went out

The two Alnwick lads I know are Sunderland and Liverpool fans, must be something about that town. Mind Rothbury are my local team and I go to watch Alnwick so I'm just as bad

Good God

Liked him a lot. Particularly the way he retained his composure after winding up and being surrounded by about five of them, very good. Got a card anyway but his calmness was great

Yeah, lad is going to be a player I reckon. Not like anyone else I can think of, I like him a lot

Have that you fucking cheating cunts

Same, but my local lads won 7-0. Been a good football day so far

Aye I thought he was talking shite like. He wasn't anticipating an epic thunderbastard like that

Great game like non league with better players

Fuck me what a hit fair play like

2-2, keypin up the pursyewt of fust place

Aye I don't think we would have done them over two legs but in a one off final, who knows we're fucking due like

Will be asterisked marra, will count for nothing

Worth posting here as well. A great read imo, long as you can be objective https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/05/bruno-guimaraes-newcastle-arsenal-carabao-cup

Great little piece in the Guardian. Some may be triggered at Liew's namedropping of the Saudis and the negative connotations of the shithousery but I think it's a good read https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/05/bruno-guimaraes-newcastle-arsenal-carabao-cup

Fucking brilliant lads

Aye I reckon it's ball related, whatever it is

Gordon 2-0, probably VAR will fuck it though

Inconceivable that people prefer this to the occasional shit penalty call like. It's fucking wank but more to the point it still seems to be wrong quite a lot of the time so what's the fucking point