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Think Henderson would be a great signing for them: they've got a load of young players with little to no premier league experience so a guy like him would be brilliant around the squad, like Trips when he came to us. They've probably got plenty of good athletes to put around him to cover for his age. Plus it's nice to see people come back to their home town team to finish their careers. After all, the Dutch are relatively liberal, but even they probably wouldn't give him a free hand over the city's seagulls.

I dunno, but you should at least be allowed to drive in bus lanes.

I think when the time is right, you'll know what to do. But let me know what you decide and I'll delete my quote of you if necessary.

Pretty sure Noah's wife was called Joan so you're golden.

Just draw another tier of seats on top of the previous plan. 5 minute job.

Here you go: https://archive.ph/Lezqi https://archive.ph/ is the actual homepage link (the other already had a story there), just go to that link and copy and paste the page you want into the red box

And he's here... tonight!

By being the best team in Newcastle! [Only one team per city was allowed so a few teams above us in the league - seems to be Everton, Arenal and Spurs - weren't allowed to take part]. De fault. The two sweetest words in the English language!

Again, I don't want to be too demanding and set expectations too high, I just hope it'll be fully sandstone-cladded to fit the area, there'll be a moat around the stadium to increase biodiversity and because it would look sweet, and for there to be a massive statue of Alan Shearer teabagging Niall Quinn outside the front entrance, just for the lolz. Think a greyhound track's a good idea too.

We definitely do quite a lot of sit back in a low block to be fair. I think as well part of the way we press isn't the same either. It's often done to try and force teams into booting it long rather than to just win it up the pitch. Take Arsenal the other week, I could only see the first half, but we were going man for man but we were largely leaving Raya to it, so we weren't losing a marker closing the keeper down and no easy out ball in defence for him to pass short to. Liverpool in the cup final: squeeze them man to man and force the keeper to boot it long. Also, we're so reliant on transition that we don't really tend to have much dominance of territory IMO, which might make it hard to really put the squeeze on high up. A lot of those teams that got a lot of high turnovers also massively underperformed this year as well interestingly. Man U, Spurs, Arsenal and Man City all did worse than expected.

We all know the real hidden message.

Yeah the rule's interesting there because: "A goalkeeper is considered to be in control of the ball with the hand(s) when: the ball is between the hands or between the hand and any surface (e.g. ground, own body) or by touching it with any part of the hands or arms except if the ball rebounds from the goalkeeper or the goalkeeper has made a save" Does that count as a rebound from the goalkeeper, where it's bobbling between his hands as he gathers it? Would be interesting to get a rule clarification. If not then he can't be challenged there. Of course in this case, even if he could challenge it looks like a foul anyway cause he's stood on his hand as he goes in. That's at least a careless challenge in my book. Ultimately it's the person making the challenge's responsibility to do so safely. And it does make sense for the general principle of the rule to be to say you can't go in with your feet as a keeper's picking up the ball, given that hands can be quite fragile and they are useful to keepers. Anyway, Villa were apparently absolutely shit on the day and deserved to get beat. The 5 teams with the best goal difference over the season finished top 5. And if Man U's shit goalkeeper could just pick up a slow-moving ball properly, or if their shit strikers could just shoot properly, we wouldn't have all this hoo-ha.

Bring him home!

Eddie Howeșescu consolidating his power as soon as CL football came back. Andy Howe new sporting director & Mrs Howe new tea lady to complete the heel turn.

That @javipucela_ account he's citing appears to be a parody account, if my very rudimentary grasp of Spanish is correct: https://x.com/javipucela_