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With that this beardy cnt is away back to being a recluse, I look forward to your next Christmas letter. Have a good holiday with Tonali tracking his man this weekend (last night...fuck me) ChristmasTree unveils a new creepy hobby Renton can upload all the stained glass window photos he likes Special gift for ewerk and g-man

He could turn his Lamborghini into a fireball on a road in northern Spain.

I expect Tino to leave in the summer. CL or not for us doesn't hold much relevance, I fear. City can offer basically permanent CL football and greatly improved wages. And the wages matter way way more. Players aren't sentimentalists about this stuff, rarely ever have been, and especially aren't now with agents in their ears making sure that human emotions don't come into it. And who can blame them? This will continue to happen. We can't offer the wage so we can't compete. This part of football history will be remembered as the beginning of a truly protectionist era, as a response by the established giants to the rise of City and PSG. I also don't see how it ever ends. Not that I have any insight. Anyway, in our lifetime, sport has evolved out of the end of amateurism and local loyalties (at least in a lot of disciplines) to become utterly enmeshed with geopolitics and international business. And that sort of trend doesn't seem to show any signs of reversing. Football is a closed shop. NUFC may manage to overcome it in time but only because we're owned by one of the only entities in the entire world with the financial and political muscle to push its way into the conversation. And we may well do so eventually for reasons that have nothing at all to do with football because there are a lot of people in the world who want to do business with Saudi Arabia. It's all very icky stuff really. I guess we're all complicit so long as we're paying attention. But, hey, I'm a moron and a hypocrite so expect something more than nothing at all from me at your peril.

There's a bigger bit of work that'll need done (unrelated "mostly" to the performance stuff ) sadly not one ya can really avoid , but I'd stuck things in place to make it a bit easier knowing it would need done 4-5yrs after andrew took over. I'll chat to him about it anyway nothing for you lot or the standing wipers to worry about

*ahem* *disappears into the fog again*

howay mate. cunt's as skinny as a pencil lead, he'd have plenty of space around him if he was stood on a five pence piece.

If we play like we can, we can win. If we play like we also can, we can lose.

I can take no credit here beyond asking for help tbh, its all Ant. He's a good egg.

You had a feeling it was coming. But we can squarely blame this on Gemmil celebrating Mileys goal as “the winner”.

I watched last night's match on premier sports, which I'm gonna take a punt on being from the emerald isle being as every fucker on it, commentators, pundits etc were all irish. didn't know who any of them were barring shay given but the cunts mentioned on numerous occasions the rat's lack of a preseason. fucking pathetic man at this point. at 26 year old I was smoking enough cannabis to keep howard marks very busy, dropping enough acid to make albert hoffman proud of his achievements and liberty caps were struggling to produce enough spores to keep me in psilocybin. on top of that, if every fucking adult in this country had simultaneously packed in drinking I would've singlehandedly kept all the breweries ticking over at a reasonable profit. I was making a canny attempt at getting me leg over most nights too. despite that I'd have been fucking mortified with meself if an elite football club with all its trainers, facilities, dieticians and sports scientists etc couldn't have licked me in to shape in four months never mind a young bloke who's spent most of his life as a professional footballer. have some fucking dignity man and stop making excuses for the skinny fucking cunt and tell the truth. he's not suffering because he missed half a dozen friendly kick abouts with newcastle in july, he's turned to shit because of his own fucking disgusting attitude.

Sorry, but you are not registered to play. Neither is Gemmill.

tindall's I heard.

Wissa is fucking ill now ffs? What next man? Pregnant?

Just finished watching on replay. Overall, I thought we played quite well, with the odd familiar moment of terrible defending. First goal, Tonali needs to be stronger and Bruno needs to face the ball. We are a bit of a shambles at set pieces recently. I think it's often a thing of nerve with this sort of thing. Concede a few, you'll concede more. Give nothing away for weeks, it feels like we'll never concede from a set piece ever again. Just need to get that confidence back. I do also think that Ramsdale doesn't command his box well and it's probably something our players have come to depend on/expect from our goalkeeper. Second goal, Hall fails to sense the danger (looked very leggy too which is to be expected) and Burn unfortunately couldn't cover for him. It was some nice play from Leverkusen with the dummy in the leadup play completely skinning Tonali (was it?). Fair play. Not necessarily the worst defending ever but could've been better handled. In attack, we looked good I thought. Unlucky not to have a third after hitting the post twice and Thiaw's header being nicely saved. Gordon has come back to life in the last two games. Maybe he's finally woken up to the fact he needs to prove he's a player and not rest on his laurels. He's had his best two games in 18 months in the past two games. Miley is a special talent. He nearly got on the end of a header right before he eventually did and scored. Big moment for us and he was the one to stand up. He'll displace Joelinton in our best starting XI before long at this rate. Overall, not our best game in the defending sense but an even game for the most part. I thought we were better than them in the second half. Probably our fitness showing through. 2-2 was a pretty fair reflection of the match, I thought. It's a good point. Pity we couldn't hold onto the lead away from home -- yet again. But, we were probably only marginally the better side, and got a good point away from home against a very good team. I'm happy with that. All to play for in the coming CL games and all in our hands. We really couldn't have asked for more than that going into the season.

fucking hell man. mind you, the lass at the end who looks like morticia addams would get it, provided she kept her mouth shut until such time as I wanted it opened.

I can entirely believe this, seeing the amount of hot air that comes out of the other end.

Well thats a shame lol

And btw the negativity in the match threads on here is off the fucking charts at the minute. And not just if we go behind. If we start a game and things don't immediately go our way, it's toys getting flung all over the shop. And if we do go behind, fucking hell. I was watching the match and flicking through here yesterday and thinking wtf am I bothering reading this for. Fine if that's the way it is now, but I think I'll stop bothering when the games are on. It used to be decent craic on here during matches, people joking on and being able to cope in the absence of absolute gameday perfection from minute 1 to minute 90.

It must be totally exhausting being these cunts like

Salah has been nominated for BBC sports personality of the year. 🤣😂

Things you love to see.

not me mate. I always get in the aisle and bust some funky moves for the rest of the passengers to admire. also, I do my furniture shopping at barker and stonehouse.

Merry Christmas everyone

You know you're an elder statesman of the internet when even the gifs are too old for Adam Johnson.

Was chatting with an old friend yesterday, she was over for visit from her home in Vancouver where she’s lived for years now. She was saying that prior to Drumpf’s tariff bullshit, the west coast of Canada would do most of its local trade with the west coast of US, same on the east coast, simply because it was easier than trading internally due to the vast distances involved. Carney is now leading a push to increase internal Canadian trade massively. ( She mentioned that people just don’t realise how big Canada is, noting that the distance from where we were ( Whitley Bay) to Toronto is only a bit more than the distance from Vancouver to Toronto). Given how patriotic Canadians are, I really hope they keep this up, even when MM dies and the Right are locked up.

Oh no. However will we survive without your AI generated masterpieces?

Big shout out to our own Ant and Dec though for sorting the board out for tonight. Cheers @Andrewand @Ant

These won their last 3 CL games without conceding. A 2-2 draw away is a decent result, and on another day we beat them with the chances we had. Id have snapped your hand off for a 2-2 when I thought we had conceded a penalty

Everton and Villa, their go-to friends. Wah unbeyten at 'owum and ah dew not see that chayunjun! Fuck off!

TO THE DISCORD!

He reversed the polarity

U ok hun?

Just the £300m on Isak, Ekitike and Wirtz to add to Salah, Gakpo and Szoboszlai up front, and he's moaning that they haven't got a Jacob Murphy I wish a journalist would have to balls to ask him why they signed Isak when most of his goals were supplied from the right wing at NUFC, and yet Salah prefers to cut in and shoot. You would think Liverpool had done a modicum of research before dropping a club record bid on a player.

Yes I have somehow ended up with the derby thread. Thought I'd get this up early to allow those of the persuasion ample time to piss and shit themselves out before the game itself. Its away, its at 2pm, its on sunday.

Could be morning sickness for all we know. Mat leave til August.

You know though, that with all of the mystique built up around Salah and Liverpool, if a Saudi team came in with £100m the PL would shrug it's shoulders and go, yeah that looks like fair market value to me, why not. And not a word would be spoken against it by any of the mainstream football media.

The axis of irrelevance

They should stick a £30m bid then say they won’t be coming back in with a second bid unless Liverpool “open the gate”

Miley made such a difference when he came on. Good result that, they beat city at city the other week. Beat PSV and we are through, maybe automatically.

Not quite, it's not the root cause but doesn't help, between that and missing files and other bits and bobs, death by a thousand cuts. for example, someone uploading a picture of their telly to show the score in the top corner, was 3mb ... yes everyones got fast connections, but the server has to dole that stuff out if it's hosted here, that's overhead, queue multiple people posting pictures of their tvs from their 4k camera smartphones, server loads that page for everyone, with all the pictures more overhead, you can shift that by those pictures not being "on here" but hosted elsewhere, as meenzer pointed out. Back in the day those services weren't readily available so it was made handy for people here by giving them space, it's been a decade or more and it's an issue now anyway i've bulk compressed every image on the thing to get around 10-25% reductions for the worst offenders (the offending tv picture was 2.5mb and is now 800kbs for example) (i did this after it was looking faster anyway) + a bunch of other tweaks, touch wood so far it's looking like it's worked, needs to be left alone for a few days to see. But as mentioned there's other issues i'll leave with the lads to discuss / implement Everyone hated change when it came the first time around, prob 15yrs ago then were all elated with it, now you're all old as fuck and due another round ya won't like initially but it is what it is (but ya can blame andrew this time round)

You've only posted the link cos you're on the video. Press play to see FAME HUNGRY Dave.

I actually have a bit of sympathy for salah I think he has been thrown under the bus to an extent, although I dont think he should've gone public the way he has. if what he says is true and slot isn't even speaking to him, just leaving him out the team then it's appalling man management. he's a club legend, carried them to the title last season and has to be at least worth a personal explanation? aye, his form has dropped off but 4 goals and 2 assists in the league isn't the worst record for a winger in the PL and certainly not in their team. also, the dipper friendly pundits/media seem happy to stick the knife in to salah but are still churning out pathetic excuses for the rat/van dijk/wirtz/kirkez/konate all of whom have been worse and it's now nearly christmas. anyway, all that said.... it's beyond fucking hilarious!