Alex

Another grifter then?

Which one was he?

You have to twist a bit when you get promoted, otherwise why bother? But, in retrospect, signing the amount of players they have seems absolutely crackers.

Should get himself on RTG. They love getting annoyed at stuff they’ve just made up too

Always rated Robbie Elliot like. Did alright in his second spell too despite not being the player he was after all the injuries

They wanted to see us play on Prime, obvs

I know going back to my granddad’s generation that it was fairly common to be a Newcastle fan but attend games at Roker Park. Makes sense given not many people had the means or the time to go to away games. And what other chance would you have of seeing someone like Stanley Matthews or Nat Lofthouse other than once a season at SJP? And the Bobby Robson quote about what is a club… makes no sense in relation to SAFC.

So fuck even if it was true about Milburn? It isn’t but all it would mean is a Sunderland fan scored more than 200 goals for us and was instrumental in winning 3 FA Cups. That’s them getting one up on us? even the daft fantasies they dream up are fucking shite.

The plus side is though that those who’ve done well will get more opportunities as we compete on more fronts. The change in the subs rules has made it more of a squad game than ever too. That bench wasn’t great yesterday either.

Well he got the seat in the HoL (like a fair few others - see that absolute nutjob Kate Hooey) purely because of his vocal pro-Brexit stance. That and his being a public figure. And that’s it. Spends plenty time at his second home in Spain of course, absolutely insulated from any of the ill effects of the Brexit he campaigned for

Works both ways, the attendees of Eton etc being taught to be arrogant enough to believe their own bollocks. Then, as you mention, large swathes of the populace lapping it up

Tbf, Paqueta hasn’t had the advantage of playing under Howe 😎

I remember years ago Man Utd playing inter in the champions league. Zamorano, who was a top forward and could handle himself. Anyway he’s stepping backwards, in the opposition half facing his own goal waiting for a free kick to be played upfield. He backed into Jaap Stan and reacted like he’d just accidentally walked backwards into a brick wall. They looked eye to eye and Stam just gave a little smirk. Zamarano shit himself a bit. That boring story is my verbose way of saying Botman has a similar vibe about him. Has the lot and his being a big fucking unit is the icing on the cake

Fuck this shite. Big fat quiz of the year for he now like

Tell you what like, it didn’t take long for the ‘amazing’ atmosphere* at the emirates to turn tepid. *better than normal but nowt special considering it’s Boxing Day night and they’re top of the league

Fucking awful decision

Aye, forgot about that

A long way to go but I fancied West Ham to maybe get something as they’re desperate for the points and it’s a derby. Plus the break maybe coming at a bad time for Arsenal and having a few players involved a lot in Qatar etc.

Be nice if they can hang on and get a result here

It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish

That and he’s literally opposed to everything Jesus supposedly preached. Like most of the CofE Tory cunts (I appreciate JRM is a catholic but the point still stands).

I think you’re right, that’s when we were last top at Xmas. But I think it’s 19 years (not exactly) since we were 2nd in the league, ie the season after that.

As Gemmill pointed out in his usual understated manner that’s more how it’s been painted since. Defensive records were almost identical but they were actually more free scoring. But I think on the main difference was the away form. Our home form was better but we lost something like 7 or 8 on the road

Highest league position for 19 years apparently