TheBrownBottle

Two weeks of rest for the others though. Not to be sniffed at

We’re not going to be able to fulfil fixtures soon

We’re on the absolute bones of our arse mind. Bournemouth are catastrophically bad - they should be comfortable

I’m sure it’s not Howe’s fault, but I’m not sure everything is just down to bad luck. If it happens every game, it isn’t just chance.

‘Man with tiny cock says ‘tiny cocks are the best’’

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Went to loads too - I don’t think I ever rang him and got a ‘sorry mate, nee seats left’ answer, either. Drinking on the coach down was always great fun - as was the stop-off on the way back, usually in the early stages of a hangover before pouring some more rocket fuel down. The odd grim trip sticks in the head - the 5-2 defeat to Blackburn being one, where the bog was blocked and was gently overflowing down the aisle whenever the bus stopped too quickly …

Great to hear that Barrett is going again - but I’m not feeling that song, sorry. That Cushin one is fucking dreadful, too. Rod, Jane and Freddy vibes to it - easy going music with lyrics hoyed together quickly.

The ‘Bruno in the middle’ song genuinely makes my teeth itch. Utterly cringeworthy.

If ‘trouble keeps following you’ then maybe, just maybe, it’s you

The loan thing doesn’t bother me at all tbh. I don’t think PL clubs should be loaning players - full stop. Besides, it is obviously an abusable method of circumventing FFP - at present, there’s nothing stopping a very rich backer from buying good players for a team in a country outside of UEFA, then loaning them back to their English club at far less value

Ask Everton at the end of the season how real it is

Tbf on ASM - they’re not mutually exclusive positions. We did get Marley value - and the KSA league will be the priority.

Fair dos

Tbf the rest of the league might argue it would be uncompetitive to allow NUFC to circumvent the rules which the others have to abide by re FFP I’m honestly not sure the club will be arsed one iota tbh. I doubt Howe is eager to grab an ageing mercenary to float about for six months.

The one about Elliott’s other half and Chopra which may or may not have something to do with his new wife booting him out a month after they were married?

Probably because the implication is that we weren’t also playing second / third string players. The ‘we were playing reserves’ point is irrelevant if the opposition were too

Ah telt yiz. No chance the rest of the PL allows NUFC easy access to expensive players

good lad - as a fellow 41-year-old I’m impressed that you’ve still got the stamina mate

I’ll go for a 1-1, assuming that we can field XI fit players

Yeah, I agree. As a (much) younger man I misjudged the strength of Belgian beer away to Lokeren in the InterToto. I was eye-spinning drunk instead of giddy-singy-happy drunk. It ruined it for me. I’m a teetotaller these days, so none of it appeals

It is pretty FA Cup 3rd round day patter tbh. I love European football being back, but this feels completely normal to me - I missed its absence rather owt else. We’re not plucky underdogs.

‘People being drunk’ may be the worst excuse for a shit atmosphere I’ve heard yet. There are a lot of social ills caused by public drunkenness, but one positive is that it tends to make for lairy and loud away ends. Every time the camera panned to the away end it seemed to be full of half-and-half scarfers and passivity. They didn’t look pissed-up to me. Someone else mentioned Feyenoord in 2002 above - I was there, and me and the lads I was with started pretty early that morning in Amsterdam and were well served by the time we got to Rotterdam for the match - and so was most of the away end. I don’t remember that being a ‘half and half scarf’ experience - that away end was crackers (in a good way). Singing AYE AYE LIPPI LIPPI AYE

The only people for whom ‘keeping Wood’ should be ever in their mind are male porn stars