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And if you’re wondering how we managed to pull off the result, Exile has the answer:

imagine turning up for your work photo like that.

Thanks chaps. Hats off to PaddockLad for this dismissive, passive-aggressive use of brackets.

Ashworth watching our summer transfer window

Man United's problem is coaching, not personnel. They look as fucking clueless as they did the past two seasons. They're all over the place. Bringing different players in won't help.

I was searching through the match thread wondering what the fuck I had done with this post.

These cunts have played well once in 2024 and it robbed us of a place in Europe.

If they won the championship and we won the carabao Cup they'd be fucking devastated like. There would be more threads on us than them, with them frantically deleting or parsnipping them.

Stop giving the ball away you useless fucks

Yeah… don’t mention it Hendrix

What's going on at The Guardian.

Definitely not the hottest it’s ever been there, mind.

A young Orca is swimming with his dad and says ” Where did I come from Dad?” Pa Orca says ” Well son, you came out of my penis and met one of your mother’s eggs, then grew in to you her belly.” Kid O is impressed and says “ Wow, thanks Dad!” Pa says “ You’re whale cum, son, you’re whale cum”

😂😂😂 loving ETH losing the plot in his post match interview

This is unbelievable ! A scouser with a job !!!!

1) They’re Man Utd 2) They won the FA Cup 3) See point 1

Technicality I know but how would bribery have won that game? If anything I don't think they could have complained if we'd got a pen for that tackle on Isak.

Imagine

We're back to them thinking they're a mid table Premier league club again. It's.... We could knock them out of the cup to put them right if they hung around long enough.

Mackems. They're top of their league but the fewm on SMB is off the scale. Does anyone even know what ti's means from the frothing toss pot? All the usual shit about the teams we have played all being shite etc. And Brown bags passing hands. And lastly, the fact we have kept our blue-chip players is actually evidence of corruption. And Spurs are shite, of course (someone slip in genocide related joke).

The thing with the Stone Roses that's truly mad is how comically tone deaf Ian Brown is. It's like he's fucking joking. Like he's barely making it on the actual albums, and then you see them live and he sings the whole song off-key. That is hard to do even as a joke.

He's a duck egg, a bull's clem. I'd rather have a pint with the knight.

Of course, I recognised Simon Price’s voice when he came on there briefly. I think Kulkarni pretty much nails it there for me. I don’t want to go on too much about it, because people like what they like. Nah, fuck it, I will bang in about it. I only ever actually owned Definitely Maybe. And after a while, I only liked Columbia, but I genuinely couldn’t care if I ever heard that again. None of their music has aged particularly well imo and it was bland as fuck in the first place. I think I have the biggest problem with Noel, because he’s a very influential fella, thanks to the army of fuckwits who seem to think everything he says is the absolute gospel and he’s the epitome of good taste. He’s definitely a racist. And more dangerously so than more overt racism, in the way that clip describes. With his ideas of what defines ‘proper music’ (and more so in terms of what doesn’t), what it means to be working class and so on. He’s a reactionary. He’s clever enough to know exactly what’s he’s doing as well. And the media reaction too, man. It’s vomit inducing. I was at the funeral of a great lad on Friday. Gone way too soon. And some lass who used to live in the same street as me and the deceased got chatting to me at the wake. We’re both roughly the same age. She asked if I was going to be in the queue for Oasis tickets. She thought I was taking the piss when I said no because I don’t really like them. Like she was genuinely amazed / couldn’t get her head round it. It’s fucking weird, man. They’re not even shit. They’re much worse than that, they’re one of the most boring acts of all time.

Give the lad a break- his lookalike work has dried up since 2019

They went down a bomb though

I’m happy we kept what we had. I am disappointed we didn’t sign new. If we weren’t able to go big on first team players, we should have spent some money on young lads who could come big in the future. I think this is a legacy of older players nobody wants to buy from us in the end. We have quite a “big” squad in numbers. It’s been a weird one, ultimately I have to trust the management of the club. The improvement we have had in 3 years has been mental. We demand a club that tries? I think we have tried within our boundaries and it hasn’t worked for whatever reason. Win tomorrow and it’s been a great start to the season imo.

Mate he is fucking mint and as you know, we agree about terriers. He's a Cairn, our other two were a Westie and Scottie which both are originally from the Cairn breed (Westies are the white ones they use to destroy as they weren't breed standard and Scotties are Cairns/Wire coat Fox Terrier), so lots of similarities but also different. He's crazy, ridiculously intelligent and an absolute card, all rolled into one. Took him 5 minutes to work out the dog door, he slept from 2000 to 0430 which is unheard of for a puppy and has been a loony all morning running around. Success, we made it through the first night.

Also those 6 bags of money the idiot posted would never actually fit inside an envelope.

That's the sbsolute truth I did some courier work for a couple of months at the start of the year and listened to it all day every day while driving. It was fucking glorious

If you ignore the illiteracy from ‘Lee a’, that first line of theirs sums their fanbase up. The last time I watched them play was when they played against us.

Aye, I mean they also think they're going to win that league. But two things spoil it for them. One, they won't. And tow, that nagging doubt we may do well. We probably won't either like.

Four wins out of four, they should be loving life atm. Should.

He’s an ex Melody Maker journalist who did the TOTP podcast (which that’s from). He died quite suddenly about a year or so ago. Not saying that to make you feel bad just you might have remembered SpongeBob and PaddockLad mentioning it at the time. He’s from Coventry so has that 2Tone Records sound embedded as part of his musical influences. His parents were immigrants from India. Which doesn’t mean he’s right or gets to define what is racist, but it’s a different perspective certainly to that of a white person.

A blogger nerd I follow (who's writing about every UK number 1 single and so will shortly be tackling "The Importance Of Being Idle") wrote this yesterday and I thought it was quite decent: __ When I heard the news Oasis were reuniting, my first thought was, “thank God, an angle on the ‘Idle’ entry”. It’s not impossible that this might even end up only being their penultimate Number 1. It would be a surefire news story if Wonderwall finally got there, the charts’ existence these days in the eyes of the media being a way to retcon quirks of the 20th Century or update long-standing records. Like - I suspect - a lot of people, the fact of Oasis’ non-existence didn’t seem particularly vivid to me anyway. Both Gallaghers were alive and vocal and making music, and music that seemed like it could have happily come out under the Oasis brand name. There is a parlour-game-stroke-cottage-industry of using solo work to make post-split Beatles albums, complete with baroque alternative histories of what the Fabs got up to as a working band in the early 70s. A similar exercise for Oasis would have been trivially easy. I wonder if anyone bothered. The obvious point to make about this alternative history is that at no point would it have involved the Oasis people are joining 500,000 strong online queues about. The Oasis that are returning and the Oasis that split up are two very different animals: nobody is paying half a grand because they are desperate to hear songs from Don’t Believe The Truth, and obviously Noel and Liam know that too. Entertainment is multiversal nowadays, and the Oasis people are paying for split up in 1997 and rejoin us from Earth-B to play only the bangers. The guarded voices of dissent on Reunification Day came from people who remembered the Oasis of the 00s rather than the Oasis of the mid-90s. Both in practical terms - 00s Oasis were notoriously inconsistent live - and because the 00s band spent half their time insisting they were the 90s band in a state of perpetual, album by album reformation. Every record, it seemed, Noel would admit that the last one was shite but this one is the Oasis people wanted. The reunion is a way to finally put that decade to bed, pull out a couple of tracks tops from the later records - “Stop Crying Your Heart Out” seems big on streaming - and play the songs that made them famous. Bringing up how mediocre they were for how long feels beside the point. Though on a blog like Popular, long tails of underachievement have a habit of wagging. And are there any other artists with 14 year careers whose public would expect them to stick almost entirely to the first 4? And yet. For all the carping I can muster, it’s impossible to deny the fact that the reunion has uncovered a huge degree of goodwill and excitement about this band. So what’s going on? One of the noticeable parts of the response for me has been veteran journalists getting excited about the fact that young people like Oasis too. It is always interesting who finds an audience among people in their teens and early 20s, and it’s not always who you might expect. But I feel like it’s being mentioned as a kind of “gotcha” to the Oasis haters - look! They’ve stood the test of time! It’s an approach I’d respect if it came from people who showed the slightest interest in any other music ‘Gen Z’ likes, rather than using young listeners as a way to validate nostalgia. But let’s take it seriously. What do younger listeners like about Oasis? What is the band giving them that they aren’t getting elsewhere? It’s unclear what proportion of their 27 million Spotify listeners are under, say, 40, but Spotify stats still give a reasonable picture of what modern audiences (however old they are) value about Oasis. And the answer is pretty clear: hug rock. The big, lighters aloft, stadium rock ballads. Wonderwall. Don’t Look Back In Anger. Stop Crying Your Heart Out. Stand By Me. Live Forever. Champagne Supernova. The only “rocker” that tops 100m streams is “Supersonic”. Oasis are a band best loved for their mid-tempo scarf-wavers. To which you might say, duh. But it’s true, I think, that this particular kind of heart-on-sleeve blokey pop is genuinely not well served by current bands. Sheeran does it a bit. Coldplay when they’re not fannying around. We’ve seen a kind of half-hearted revival of it from Benson Boone this year. But - “Hey Jude” aside - Oasis probably are the hug rock GOATs, and the fact I dislike a lot of those songs speaks to my squeamishness at the genre rather than the band’s facility with it. But if that’s what people want from Oasis, it’s worth thinking about what they don’t want, as over the next six to nine months all sorts of claims are going to be made about the meaning of the Oasis revival. I don’t think it means people are longing for the 90s, or Britpop, or rock in anything beyond its most capacious stadium sense. I don’t think the Oasis reunion presages the return of “the guitar” to prominence, and I certainly don’t think the early heat and venom of the band are on people’s minds. I even doubt that the idea of “rock stars” and the Gallaghers themselves are much of the appeal - it’s not like they’ve been reclusive, or refrained from public sniping. Some of those things might find new appeal in the slipstream of the reunion, but I think there’s one thing Oasis did that people loved and don’t have easy access to, and it’s a thing huge open air gigs are particularly responsive to. Good luck to them.

He’s just a bit highly strung this morning.

I've got a mate, my age, and I'm 100% not exaggerating when I tell you that ALL he listens to is Oasis, Liam, Noel, and the Stone Roses. And that's been the case for 30 years.

Kid at work, he’s probably mid-20s, couldn’t fathom how I wasn’t a massive Oasis fan. Like, genuinely baffled that I didn’t think they were Britain’s greatest ever band. Through the day, I was asking him his general opinions on other bands and, out of about 25/30 bands from the Stones onwards, he’d only listened to The Jam and Catfish and the Bottlemen If you love Oasis then fair enough but at least try and expand your tastes a little bit.

The Prodigy have just announced a tour here later in the year, so maybe not, he might have got the real gig. As Alex said though, they are correct in their assessment of Oasis.

Careful chaps, something’s struck a chord.

he really blew that pun

I hope he gets crushed trying to lift up four levels of bottles of tonic. Just so he could get the last two bottles of diet tonic on the bottom.

I see Haaland has given up on football to get the benefits of a simpler life labouring using a pneumatic drill?

A Yorkshireman once said. Ow much, 20p, fuck off.

I've not read most of the thread from last night as I've been out on't push iron. So only seen a few snippets. The clickbait headlines by cunts like Chicken Nonce and Hope are just that and I am not paying any attention to them. I am as disappointed as any fan, we all want the excitement of a big name coming in and all clubs, not just ours needs fresh blood in to keep the team competitive. That's failed somewhat, but to pin point it onto Mitchell or Howe or Eales without any fucking insider knowledge is mad. Someone said, it's the first disappointing window we have had under the new ownership and tbh, I am not shitting me kegs. We have kept our big names, we have kept Eddie. Like I said last night we have a new team in Mitchel etc and that's going to take time for bonds to be made etc. Other teams around us last season bought big and we had one of the worse injury crisis I have seen at the club, whilst playing CL football and we still finished 7th above Man Utd. AND. If it wasn't for Man Utd winning the FA Cup we would have had Europe this season! So let's all take a deep breathe and look forward to the next few months. I still have trust in Eddie and the club.