christ

Think they’re now banned by the PL, but I doubt the will exists at this moment in time. They got a proper fright last time around.

Original idea was that they’d play the ESL in parallel with the domestic leagues but the clubs were swiftly told to fuck off IIRC. Think the PL changed the charter to say member clubs couldn’t join breakaway competitions after that. In the short term this ruling is likely going to be used to get UEFA/FIFA to shift on some of the less popular rules (bye bye FFP). Long term you’ll probably end up with some compromise/rebranded CL-style competition that’s sanctioned but to all intents and purposes a closed shop ran by and for the biggest clubs in the world.

It primarily fell to bits last time because of fan pressure rather than any legal stuff. The usual suspects in Italy and Spain will still be bang up for it you’d imagine, probably PSG too. Be interesting to see the form it takes because the stakes are too high for Barca etc to write it off as a bad idea.

I’m not in the least bit worried about Barnes. There’s a direct correlation between the densest fuckers on here making sweeping, unfounded statements about a topic and then being made to look like know nowt cunts several months later. We’ll be dredging up posts about him in 2024 like we have with Howe, Gordon etc.

The mistakes are mental lapses rather than anything particularly physical. Just seems like bad luck to have a series of these performances strung together. I think there’s a compelling argument to be made that the injuries at the back have got us a bit out of sorts. Maybe there’s an element of Tripps trying to overplay and overthink because he’s not as comfortable with Lascelles/Dubs as he was Schar/Pope. We are an incredibly emotionally led team, and that can lead to these sorts of things happening unfortunately.

Why? We’re sixth?

This place has always been full of absolute tatties who lack any sort of perspective.

Don’t think either Botman or Burn are fit enough to play a full 90 (or in Burn’s case play two matches in such quick succession), so I assumed it was planned.

Houthi surfer flag would be a tremendous self-own considering what it says. Hope they do it.

Appears that he’s about to be crushed by the Leazes too. Can’t believe our luck.

Win or bust mentality in the context of Wednesday makes perfect sense though. There’s no part of me that thinks the club really wanted to drop into the Europa League when you consider how badly the CL fucked us. We could do with one game a week again for the next few months.

He’s class, but no one is paying £100m outright for him at the moment. He’s not in that very top tier of CMs that can command that type of fee. He will get there though.

.com is still my first port of call for NUFC news. It might not be the fastest but it’s trustworthy. The On This Day section is invaluable too. Great reminder of some of the wank we’ve endured over the last couple of decades.

Probably worried about getting sued by Mike Ashley

That was just your patter.

It felt kind of inevitable that we’d suffer when you consider how much effort was expended against Chelsea, PSG and Man United. In the modern game you can’t play the same XI with virtually no subs five times in three weeks and not see a drop off in performance. In hindsight Howe probably should’ve rotated against Everton - chuck in the kids and Ritchie, Dummett etc and take it as an L - but can you imagine the reaction?

He’s a liability in this system. He might be able to play with his feet a bit better than Pope but he looks like he’d rather get kicked in the bollocks than come for anything around the penalty area. Send up the bat signal for Ramsdale.

The Mariana Trench looks shallow compared to our goalkeeping department.

Whatever it is, it’s so transparent. At least Le Tiss actually believes the absolute shit he torpedoed his career for.

I’m more upset by how fucking lazy this anti-woke heel turn is than anything else. Ignore the attention seeking cunt. It’s tragic he’s had to pivot to this to pay his bills.

Got a month to get a few bodies back.

Someone’s jealous of his bunk beds

Oh fuck off

Decent performance but turned up today with his custom BG earring upside down. 6/10.

They were wank. No idea how that baldy fraud has a job.