Candi_Hills

Best defender I've ever seen for winning headers. Keegan came in and dropped him and N'Zogbia for being miserable gits. I was disappointed but trusted Kev. Guiseppe Rossi. We got him on loan and never played him. I always preferred him to Martins whose second touch was a header. Rossi was a much better footballer but I think Roeder felt obliged to play Obafemi because we'd paid 10mil for him.

How long was it?

Loads of great managers weren’t really into tactics. Ferguson, Robson, Clough, Keegan, Klopp (maybe). They just played people in their strongest position and made everyone feel 10 feet tall. I understand Bruce’s stance on tactics but you need cult leader charisma to be able to neglect them completely. Steve, unfortunately, has the appeal of a hernia.

"PL player shares vile video of black man being whipped as traumatised viewers call for his sacking."

Bernard’s hip was fucked, wasn’t it? He needed replacing. Souness also signed 46 year old Craig Moore. From Rangers I think.

The Boumsong deal was surely Souness' work. He was well in with Rangers' board - might even have had a family member on it. That McKay (McCai?) agent was involved as well and he was as dodgy as a nine bob note.

Don't really consider him one of the WUM brigade tbh, he's just a bitter ex-player who hasn't come to terms with the fact he was a s*** manager. If he had ever been considered a successful manager then his views would be of more interest, but he wasn't. He won some stuff at Liverpool on the back of the groundwork done before him, then he promptly turned that to s***. He also a trophy or two at Rangers where he spent much more than Celtic, the only other club in the league capable of winning anything. Not disputing, but he also won the League Cup at Blackburn. Yet he still went on to prove he was a useless manager with us. No idea what the circumstances were with his short term success at Blackburn, but he proved at Liverpool that winning trophies meant nothing there, they went on a downward spiral so fast the longer he stayed there. They were almost unrecognisable as a big club by the time they kicked him out. Blackburn were one day away from sacking Souness when we went in and offered compensation to take him as NUFC manager. Blackburn couldn't believe how lucky they were to get compensation when they thought they were going to have to pay up his contract when they sacked him!! "“We had to get rid of Robson because he would have got us relegated. There was nothing more certain." - Douglas Hall With that insight in mind, just be grateful Graeme kept us up. https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-10073423.html

I shared a video of him speaking Italian a few pages back. It's surprisingly decent.

In a Geordie accent and with tears streaming down his cheeks as the cockroaches get tipped on to his head: "Oooo terriblossa... Non mi likeo grande insecto..."

Always thought he was the worst manager we would ever have in the time I supported the club. However, didn't realise Ashley would magic a number of even worse pricks to oust him out of that title. I think Souness is a bad as any of them. He just had the fortune of inheriting a Bobby Robson team and then being sacked before his stench started to fester. If he was put on a Mike Ashley perma-deal and told he wouldn't be sacked as long as Steve Bruce's nose avoids the centre of his face, then I'm sure we'd remember even less fondly than we already do.

We followed that summer up with another shite summer, signing Carr, Butt, Kluivert and some other knacker (and there were rumours at the time that SBR knew bugger all about some of the those signings). I could've accepted all that if the coffers were dry but then we gave the pea-brained Scotsman 50 million to spunk straight after. If we'd let Bobby spend that we'd have been right back up there. No doubt about it.

Funny little article by Carla. Can be summarised as: KSA buying Newcastle would be mint for everyone. I wonder what the purpose of writing it was? I can't imagine the Grand Arbitrators are subscribed to arabnews.com. Can we not get her on the telly with Pierced Organ doing a 'Richard Masters is taking food out of kids' mouths' type of angle?

Spluttering, bumbling, panting piss stain.

In view of the larger political picture, heavy investment from abroad shouldn’t be a desirable thing. Monopolising mega-corps buying up property, industries and ways of life that used to belong to ordinary people is an awful thing. It’s so sad that the only way to compete in football or in life is to sell your soul to money.

The relief of not having to look at his booted in face three mornings a week would give the lads a morale boost.

We’ll be much stronger with Manquillo and Dummett as fullbacks. 2-0 Brighton

I would love Man City to sign Messi, so he can get the most out of his remaining few years, and Haaland because I like the idea of him dedicating seasonal hat-tricks against Man United to Roy Keane. He seems like the sort of fella who'd say that in an interview as well. A last minute swoop for Joelinton would be nice too.

Oh yes it is Made up over the last couple years by pundits. It’s not a real word. It’s like saying Brucialty is a word I'm pretty sure it's an American invention (in the context that sports pundits use it), and actually (in actuality?) goes back a good few decades.

A mate of mine got badly burned after falling into a deep fat fryer. He's got a right chip on his shoulder about it.

I've just watched it back. He scuffed the fucker straight into the ground

Tony I would assume.

Perez (France) Krafth (Sweden) The Gooch (USA) Moore (Australia) Babayaro (Nigeria) Obertan (Jupiter) Bowyer (England) Xisco (Spain) Joelinton (Brazil) Pingel (Denmark) Kuqi (Finland) 4-2-4 A popular formation in the 1950s

Even that one was a bit iffy. I bet his connection on the ball sounded like Matt Ritchie punching Bruce in the belly.

As someone noted a few pages back, in 60 games or so he's never hit a clean shot for us. Not one.

9.9 Bruce's management is the stream of piss raining down on this turd of a club as it slides down the side of the pan.