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It's coming with that useless cunt in charge.

Na I quite like this keeping him in the job shit.

I've plenty of transferable experiences and can see it happening. Life writes its own poetry.

Lines and lines and lines and lines.

They remind me of Bruce's NUFC in that I was always astonished by how many points we had. The chickens will come home to roost.

Blatantly sold his brother's Mega Drive the morning he travelled up.

Just for you.

Willful ignorance because it's much more exciting to dramatise our form rather than give reason to it, and allude to Howe being found out. Reality is he's done a sterling job since he arrived and continues to.

Van Dijk just kicked through Nkunku in the box. Ref says no pen and VAR backs him up despite it being blatant. Bent as fuck.

Variety is the spice of life.

Still would tbh.

Rob Beckett.

I really don't remember him being injured but do remember the 2-0 defeat down there just after Christmas. Even if it was 6 weeks you're looking at February for a return and in that run-in I remember Beardsley on the right wing and Gillespie on the bench; the irreplaceable Ginola, Ferdinand and Lee shitting themselves with Batty being one who actually didn't. Also recall Barton and Beresford being replaced by Watson and Elliott, as their arses went as well.

I don't recall Gillespie having any injuries. I do recall KK dropping him and shifting Beardsley out wide to accommodate Tino. Swapping Clark for Batty improved us. Agree with the lack of run-in experience though.

He was our best player in the run-in. We lost the title because certain players bottled it and KK fucked up with Beardsley/Gillespie.

Further to this I do think we're being set-up for a title charge next season. No Europe and in a much stronger place than when we finished fourth.

De Bruyne is on another level and when he came on I did expect this. Joelinton probably would have prevented it, though.

Still with a lot of the players Bruce was taking us down with.

As funny as this is, I'm with Paddocklad on him. And I'd like it on record, Fish.

Before this season I'd have said Bruno was our biggest difference maker, but I now think it's Joelinton. I noticed Bruno's missus up the stick again too, so we have Teletubbies on the pitch pre-match on the horizon. Time to nudge elbows with his release clause.

We also had ITV put the microphones in our [their] end so that it sounded like we outsung them at times to sportswash the nation. The mackem and ex-Sunderland manager in the studio were there to make minds think that The Learned Elders of the Protocols of Magedia had fuck all to do with the whole psy-op.

Guy's fucking shite, got nothing. I almost feel sorry for them because I recall clutching at straws in the same way 89-92.

We've 2 weeks off before it. Fancy us to win as comfortably as on Saturday.

We all knew anyway but Trippier realigned the lad's expectations from his career.