TheBrownBottle

I’ll stick to my original 1-1, though less confident of mebbes snatching a win now.

Is Starforth doing the same as Waugh? ‘Knock’ looks sarcastic. If he’s injured, he’s injured. What is it with NE football hacks?

Fuck knows. That man is too bland to play cryptic clues. Say what you see Chris, FFS

Remember when we didn’t have to worry about EU players needing clearance? Still though, blue passports all round, so job’s a good ‘un

It speaks to Man Utd’s sense of entitlement. I’ve missed hating those cunts - proper hating them. If we do manage to get back amongst the big boys, it’ll be nice to proper hate them again.

Mental thing is, prior to c.1996 they would’ve been correct. Chelsea to most people were London’s fourth club until the mid-‘90s. A reminder that footballing reputation isn’t static - it can change significantly over time.

Yep, they’d still be excellent ‘yo-yo’ club players

I haven’t seen a concrete date yet. Ashley signing those deals with Castore and Fun88 when the takeover was still stalled feels like a final ‘fuck you’.

It’s not about him wanting to move, it’s about the allegation that he thinks the club should just allow to go on loan to Man Utd for nowt. I’ve no issue at all with Dubravka wanting to leave (though I would have thought at his age 1st team football would be the priority). None whatsoever.

Yeah, fair enough. Point stands re Man Utd though. Cough up or fuck off

Christ, he’s phenomenal at statements like that. Do you think Edwards and his other media pals just hear the first part of the sentence - all the way up to ‘but’ - and everyone else hears the rest?

I’m going to go for a third draw in a row; 1-1 for me. I think we’re better than Wolves these days, but it’s still a tricky place to go. Also, I suspect Wood might start with Isak coming off the bench, which will make us a bit toothless at the start.

I’m not upset - I realise that this isn’t always the best medium to show what my actual emotions are! - I’m mildly annoyed by Dubravka, and frankly Man Utd can GTF. Is that the same club which wanted £15m to loan out Lingard for six months? They should stump up what we’re asking for or bugger off. And if Dubravka is happy warming benches, I understand the ones at SJP have heaters.

Man Utd are apparently baulking at paying a fee, but Dubravka wants to be let go anyway. Man Utd should pay a fee every time we end up with Darlow in nets as far as I’m concerned

Then Man Utd should pay a fee, and Dubravka should keep his yap shut until they do. We don’t owe him or Man Utd any favours.

So he’s earned the right to break his contract then? ‘Boo hoo I’m not good enough to get a start - let me go to Man Utd for nowt and sit on their bench?’ Bollocks to that

Dubravka can, quite frankly, get fucked on that one. I’d rather let him rot in the reserves than force a free transfer. His colours has well and truly been shown for all to see here.

I think ‘Vaux rage’ is what happens when Mackem fewm is exacerbated by eight pints of their local fizzy chemical pish

This is of course precisely what they should do - but they can’t; they are psychologically incapable of it. Everything is viewed through a B&W prism for them.

Yeah, Keegan had him here on trial

Yep. It also took me 5 mins online to prove that the BZG ‘takeover’ wasn’t by a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family. Edwards and his pals kept banging that drum for months. Edwards is an interesting man. He still goes on like a tabloid journalist - desperately trying to get ‘scoop’ on transfer news, instead of remembering he’s a broadsheet football writer. So he should do what Telegraph writer normally do - write longwinded opinion pieces bemoaning the lack of morality in football, in particularly when compared to rugby or cricket.

Jon Driscoll is an absolute nobody - I wouldn’t pay any more notice to him than any other call-in gobshite. No-one was buying Isak for €15m. He’s just being a contrarian dickhead. I can’t imagine anyone talking as if it is a toss-up between Wood and Isak as to who is better. Edit: in case some are confused, Driscoll isn’t a BBC pundit - he’s a tiresome twat who has a la liga podcast with a small following. He’s as authoritative as any other podcast gobshite.

Man City vs Chelsea puts one of them out anyway

Should be a canny tie that, assuming we’re taking this seriously - and we should

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