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Was good today, tackles flying in and a bellend of a referee definitely helped.

Manure scrape a 1 0 win - keep ETH in a job.

Top player this lad, pace, energy, goals, great attitude. Comes across as a decent bloke also.

https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/latest-news/key-information-for-newcastle-united-fans-travelling-to-dortmund/

What has happened has happened, the only thing that matters is the future, yeah he has done wrong, that's in the past, the club are going to support the lad as that is the sensible option. As for Milan if we can sue them then great.

Where in Australia ya from?

This is more like it.

Buzzing already, just got to get the inconvenience of work out of the way, in the pre-match boozer for 5pm hopefully, HWTL.

I wasn't at SJP yesterday as I'm out the area at the moment, but that video of the scenes after the match with tonali is spine tingling, the fans supporting him the way they did can only help. Forgiveness and warmth is always the best way.

Spot on. Could be the making of the lad as a Newcastle player.

Really feel that in this situation tonali couldn't have a better boss than Eddie Howe. Hopefully the support he gets now will leave an impression on him. I hope we all get behind him if he appears on Saturday. Who knows in the future tonali and us supporters may look back on this period now, and see it as a catalyst to tonali becoming a fantastic player for Newcastle. HWTL.

Got himself a canny friend in Fagioli has Sandro... completely hoyed him under the bus, still Tonali only got himself to blame.

"He has to be terminated." I assume you mean his contract (as opposed to him personally).

I can trump you here mind - I'm still a fucking idiot at 52

https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/latest-news/club-statement-sandro-tonali/ Apologies if already posted.

https://football-italia.net/tonali-admits-he-gambled-on-milan-games-report/ Article above says he bet on Milan games but only those games where he was not eligible to play. Whether that makes a difference to the ban. Who knows. Whether the article is factual - again who knows.

Doesn't say if Fagioli had been betting on football or not, just that he used an illegal platform, so cannot really deduce anything from it I guess.

I assume you are not referring to a roulette wheel

Aye good point. As you said earlier - it might not be as bad as some of the media are portraying. Fingers crossed.

Hopefully better than Tonali's private life.

Hopefully it shouldn't be, but as a group they are probably going to be talking about little else when they get back after the break. Like if somebody at work shags the boss's wife - people gossip and talk about it, rather than focusing. Human nature. Hopefully it won't be an issue though. In terms of Eddie - It will get brought up in press conferences - he's pretty good at flat batting things, but it'll no doubt piss him off.

2 brilliant years post takeover and now this. Eddie got a big job to keep the players focused and not let this be a distraction.

Jesus H christ... horrific.

Makes you wonder if he knew he had this hanging over him, given his debut where he looked superb, his form and demeanour since then have been not so good.