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Any spares for this, please give me a shout.

Of course he is. He is taking their money to promote the country and, by extension, their state. Isn't that the exact objective of sportswashing? Using the club and fanbase to cleanse the image of dickheads in charge?

Don't really get this. A point for Forest would have been better for us than them getting all three (whether or not you think it will be fruitful, we're chasing them) and a point for Manchester United would have meant nowt to us. Do think there's a tendency online to overthink about this sort of thing. Nothing about Man Utd's short or long term would have been altered with them picking up a draw or win tonight.

One way I rationalise the Saudi stuff to myself is that, unlike the journalists that state their opposition, I am not actually being paid to continue watching Newcastle- I am not taking any blood money and they are. So nothing but contempt for any NUFC fan agreeing to something like this. Shame on them.

No it wouldn’t

Never seemed to get over that night at Arsenal. To be honest, I’m not sure if I ever did either.

I imagine that he means that this was the case before the cup scheme

It’s a bit cold though

Will Ready to go be doing a live thread?

As pointed out on the football cliches reddit, you’re really stretching the ‘what a…..he’s having’ narrative when you begin to include attendance at unrelated events.

Rod’s still thinking about the bad news, isn’t he?

Love Wilson and admire his ego (and fucking hell, why wouldn’t he have an ego after his career and what he looks like) but I vividly remember those podcasts in our CL run where he was talking, with absolute sincerity, about the competition between them. I know fuck all about football and even I wondered at the time if one day Callum may listen back and cringe slightly.

Feel like that was just Isak wanting to deflate the Henry stuff (which shearer appeared to be benignly prompting). We were about to play Arsenal and Isak was maybe aware of what games the media were and still are playing. Of course he threw in one of our own number fourteen legends because he’s mint and dreamy and I love him.

Was Arsenal away in the cup

He’s also a complete cunt though, which is the issue.

Even that night he scored twice

I can’t wait for their next home game. There’ll be nothing visible as such, but we’ll be able to detect the gloom, we’ll know

No Newcastle fans in North Shields, for example.

I suppose these days a three nil win at Sunderland would be one for the hipsters

Haha, edited!

The thing is. People like the Facebook poster got back on board (excuse the pun) when we were taken over. At the time, the dilemma was, ‘do you want to be owned by scumbags who will spend lots?’ The secondary dilemma though, which nobody considered because they were either preoccupied by the primary one or otherwise excited about the money and trophies, was, ‘do you want your club to be a hyper-commercial entity that makes decisions with little to zero regard for its core fanbase in order to build its international one?’ I am sorry but as somebody that wrestled with the implications of our ownership and was frankly disgusted by the fact that a big percentage of fanbase did not, I’m not going to join in now with those who were perfectly happy until it meant we didn’t get a bus parade though the city. This is our bed. Sunday was the best day of our lives.

We don’t half have some knackers support us like. The bus parade is now, deep down, what we all dreamt of when we won a trophy- and if we don’t have one we might as well not have bothered winning it. Of course this is an acceptable thing to attack the club’s owners for, not that other stuff that they get defensive about.

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Haha, good point- you know what I mean though. It was such a class fucking weekend. More please!

Quite sad to think that this time last week I was a couple of hours away from it all beginning.