Rayvin

Congrats man

This is always the key difference IMO. They put time and energy into following Newcastle so they can rage about us. We just laugh at their message board. I genuinely thought they hid it to stop that guy on twitter poking fun at their insane takes.

That is actually incredibly embarrassing. Even if you disagree with the guy he is a foreign head of state and what is Richard Madeley? Fucking nothing.

Fair but we'd take 0-0 away against a top 6 side too IMO. Also you need to factor in the sense of occasion somewhat. City were arguably the best team in Europe for several years before they won the CL because the the mental barrier they had to overcome to establish themselves. But yes, lack of energy is fair and a bit surprising. I get Tripps being tired by the end cos he was playing just the other day. Isak though is a bit of a confusing one. The press has fallen away somewhere in the mould, idk if we're trying to take up a new style or what but there is something to look at there.

I mean, Howe needs to grow into managing at this level too, I'm sure he'd be the first to say the same. But he works so hard, he's so committed that I'm personally prepared for it to take a bit of trial and error, some rough patches here and there, to be able to allow him to get to the point where he's got it all nailed down. We don't need to be the team that smashes elite clubs around in the CL yet - in fact I almost don't want us to be because it's going to be way more satisfying later having had to grind through the levels and really earn it.

You don't mean Howe, surely?

Fair comment but nonetheless I think we should take positives from our first game back in the big time

Fucking superb result IMO all things considered. Well fucking done lads. Yeah there's work to do but we cannot be that bad a side at the moment if we can go to the San Siro and get a clean sheet.

Missing Joelinton IMO.

Brand went from far left to far right, a good example of the political horseshoe and arguably proves how dangerous it is to be semi literate within politics and to then use that position to take an extreme stance. See also Glen Greenwald. Brand sounds like a total cunt, some of the allegations are awful to read, but I'm not sure what this does other than cement him as someone firmly in the Musk/Tate/Poole camp. Which will draw more people to him.

Gordon did win a penalty mind, and the ball that created the opportunity for said penalty came from a Barnes cross.

I am just not voting for this shit. I don't care what the consequences are, I am not voting for this Tory inspired fucking bullshit from Labour. I have tried and tried to take one for the team on this but they stand for almost nothing I believe in. They can stick the red wall up their arse.

What is particularly impressive about that double post is that they're an hour apart, with several replies in between. Too much £6 premier inn cooking lager...

This has to be the first time Little House on the Prairie has ever been involved anywhere as a footballing metaphor

Wow. Mind you, those are the sorts of teams you're there for.

It'll never happen man, the entire system will burn down anyone who gets anywhere remotely close to power with anything that looks even slightly like a threatening idea to the status quo. Starmer is the best we're going to get, and for my part, the whole lot of them can go hang at this point, I've fully given up.

Was it not Botman who was hit in the arse? I can't quite remember what happened with Burn and have no interest in putting myself through it again, but I thought he was just left for dead?

Ain't that the fucking truth

Can't believe Barcelona aren't lining up a bid too mind. Stewart is part of the Sunderland first 11 that could easily finish top 4 in the PL marra.

The replies are full of centrists complaining that now isn't the time and leftwingers revelling in it. I really am kind of curious to see what happens when it comes to voting. This feels like the longest run up to a general election that I've ever experienced, and I guess that's because we've need the government to be removed since the day after it was voted in.

I read this as if it was a parody or over the top exaggeration... I'm starting to think it might be real. How can this be real

Was a clear as day red card indeed. I would have actually preferred that Isak wasn't fouled and had the chance to score, rather than Van Dijk being sent off.

Yesterday hurt but the day Liverpool are in the rear view mirror is coming. It'll be all the sweeter when it does come for how hard they tried to fight it off (and IMO they really are desperate to do so).

Right, but apparently we've not quite worked out how to unlock elite level teams who are playing us as if we're an equal.

Eventually, we are going to go past Liverpool - nothing Klopp and his oversized gnashers can do about it. This really did remind me of the Newcastle of old, and it sucks but weirdly enough I think Andros Townsend made a decent point in the post-match. He noted that last season we would have shithoused the end of this game specifically to avoid this outcome, whereas this season we seemed to back ourselves to get a second. So maybe this is partially the consequence of trying to realise ourselves as a stronger team in the end. It hurts tbf but this game matters a great fucking deal to Liverpool because us succeeding means them becoming upper midtable nothings. We'll get there. Lots to learn from, but for my two cents this looked like a game where a shock result was achieved by an underdog, not a routine and expected victory for the better club.