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Well. All that fucking work with the spreadsheet and starting the dinner around 10 in the morning. No sooner had we sat down, everything done, first chance of the day to relax and enjoy the piping hot food... Her dad stands up, announces "You'll have to excuse me, I don't feel well...", walks as far as the kitchen door, sinks to his fucking knees, and there he stays slumped on the floor for the next half an hour. By the time anyone returns to the table, their dinner is clay cold and ruined. Within half an hour, he's fine and boring the balls off me until HALF SEVEN when they finally leave. So aye, fuck you for another year, Christmas, ya cunt!

I’m still finding this sort of carry on to be a very surreal experience.

I've just finished a grilled breakfast, clearing up, jumping in the shower then walking to freedom in the sun to go on an all day session with the lads. I feel like Nelson Mandela walking out of Robben Island prison.

I’ve been ill since November. Had the flu, caused sinusitis, got over that, go to my mams for xmas and my fucking brother gives me the flu again. Like the fucking warrior I am I still did the full dinner on my tod, had a number of large baileys and fell asleep at 3.45pm. Got a houseful coming round today (first xmas without my dad), I feel like after my heroics yesterday I should be entitled to fuck everyone off and watch the football in silence on my own

That changing room looks like a shit community centre

The bloke who got Bournemouth relegated is doing ok tbh.

We’ve won 8 of our last 9 in the league without him in the starting XI. That’s not because he isn’t starting but when the team has been performing so well it’s hard to make a case for him.

I woke up this morning with a stinking hangover and the realisation that the previous night I’d agreed to pay £350 for a signed Almiron shirt (in a frame), for charidee of course. I reckon I could flog it for £500 tonight after that goal.

Merry fucking Christmas

The day James Maddison decided to change his team and leave the stadium with the opponent's bus

Ffs! Faffing around trying to get an offer on Prime and missed the first goal. Then the firestick was stuttering so I rebooted it to clear the cache and I missed the second goal!

he was more into puppying than dogging

Our lass asked me to carve ours in the kitchen a few minutes before serving. I should have had a mask, gown and scalpel I didn’t know whether to put it back in the oven or call a vet. And she’s been winning at this for 35 years. Anyway a mainly vegy dinner it was.

How's about that for pate you Fox nonces

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but we are going to win the league

I'm certainly not an expert on excel but aren't those little boxes called cells? Should've made another one for 'FiL Keeling Over' or called it xKO or something?

Nobody could have predicted that bloke as an agent of chaos. An absolutely surreal intervention. They then had the cheek to take half the hard earned leftovers with them when they went.

Is that the Coutinho money still being spent?

I remember years ago Man Utd playing inter in the champions league. Zamorano, who was a top forward and could handle himself. Anyway he’s stepping backwards, in the opposition half facing his own goal waiting for a free kick to be played upfield. He backed into Jaap Stan and reacted like he’d just accidentally walked backwards into a brick wall. They looked eye to eye and Stam just gave a little smirk. Zamarano shit himself a bit. That boring story is my verbose way of saying Botman has a similar vibe about him. Has the lot and his being a big fucking unit is the icing on the cake

Wrong on literally EVERY point. Jesus CHRIST.

I've got the last laugh here like. My card has been declined retrospectively (it's out of date on that account) but for some reason this didn't happen until after I was on the stream, and once you're on it can't boot you off. So got the match for free. Up yours Bezos!

I think I enjoyed that thoroughly professional second half performance more than the first. We’re just so solid at the back and able to keep sides at arm’s length when we do get a lead.

That’s either a goodbye for Ritchie or a pisstaking sub at the level of when we brought Perch on at 3-0 up against Man Utd

Wondering how he’s going to get into the team in a few weeks

Once threw up in the Bushmills distilery with a stinking hangover

0-2 today we'll have enough to beat Lesta, with the added bonus to take 2nd spot in the league. I've just realised what I've just wrote. This time last season we were 19th on 11 points. It show how much the club have achieved in 12 months. Howay The Lads

The Mrs phone did that on Friday, she was off, I wasn’t, I never heard it because I have tinnitus until I was elbowed awake with “my alarms going off and my phones downstairs” and who was expected to get up and turn the bloody thing off, aye that’d be me because I “had to get up anyway”, aye an hour later ffs. I thought better of arguing tbh.

Merry Christmas everyone. As others have said, this place has been a massive help to me, especially this year. Got to admit I'm glad the day is drawing to a close, today has been massively challenging. Im not sure I'll ever be able to really enjoy Christmas again if Im honest. Obviously I get some vicarious pleasure from the kids but that's honestly about it. Got to see my MIL tomorrow which I'm dreading because, well never mind, but then at least I have a good excuse to leave early for the match on TV. Then I'm basically home and dry for the rest of the holidays just to relax. Ah well, fingers crossed 2023 will a time to reformat and enjoy things, rather than just get through life which is what it feels to me now. Sorry for the gloomy post but cheers anyway!

Were you Adam Johnson’s barrister?

Villa and Everton look like being reliably shite into 2023.

My dad and my eldest went to the Rayo Vallecano friendly and ASM played the full 90 and was decent apparently. I just don’t think Howe trusts him to be disciplined enough in the way he wants the team to press etc. I think a decent offer will see him leave.

I thought Wood did well. He’s a good penalty taker and I was pretty confident he’d tuck that away and it probably helped his confidence when he did. Obviously he’s limited and today is about as good as it gets from him but he played his part. The interview with him and Bruno suggests there’s a great team spirit too.

Everton last minute loss. Never gets old

+21 goal difference 😍

"You're just a shit Coloccini" has finally started to be sung. It's about time.

Started full of "festive optimism" only to be dealt "a harsh dose of Geordie realism". Quality commentary.

We are just bullying these plebs

laughing at the rest of the league having to deal with us after we’ve signed another 2/3 good players next month

That’s where planning will get you. Life is undiluted chaos, you cannot control it.

This place is big for a lot of people. Myself included. I get so many laughs and help from it and have done since Scots and Co. Set it up. Rents you've have a more challenging year than most kid. Hopefully us mongs you don't know have helped you out and in several years your young uns will bring their young uns round on crimbo day and you truly love it. But even if it's just a day of them enjoying it and you coming on here to take the piss and get by the cool. Have a good one and roll on us lifting a trophy x