Abacus

That's a canny poor bus taking over two hours to get from SJP to the town moor. Be livid if it's more than £2.50 and there's no Metro papers when I get on.

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"It will be enjoyed by all ages and both sexes" is what has me laughing most

We're gonna need a bigger moor.

On this, it's truly terrible what has happened with his family. I don't think anyone would, or did, laugh about that at all. And it's not preachy, it's a useful reminder that there are real human things going on outside football. I reacted to his OTT response to the measured comments made by Gayle about football, when he was asked about him in an interview and then some terrible memories of how he acted as a football manager for his spell here. No matter my own dislike of how he managed us, or even why he took the job in the first place, that's all secondary to real life but I think everyone here knows that.

Yes, but pretty decent game that.

Another pen here?

Oof pen

Goal! But Tonali subbed, so I may need to order that air fryer after all.

Alright, good goal Italy. Not quite so salty about that £2.49 now. Tonali goal and we're square. Equaliser and I'll buy a book from you Amazon.

So despite paying £2.49 to watch a match on Prime and mainly Tonali, this is dreadful. The sound is constantly cutting out altogether. Ah well never again, when I'm trying to chase away that Sunday night work feeling.

So now I've just spent £2.49 to watch Sandro against Germany, and they're already 2-0 up. Only just got the QR thing to work so not even sure if Tonali is playing.

I only signed back up for a premier league game and forgot to cancel. Shall be ordering the heck out of air fryers and then getting right the frig out of this scam

You're kidding me, it's pay per view on Amazon?

That fella. And then praised him straight after he won something. And by something, I mean a cup, any cup, which nobody would ever see us win (because we don't win stuff) who also made no excuses for who he'd lost player-wise or was up against. Especially when he usually gave up before we even started ... well, I could go on, but won't.

Bruce was the worst. Can only assume that the people who think it's Pardew had already checked out by the time Bruce came in. And fair play to them for that, no criticism here for that view. But he was a different grade of awful for me. One small example that always sticks with me, quite apart from his terrible management was that in a press conference he brought up the fact he was sat on the toilet thinking about the match ahead and then remembered players like Shearer had played for the club and said something like "wow, just wow". Not just downgrading the club like Pardew did, but telling us our best players were a distant dream, explaining what a low ambition manager he was, talking about his toilet thoughts like it's actual pre match work, and chortling away about it all in one go. A proper ambassador for the club like Eddie Howe's name should not even be on his breath.

Pathetic No justification, no setting the record straight, just a thin skinned grudge. I hope Dean takes him down with a sweeping tackle during his next interview.

Kevin Keegan driving the bus directly onto the Town Moor and doing wheel spins from what I've heard.

Lines up with my sources.

I think the more we keep other teams out of the CL the more damage we do to them and their status, and correspondingly the more we build our own, both for our profile and for new recruits. Maybe I'm being greedy, but I'd love us to go on a run now safe in the knowledge that we can beat anyone on our day. Hopefully it gives them the thirst for more. I do get the worry about how far we can strengthen the squad in the summer and so how far we'd be able to actually compete, but it's a chance and I'd love us to take it. You can't always be thinking 3 seasons ahead, you need to move forward every season, so hopefully this is the springboard for what we do next.

I think it's more a collective exhalation of breath at all of the misery the likes of him brought, whilst finally flushing down a parasite through the u-bend and then thinking "we knew it was never supposed to be like that". Like having had a bad ex, I suppose. I'm ready to believe again now.

Likewise. Never mind, still too happy, I've already said I wouldn't go earlier so therefore I'll just butt out of this thread now and genuinely hope everyone who does go has a great time.

Random observation, seems like BDB is the only one playing with much confidence. I'd quite like one of the midfielders to actually take charge of the match

Think I'll pass on this one. Unless of course the secretly built new stadium emerges from underneath the earth during it or something.

BG - I don't want to go there. We didn't want you anyway (sob).