TheBrownBottle

You were watching a different game from me - he was struggling after he twisted it. His passing range was gone; he was hobbling, and he was turning like an oil tanker when the ball came to him. He wasn’t right at all.

I’m glad Jesus and God are finally getting the credit they deserve, Jeff

Howe himself said afterwards it was a mistake. And I'm pretty sure the chief sponge-bearer who checked him isn't a doctor. It is actually possible to criticise a manager without going overboard or calling for his head. We're not in a cult.

Yeah, Carling were the initial sponsors - then Barclaycard, then Barclays. I think Barclays were still sponsors when it shifted to ‘Premier League’

FA Carling Premiership

The FA-backed top flight breakaway initially called itself the ‘Premiership’ due to disputes as to whether use of ‘League’ was the intellectual property of the Football League (and given the PL breakaway was from a now pissed-off Football League, court cases were not unlikely). It took a few years to resolve that it wasn’t an infringement, and changed to the Premier League from then on. Ugly stuff, all based around a money-grab by the top division clubs - plenty of whom are now rattling round the lower leagues (non-league in Oldham’s case) and complaining about the Premier League’s greed.

I was confident before Fulham of three points, but I'm not as confident here. This is precisely the sort of place and game NUFC historically don't do well in - and I'm talking pre-Ashley, KK and BR years too. I'd take a point if the footballing gods offered it up now. At some point we're going to go behind, and if we do I suspect we'll struggle against the mid-table sides who then shut up shop.

Anyone who has had that happen to them knows you can't run it off - even if there is no ligament or bone damage. It isn't just the agony, you lose strength in that ankle until it recovers. Running about on it just aggravates it further. It is one of the very, very few bad calls Howe has made - the lad should have been taken off the pitch.

I imagine having to pay a world class fee for a good player is putting teams off

Yes, the paying of $1bn to Bein for piracy a couple of days before the takeover had nothing to do with it. The Premier League really, really, really cared about separation. The fact that the separation issue was put up by the Premier League as it was a means of blocking the takeover due to piracy was mere coincidence.

Dire Straits ?

Agreed. Even the penalty was odd - to me the initial claim re Burn’s tugging was more of a pen than the Trippier one a few seconds later.

So glad the NUFC Mitrovic showed up for that pen

Get in

Wor turn to shithouse now

Fukkkkkkinn yeeeeees

You can’t play the ball twice. Straightforward violation

Hahaha good owld Misstrovic

Bizarre call that. Trippier having a stinker

Diop having some game mind

Trippier’s just out of form. We’ve got no-one to swap him out for.

Wilson unfortunately has looked well off the pace for a few games now

Yes, I agree - but we don’t know what Howe’s budget is. While a DM always looked like an area that needed a better player, if Howe doesn’t have a huge amount to spend, then he may have needed to direct the funds elsewhere

Bruno’s injury to me shows why Howe is correct to wait in terms of transfers. We can all see that the squad has huge limitations - best to wait and see if any first teamers need to be covered

Every side who are not in the Sky Six are going to do this at SJP going forwards. We’ve got to get used to it - and it does highlight that we’ve still got a fair way to go squad-wise.