TheBrownBottle

Adding Trippier to this back line just makes us considerably worse, as the CBs shit their pants with the collective lack of pace.

Are we fucking trying to concede here?

WTF is Schar doing there?

No, not ‘wrong’. The deal was made early in 99/00 - when they’d won seven (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 66, 98). I know my European Cup years. It was put through in 2001 - it took time to work its way through govt (local and national). The deal was made with the Spanish govt and local authorities - who paid £290m (!). Madrid had racked up £177m of debt by that point. They eventually built a new training centre a few years later.

Lost on me too - the attack comes down our left. BDB went a bit headless chicken for me.

Can’t complain too much when you’re level at HT in a cup game, but these low-intensity halves of football are becoming a real issue. We just look a bit leaden this last month or so. Hopefully an improvement in the SH and a QF place.

They made a nine figure sum selling their training ground to the govt, and got to rent it straight back on the cheap. You’re right, it was 25 years ago - when they’d won seven European Cups (and only two in the previous thirty-nine years). They’ve since won another EIGHT European Cups. So I reckon that training ground sale might’ve been pretty advantageous.

Before this weekend’s matches we were 5/1 LC, 6/1 FAC. The results this weekend so far will have pushed our odds out for the cup, given that other teams have already gone through - which is why we’d be back out to 8s or 9s. edit: we’ve clearly came in for the LC too. I’m quoting the odds as they were last weekend. Others have also quoted those odds - see the LC Final thread.

Bookies have us 5/1 for the LC and 6/1 for the FA Cup, and that isn’t how odds are calculated - it isn’t a coin-toss. We’re second favourites for both cups.

I do too. And it’s the FA Cup, which means a fuck ton more.

It would be an even more substantive argument if they were third. But they’re fourth.

A = world class, B = just below elite in terms of what the rankings mean. Joelinton would be like a C+, Barnes a C and Willock a C- in PL terms.

Question - I thought the idea was to rank the players generally in a wider context, not on their ranking within the squad? It does look like folks are ranking Joelinton based on his worth to us, not on who he is generally

B at worst suggests A when good. Not sure he’s world class when good

I missed Lascelles, who is an E. Joelinton is a solid C for me. No chance he’s one of the best in either the LW or CM positions in the league. He isn’t our best LW, and isn’t one of our best midfielders, for starters. Still love the lad and he is an asset.

1990/91 remains the worst season in my memory banks. Yes, we were even more shite the year after, but that did have the KK ending. Being midtable in Division Two is as grim as it gets. I wasn’t around for the humdrum horrors of 78-82.

He made some weird comments about how buff Eddie was looking, and asked if he’d been working out

This was all about you getting caught rifling through his missus’s knicker drawer #justiceformagdad

Ructions!

‘They haven’t won owt yet. And they better not’ Except in Spanish

The scousers are quite odd about it all. It’s from a famous American musical, it’s hardly a local folk tune.

I think that’s from the FA Cup match at Anfield in ‘84

Bring back Archibald Leitch - all is forgiven

Also, singing it at 120bpm like you’re in New Monkey or Colosseum should result your parents being imprisoned. You are their failure.

I reckon anyone caught singing the wrong words to Blaydon Races should be given an automatic one match stadium ban (actually, three matches if they’re from Tyneside). Second offence lifetime ban, nee comebacks. They’d learn quickly