TheBrownBottle

If you gaze into the cabbage, the cabbage gazes also into you

I’d call them ‘embarrassing’, but a sense of embarrassment to me would suggest a personal relationship with them making me feel ashamed or humiliated, whereas I feel neither about the dopey fuckers

I think he meant rocket surgery

That’s the modesty which makes them as popular as they are in the lower leagues. At least that’s why they tell me

FTFY Michael Dell wasn’t the buyer, nor was Dell the company. It was a couple of blokes who used to work with him who were venture capitalists.

Wraith has always been a massive weapon. From his shite ‘Number 9’ fanzine, his Tory politics, his desperate desire to knock about with gangsters and hooligans (and have some of that sense of ‘danger’ rub off on him), to his social media ITK ‘I helped sell the club to PIF’ chest-puffing horseshit. It’s all a grift to that cunt. He’s the man the Mackems all want us to be.

They do represent a portion of the support though. It’s similar to when politicians say that neo Nazi groups don’t represent the country. They don’t the whole country - but they do represent some of it.

I love the fact that the stupid twats like a story where they look for a Sunderland top behind the bar and can’t find one, but find a Newcastle one, and don’t even consider for a second why that might be. I think this is what the young’uns refer to as a ‘self-own’

I’ve said it on this thread, will say it again - the lad and his agent give off strong Anelka vibes, only by Ekitike’s age Anelka had won the (English) double and played for France. The numbe of scuffed / lucky finishes from his goals last season are suggestive of a player who may have had a purple patch of luck. Add to that a clown for an agent and we should be staying well clear.

That’s true, but it doesn’t make the knackers doing it any less embarrassing. Most of them are grown adults, too. There must be a way to write an autoblock algorythym for sad cases who do this

I think the only people I’ve ever referred to as ‘daft cunt’ have been mates…

We had the proposed plans in my old office. They were unworkable as the piling required for the extension to build over Strawberry Place would have been problematic in terms of the Metro line and station below. It would have cost a lot more than 50m if it had been workable. Today, again if workable, you’re talking 150m+. Less than a new stadium, certainly - but again, you’re talking about drilled concrete piles to a depth of as much as 30m+ (as estimated at the time). Not sure how you achieve that without the Metro Station and line potentially looking like ‘Kerplunk’. (I’m a civils quantity surveyor during the day)

The Amsterdam Arena has a road running under. The problem at SJP is the Metro line underneath - this makes it a civil engineering nightmare. I don't think extending the Gallowgate is likely; it definitely wouldn't be worth it from a cost perspective.

I'm all for safe standing, but I don't think it will increase the capacity by much, and potentially not at all - you'd still need a seat and a rail.

I think ‘confirm’ is a better fit than ‘admit’ in that sentence. There’s no guilt involved. Still, the brass neck on the cunt. Almost admirable to be that delusional. https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisDHWaugh/status/1542167753070678017?cxt=HHwWgsC4ndLZ8OYqAAAA

And if this wasn't Spain ... your arse would be well and truly nicked

Championship (Football) Manager used to assign 5 and 4 to CB. Always mildly irritating to have to swap them round to the (correct) 6 & 5. I love traditional numbers, especially given that the sequence is a hangover from the 2-3-5 formation that all teams played for half a century - the fact that with the switches to W-M and 4-4-2 no-one said 'hey, maybe we should amend the numbering to reflect the new formations'. Nah; 2, 5, 6, 3; 7, 8, 4, 11; 9, 10 it is.

They'd happily finish 16th every year, as long as we were 17th. And that doesn't necessarily mean in the PL either. They've no interest in being the best they can be; they just want to be less shit than us. Ashley's reign gave them a few opportunities to do this, so they now think that somehow that is a normal state of affairs - the problem is, we were being hobbled by Ashley, and they were being propped up by a sugardaddy in Short. Normal service has resumed

I think being a young’un now would be great, but I’m sure as shit glad we didn’t have easily available recording facilities and social media when I was one. Fuck knows what embarrassing shite me and my mates would have posted. Mind you, the only NUFC signing I ever remember going to the ground for was Shearer’s - and that was organised fun with the Flashing Blade and the Flashing Bladettes (DJ Alan Robson for those lucky enough not to know). I wouldn’t have spent a weekday morning sat outside the ground waiting for a highly rated ‘one for the future’ centre-half.

Yep. Still find it incredible that these parasites somehow managed to get the clubs to pay them, rather than the players pay them.

That also involves getting a shitload of sponsorship money, which to date hasn’t been the case.

I’d be amazed if we went for another CB for now. Botman, Burn, Schar - we’ve signed Dummett for another year, which means only keeping one from Lascelles or Fernandez.

Wasn’t one of our first signings one of Liverpool’s data gadgies?

Christ, the defenders Milan had from the late ‘80s to late ‘90s (and on tbf). Tassotti, Baresi, Costacurta, Maldini is surely the greatest back line in football history - Tassotti and Costacurta were superb players, and Baresi and Maldini will always be in ‘greatest defenders ever’ conversations. To think they had the likes of Panucci and Galli as back-ups in the side that won the 1994 European Cup - Jesus wept. I can’t separate them from Barcelona’s late ‘00s-early ‘10s side as the greatest club teams in history.