TheBrownBottle

I’d be perfectly happy if the window shut tomorrow. Anyone else in would be great, but I’ve zero expectations

And being a right ugly cunt …

God, that documentary was great. ‘I don’t know what you’re laughing at son, you were fucking shit’. Magic.

Not available outside the UK, RoI and Scandinavia apparently. That’ll grow the club worldwide, then.

Jesus Gil?

Levy is such a cunt. He’s hung Kane out to dry. Kane should go back, feign injury and piss off on a free next year.

Not sure about that mind

There are two elements to this I can think of: 1 - the positive one - a stadium is a fixed asset. Once built, the club reaps the benefits - this is particularly the case if the cost is met upfront 2 - the cynical one - all the current big clubs are the ones who are truly protected by FFP. However, facilities are expensive and required - so they won't want their FFP to be hit by building a billion-pound stadium

There used to be a good atmosphere at Maine Road / CoM stadium. I suspect that success flattens atmospheres in the long run - expectation means that wins are expected, and anything else is failure. I'm happy for us to take part in a social experiment to see if this thesis is correct - if NUFC would oblige and win a lot of trophies that would help this research. In the name of social science NUFC, get some trophies.

Yep, I don't get misty-eyed when I see what T Dan Smith wrought. It was cultural vandalism.

No, I'm with you on the four-sided grounds. Football is about the only area of life where I'm deeply conservative. I don't like the bowl-style stadia - they're characterless. If we stay at SJP in its current guise, I will add my name to the list of those who think the East Stand needs knocking down though - even if the number of additional seats is extremely small

As fun as it is to do, we've got no solid evidence at all that PIF even want to pour in the sort of money required to build a super new stadium where money is no object. This is an investment vehicle - cold, hard numbers will come into play. This will also apply to any redevelopment of SJP.

Tbf one of the biggest reasons we top that list is the same as the one every NUFC away fan wanted to know when Blackpool away was in 2009/10

That was always my match day experience. 90mins + HT was literally the only interaction I ever had with the stadium, other than when you used to actually have to go to the ticket office for away game tickets

It’s probably canny enough for a young lad like him - but the long term prospects aren’t great, I would think. I could be wrong, like - we might get to see a 50+ Adam P hanging round outside the training ground like the old drunk pervert who we sometimes used to see outside our school gates.

Seems thunderously unlikely to me now. We look fully stacked in midfield, and it isn’t clear that we’d have anything like £45m left available to us. Silly season stuff.

Ramsdale would be England’s no.1 if it was my call. Good keeper for me.

That’s insane

I’ve decided to watch it with subtitles and read them in my head in a Brian Blessed voice.

Shearer is the Steve Davis of football, though unlike Davis he really didn’t become interesting later on Canny centre forward though

It would have been the same without Brexit, as all EU member states have their own rules re work permits for non-EU nationals

West Ham look like they’re investing the Rice bonanza as sensibly we did the Gascoigne one (one for the young’uns, that one)

I’d have Buzzcocks doing the American commentary

Second vote for Brian Blessed. We actually signed Gordon last year - Blessed would love screaming that name at the top of his lungs. I’d turn the radio off if I heard Kevin Whately on it. Makes Shearer sound like captain charisma not captain creosote.

Wasn’t the original House of SS Attire Hugo Boss?