TheBrownBottle

Not the fucking transfer window nonsense again. Financial fucking fair play was the issue. Get it into your fucking skulls for fucks sake.

Better side ahead. Stupid by Bruno for the FK, and BDB really, really is shite at attacking headers. Keep the eyes open, Dan. Thought Karius has been ok - nowt doing with the 1st, and he stops the 2nd without the deflection. There’s still a chance, but it’s very, very slight now. We’re not creating much and we’ve started inviting pressure with sloppy play. I just don’t want the score line to become embarrassing more than owt else.

It’s a 3:30am kick off for me so I’m going to log out of everything NUFC-related otherwise I’m going to go crackers and get zero sleep. I’ll try and pretend nowt is happening (futile effort no doubt). Can’t stop thinking that BDB is finally going to plant a header goalwards for the winner. Can’t. Fucking. Wait. Enjoy it all lads and lasses - this bastard trophy drought has to end at some point. It’s surreal that this time tomorrow it might have and we’ll finally have colour footage of a trophy win! HTL

As the song went in in ‘96 and ‘99 ’live round the corner you only live round the corner live round the coooooorner you only live round the corner’ (there was a time when every new chant was to the tune of Guantanamera)

Is this a mandible which I see before me; The chin toward my hand? Come, let me stroke thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Which for me stands as proof that he’s no better that what’s left behind. In fact, I know Darlow isn’t up to it - at least with Karius there is the hope from ignorance.

No question re his talent, but Hughes always came across as a tosser, especially on QoS

It was before my time, but my folks always talked about it when I was a kid, and before the ‘98 and ‘99 finals. By all accounts Shankly’s teamtalk was pinning Supermac’s interview to the dressing room wall (according to Emlyn Hughes anyway - there was a man I couldn’t find likeable).

I think NUFC has nailed the media approach personally. Get everything out of the way at the start of the week, then radio silence. Thankfully we’ve not got any Supermac characters gobshiting to the press about what we’ll do to them.

Of course they’ll enjoy it and take the piss if we lose - but for all the ‘Man Utd will walk it’ patter we all know that they’re fucking shitting themselves right now. Guarantee they’re more anxious than us. I’m sanguine about it at this point - win or lose I’m just delighted that we’re taking these things seriously again, and I’m confident that even if it doesn’t go the right way this weekend, a trophy is coming soon. They know that too. I hope it haunts their sleep.

‘Mind games’ are a load of tiresome wank, and it’s ungentlemanly to use an outmoded expression, but baals to him. It actually suggests more fear than I’d expect in all honesty - I can’t imagine it’ll arse Howe one iota

Used to have to get on one every month here in Australia for a site visit. It was a bumpy ride That’s not to say others (like yourself) can’t appreciate them, like. But they’re nightmare fuel for complete fannies like me

Just looking at a prop plane makes me nervous. Hate flying on the fuckers. Almost as bad as Bergkamp, me

He does have five kids to feed

He did that too I also heard that a monkey has a Peter Reid heed

I liked Peter Reid at the time too. Though I did also sing about him eating bananas with his feet, so there is that.

"Howe ... start ... Saint-Maximin ..."

It feels odd writing it, but I’m glad the govt has acted - it’s about three decades too late (and all previous govts have that responsibility too), but at long last there is an attempt at independent regulation. English football has always had an odd regulatory structure, given the separation between the FA and the Football League (and now to an extent the FA-backed breakaway PL). I wish this had been done prior to 1992, but nowt can be done on that now. Blocking of a ESL obviously has been the final straw and forced regulation, but I’d happily see a lot of the damage done to the national game rolled back. I also don’t give a solitary shite if it impacts the ‘standing’ of the PL nor performances in Europe. The pyramid is utterly broken and needs fixing. I’m also unmoved if in the medium- to long-term this includes the forceable sale of clubs out of the hands of dubious characters. And yes, I’m aware that this could impact NUFC.

Yep, a wide catalogue of them is a good thing too. There’s songs I don’t like too in the repertoire tbf

I’m teetotal these days (despite the handle) and I still like the song. Drinking songs are as old as drinking. It strikes me as a bit po-faced to frown at it - the song isn’t meant to be literally true.

To be fair, I don’t doubt that there are more than two versions of it - most of the times I remember it is on away trips in the ‘90s and ‘00s - usually pubs / coaches only. I think the ‘we are the pride of …’ is the bit which most clubs who use the song sing (I’m sure I’ve heard the Mancs sing it, Villa too)

NB ‘drink, drink’ is a fucking great song. Replaced by that fuckawful ‘don’t take me home’ shite

We are the pride of the country the cock of the north we all hate Sunderland and Boro of course [AND LEEDS!] We all drink whiskey …

*mackematics

Hacks are all tiresome as far as I’m concerned. John Gibson still bangs on like NUFC’s greatest fan, yet chuckles at the thought of the time he betrayed MacDonald’s trust with the ‘Gordon Who?’ headline, which was at the heart of why Supermac left the club. ‘Ho ho ho Gordon Lee never liked him after that’, and all to sell a few copies more of the Ronnie Gill. Hope breaking that story this week isn’t the first one - there’s been a few arsehole pieces he’s ran in the last few days. Fuck him, the moon-landing denying wanker.