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Was a really nice gig. Absolutely loads of toon shirts, undoubtedly. Zero chants of toon toon etc. He played his stuff, I cried during " Spit of you", like I always do. During the encore of " Hypersonic missiles*" he said sing so even Sunderland can hear you, the sportwashed cunt. Great evening all round, kind of proud this kid grew up 2 miles from me. 9/10. * Those daft mackem twats always go on about how hypersonic missiles proves SF is a hypocrite. Apart from the absurdity of it, the song is actually a brilliantly crafted nihilistic love song where the protagonist admits he is ignorant and impotent. Sam Fender isn't remotely hypocritical iyam. Mackem cunts.

Going to San Sebastián on Thursday, want your jaw testing?

Impossible, I eyeball everyone I see. Man, woman and child, it’s how I was raised. Assert dominance

Rashford motivated and working hard in the gym for next season. With that nose he could smell his Sunday dinner on Tuesday!

Still dipping his Tosin IMO

The ‘Hot Mitch summer’.

There is every chance he doesn't want to say too much in case a doylem (not naming names, but he's from Yorkshire) misconstrues it

Sat in the lounge at Manchester airport waiting for our flights to Bilbao, can’t fucking wait

They're football historians.

I’ve never touched the smack actually

Typical smoggie

I had Chorlton as my avatar years ago

You don’t need to. But if you see them, just stare at your feet.

What a bloke. You just know if he wasn't a footballer, whatever he did in life he would still be the same. Great craic, caring bloke.

Watching him play the last two games for Denmarks U21s, it's a travesty Wilson was getting game time ahead oh him tbh

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK75FiFMtwW/?igsh=Z2hhZTQ3OHVvbmgz

My childhood was basically that film "Stand By Me". A mostly quiet and isolated wee ex-mining village where everyone knew everyone, we all kicked about together and went on daft escapades to the woods, local quarry, or played hide and seek grounds of the chipboard factory. Pissed off all the local farmers by moving all the hay-bails around and building what were probably incredibly unsafe structures from them. We would nick ropes and nets from the factory use them to make hammocks and zip-lines deep in the woods, or "absaile" down the cliffs at the quarry. Half the time there would be some random stray dog along for the adventure with us, we'd know the dogs name and roughly what house it lived at, but nobody knew fuck all about it's owners. Suburban childhood bliss until we stumbled on the body of a body of woman in one of those fields. Turned out she'd had a drunken arguement with her partner, he'd stabbed her 19 times and moved her body to the field in a wheelie bin. We were 10. Wish I could say I was joking. It was probably a year or so after that our neighbour introduced me to SLF and gave me a copy of some dodgy Guns N Roses bootleg. Absolute hero. That was childhood. The teenage years were a different thing entirely.

Not the point though. He got what he felt was a better offer. Last year's summer window would've looked vastly different if we'd signed him. No pointless chasing of Guehi would've meant we'd have likely got someone to play on the right... How did Etikike get on after he declined a move to us then sat on the bench at PSG?..again the point is he passed on us. So have quite a few others. Not sure if we put a bid in for Kvaratskhelia but we were linked with him long before anyone else was. We do seem to identify good young talent with Nickson & his team but we're not top of the list for many of them to join tbh.

Fair question

We won’t make it to Bilbao. Eating my way through pintxos in San Sebastián, then going back to Bordeaux to restock with red wine…

Honestly, you really don’t want to end up in a conversation with any of these two.

Looks like Fenella Fellorick

that’s why mbueno would have been a good fit - a wide player who is comfortable covering CF so Osula could continue as third choice CF and a wild card option out wide. I agree he should stay to aid his development but we need more depth across the front line so we’re not relying on him too heavily

Ahhhhh tha loves sarned o that lad!

They're making a prequel to the prequels set in time before their forebears emigrated to the US, it's called t'Ilkleymoorstone set in an area that's notorious for cunts to this day.

Absolutely correct but loaning the lad out to a Leeds or Hibs doesn’t help our squad, we need strength in depth and he needs to gain more pitch time with us. A world class striker and a young apprentice is not the answer. We need to add to the squad in that department and have needed to for some time

Wilson is surely gone. We cant be relying on Willy O to be a champions league level striker when the inevitable Isak injury happens.

I just don't understand how he was getting in ahead of him. When he was on the pitch the last couple of games for us for the 10 or so minutes he was lively and causing nervousness in the opposition. He is still very raw but he needs game time to get that sorted.

I enjoyed watching PSG/Atletico, I must admit. Both teams played it at a better pace than I expected and PSG are just a joy to watch. Palmeiras were decent too but I only lasted until half time in that before I went to Kip. In theory, it’s not a bad idea but everything about the execution is absolutely atrocious. An exercise designed to make the rich richer played at a fucking stupid time. Plus, these kick off times are a nice warm up for the World Cup. Which will have 104 games btw Staying up until 2 am to watch Ecuador play Australia. What a life

Another shout out for Dept Q Superb

On the campsite in Basque territory. Oz or Dennis nowhere to be seen.

Everyone say "Thank you Ant" because he's fucking sorted this in an evening

I spent a lot of time buying and listening to music. Smoking weed. Doing all sorts, dancing in clubs and fields. But I wasted a lot of time too.

CN aka. Casey is on it.

Ive just started Paradise (2 eps in) which is very good so far.

Omeprazole is an interesting one to deal with nausea, Im fairly familiar as I've been on that and then a more effective (for me) PPI for the last 7 months due to the stomach ulcer that started this.

Agreed. We ideally should have a quality squad, deep enough so we don’t need to rely on him at this stage of his development.

Sam Fender had Dan Burn & the league cup trophy on stage tonight I can’t imagine how Sunlan is coping

What a statement this is from FIFA, well worth everyone's time so far...

Well, at least they can always say that they weren’t quite as bad as Spurs at SJP in 2023

Dan McCafferty highly agrees with this sentiment.

Fixtures out THIS WEDNESDAY 😀✊

Gennaro Gattuso announced as new Italy manager as they continue to be in absolute crisis. Gooooood.

We'll not be seeing him for a while. On the plus side he looked well for 81.

Also today, had a black Adidas NUFC t-shirt on and been stopped and spoken with by a few Spanish workers/gardeners and an Italian inter fan all talking about NUFC, a Spanish gardener Málaga fan was telling me about Cordero(sp) who's signing from his team, says they're not happy with him fucking off but what a player he is/could be. Of course I said to everyone of therm, 'do you hate the makems anarrl?' and they all replied they absolutely did and they only spoke to me because they loved the Amazon prime show about us.

We're not going to be signing superstars because this is a longer term project, they've said as much. I like what they've done with the team so far on just £90m - if £60m more is in line with that in terms of return on investment, then that's fine by me.