TheBrownBottle

Inverted full backs to match inverted wingers. Proper woke nonsense.

There we gan. Perfect timing.

Did anyone expect an easy game? Our track record at home vs sides like Brentford isn’t great this season

Absolutely

‘Yes, we know you have a friendship because of something that did happen a while ago. But don’t forget about the thing which didn’t happen even longer ago’ I think this is gaslighting.

Annoying watching matches with no trophy at the end

Their Bilbao obsession is the weirdest thing out there. It would be like us claiming a connection with Juventus, even though real history tells us that their kits were adopted from Notts County’s. I’m not aware of Southampton claiming a connection; besides, why would adopting a team’s kit over a century ago make a connection? I’m not aware of Leeds & Real Madrid talking about the special connection between their clubs due to Don Revie adopting Real’s colours for Leeds. They’re a genuinely peculiar bunch.

I still love the bloke, and he’s right up there for me re NUFC managers. In terms of favourites, he’s on the podium - and he’s second only to KK in terms of positive impact on the city (in terms of self-worth - Benitez coming in after years of being told what we are by Ashley’s acolytes in the press was a massive boon to us. He gave the support so much belief again). NB that’s not to say that Howe hasn’t - it’s just that the positivity around the club isn’t only driven by Howe.

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projection (noun) the unconscious transfer of one's desires or emotions to another person: "we protect the self by a number of defence mechanisms, including repression and projection"

You don't think it is odd in the slightest that the cost of the women's team isn't counted for FFP, yet the inflated sale of the women's team is?

Racist Beefy was a shit Beefy reboot tbh.

Yep. I’d also take issue with the idea that derby days are class They’re not - they’re anxiety-ridden nightmares, and even when we win it’s more relief than joy. Let the cunts rot.

Likewise - I was down there with my dad; Lee Dixon kicked him from pillar to post. The red card was a disgrace.

Didn’t arse himself at all for a couple of decades until it offered media work, he threw in the towel playing for us halfway through 95/96, wanted out when KK was here, Dalglish was absolutely right to push him out - we looked many times better playing a 4-3-3 after Ginola was dropped. Daveeed was a good footballer, but I never got the feeling at all that he was all that arsed about us.

We’re not going to sign you lads, stop making sex eyes at us

Ginola?

Carl Cort cost almost as much as Man Utd spent that summer.

I don’t want them up either, but we haven’t beaten them often in the last 15 years because for more than half of it we’ve been playing in different divisions, and for the other half we were mostly shite (as were they)

Given, Speed, Solano, Dyer, Shearer, Lee, Barton, Dabizas, Hughes were all inherited. He was very, VERY well backed in the transfer market - we spent ten times more on Titus Bramble than Arsenal did on Kolo Toure that same summer. He spent c.£150m on transfers - that wasn’t buttons at the turn of the century. He wasn’t backed in the summer of ‘03, which was daft.

I do too mate - but I’m struggling to think of someone who I’d comfortably put 3rd otherwise. It’s somehow forgotten that he also inherited one of the five richest clubs in Europe. It took years and a LOT of money to get results - and even then, the most consistent players when he left were already there when he arrived.

Yep, that’s what keeps him there for me. Eddie won a trophy for the club Keegan built. Howe is comfortably no.2 for me - Robson is a fair way behind in 3rd IMO

He’s still above Howe for me.

Keith Barrett’s flags were unbelievably exciting to me as a young’un back then - they just weren’t a ‘thing’ in England