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they have something in common or???

Want us to sign him just to have the pleasure of hearing a Mackem pronounce his name.

nice of the club's announcement video to remind us all that his signing was announced in the world's most european pair of shorts it's been a journey

I was thinking about this recently, that the huge improvement in the physical fitness of footballers is well understood in terms of football itself (e.g. any PL centre-half from 2026 will be quicker and have more stamina than any winger from the 1990s, whilst being over six-foot) but is rarely applied to discussions about the hardest cunt ever. I'm sure Billy Whitehurst was a hard cunt, and I'm sure he'd bray shite out of anybody he played against (and I'm sure he'd batter me, just in case he's reading this and thinks I'm calling him soft), but could you imagine him having a scrap with Joelinton? He'd get his head knocked off.

There's no controversy whatsoever about Amsterdam being the capital of the Netherlands, just confusion - on top of at least two hundred years of being recognized as the capital, it is written into the constitution as part of the country's basic law. It just isn't the seat of government.

adidas need help, man. another traditional set of club colours it must be harder to fuck up than to do well. imagine how much worse this is going to look once they've slapped a fuck-off big red bull logo on it.

Aye, but the timing if it coming hot on the heels of gbandit's is delightful.

Aye, I'll never forget Blackburn away on Boxing Day 1996.. half-hour argument over whether Kevin Gallacher's shot had gone in or had gone over the post. Only got sorted when Tim Sherwood started crying and saying he was going to take his ball home, and it was the only casey anybody had (he'd just got a brand new Mitre Delta for Christmas, in the end his mam went spare at him for getting it scuffed up on the tarmac). Could have done with having VAR tbh.

think they took him to the hospital and just stuck a big pin in him or what

Also, I'd presume a professional footballer works harder than most people on here (myself included).

I don't wear sandals!!

Central European art students in their early-to-mid 20s (and maybe the actual German football team) are the only people on the planet who are going to be able to wear this without looking like absolute paedophiles.

Not as much as there is on poor Leo, having to live up to former King of Scotland and Ugandan light heavyweight champion His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al-Hadji Doctor Idi Amin.

I hate Pardew most out of all the Ashley-era managers. I hate him more than Bruce, more than McClaren, more than Carver. I hate him more than Joe Kinnear. Don't like the notion of rehabilitating him on the grounds that his cheeky spiv personality marks him out as "bit of a character", an attribute that - when you encounter it in the real world - is the sole preserve of utter cunts.

"have a nice time at the match, dear?" "we won 3-1, it was terrible"

lerl anyway, fuck him.

It's pretty much untested waters in a few ways. Regarding dual nationalty, The Netherlands does offer it under restrictive circumstances but, as I understand it, Suriname flat out didn't for a good few decades post-independence. They only started looking for footballers amongst the diaspora in 2019 (and Indonesia more recently than that), and the general flow of naturalization has been the other way around. But passports aren't the main problem, work visas are: to qualify for a work visa as a non-EU footballer, you need to show that you'll be earning €508,000 p/a. It's slightly staggering the immigration department seems not to have asked about this at any point for any of these players (when I got my visa I had to show I wouldn't be a drain on the public purse, but then I suppose I'm not a journeyman midfield playmaker for NEC and Suriname, more's the pity). I'm in two minds, being anti-border and pro-free movement but also anti-modern football and pro-chaos. They should let anybody live and work wherever, but they should also wipe a couple of hundred of this season's results off the slate for a laugh.

I believe it was Winston Bogarde who pointed out - in reference to Adrian Mutu getting done for coke, and subsequently being ordered to pay Chelsea €17m in compensation for breach of contract - that when it became clear that Chelsea wanted shot of him he noticed a huge increase in very beautiful women coming up to him on nights out, trying to get him on the beak. Could be they've moved onto surreptitiously doping their money sinks with PEDs.

Reckon every time Andy Howe goes for a piss "Gripper" Wilson follows him into the bogs to tax his dinner money.

We wanted a club that tries: the distinction between what is/isn't demanded of the team vs. what is/isn't demanded of the club was the entire point of the slogan.

Which bit? Hanging on footballers' every social media post, or that Twitter is a CSAM Markov Chain generator?

Maybe if we all stop following NUFC players on the social media platform by and for white supremacist paedophiles this stuff wouldn't bother us so much.

Might as well be watching fucking rugby, like. Obscene getting Tonali to do this kind of thing, like buying a Ferrari and using it to do a milk round.

It's astonishing that there's people who were there, who saw the bloke play for us, and still slate him. Anyone coming out with this shit is outing themselves as not understanding the point of football, and is nailed on to be wrong about absolutely everything.