Izakaya

That's him alright. Same user name on RTG if I remember rightly.

Sometimes I think about that bloke on RTG who put absolutely heaps of effort into manufacturing a bond between Bilbao and Sunderland, only to be told by the club that he was wrong, and be in total denial abiut it. He then had to watch Bilbao come to St James, wank themselves daft over us and not mention Sunderland at all. I wish him well.

I'm surprised they even have the space. The new stadium will need a vault the size of the Saitama flood tunnels.

Where the fuck do they store them all? 😂

Probably the last time we have Sela as a main sponsor too. I like it. I've always preferred more white than black on the kits anyway. It would have looked class with the pink accents the new Juve kit has, but 99% would hate that.

I am sobbing like a fucking child here.

I want them to go bust and cease to exist as a football club We hoover up the next generations support We become a footballing powerhouse So much so that economic borders are redrawn and most of 'Wearside' becomes a suburb of a newly formed Greater Newcastle Huge deposits of oil and lithium are found beneath Jarrow We secede from the UK and becomes the richest country on earth A new earths capital is built spanning south and north shields World peace is achieved All because Eddie Howe took us to Wembley and won a cup.

It's fine. A bit sparse tbh. Could do with a random 3rd colour.

Cannit listen to it without tearing up like.

I was going to ask how does one achieve this build, but that question could legitimately apply to any of those adults. What nutrients do you have to be deficient in to look like that? What an amorphous, misshapen lot. Pure fuckin Morlocks on their one day a year above ground. Ps I'm only taking the piss out of the adults here. Not the kids. That's never alright.

We're taking Arsenal all the way and getting 3rd imo. The gorilla is off our back now.

Not hating doesn't mean I liked him in any way shape or form. I just hated the rest way more.

He's absolutely going nowhere. Like many before him, he's fell in love with us and the area.

Mrs mate is coming to say with us for a few weeks, she's a mackem. Have to do out the spare room for her this weekend and might just stick this in a frame for her.

Did absolutely nowt at work today. Could barely speak let alone organise the lads.

Today of all days, my brain threw out a reminder of this wonderful few paragraphs from the late Hunter S Thompson, which I have paraphrased slightly. I feel we really are on the precipice of something big here. "*Newcastle* in the middle *20s*was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . . There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . ."

Had a massive cry to Big River on the drive to work this morning.

Did you see pissman?

Find it hard to hate Pardew. He was just shite, but gave it a go. 5th place and a euro quarters isn't an awful return. Not a boot licking, hoop sniffing, cock snorter AND shite like the rest of them.

It's done. He did it. For some it's a formality. For us it's a start. Put his name in marble.

Didn't even celebrate. Just kneeled on the floor in shock while everyone around me went mental. Eventually got picked up and then the tears started. Haway the fucking Mags.

600 deep here in Melbourne. Outstanding effort by the Aussie Mags group.

"WEEZ GENNA PUT THE BEWTS ON THE JEWKS MARRA?" Is that the mackems version of David Goggins 'Carry The Boats' speech?

At the bare minimum. if I was the council I'd be pushing for a full renovation of Leazes Park, 10,000 new city trees and maybe a full new Urban Park in the city centre.