TheBrownBottle

He’s a phenomenal footballer, he plays like he already knows what’s going to happen

Some performance that. Says it all that there’s a tiny bit of disappointment at a draw! Fair result on balance of play in fairness.

Nick Pope is class mind

It’s a definite booking. Never a red

This ref is fucking unreal. Thank Christ for VAR

Baals. Looking leggy now. Still a great performance

Whatever happens 2nd half, I fucking loved that first 45. Felt like a glimpse of the future.

Fukkin yereees

And stick that up yer bollocks Grealish

Always said Almiron was a class finisher …

Almiron can’t finish for toffee kind. Desperately need a RW

You’d best hope that Haaland isn’t all in proportion …

Scariest part of our bench is 12 months ago that was a sizeable chunk of our starting XI

Targett still has a dead leg, then. I think Fraser is out after a wedgie, too.

How much did they want for Harrison again?

I’d actually forgotten that football was meant to be fun!

Steve Bruce’s prematch comments upset the support again

The worst thing about games vs Man City these days is all the way up to their first goal there is an evil little bastard at the back of my mind telling me we’ll nick something. The difference this season is that we can brush any of these reverses off, as there is a positive vibe around the club again. Hope is a good thing, even when it tricks your brain into thinking ‘today’s the day’

Chelsea falling to bits

It was a hell of a finish like

Christ that was shite by Chelsea

While a betting person would back Man City to win, there’s always a chance of a positive result for us. City won three-quarters of their league games last year, which is undeniably impressive - but of course that does mean even a side as superb as theirs drops points 1 in every 4 games. Maybe we’ll be that 1 in 4. HWTL

I reckon we just let Howe get on with doing exactly what he’s been doing with Joelinton. Seems to have worked so far. I’m unconvinced the Twitter expert’s view that this is the ‘only way to get a result’ holds water. I’ll reckon the side and tactics Eddie selects are more liable to get a result.

FTFY

‘Take, for example, the popular Sunderland online message board that set up a forum on 24 June titled: NUFC/Sportswashing – Summer 2022. Since its creation, it has been filled with around 10,000 posts – in less than two months. That’s around 156 posts per day.’ Now there’s proper journalism for you - cite the number of comments on RTG … no further comment needed