Hovagod

Increasingly, I simply can’t be bothered to have an opinion on these things. It’s weirdly stressful.

But sliding to block the pass would be an intentional attempt to play the ball. I didn’t see what happened with this one but was guessing at the issue. Sorry.

Needs to be an intentional attempt to play the ball, no?

He watched the women’s team…from afar.

Yeah, was going to ask.

Not for me. I like it.

A side issue, I suppose, but is Milan a better city than Newcastle? I found it incredibly fucking boring and couldn’t wait to leave and head back to Rome.

Let’s just say it: The vast majority of the North East supports Newcastle United. This is not based on success (God knows) more just geographic logic. Everything in the North East- a place I’m from and love- leads to Newcastle.

2-1.

Gives me a vision of a rendered in cartoon representative of The Premier League shaking their fist furiously at us. ‘Ohhhh you….’

Seems a bit late to be parading their domestic cup trophies, don’t teams usually do that the next day?

Surely he’s too young for that though? What a weird thing to be carrying around with him. He honestly should step away from football for the sake of his own health. Perhaps he can involve himself in gender politics or something

Yeah, was going to say, but I can’t work out how Irish people would be especially deserving of being murdered because of misusing what intuitively feels like the correctly shortened term for Nottingham

I think he needs help. What is he even talking about?

That Rob Lee testimonial was completely shit, like. Imagine losing 1-0 in a tightly contested fixture as a testimonial. Wanted whacky penalties and all sorts.

The first thing I would do if I had ten trillion pounds would be to invest in a middling championship club. I think I speak for all trillionaires on this

The fact that this news has been announced on their message board and not, per a cursory Google search, on any mainstream news outlet makes it even worse. I am steaming

I am fucking….oh, no wait I’m not. Sorry.

Lot of moxie for a club their size

Not a goal, but when Dubs caught the cross at Leeds in the 94th minute and lay on it. The relief was just unreal.

I was in London, baking hot day. It was almost old school how I found out- I had consciously stopped following it, so found out while idly browsing the bbc website. Did the usual defence mechanism trick of shoving it deep down and pretending I was enjoying time with my family

'TheOther14.' Fuck off.

Yeah, I think the idea posted earlier about a proper club organised re-sell scheme is the best solution

My own situation is that I have been away from the North East for years. I have always kept up my ticket to stave off homesickness as much as anything. It has cost me a fortune, obviously, and when I did give it up- 2019/2020- the games I saw over Christmas (where the combined cost of tickets was over a hundred quid) were the first games that Ashley’s ten thousand free-loaders got to enjoy. In a moment of post-covid emotion, sat having a pint in the Strawberry last year, I decided fuck it, texted my mate for our old seat details and went over to buy it back. It was a moment of spontaneity that I am of course grateful for. Post takeover is the only time anybody has been at all interested in taking my ticket match by match (I literally couldn’t give it away previously), and I have always charged under face value. If they want to do what Liverpool have done, fine, it will just be an empty seat.

What major issues do you mean?