Hovagod

What did it say underneath the flag in the East stand?

Can we stop with this ‘United’ shit please?

Good lad

For those watching on Bein, it was a beautiful moment when the commentator almost instantly confined the VAR check was done and the goal stood as the celebrations were going on. Little to no delay.

I don’t want to be that guy, but this has been especially noticeable on the Totally Football podcast. Whenever our game gets coverage it tends to centre on the failings of the opposition, and there was some posh public school cunt on the other day (they must have a conveyer belt churning out these people that waste daddy’s money and their privileged education on writing and talking about a game) who made two unprompted digs at Howe, talking about finding it amusing when arsenal cheated their way to a win the other week. Now, the house style of the podcast is to be somewhat sardonic but I am not imagining that we are the only team that gets their journalists explicitly saying that they want us to lose games. Something about Millwall smashing Blackburn’s coaches? Better mention the rest of their fans who are great. Man Utd fans campaigning for a ‘full sale’? Somewhat understandable. Racism, financial cheating, managers screaming into the faces of fourth officials, all of these topics get a measure of balance and nuance. Newcastle’s gamesmanship? Objectively bad. The only time Man City’s ownership is mentioned is either alongside ours, or ours are added to the conversation in a general lament for a game that had been going just fine until October 2021. And besides which they never really delve into the ownership too deeply because only one party in the equation actually takes money from sportswashing and it’s not the fans who are paying to watch games. We do occasionally get Natalie Gedra saying nice things about our Brazilian players, with her lovely voice and face, but there has otherwise been pretty much zero credit to either our manager or any of our players. Entire game weekends, with us winning by three, four or five, go by with barely a mention. Brentford gifted us, Fulham were down to ten and what on earth were Spurs thinking? It’s all good, though. It was a similar story when we went down in 2009- when the nation’s hatred for us felt at times bizarre and at other times rooted in a very specific geographical agenda. So now we know what it’s like to be shit and hated and mint and hated. And I know which one I prefer.

Shocking that wednesday got away with a straight red in extra time too

Does the maths change at all on Saturday if Man Utd lose?

Eh? We didn’t finish in the bottom half did we? sorry- just checked. So we did. Howe out

Yeah but all the PRETTY PASSING last night

Simply divorce your wife.

Norwich and Man Utd

Did anything ever happen to Klopp after the Spurs game? Or is that a stupid question?

We had been beaten the week before by Villa. Hammered, in fact. What’s so different about our form now?

It’s daft when people screenshot obvious jokes like that

Drew at Anfield didn’t they?

Feel like there’s not enough being said about this. Shouldn’t Leeds be punished for failing to secure the safety of opposition managers?

You all sound like absolute tarts, frankly. We will win the two home games and qualify for the Champions’ League. A good old back and forth today.

This is just stupid.

Almost certain this was not the case- people in period six were talking about getting one about half an hour before my mate in period four heard about his. If only we had some way of asking the club! Although, even then, separate draws wouldn’t make a huge deal of difference. It would mean that those in pot four had tickets deliberately withheld from them, which is basically the main crux of the point anyway.

Are we still allowed to talk about this? I was in pot four. Once the draw had been done, people in pot six were talking about getting a ticket. So unless they had a separate draw for those in pot seven, everybody was put into the same draw. While it’s true that few would have actually got one, there was no advantage to being in pot four instead of seven. I don’t think I especially deserved a ticket more than anybody else with a season ticket who got one. I was only at the two cup game I was physically able to get to- Tranmere away and Palace at home- and I’m sure people had worse luck than me. But it’s hard to get rid of the bad taste in the mouth when you hear from friends at Wembley who were told to sit down and shut up and see people on here who constantly talk like season ticket holders (excluding those like those in the trust you mentioned earlier who had their own winning lottery ticket in the 2022 scramble) are some sort of Ashley quislings. I agree with whoever said this is a boring topic, and have no interest in arguing, but it’s clear from Twitter and this place on the day that there was a single draw for everybody in the ballot (period seven included) and I think that needs to be sorted next time. Just make it a straightforward loyalty process, as with away games.

Agree with this

Oh yes, the Steve Bruce gloryhunters

It was. Don’t people remember? We had this all at the time. There was one single ballot for everybody who wasn’t in the first three pots. The timings of people finding out when they had tickets proves it.

Season ticket holders with two cup games were placed into a ballot with members who had attended one cup game. It was quite obviously unfair. There should not have been a ballot unless needed. The club seemed to tacitly accept this when offering returns to only those people in pot four.

I was in the same boat as your mate, and will also just be purchasing tickets for every round now, hopefully able to sell them on.