TheBrownBottle

I'm actually alright with the daft mackem cunt doing that tbf. It is obviously just a piss take, and I'm not sure it is justified to lock someone up or expect that their head should be kicked off for what is an obvious joke. And we won, so fuck him

Not like a mackem to take a shit in a stadium and need emergency bog roll ... Oh.

Livramento was my MOTM in the LC Final, but I wouldn't have picked him for England either - his form was poor prior to that game. Keep putting in performances like last week and he'll back in - which more importantly would mean he's playing well for us.

Honestly mate I suspect we're on the same side of the argument on this stuff - I agree with everything you've written. The issue for me is more reacting to Squire's cartoon with a 'where's the cartoon on Israel'. Israel doesn't own NUFC - so I'm not going to be hypervigilant on it. I'm no Zionist.

‘There is [sic] three NE teams’ Newcastle United, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool United. He’s right.

Remind me again of where Musk got the money to buy out Twitter, and to fill that platform with bile and poison while undermining western democracy? If that circle could be squared then it could be further evidence of cuntitude. The ‘Hjalmar Schacht defence’

No issues from me re criticisms of Israel’s acts of genocide, war crimes and general cuntishness. But that doesn’t let the Gulf states off the hook for their own abuses; it is also irrelevant when Israel is not the issue at hand. It seems impossible these days to criticise dictatorships in the region without a ‘well what about Israel’ being thrown in.

Fair enough - I always thought Whateley was a rugby league fan with a passing interest in football

Nah, fuck that. I’m perfectly comfortable with dictatorships and human rights abusers being called out. The reason Israel hasn’t been called out by the likes of Squires is because it isn’t trying to buy every sport going, which is why this stuff finds its way to the back pages. What context would he have been able to call Israel out on in football terms? When did Israel start buying European clubs or hosting World Cups? It is actually possible to condemn Israel and the Gulf states without any fear of hypocrisy. I hate this type of whatabouttery. There’s little football fans can do about this stuff, which is where it does stick in the craw. But we hardly need to start defending the ultimate owners of the club or pretending that they’re basically the same as any other govt. Easy to say when you’re not the poor cunt who’s been worked to death in 40C+ temperatures to build a stadium, having had your passport confiscated by your gangmaster. The abuses of workers from the subcontinent are not made up. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/11/qatar-fifas-qatar-world-cup-legacy-fund-ignores-exploited-workers/

He always came across as a Cumbrian rugby league fan in interviews. I always got the impression that the NUFC thing was more part of the Auf Wiedersehen image stuff. He was cheering them on on the radio, and snapped at Bomber’s criticism of SAFC. Also, who’d want to go to an away match with Neville, the twisty-faced sod

I don’t think Kevin Whateley is an NUFC fan, mind.

Tbf I reckon ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me’ would have seen Sting and the Police strung up by the bollocks by a pitchfork-wielding mob if it was released today (and they understood the context)

They can have Bryan Ferry, mind.

It is markedly better than something like 'the lads worked hard for it today, it was a tough game, etc etc'. He's spotted the issue and is looking to deal with it.

It was the bigger trophy until the European Cup started. The league title was more prestigious and desirable after that. The title was definitely bigger than the FA Cup in 1991 - but the FA Cup has had its prestige heavily damaged during the PL era

Monkey smell

Why wait? Burn is playing for England right now

Alright, maybe firing would be too much 100 lines as punishment, like something in the Beano. ’I should’ve went for an open top bus tour I should’ve went for an open top bus tour I should’ve went for an open top bus tour …’

Haha fucking hell, only this club would be capable of pissing goodwill down the toilet like this. If this is the council and / or the police’s call then someone needs to leak that asap. If someone at the club made the call not to have an open top bus tour of the city, then that person needs to be fired pronto.

I did as well - I was saying to a mate that it’s funny that his celebration when playing was so functional and unemotive - but as a fan he goes fucking crackers. I reckon it answers the age old question of whether players enjoy goals more than fans

Kevin Brock is the first footballer I can remember disliking for being shite I loved Liam O’Brien mind

Both are true - but he never indulged in the ‘impossible to manage / expectations’ pish which made Bruce and Souness the ne plus ultra of shite NUFC managerd

Seems harsh, but it’s only because the lad is starting out. He’s a D at the moment, though he clearly has a lot of potential.

If we’d won ‘ten in a row’ that era would’ve remained utterly shite

Hard to pull off the old ‘look at those weird football obsessives with nowt else gannin on’ when you’re so obviously angry and writing on the internet about how angry you are about a football team winning a game