enthusiast

christ, i remember being a bairn and having unreasonably high hopes for gudjonsson and brayson being our forward line of the future..

if this game had a competent ref it'd have been shite, argentina sitting on the game for an easy win, so fair ply to fifa for selecting this awful fucking clown dickhead to blow the whistle.

be ace to see ronaldo arrested immediately after stepping off the plane

criminal we replaced olly bernard with such an absolute dogmuck footballer

hope havertz cries himself to sleep, the horrible little shite

7th? how man, we're going to win the fucking thing

naaah he's an nft-touting, bolsonaro-supporting little freak. needs drop kicking out a third-storey window.

there's tons of uniteds, but only one newcastle, so the united thing never bothered me (the "YA-NI-TED" chant is the only time i can remember us routinely being referred to as such), tho tomyam's post up there suggests there might be an interesting age difference thing going on. generally speaking i'll say newcastle, and write nufc. as it happens, the mention of "man u" brings to mind that mufc have a similar thing going on - you'll sometimes see people attempting to be superfan online, looking down on fans who say "man u" as the sign of a johnny-come-lately out-of-towner, and it's bollocks. i grew up within spitting distance of old trafford (not my fault) and you'd hear it all the time.

middle-east top dogs

got to be honest, i absolutely hate the multi-club ownership model. must be shite being a fan of, say, palermo, and waking up to find out that your football club with it's entire 100-odd year history is now manchester city's little brother. or being a udinese fan and realizing any decent players you have are going to end up huffing and puffing about the championship for watford.

highly considerate of them to pick matt lucas, a man with a longer and worse history of blackface than baddiel. they'll be dancing in the streets of jason lee..

bet nobody even sings "why's the corner full of shit?" any more..

interesting chat about some possible decline in the atmosphere at the ground - my peak matchgoing years will have been ~1994-2002 (gallowgate end seat 1, so a short hop over a wall from the corner), and it definitely went downhill over that time. probably not the cause, but i always associated it with the expansion of the milburn/leazes (too many people too far away from the pitch, too much room for the atmosphere to disappear up into the air instead of being channelled towards the pitch). i mean, ideally you want a stadium to be a seething cauldron of hatred, and that's just not something you really get these days. deep down it's probably all a change in my perception as i change into an awld cunt tbh.

also he took a liverpool f.c. that had been winning everything for twenty years and drove them off a cliff

seeing harry palmer on spotify is doing somert properly weird to my perception of time like whatever happened to the bloke?

oh. ah. anyway, nice to see the england fans take a wholehearted stand against racism!!

tarred and feathered, and ran out of town on a rail? thinking of it, get that cunt in the stocks by grey's monument for an hour, quid a pop for charity, and you'd solve world hunger.

i was joking, it's all actually a huge, expensive bag-of-wank solution in search of a problem.

still looking forward to reading it.

massimo oddo

it's probably feasible to name a chronically underrated xi consisting solely of mid-90s players from the former yugoslavia, and it's hard not to think that the breakup of the country robbed the world of a mint team (there's a documentary about that squad, the last yugoslavian football team, that i've been wanting to see for a time. probably not the most underrated (or rated, for that matter) by a long stretch, but always had a proper soft spot for prosinecki. doubtless somebody with a functioning memory will pop up to tell me i'm wrong, but his performance against us at st. james' park in 97/98 champion's league is pinned in my mind as one of the best individual performances i've seen in the flesh: already fucked by injuries and on his way down career-wise, in the vivid world of my imagination he ran the game while neither breaking a sweat nor leaving the centre circle.

respectfully said, but i can't agree with this! us building the ultimate 21st century galactico club would feel an incomplete experience without this lot to smash about all the time. in my ideal world they'd be back in the prem, going through three managers a season all to scrape 17th on the last day of every season... solely to ensure *at least* two absolute pastings, every season for the rest of time.

rolls-royce

saw a pristine-looking 96/97 training sweater being worn by some lass walking down the spuistraat who was almost definitely too young to have been there at the time. felt tempted to collar her and give it if you're such a big paul kitson fan, name your three favourite goals. between that and the absolute madness prices on here, i'll admit to getting tempted to flog off me 95/96 away shirt..