Jonas

Booked Joelinton for a shirt pull so thought that was the gage. Brighton had to have gotten away with the same thing 20x thereafter. Either without the same punishment or without even a foul. Seemed just pot luck which of their injury feigning on the ground he bought and which he waved on - probably based his lotto numbers on it or something. Helped make an already wretched game worse to the point it shouldn't have been possible to lose control so laboured was it but he managed it.

What would we expect of any replacement though. It would have to be better than challenging for the CL every season and two cup finals. Its a big ask. Its really stale right now, we know the reason why and if were forbidden from doing anything about it there is the arguement that a change in manager could freshen things up but with our squad I highly doubt it personally.

More absoutely classic pre cup final NUFC stuff. That's now, since getting to the last four finals - Played 20, Won 3 (unconvincingly)

Don't think its an exaggeration that 90% of the games I've seen against Brighton have been absolutely dire affairs.

So add Swansea. Take away Bradford and Wimbledon as it was the Intertoto. I make that 33 clubs have more European pedigree than them - so joint 34th with Coventry and Hull. Some going that.

Crushing competitiveness out of your own league for 40years with 1.5 other clubs was perfectly alright though.

Totally agree its a different era now. So this is probably redundant but historically if you left out league one their average since the 70s is probably lower still as their gates in league one would have been way better than what they got in the 80s. 15-16k was a good crowd for them then/ In the first six years of Premier League football they sold out (28-40k capacity) to not selling out 32 times to 82. 12 of the 32 were at 28k capacity. Someone posted that their 12th historically and that feels right.

Comes up smelling of roses every time. Not surprising with the amount of pruning he does.

In the last 40 plus years 26k is about their average attendance.

Trelford Mills the VAR official.

Our record since getting to the last four finals - Played 19, Won 3 (unconvincingly)

Must have got my wires crossed, was listing teams that had played in Europe, wasn't sure how many games. Don't know what the 4 is about.

St Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Raith, St Mirren definitely have, got to imagine Dundee too, did Gretna not? *forgot Stoke before, so 32 teams (at least - Sheffield United, Burnley not sure about) (not including Wimbledon and Bradford in the intertoto)

They'd become at least the 31st club from England to have played more games in Europe than Sunderland if that happened. Would love to know what the equivalent of that is in other countries for perspective....and frankly a laugh

I've seen us win there more than lose in the flesh. Wont be going to this so for that and some other equally meaningful reasons - a narrow defeat will have to do.