Hovagod

Who’s that morose bloke on the Chronicle podcast? Jesus. Is he okay? Aaron Stokes? Everything’s going to alright, mate. It’s just a game.

Exactly this.

One thing I would like to stop is this craven ‘how dare you criticise the owners?’ line of thinking. Whatever their transfer policy and however they enact it, they are not doing it because they fell in love with Newcastle United. It is a business model that will be being used for their own purposes, whatever they are. I feel fully entitled to question their decisions and feel no particular loyalty nor affinity to a bunch of tories or the arseholes complicit in (if not outright responsible for) the imprisonment of some young lass for liking and retweeting a few social media posts. Fuck them, frankly.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-given-34-year-prison-sentence-for-using-twitter Honestly, this is, in my own mind, becoming harder and harder to justify. We are owned by scum.

Ugh.

So, what’s actually going on here? Have they just stolen the money?

If the Glazers sell up, they’ll sell to somebody who will plough loads in and make them successful again, at which point their fans will return to being arrogant cunts and acting like it is just the natural way of things. Not sure why you want that to happen. Let them rot.

Gutted for you.

Satisfyingly, Neville seems to be saying that they are not building any infrastructure, something our new owners have done diligently and quietly.

Didn’t Southall come incredibly close? 93, maybe?

He already knows. 0-0.

Let’s not use semantic arguments here. Man Utd going down would quite obviously be the biggest (and funniest) story ever in the Premier League. Including Leicester, because crisis is inherently more fun for the rest of us.

However it is on the pitch for them, it must be profoundly shit supporting Brighton and having to do that every home game just to get back to the town. Hope that is never us.

Does the fanzone at Brighton show the match?

They can fuck off acting like South Shields has not been at least half Newcastle for as long as I- a South Shields resident- have been alive. Maybe show your support to human rights by removing it completely from some petty argument about South Tyneside support percentages, you disingenuous cunt

That’s already ended, unless they’re counting draws, which would be absurd

Yeah, this is it really. You can’t compare across eras because the game changes so much so quickly. But there is nothing Bruno can’t do. He’s like an ultimate modern footballer.

Those bastards beat us at home in this competition on my thirtieth birthday. It was really good of Newcastle to mark the occasion in the way they know best.

Would love a spare for this if anybody here of owt

One thing about the Nina Simone flag I noticed. They showed it on Match of the Day, it was the headline in the Times, the Athletic podcast titled their episode with it and used it over the highlights. So now Wor Flags are not only getting the crowd going on match day, they’re setting the conversational tone after the game as well. That is pretty good going. And such a fucking tune too.

Have the retro version, bought from the club show when they still sold them, hearby proving I am way more hip than the rest of you.

Funnily enough, the story in the mirror about this quotes Souness, the stupid cunt that turned Bellamy against him within seconds, warning against the perils of, em, throwing your weight around too much as a manager in the dressing room.

Loads of Forest fans around town, enjoying themselves and being friendly. Top class atmosphere this

He’s gone full Linehan.

They’re arseholes, mate. Sad, tragic figures.