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Two points from nine in the Premier League. A narrow victory over L2 opposition in the cup. Genuinely one of the worst match thread starters we've ever had. This can never be allowed to happen again.

What do you get when you cross a cabbage with a lettuce? Dr. Gloom.

An arrogant, out of touch, rapidly decaying lettuce of a thread starter. And Gloom isn’t much better

My mam and my sister have been totally radicalised by social media. I have to not get into certain conversations with them because it makes me hate them. I go on dog walks with my dad and he'll come out with completely batty shit about the World Economic Forum or how the government is trying to force pensioners off the road because of net zero. He likes to talk about fifteen minute cities and how they're already setting them up. My stepmam accidentally let slip that they had the covid horse tranquiliser in the house cos my dad had got some just in case (neither of them is vaccinated). It's fucking embarrassing to listen to. I think there's an element of personal responsibility here to pull yourself back from the brink on this stuff. If I was a young man, Andrew Tate and his brother being sex traffickers might have been that moment for me.

Tbh the centre forward situation is ridiculous, has been for quite a while now and is the biggest single issue this season imo.

Have RTG confirmed that Wearside Jack was, in fact, a Durham mag yet?

That's awful about your mate, and especially for his son. Telegram is the home of Russian propaganda. It's where most of this shit gets startedm That local DJ dying after she got the vaccine was enough to convince my sister that it was more dangerous than the virus. I was at my mam's last week and mentioned the lad who died in the GNR. "Yeah I wondered if it was the vaccine" came the response. What really blows my mind with my mam and sister is the amount of basic shit I get a phone call for. Working out some fairly basic maths. They can't find this or that show on IPTV. My nephew needs help with a presentation for a job interview. My niece needs help with her maths homework. And yet their knowledge about Brexit and its impact on trade, or the effect of the Covid vaccine on cardiac death in young men is unimpeachable.

Yet I bet even he wouldn’t have attempted that overtaking move.

My cunt of a stepfather was interviewed twice by the Ripper squad, he had a fairly striking resemblance to Sutcliffe, was a trucker at the time, and had a north east accent which, thanks to the mackem, made him a prime suspect. I won’t pretend that I wasn’t gutted when it turned out he wasn’t the Ripper, and therefore wouldn’t be fucking off for a few more years at least.

Turns out Gloomy’s not the Messiah

Gemmill praying Meenzer starts the match thread for the Chelsea game. Typical flat track bully

Both unpopular and wrong.

He's got a canny shot on him but I don't think that would be allowed even if he managed it.

almost certainly. probably shagged seagulls as well.

Never Forget

I’m similar with the de facto in laws / brother in law. The latter was sending my lass covid conspiracy shit when she was working in both the RVI on an actual covid ward, then later when she was working back on her normal ward during lockdown. He’s similarly pig ignorant about most things yet an expert on stuff like the effects of the vaccine to Brexit. All ‘big truths’ learnt via social media. My parents less so. Although my mam is more susceptible to that stuff than my dad. In the latter case he’s never been into Facebook (never even had an account) and his being exposed to fake news amounts to his sitting watching Sky Sports News when he’s bored. Which leads me to another thing. It’s always the kids who get tarred with brush but that older generation, 70+ are addicted to all that troll-farm driven bollocks on social media.

I'll say this for my mam though. If she'd caught me watching Andrew Tate videos as a teenager or spouting some of his lines about women, I'd have been told "if I ever hear anything like that come out of your mouth again, I'll take the side of your face off*", and that would have been that. *take the side of your face off was a particular favourite of hers.

I worked with an old lad who was interviewed too. Driving back from the boozer pissed got stopped at road blocks. They weren't bothered then he was pissed more that he had a north east accent 😂

I was being facetious but the people you’re talking about have been lost because social media and the internet in general is a ‘wild west’. And one where they’re sold lies because it’s in the interests of foreign powers who want to see the end of democracy as we know it. I see the likes of Andrew Tate as a result of that rather than its driver. It’s obviously not quite as simple as certain parties driving everything. But I really don’t know how you provide a ‘truthful’ alternative from a left wing perspective to people who despise women because they’re abhorrent to women

What’s happened is he has fallen off the gravy train, and realised how hard life is for normal people in this county. Unlucky cunt chops, sucks doesn’t it.

When exactly were the days when being an ex-MP was desired? Obviously there’s jobs for the boys for the old school tie lot like Gove and Osbourne. Getting editor roles where they’re just a name with others going their work. That cunt is getting exactly what he deserves as he’d have sneered at anyone in the same boat a few months ago.

Starting from the granny in her Sunday best directly behind Mirandinha , she’s Dot Swinburn, the three lasses to her left are her daughters Tracey, Sharon and Susan, and at the end is her ex, Bob Swinburn. Dot is there with her new squeeze, Micky Lamb,to her right, a Benwell lothario with a taste for oak-aged minge. They won a family ticket on the Pools and Bob is there under duress. “ They’re MY daughters, not that smarmy little prick floor manager’s from Parrishes!” Gemmill’s older brother is stood next to them.

I saw the cunt … when he was skidding into the rear section of my car😆… he was going too fast and he hadn’t seen me creep out… anyway, am not taking lessons from Ford drivers on a fucking thing 😀🖕🏼

Pleased to hear everyone's OK and hope you're alright PL, and can get the car sorted without any drama. Lads, I think it might be time to get granddad off the road.

Nice to see no overreactions anyway

Howe isn't being backed, (not by the owners, by the psr/ffp fix). I'd love to see him with a bit of genuine competition where it counts. If he falls short in those circumstances than it's thanks for everything and we'll move on. But at the minute, he's probably as frustrated as us.

In a normal world we'd have strengthened but we're being throttled by a league who had no problems with an owner throttling us with deals that weren't fair or market value. Funny that.

Punctuation aside, that's a

Why was it off?

Just the striker really would have made a massive difference. Wilson is finished and Isak is streaky and injury prone. I also think our formation needs to be re-thought. It worked well when we had prime Trippier, purple Almiron and LB/CB BDB. Isak, Gordon, Murphy, Almiron are all lightweight. We need someone more powerful up front with them to make space for them. Barnes is much more consistent than Gordon, though it's a bit ridiculous that we bought him with our PSR constraints as clearly they're both best playing wide on the left.

Played 5, 10 points, 6th in the table when Gloom took over. Played 8, 12 points, 8th in the table when he leaves. The love child of Steve Bruce and Liz Truss.

I haven't started any threads and DON'T YOU DARE step to me like this.

We let Everton off the hook and we've done it to Brighton in the first half. Scoring getting a bit of a concern.

Isak had to fucking score that one on one mind.

Someone will be devastated

Kudus isn't the cat kicker you racist bastard.

There was this saturday morning football thing on Sky Sports earlier. A young version of Jack Colback with some Chelsea CUNT and a Bin Dipping CUNT. Jack Colback's bairn said Andy Robertson was a better LB than Ashley Cole. WTAF!

Sorry to hear about your mate @Monkeys Fist If I was to say generally most on here were born between the mid 60s and the mid 80s the predominant voices in society we heard were from 4 tv channels and half a dozen tabloids. Maybe your favourite bands had influence. The proliferation of bad actors enabled by THE FUCKING INTERNET nowadays has completely changed how a huge amount of people understand the world and how it works. Propagandists are now beamed straight into our homes whereas before you had to physically leave to house to buy Rupert fuckin Murdoch’s bullshit. That’s why everyone’s parents think Farage has a point if you as me

Sorry to hear that and my heart goes out to his son. My Mam doesn't give a fuck about anything as she's not on social media and doesn't really take much notice of the newspapers. My dad unfortunately has been reading the daily mail since I moved out after normally reading the mirror and it shows a bit. He occasionally used to listen to Farage on a radio show he did and sometimes watches GB news. He's not full on wacko but he is quick to believe certain stuff, not vaccines more immigrants stuff. I usually visit on a Sunday so it's usually sport on but if it's during the week it's either sky or GB news but lately more the latter. I just walk in and turn it off or over. The in-laws, whenever I drop in, has GB news on permanently, the MiL doesn't give a fuck really despite being a bit racist, the FiL is the driver for it being on, I always grab the remote control when I go in and turn it right down saying I can't hear the conversation. 100% it's the older generation being radicalised and not just the boomer generation.

Eh? You either bench him or start him. If you start him you finish him on the bench (probably) then if you bench him you don’t start him. Yes, I am bored

In my case that and I’ll croon ya (crown you) which in practice was an unexpected slap to the top of the head using the left hand due to the added effect of her wedding ring.

Who was this person when you were young though? Why does this generation of young men need this? I didn't have anything like that when I was a kid. I had parents and family and a basic grasp of what was a cunty way of looking at the world. Young men in previous generations would have gathered in the street to chuck bricks at the likes of Andrew Tate when he turned up in their town to spew his nonsense. Is this entirely social media driven? Is that why we need to find someone on the left that can deliver a message that these kids can believe in.

Dont think I’ll be back. Called into the local greggs after a meal out to get a little sweet treat for back at the hotel, only to be told “WE DONT STOCK PEACH MELBAS”. Eh!!!

Dye your hair green mate, that'll show the world you aren't bothered.

We win and go on to win the Premier League to complete the double of winning the league and getting relegated in the same season.