TheBrownBottle

We're second-favourites for the Cup and we haven't even had the 5th Round draw yet. I feel light-headed Seeing NUFC win the FA Cup is the only dream I can remember having from the age of about 5 which I still have now - unless steam trains make a comeback and they let me drive one.

Perfectly capable PL midfielder - his greatest weakness was always the time he takes on the ball. This isn't laziness, more a slowness in decision-making - it is what stops him from being a really good PL midfielder. I'm happy he's here as a squad midfielder - he's not as good as Bruno or Tonali; but at the moment very few are. It would cost us 20m+ to bring in a replacement of guaranteed similar PL capability - and he's one of us (and a HG player). Why the urge to get rid? If the lad is happy to stay, then unless we get an unrefusable offer then we should embrace him.

If they lose on those charges a points deduction would be the least of their worries. Titles stripped and mandated relegation would be a potential outcome.

Etihad being floated = Man City winning against the charges is a stretch which Reed Richard would be proud of - what complete and utter bollocks It could just as well be argued that Man City going after the PL on the APT regs shows nervousness about the impending case.

But as we all know, Chelsea and Man City’s trophies have never counted, everyone says that, so they have a point.

I mean VAR shouldn’t even come into the equation - that’s just absolutely dogshit refereeing. The linesman must be blind. I’m convinced that VAR is making them worse.

I’ve always had the weird feeling that the first trophy win in yonks reaction in Newcastle will be an odd outpouring of emotion mixed in with drunken revelry - it’ll feel really, really odd; not an anticlimax exactly, just that the reaction won’t be uniform. The second one and every one after that would be a standard two days of drunken merriment.

Fair play to them on that front 🌈 - I can imagine it going down pretty badly with the Farage & Tommy Five Names element in their support

Mackems, Leeds, smoggies in that order. Then a cuntitude spectrum after that.

They finished top of the CL bloated group stage and are favourites. They’re clearly the best side in Europe at the moment.

Absolutely minor point, but by it not being Spurs we at least guarantee we’ll be in B&W in the final

Any how, I’m oddly confident we win this despite how good they are. But even if we lose a decent showing would be a first in my lifetime!

I still hate Cambridge Utd more than them - but you never quite get over what you dislike when you’re 10! Tbf never been on there, and I would take angry internet gobshites with a pinch of salt. The Heysel whitewashing is unpleasant and can be tone deaf given the obvious visibility of Hillsborough. But both of those events could’ve happened to any club’s supporters in the ‘80s - Leeds fans were fighting in the ground in the 1975 European Cup final. The difference was that the ground wasn’t a crumbling death trap.

It’s not something I’m onboard with tbh - I could list 20 clubs without blinking that I dislike more

Nee issue with wanting to beat them, nor in thinking that VvD is a cunt tbf

I’ve never understood the N-O hatred of Liverpool. Scousers are the most alike people I’ve met to Geordies, always liked visiting their city (football results have tended to be shite). All successful clubs will have tiresome glory-seeking arrogant wankers attached to them - the types that think that the club they picked winning things actually says something about them as a person. When Liverpool win things I tend to shrug, in a way that I don’t with the London clubs.

‘Let me tell you, I told Yasir—Yasir, listen, you’ve got to tell Eddie Howe. He’s gotta push Bruno forward. That’s it. Push him forward, and you’ll be winning trophies. Believe me, this is how you win. If Eddie does that, and he will, because he knows, you’re gonna see results, folks. Big results!’

The bloke at the top of PIF is still worse than Trump ...

It never worked like that in any case. League Cup runners-up never got a European place - FA Cup runners-up did in certain circumstances.

Christ, that’s grim, and depressingly unsurprising. I’d feel embarrassed if I was them - but some have zero shame.

There is something utterly grim about not actually putting in the travel time and hours to get a Wembley cup final ticket and if you’ve got enough wedge being able to skip the queue. I’ve been to Wembley a few times, the result of going to SJP and trudging up and down the country every week. It felt ‘earned’. I haven’t been to SJP in years - I would feel like an imposter going to a cup final at this point. I can afford to pay for one of those daft packages - but it is a fucking travesty that they exist. Cup finals should be a reward for those who’ve actually went to games. I’ve sat on my arse watching it on TV, at this point 10,000 miles away. I just hope that everyone who deserves and wants a ticket actually gets one.

I’d want the thieving cunts to spell ‘hospitality’ correctly for that price

Cup double still on the agenda. I’m happy to play the reserves in every remaining league match if we go for both cups. I’d give my right bollock for the League Cup - but I’d rip off someone else’s right bollocks and spend years in the nick as a result for an FA Cup

And also - of course that would be the first reply #obsessed

NUFC in a cup final can only mean that: There’s panic on the streets of sunderland… Panic on the pages of RTG …