TheBrownBottle

Soft as shite FK. Both players pulling.

Bruno best player on the pitch first half, Schar and Gordon having good games for me, Wilson is just ice cold. I’d really be looking at getting Trippier and Almiron off, probably Burn too. They just look knackered.

I feel like I’m missing out on getting radged up by listening to Don Goodman’s Mackem nonsense.

Don’t know like - I think he’s looking for it and buying it

Brain fart by Pope

VAR gives it because the evidence isn’t strong enough to overturn the referee’s decision - it isn’t because it was a strong penalty claim. It does look like there is marginal contact. If the referee didn’t give the pen, there’s no chance VAR would have overruled him

The ‘needs to be strong enough to overturn the referee’s decision’ rule saves us there. Soft as shite pen.

Trippier (and Burn) just look burned out. What’s the point of buying £30m full backs if you won’t ever rotate them in?

He changes his movement because it was obvious to everyone that it should have been easy for Trippier to get to it

Trippier having his worst game in a B&W shirt here

Spoke too soon

Pope again - love it when he’s in this form

Schar doesn’t need to run. He just does his Magnum pose and the opposition freezes

There is a difference between saying a player isn’t playing well and saying he’s shit at a particular thing. Trippier has had a few stinking passes so far - but I don’t think he’s a shit passer of the ball.

Isak is - for me - potentially a world class player. Wilson is an excellent one - love the man.

Yes get in there Wilson (I was waiting for VAR there)

Let off there - moronic by Trippier

I also think his hold-up play is superb

Love Gordon’s little bursts of pace

The commenatator talking about the ‘strangeness of seeing Newcastle in green’, especially when it was ‘unnecessary’ to wear it. Why would it be weird to see Newcastle play in green? I know what the context of the statement is, but most teams change their away colours every season. It’s hardly strange to see them in colours which aren’t their home ones.

That doesn’t prove that it makes a difference vs other clubs - which also have crowds. And if it does breed success, we must have the worst atmosphere and crowds in the country, given that half of the football league has won a trophy since we last did. edit: there are plenty of other academic studies that conclude the opposite of the study you’ve cited. Here’s two of them: https://www.newswise.com/pdf_docs/166932427047777_Home advantage study.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8670806/

There isn’t an initiative that could be offered which would bring an atmosphere like those of old. They relied on big groups of pissed-up mates standing together in a packed stand, particularly if a game had an edge or a bit of needle to it. The average match goer is no longer a pissed-up young man with his group of pals - it’s a middle-aged man who has been sat In the same seat for twenty-odd years and sees the match as a bit of time away from the stresses of work and family. Add to that the ‘embarrassment’ factor so many have of joining / starting chants on their Todd (see lack of groups and being pissed-up). Football collectively decided many years ago that it was willing to sacrifice atmosphere for more money (young men don’t tend to be flush) and safety (pissed up young men with a group of mates tend to find bother more easily). The game has been sanitised and gentrified. Those days are not coming back. For what it’s worth, the atmosphere doesn’t sound any worse than it has for a long time - in fact, it sounds better than the Ashley era, and the efforts of wor flags means that it is the best it has ever been as a spectacle. I also don’t think atmosphere matters one jot one it comes to results. It’s a little white lie that football supporters tell themselves, and the clubs like to go along with. How loud and how often a crowd sings has no impact on winning matches - if it did, Arsenal wouldn’t have been in the top division since 1919 …

Being intelligent with the ball and first rate spacial awareness are two things which Almiron hasn’t shown so far. He’s best served staying where he is.

We were averaging just over 16k in 1991. 10 years later it was 52k. It’s closer to 35k

The current songbook is shite (I am a middle-aged man now though, so that may factor in). I cringe at the 'Bruno in the middle' song - something that I don't generally do at even the daftest of football songs, but I actively hate that song. But even the traditional songs are sung badly - Blaydon Races (which may as well be remained 'GanalongthuScotswooRoadtuseethuBlaydonRaces', given that it is now spat out as a single word in about one second) in particular feels like a crime against local culture. It's a folk song, not a New Monkey / Colosseum choon, lads.