Renton

What a man Burn is btw.

Fuck off man.

Decent enough first half from our pov. Shit game so far from a Chelsea or neutral pov. Great attempt for us at the end there.

Fell like I'm getting soaked from Carragher's commentary here.

Aye, take down that banner you fucking arseholes.

And MBS is head of a country that has just committed mass murder on its citizens. Neither is acceptable, but as fans (us and Chelsea), we have no determination in this. I will always support NUFC, whoever the owner is. But I won't be part of condoning what happens in Saudi and I won't hesitate to criticise them. To be honest though, I've been to SJP about 6 times since our takeover. I've never witnessed any support of our owners other than one person with a tea towel on his head. Let's keep it that way. Going to enjoy the match build up now. Also going to get pissed as it's been such a shit month for me and need the outlet. Ignore the rest if my posts today!

The answer here then is neither does Abromivich. Which is obviously nonsense. Let's not sweep the deplorable human rights of Saudi under the carpet here. Recognise it, condemn it, but don't let it affect the support we have for our club. What Saudi have done is disgusting.

Chelsea players not being paid and will fuck off to their respective countries. NUFC to face Chelsea under 11s led by John Terry wearing a shiny silver suit. Narrow 1-0 victory to us. 👍

This shit is horrible like. I will never support MBS unless he massively changes his behaviour. But also I'm never going to stop supporting my club. The sooner SA is dragged into the 21st century the better.

Are the Saudis deliberately targeting civilians? I don't know, I really hope not. But come on man, you know there is nuance in all this. The Saudis are aiding in the fight if against the Houthis. This is literally written on their flag "Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam". So let's not pretend there is equivalence here, there isn't. The regime the Saudis are targeting are even worse than them. And if people don't know this, they should be informed. There is no equivalence with Putin or Russia. BTW, yes, I'm drained of it too. I just hope the righteous geordies slay the evil Russian enablists tomorrow.

I'm late in reading this but what the fuck? The situations are completely different. Yemen is in a state of civil war, SA is the lead of a coalition against the rebels who seized power, along with nearly every other Arab nation and African nations in the region. The rebels are shiite Muslims sponsored by Iran and therefore indirectly by Russia. Their manifesto is vitriolically anti-west, they literally want to destroy us. SA are not invading Yemen they were providing strategic attacks against them sponsored by the UK and US. In fact, we actually launched the missiles for them. During this process they have killed countless civilians and there is now a famine threatening millions. It's a complete shit show. I'm not condoning any of this and wahabism as a religion disgusts me. But lets not equate this with what Putin is doing, which is invading a completely innocent democratic sovereign state in Europe, deliberately targeting civilians, and threatening nuclear war.

I think you're both right. Don't even want to tune into the news about Ukraine. I can't believe what is happening in Europe in 2022.

Will do Gary.

Their obsession with our managers is fucking weird as well, especially Rafa, Bruce, and noe "Beheady Eddie" (). I have to use Wikipedia to find out who there last 3 managers were, even though they've all run their course over the space of 1 year.

Fuckibg hell at this.

I'd say their comments on Stavely's appearance are disgustingly misogynistic too.

I can't get my head around the skill levels it takes to do something like that. We've had years, almost deacades, of hardly ever featuring on goal of the month*. I can't wait until we're regular fixtures again like we were under Keegan. * Except as the recipients of course.

Just finished Winter on Fire. A brilliant hard watch made ever so more poignant by recent events in Ukraine. I feel ashamed i was so ignorant to what happened, the people of Ukraine are amazingly brave. Must watch.

Allahu Akbar!

It's contrary for contrary's sake. And like most contrarians, the author ties herself up in knots and contradicts her own points. For instance she cites the disaster of the Iraq war as support for her thesis that Putin can win this war. It makes no sense. She didn't seem to have any particualr understanding or knowledge of the issues and facts at hand imio. I doubt Russia will use chemical attacks. For what purpose? It'd be a clear war crime with no strategic advantage as far as I can see. Perhaps Russia would use such attacks for its own propaganda, which is why they are being called out before they do it. Chemical weapons don't really work though, there's no point in them. What they are doing though is using "dumb" rather than guided ordinance. This will be why the hospital was hit, I doubt it was specifically targeted.

There's going to be some horrific war imagery coming out of Ukraine for the foreseeable. Unbelievable they could do this.

Arenas are shit, especially Newcastle's, but still plenty of good smaller venues in the city. City hall, O2 academy, Sage, Cluny, Live theatre, Boiler shop, the universities. My favourite venue of all time is the 100 club in London however. Much rather see a less famous band in an intimate venue than a load of has beens on a huge LCD monitor on a stage 200 metres away.

Time for me to get a new phone. I'm sticking to a premium Android (no, not let's have this shit again) and narrowed it down to one of the Google Pixels or Samsung S22s. Probably the latter as you can buy it on interest free credit from the shop and get some nice stuff with it (Galaxy buds, 1 year Disney subscription). Then get a sim card elsewhere. Anyway the S22 ultra comes with an S pen, basically it is the new version of the Galaxy Note. My question is, has anybody used one before and is it worth it? I've watched a tutorial on YouTube and it does look pretty cool, but whilst I can see some genuine practical uses for it I can't help thinking I'll probably just spend hours drawing animated cocks and sending them to mates. Not sure it's worth an extra 200 notes? Opinions?

Honestly, I'm really not cynical enough to believe that. Politicians are human beings, seeing civilians indiscriminately slaughtered is horrific to all but the truly psychopathic amongst them (admittedly in the UK that has increased exponentially in recent years).

I've always though in some ways that the use of nuclear weapons, tactically at least, is just one end of the extreme in military combat, not completely different to other weapons (some of the yields of small tactical nukes are not much more than the worst conventional weapons). And then there's weapons like this. What's his game, goad NATO into conflict? It's certainly not to win hearts and minds.