TheBrownBottle

KSA literally does not have a codified penal system. The police and the judiciary get to decide if something is a ‘crime’, and how that ‘crime’ should be punished. And of course it’s a dictatorship, so you’re not getting a vote to change it. I personally find pampered people in the west desperately trying to make equivalences tiresome. I can’t imagine a system more open to human rights abuses than that in KSA.

The first European Cup winners I can definitely remember are Porto in 1987. Steaua Bucharest won it the year before. PSV won it a year later, Red Star won it four years later, Marseille won it six years later. That’s the strongest argument I can give that the ‘Champions League’ has damaged European club football.

Honestly, if the US Treasury buys us then it is relevant. But until they do, it is whatabouttery

Boooo! Hiss!

Does SJP still suffer from the 'giant European Cup pitchside advertising' that it used to all those years ago? We had reduced capacity in the CL games as the first row or so of the East Stand, Leazes & Gallowgate had their view blocked by giant gaudy adverstisements

Get them educated

Apart from Joseph Swan inventing the incandescent light bulb - as if Caicedo would have developed the same way under Bruce …

Get. Their. Attention.

‘I thought ASM would fetch £30m at least’. I mean, there’s your problem. He didn’t.

Yep, that’s just the ticket. Getting out of it would mean getting results in those games - and getting knocked out would still have seen us play the biggest names in football

I’ll admit I can rant about this, but the notion of genuine competition has been gnawed away at since the early ‘90s. It’s probably not a coincidence that the PL breakaway and UEFA’s restructuring of the European Cup into the ‘Champions League’ occurred in 1992. I still call it the European Cup, tbh. ‘Premier League’ doesn’t exactly settle well with me either. I’m a curmudgeonly bastard.

Doesn’t it feel really weird being a week away from the end of the window, knowing that the club’s business is basically done and we’re all happy with what has been done? I quite like this - I forgot how long it’s been since I’ve been able to think that. The last time I could, I was a young man - now I’m middle aged. Christ.

I’m glad to hear it haha

NUFC360 has clearly had its Ratner’s moment - I almost feel sorry for them in that they’re not close to the worst on NUFC twitter from what I’ve seen. Joelinton offering Steve Wraith to meet him the SJP car park, or Isak calling Burnsey a cunt, would have been far more satisfying.

We played Inter & Feyenoord in the Fairs Cup. Feyenoord when we won it, Inter a year or so later (beat them too).

Robson and that side were rightly criticised that season - though booing should only ever be heard at a pantomime. Context is always important - NUFC were relatively richer as a club then than they now, we won only two away games that season (the last of those at Fulham in late October!) and while we finished 5th, if the season had ran even for another round of games we’d have likely finished 8th.

There was one of them there last time - he was quite prominent as he was next to the away end trying to goad us. I’m delighted that he was there that night

My ideal pot would be three big hitters, but one thing I’m really hoping for is that we pull out three teams we’ve never played competitively before. There’s quite a few teams we’ve drawn twice before in Europe (Inter, Barca, Feyenoord - Kiev got knocked out unqualifying course). We’ve played Porto, Benfica, Antwerp, Rangers before. I wouldn’t be complaining about any of them being in our group, but I like seeing NUFC tick off new European clubs.

The Mexican waves will live in the memory for me. They were great crack

9/10 window for me. We knew about the budget constraints and the club has brought in talent in key positions. Of course, like others it would have been great to see a couple of more (RW & RCB) but I do think that’s FFP not will in action there. 10/10 window if we can offload Fraser.

I think Geordie Dazzler nailed it above tbh. I’ve been to hundreds of NUFC matches and never uttered anything but supportive noises during a game. I hate moaning and whining and booing. And social media feels like an extension of that. After many of those games though, I have moaned and whined and criticised with my mates in the pub - who did likewise. I didn’t think twice because it couldn’t impact the players - unless of course they were in the Three Bulls on the sauce at 5pm. In which case, they deserved the dressing down for their lack of professionalism

Yeah, I don’t doubt it’s the right approach. I usually feel less stressed when trying to do that (being venomous isn’t usually all that cathartic). I tend to get critical when I know a good player is capable of more than a lesser player playing at their maximum - but I also forget that these blokes are human beings, and maintaining perfection is usually reserved for a handful of players on the planet. Happily, I don’t think anyone on here has posted owt as obnoxious as that NUFC360 post

I always found that oddball behaviour (unless it’s a kid doing it).

It is worth re-reading the Man City thread itself. Some of those on a high horse on this one were perfectly happy to criticise individual players on that thread. Happily I don't think Miggy can read English, so we're probably safe from an angry reply on here from Almiron.

Yep - bunch of daft lads who clearly forgot the audience that twitter brings. It is why discussing football generally on twitter isn't a good idea - it is a completely open forum, and things can go viral. Mind, if the players are following supporter accounts, then they've been daft themselves.