Dazzler

Anderson definitely hasn’t been at the gym with his back he looks like he’s lost all the muscle he built up over the summer.

I’m checking out of this now. I’m blaming it on an early start at work but really I just can’t hack a penalty shootout.

Cunt was desperate to slag Gordon for his corner and made to luck a prick when Gordon sprinted the pitch to stop a counter.

What the fuck was that chant? Are they summoning a demon?

He does all his interviews in Spanish but knows all the important regional lingo.

An ‘out of form’ Haaland too

Anderson with his knackered back would be a better option in midfield at this point. Longstaff is not having a good night.

Are the all just having a go at corners with Trips being off?

I wonder if he’ll ever fucking learn that rolling around after you lose the ball in a fair challenge will rarely ever lead to a free kick. Especially if you’re a known diver

Not that good, it’s his fault we have to play an extra half hour

"I'll tell yi fucking what lads, I've got every single one of your birds on facey B, and all your Vermont blart in'arl. Get it fucking sorted in the second half or ahm ganna get mesel a milk float and rifle the lot of them like that gadgy on father ted. Fuckin watch is."

Aye the body language is completely different these days. Trippier seems to be constantly having a pop at the players too lately.

Was just about to say this. I've heard from a person who knows a person that if they don't win this then they may start to think Howe may need to up his game a bit as they may well want him out.

The biggest shock was that the venkys are still involved with them

Nah not with your face mate, just drape it over my shoulder.

You probably just tipped over into the door without Renton's help then tbf

Liverpool for Irish and Welsh fans are the 'closest' premier league club to them for the most part so they'll make a sort of paper thin argument that they are their 'local' team. They quite often have an actual local team too, which will be some lower league team on their doorstep - I don't mind this as much. It's cunts that support a 'big' club because they are big

The worst of the fucking worst for me is a person born in the north east, being a football fan, and NOT supporting a team in the North East. I can just about forgive someone from Gateshead with mackem family picking the mackems, as it's bred into them. But someone from Durham not picking a north east based team is fucking cringey. I went to school with a lad from Fenham who supported Man Utd - never met someone who deserved a good bullying more - though he never got it, so was just an obnoxious prick. He didn't have any family connection to Man Utd, he liked Cantona and they beat us to the league once. He was probably also a Blackburn fan for a year too.

I will offer at least a handful of scousers I've met have been decent lads. They were pretty much all older lads, and had spent at least half of their life in the North East following uni spells. I think they'd been softened from their miserable scouserness over time - they were no doubt absolute cunts prior to moving to the region

I fucking hope not as we'd probably fucking lose and the build up to the final would be absolutely unbearable.

It's a pretty impressive trajectory to reach your mouth tbf.

Both Tavernier's tbf - we let (arguably) the better one go to boro's academy.

There were "lazy bastards" back in the day who were most likely suffering some kind of mental health crisis that a) wasn't diagnosed and b) was taboo to talk about. They were just labelled lazy bastard, sick notes or arseholes. Just because it wasn't identified as a mental health problem doesn't mean it wasn't occurring. I don't buy this narrative that the youngins have zero resilience. Look at literally everything that is happening in the world around you. 30 years ago most families could survive on one income, families with two were pretty often 'well off'. Nowadays these kids are having to graft 50 hour weeks, so is their significant other just to be able to afford to fucking rent a 1 bed flat and put some food on the table. Life is much worse for these kids, purely because they have to graft infinitely harder to keep their heads above water. It stands to reason that this may well cause them a bit of stress. Also from experience lazy bastards very rarely feel stress, and therefore have no fucking need to waste sick days. Also long term sickness records were pretty much consistent for 20 years - they've only really spiked since 2020 which is probably partly/largely due to covid. So I guess this pandemic of soft shite lazy bastards has been on going for a number of generations now.

Therein lies the problem. The kid was never fit, and usually after a Man City performance he'd almost inevitably break down and miss a few games - then you'd get an awful sub appearance, a decent sub appearance, a rubbish start, a decent start and a "Man City" start before the cycle started over. If he could stay fit for a season I'd probably agree that, FFP allowing, Howe would have kept him as a wildcard bench option, but he could never stay fit and that made him outrageously inconsistent performance wise so it made infinitely more sense to cash in, FFP or not. Minteh could be that wildcard option, and has his entire career to be moulded into something more suitable to Howe's system. But I am not convinced. 9 times out of 10 those players that are equal parts exceptional and frustrating remain so for their entire careers.