TheBrownBottle

Aye, that's not an unreasonable assumption! If they'd followed what they did in '74 and '76, they'd have been asking to see coupons from the programmes from the earlier rounds ...

Is he a Christian? Funny, he never mentions it

That’s how it worked in ‘98 and ‘99. I got a ticket for ‘98 as I’d went to the home games, but rejected in ‘99 as I didn’t - despite going to more than a dozen away games that year. edit: I still went in ‘99. Got one through a mate of a mate. It was pricey though.

Soton with the home leg second is about as favourable as you’re gonna get. Nothing is guaranteed, but what an opportunity now Proper buzzing

Southampton all over these at the moment. Man City have shitloads of quality though

and there was me thinking that Barry in the Box and the Flashing Blade himself were the worst

I bet you didn't think you'd find someone quoting a three year old comment of yours when you logged in!

It's also not what 'sportswashing' is. Saying that the team played well and going to win trophies, city united etc - that's not sportswashing. If it was followed up with 'Saudi Arabia is fantastic, isn't MBS marvelous, they should stop saying nasty things about such a great man' they might have a point. They're desperate to make everything sportswashing, but the fact that they don't understand what it is stands as further proof that it is all a pathetic attempt to pretend that every win has an asterisk. It doesn't, lads and lasses, no matter how desperate you are for it

Bring back Neville and put the big belt on him Vinnie Mac - might as well make the most of the inevitable big SJP PPV

My favorite RTG on the match thread: 'They are long overdue a Wembley appearance tbf. Given the amount of times we’ve been since they last got there.' They really have got shit for brains, haven't they? They've got one proper fucking Wembley appearance since we last did. The fact that the soppy twats kept playing in Third Division playoff finals and in that pizza trophy thing they have in the bottom two tiers should bring a sense of fucking embarrassment, not pride. Being in those represents failure, you dopey gets

They all seem to really care and all seem really anxious that we might win it. But I thought anything we win would now have an asterisk, and therefore who cares if we win it? It's almost as if the asterisk thing isn't real

I'll admit I can't remember that one - but I'm sure I remember an (unofficial) Cup Final one. Toon Army Stomp or something? edit: had a search; isn't youtube good? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0Vj3x07Ic

Haha 'Somebody Stole My Wife' is stuck in my brain forever. I remember it being on pulling into Blackburn - the whole bus jumping and shouting YEEEHA after every repeat of the chorus. The locals must have thought we were losing it

Being wired from the match and having nowt to do on my lunch break, I started reading some of the old Joelinton comments. This one is a peach - how unnervingly perceptive is this? As in every line of it. I'm convinced Howe must have used this in his famous interview presentation

Glad to hear he's going again! And yep, no doubt we sat on one of those away coaches together at some point and 'enjoying' Mungo Jerry being played on the tape deck over and over while being nice and tipsy ...

Fuck me that's great Also, I can breathe easy when he's in nets. The difference between him and Dubravka is night and day - you can see how much more composed a back line is with him behind it. Yes, obviously Schar, Trippier and BDB are better than Manquillo, Lewis and Lascelles - but I don't think we lose to Sheff Wed with Pope in goal

These types have been around for as long as punters have paid to watch football. Taking their daily stresses out on football. You do get the odd one who is funny with it, but they're a distinct minority - the rest are just whinging bastards

Yeah, I normally get irritated by Jason Cundy, but that made me laugh like. 'Say congratulations Newcastle and then you can talk about your own team'. Radio phone-ins normally attract the worst type of knaa-nowt pub bore, but he was that on steroids. Another boring fucker comparing football to rugby. 'They should just treat the players while play goes on elsewhere on the pitch, like rugby'. The man was an absolute cretin

Total oddball. I normally avoid talkSHITE like the plague, but put in on this morning after the game as wanted to breathe as much of the reaction in as possible. The bloke was on something.

Used to love going with Toon Travel to away games. Wasn't Keith banned from games for a bit? I heard he'd stopped going entirely after that

That caller was just fucking weird. 'They only beat our reserves tonight'. Hammered your first team a few weeks ago too, you stupid cunt It is 68 years, of course. It's his attempt at humour

Anyone but Citeh in the SF. I feel like if we’re going to beat them, it’ll be in a single game.

That’ll dee for me

YEEEES WHAT A BEAUT

Christ, watching BDB score felt like scoring myself. Love the big lad