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Few years ago I was on a train and there's was a group sat a few seat behind me drinking and being loud and obnoxious as fuck. I did the same, headphones in to drown the cunts out. When I stood up to get off the train and realised they were a group of my mates and we were all going to the same gig.

He's a likeable circus act. No issue with him but I'm glad he's gone cos a serious football team has no place for that. One day he'll be contacted by Steve Wraith for a cult talk-in at the Corner House or something to fund the replacement of ex-council house windows whilst we're shafting Real Madrid, and I'm still denying the need for reading glasses. Can't fucking wait.

Apart from the whole incident being created from his error he just stands there for about two seconds too.

Fuck off

“ Hey Steve, Fancy managing a club in the Saudi League…” “ We’ll pay you £8 million a year and we won’t ask for any tactics…” “ Oh aye, no one here really cares, it’s purely a vanity project. You’ll have plenty of time to write new thrillers.” “ The club’s called Al- Shabob and it…”

He's not a bad keeper, but Darlow is noticeably worse than Dubravka. And Dubravka is noticeably worse than Pope.

Very special experience, I screamed myself hoarse at the end. It was a little disheartening to see us a) playing crap in the first half and b) missing so many first-teamers, but things improved a lot once Brighton took off much of their much-stronger starting XI and our kids grew into the game. Barnes looked quite good though he should've scored in the first half. I don't know if we were under explicit instructions to play out the back, but the regularity with which we screwed it up in the first half was alarming (understandable maybe considering Dummett and Lascelles were playing.) Murphy barely touched the ball in the first half, I wouldn't have known he was playing if I hadn't seen his name on the lineup, but he definitely made an impression in the second. The atmosphere was a little flat considering how non-partisan the crowd was, though our lads in the designated NUFC sections made noise all game long. Some of the biggest cheers were for Caicedo and Estupinan, who were supported by hordes of Ecuadorian fans in yellow, almost as if there were a third team playing. The worst part was having to listen to a typical yankee doodle dumbass sat next to me, purportedly an Arsenal fan, who knew everything and nothing about football. The stadium also played the Blaydon Races at the end as we were filtering out, which was a nice touch.

Had a mega weekend in London. Getting the train back was painful. Customer service was absolutely shocking on the train. Then some young lad was facetiming his lass loud as fuck. I put my earphones in after 30 minutes of leaving kings cross and so did our lass. Then This huge bastard got up and told him to stop being a selfish bastard and put his earphones in as he didn't want to hear his bird whine on about what a shit day she's had clearning out her knicker draw

We'll chuck you a banana when we require your input, numbnuts.

It'd be a bit harder to source bacon though.

You render fat don’t you? Might come back slimmer

I’d be more worried if there were 2/3 clubs out there with the financial muscle for the 100 mill fee and about half that in wages + the requirement for a top class central midfielder…. Real Madrid have just signed Bellingham and Guler, Barca Gundogan and Gonzalez. So that leaves our new friends in Saudi Arabia, you’d imagine that would be highly unlikely this summer….his agent has told him to go public to force the issue. I’d be very surprised if playing for NUFC regardless of what happens in the next three seasons is the extent of Bruno’s ambitions though…

When the club is posting this as his highlight then maybe he wasn’t all that good.

He’s now waiting on Gerrard to return the favour out in Saudi.

Surely the clubs moaning about us dealing with the. Pic will now moan we've been underpaid?

A bloke who posts any old shit purely to get followers and about 90% of his followers only do so to take the piss. The futility of modern life

I think this is a good summary. I didn't understand why we went for Dubravka when we did as Darlow was doing a good job. The outcome was a clear improvement. Then the same happened with Pope, a massive improvement.

Agree to disagree with both of you. He’s very poor, but what do I know about goalkeeping.

Cheeky bastard.…

Would have won 3, possibly 4-0 had they not played to the hype.

You forgot this one..... Please, no need for thanks at this difficult time.

Worst NUFC-related news in years. That LTA is staying, I mean.

Absolutely wish him well. That departure statement seemed really sincere and in my eyes he's a true friend of the club and was a bright spark in the dark times. Good luck ASM.

Similar to what I was saying earlier, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being sentimental as a fan. If you’re not you’re probably not much of a football fan. Good managers are ruthless though. I do think there’s other factors like FFP, for example. And I think it’s probably the case we got less than we might have just to avoid further scrutiny/hassle. But it’s also a position where we are well stocked and ASM is probably the least ‘Howe type of player’ we had in terms of wingers.

Agreed. We can disagree about his value on the pitch but the consensus seems to be he was a good lad off it. He was good value on social media foo, interacting with fans, taking the piss out of mackems etc. I’m sorry he’s leaving. I would have liked to see what he would have offered in the champions league

They could also be players that are on our list but are further down it.

Update later reads: "No further developments at this point"

He'd melt 🙂

And with most players

England won 4 out of 5 tosses, often bowled in the best conditions and Australia lost the services of the best off spinner in test cricket (who previously played in 100 consecutive tests). I think the luck has probably evened itself out tbh. Close to victory at Lord’s is overstating it too. It took an incredible innings by Stokes to get within 50 runs in a not particularly high scoring test.

Dubravka post injury return is << Pre-injury Dubravka.

Wouldn't be surprised if Dubravka went yet and Karius was out no.2

Gutted Bairstow didn’t get his hundred

Neither am I. Because I didn’t read it

You weak as piss bastards. That's actually a better time than the average Newcastle premier league game I watch here.

I'm a cynical old crapper, but that statement has actually got to me a bit.

Whatever we, as fans, think of him, there’s absolutely no way he’d be leaving for £30m if Howe really wanted to keep him (as opposed to just saying all right things about him).

Nah sorry Wykiki, he was outstanding at times, frustrating at others. He gave hope when we were absolutely shit and he was entertaining when everyone else was Bruced. He clearly loved being the big fish in the little pond but then the pond got bigger. Wish him well wherever he goes.

Surely if Gerrard had dusted himself down and rolled his sleeves up then things would have sorted themselves out at Villa?

Celebrate good times with Kuol & Garang I'll let myself out