christ

Same people whinging probably think Harry Palmer was mint back in the day. It’s class a younger generation are finally getting to enjoy NUFC, and see what the city can be like.

How much of a game changer in terms of FFP would a CL spot be? I’m not up to speed on how much you’re meant to earn from it nowadays.

The designation of Washington as Sunderland has always been a mystery to me. It blends almost seamlessly into Birtley and by extension Gateshead, whereas you have to schlep a few miles down the A1231 before you hit Sunderland. I’m all in for a David Simon mini-series on the behind the scenes machinations at Tyne & Wear County Council.

New record for his inevitable in match head injury - 15 seconds.

I’ve had the shits since full time. My body can’t physically cope with us at the moment. This is the last thing I need.

MOTM

MOTM before he even scored. Outstanding today.

What a surreal period in supporting NUFC

It was F1 in the 1970s. Saudi Arabia will have been too liberal for half the people involved. Balestre was an ex-SS officer ffs

As Stiffy says, the chances of this being anything to do with a new route out of the airport are basically nil. There’s already a service to the Middle East, into a much more well connected regional hub airport, with a much better established international airline. There isn’t the demand from Newcastle for another service into that part of the world, so all it’d do is cannibalise the Emirates passenger base and put what is a massive positive - both economically and from a prestige POV - at serious risk.

Don’t feel particularly confident today. Can’t bring myself to believe we’re going to go into this break without a loss for us to all fret over for the next six weeks. I hope there’s a proper last day of the season atmosphere. I want a repeat of the Arsenal match.

I still haven’t recovered from that video of him necking a tiny bottle of wine in a train toilet.

Hope they didn’t make them walk from the bridge to SJP.

If they were going to announce some sort of sponsorship deal with a Saudi company it would make sense to coordinate it with the trip tbf.

So do I, if only for the usual suspects on here kicking off and proclaiming every window a failure.

I love Adam P. Why is he recording in what looks like his utility room?

I’d go with this. Maybe Longstaff for Joe. ASM loves games like this.

There was some absolute bollocks being floated about Howe in December and January. I remember a lot of people acting like utter minges when Bruno wasn’t starting every game. That thread was a fucking nightmare.

I liked our substitutions yesterday. Giving English lads a run out in front of Southgate. Very nice.

When did we sign Dave Courtney?

I’ve been on the beer for the last few hours so forgive the superlatives, but for a 20 minute period after our second is some to the best football I’ve seen us play. We could’ve added another five. We were irresistible.

There’s a degree of mental exhaustion for a lot of us. If PIF had arrived following a relatively popular owner who hadn’t ran the club into the ground a lot more fans would be uncomfortable with the situation. That’s not the case though, and a lot of people just want to enjoy football again. It doesn’t help that the world around is utterly fucked too. Got to find those small moments of joy where you can.

He’s the anti-Klopp.

People kicking off about this either now or on the day are just proving everything people say about sportswashing correct. The first game after the takeover had its share of protests and things didn’t appear to get heated. I hope it’s the same this time around. Doesn’t really matter what you think of these people or their motivations they have a point.

PSG doesn’t sound like a particularly healthy environment, but the daft cunt only has himself to blame so fuck him.