Toonpack

If Real fire Alonso, that's your Slot replacement available.

There's also the fact he/the defenders are still getting used to playing with each other, I actually thought he looked a bit better last night tbh. Pretty blameless for both goals IMO.

To break up the game. We also looked better up front when Murphy came on IMO.

Nailed on, he's the most famous muslim footballer in the world, he's also the right sort for SA - Sunni.

What a surprise ! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/nyregion/soccer-corruption-charges-fox-employee.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k8.UI3T.AjsCsr9uamj4&smid=url-share

Good result against a very good side, hit the inside of the post twice, fucking unlucky that both bounced straight back the way they'd come and to safety. They'll be way more gutted than we should be.

Over-reactions R us

This it's all quite incisive until we get to the final third then it's zimmer frame paced around their box.

Arse

Surprised it was only upside down, true Ashington have been backwards as well.

Did you ever pin the hoe ??

This is great,a diary of the 80/81 season. https://www.nufc-history.co.uk/nufc-1980-81-diary.html Example: "Without planning permission" the gall of it. Not to mention floodlights !!!! Oh the horror. 14/07 - Newcastle reveal their plans for the redevelopment of the ground to the City Council. The club say they need 15 years to finish the scheme, but the Council want the work to be completed before then. Residents in Denton Burn who are already unhappy that the club have built an all-weather pitch on their training ground (without planning permission) are even more incensed about the plans to install floodlights.

I can entirely believe this, seeing the amount of hot air that comes out of the other end.

Gan on, Knack the plastic dipper TBD

I’ll watch games that are at civilised hours but anything middle of the night can fuck off.

Drive you mad does it ?? (Felicitations to Mrs HMHM)

1-3 Gordon starts for me btw, strike whilst the iron is hot etc etc

As you know I do like a pun, especially so as it winds up a certain prophetic forum member, but I must say puns about Motown are very scarce, I only know two or thee but Four Tops.

Anyone of you still on twitter and follow, or see,the PoliticsUK account ?? If so: https://bsky.app/profile/jim.londoncentric.media/post/3m74fvzam7222

Some interesting points in this, when he eventually gets there. TLDW - Leazes Park seems a tad insurmountable.

We need to score goals when we're on top, Prem teams (any of them) will create chances, it who takes them that's the difference.

And we didn't defend it. If we'd taken the game to them and been caught on the break there'd be an equal amount of anger. We didn't win that game because Scharr came on and we sat back, we didn't win because when we were on top (and we were well on top) we couldn't create clear chances for shit. The late goals are a major problem but not if you are 3 up (or 4 in the case of at Everton).

It was to give us another defender when they went four up top so we weren't left man for man across the back line. Made sense at the time and not the thing that cost us the win tbh.