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Where's Edwards gone? Hope he's snuffed it the bald tory c***.

 

 

Wish him well in his recovery, but theres no way he'd be taking a "twitter break" had we won 3-0 tonight is there?

It’s a recognised symptom of Covid now, “unable to use Twitter”.

Try telling your dad, Will.

‘Doing well of late’ = 3 draws against 3 shit teams.

To be honest, I think tonight has ended it for him. But it's too late.

Especially when the next manager is totally inexperienced.

That performance was no worse than many others this season. The journalists reacting to it now are the same spineless little tosser that should have been raising it back then.

Part of the problem.

It’s going to be impressive for Luke Edwards to find the positive tonight.

Are we still trying to draw 0-0?

We actually are.

This surely has to be the end of Bruce, not a chance any club in the world would allow this to continue.

He has to be gone now Shirley

Mad that we haven’t beaten Brighton in the last 7 meetings.

Maybe he should answer why we’ve only accumulated 11 points in 17 league games. Nearly half a season ffs.

You can’t just give a bunch of internet virgins 24 hours to find alternative plans for 2 days!

Is The Simpsons on reruns? Are the comic book stores doing click and collect? What the fuck will happen?!

Thank absolute f*** Miggy is back.

Rushed back in desperation ready for an injury today to see him out for the season.

Chron:

Defeat at Brighton may be unthinkable for Newcastle supporters but for Steve Bruce, it could yet prove survivable.

 

Canny thinkable to me like.

If he survived a defeat here I would start to believe there is a clause where he can be sacked with less compensation in the bottom 3.

The ideal scenario for me is that we beat Brighton and sack Bruce after the game. Can't see it happening though

Is that before or after Margot Robbie comes and gives us all knob slob?

Abeid

Was it Carver who completely threw him under a bus after a dreadful performance?

Leeds are enjoyable to watch. If only we had a go like them.

Be careful. Don’t expect too much or we’ll end up doing a Leeds.

Demba Ba was only here for 18 months, wasn’t he?

Should definitely have been longer.

Roofe’s challenge for his red card was horrific.

I know it’s been said before, but it’s incredible we’re 11/2 in a relegation 6-pointer against a team who are below us in the league.

 

For comparison, West Brom were only 7/2 at home against Brighton.

Brighton were 11/2 away against Liverpool ffs

 

The bookies give us no chance, the pundits don’t either... But Bruce is doing such a sterling job, don’t expect too much.

 

Brighton are above us.

Very true... I stand by the rest.

I know it’s been said before, but it’s incredible we’re 11/2 in a relegation 6-pointer against a team who are below us in the league.

For comparison, West Brom were only 7/2 at home against Brighton.

Brighton were 11/2 away against Liverpool ffs

The bookies give us no chance, the pundits don’t either... But Bruce is doing such a sterling job, don’t expect too much.

Ashley’s probably had more money out of the club than he put in it when he purchased us. Land, exposure to Sports Direct and his other brands, money disappearing into black holes in the accounts... Especially when you consider he could sell us for £50m even as a League 1 club.

Relegation would cost him nothing, but cost the club (and city) everything.

That’s why he genuinely just doesn’t care and is willing to ‘risk’ relegation rather than doing anything about it.

Can’t believe we wasted so much time and excitement with these jokers

 

 

Be hilarious when Bellagraph Nova come in for them in the summer too.

Won’t be so funny when PIF buy them next week

Yeah it was awful, that. It wasn't even a pass to him.

 

I don't really have a problem with that. It happens the other way, where a player is offside when the pass is played but onside after it takes a deflection from the defender. It's just bad luck. Or good if you're spurs.

 

Yeah, I dunno, there's just something about it which feels harsher, in that it wasn't an ill-timed pass or run; just effective pressing forcing an error and then capitalising on it.

 

I mean, regardless of any of that, the bottom line is that there's f*** all in it and Aguero hasn't unfairly gained an advantage by being in that position.

 

One of the major inconsistencies of VAR is that the 'clear and obvious error' thing seems to be applied just about everywhere except offside, where incidents are so seldom clear and obvious. They might review a clumsy tackle in the box and, despite there being evidence that a foul was committed, a penalty remains ungiven on the basis of some woolly and subjective metric around the ref's ability to make the call in the first instance. Yet offside calls, based on meaningless inches in either direction, are being scrutinised and enforced with the fullest extent of their s**** tech. If the lino misses a stray kneecap it's a clear and obvious error is it? Total bollocks.

 

I agree with most of that, but I don't think that incident can be blamed on VAR. He was in an offside position when his teammate touched the ball, so he's offside, thems the rules. The lino should have given it as offside.

 

Just had a closer look and it's a lot tighter than I first thought but I still think it's offside. Without VAR we'd be discussing how Spurs were robbed.

 

Yeah but I'd far prefer that to the soul being sucked out of every goal celebration.

 

I'd prefer a fair result. I feel people complain about VAR sucking the emotion out of celebrating goals like realizing the linesman raised his flag after celebrating your ass off wasn't something that used to happen before VAR.

 

Barely ever, I'd always look at the linesman as soon as the ball crossed the line -  aye you'd get some oblivious people who took maybe ten seconds. Having a 'fair result' is just not worth it for me for removing the best thing about football. I realize it's subjective and a tired debate so I'll refrain.

 

In my own view, I'd personally rather not NUFC won a cup final (as if we'd ever get to one ) if that win would forever be marred by a s*** decision, I'd want us to win it fair and square. But yeah, people in different corners won't convince the other at this point so it's as you say a bit tired at this stage.

Your argument is slightly flawed because VAR doesn’t guarantee a ‘fair result’. The offside calls cannot be accurately measured as accurately as they’re trying and football decisions are subjective in the main, there isn’t always a ‘right’ decision that everyone is in unanimous agreement about.

Does VAR overturn enough wrong decisions to make it worthwhile with all of the disruption? Absolutely not, imo. We’re having as many conversations about decisions as we always have, but now we’re having decisions about what is/what isn’t a ‘clear and obvious error’. So in actual fact, there is more controversy and more contentious decisions with the added bonus of large disruptions to the flow of the game and sucking the passion out of it.

Plus I disagree with your whole point about not feeling satisfied if we won a trophy through a bad decision. We’ve had our fair share of s*** decisions, I couldn’t care less if we won the FA Cup 1-0 through Wilson throwing the ball in the net from a throw-in. It’d mean just as much as a 10-0 win. We’ve won f*** all, how can we be so fussy about where the win comes from?

Dinamo Zagreb coach Zoran Mamic has resigned after having a near-five year prison sentence for fraud confirmed by Croatia's Supreme Court on Monday.

 

The ruling, reported by Balkan nation's state television (HRT), comes just days before the club's Europa League clash with Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday.

 

Mamic stepped down immediately as Dinamo coach following the confirmation of the sentence, Dinamo said in a statement on the club's website.

 

"Although I don't feel guilty, I resign as I said before I would do if the sentence was confirmed. I wish all the good luck to the club," the statement quoted Mamic as saying.