Craig

Experience day at a spa or something? Also don't hint, just push ahead. If the cold wind sweeps in just remind her she asked for a 'non-specific surprise'

Probably because they didn't expect any opposing team to be shitter than them

Badenoch on a sympathy quest claiming the Tories almost ran out of money after the election defeat. Yet their voter demographic in retirement age still are able to go on multiple holidays per year and eat in Waitrose cafe on a daily basis. My heart bleeds.

We won more when you were posting pictures of sausage fingers so enough of this Trump shit.

Fair dos, it's just something I couldn't ever do again. I'll go to a neutral game and sit with a bunch of the fans involved no problem, but if my team are involved and i'm with the other lot I can't see enjoyment in that - irrespective of the score. One, and only once I sat in the away end at SJP - that's the worst experience ever.

Gotta be German with a surname like that.

I was offered tickets for me and my lad but in the home end. Glad I said "thanks but no thanks." Seriously though having sat with the wrong fans in 3-4 games over the years I'll never do it again.

Get the point, but Gloomy was asking if the keeper was tested.

Tame header from Osula was about all he had to deal with.

Classic counter-attacking football - just what Nuno is well known for. Sorry like, that graph, and the 2nd half in particular demonstrates just how shite we were - all that possession and fuck all to show for it. We got anywhere near their final third and our play was sloppy as fuck. It was absolute dogshit - that doesn't mean I'm calling for Eddie's head or expect us to repeat it any time soon, but let's not dress it up as 'it wasn't that bad...'.

I've tried a few times over the years to rationalise what the thought process was that summer in terms of transfer dealings. IIRC we went into the summer trying to persuade Gazza to stay - at least publicly we were. Robertson had already been signed in the March so I think the intention was for him to potentially play with Gazza instead of replace him. I wonder if it was McFaul's 2nd attempt to replace Beardsley after the disaster that was Glyn Hodges. Hendrie I assume was intended as McDonald's replacement on the right wing with Anderson to be first choice full back. Spending over £1.5m on Beasant & Thorn I never understood. I know McFaul wanted to sign a certain Peter Schmeichel 12 months earlier but the board didn't back him but Beasant's / Wimbledon's style was so far removed from how we played it just didn't make sense to me. Fairly certain Thorn coming on board pissed Peter Jackson off who was soon on his way back to Bradford. As for replacing Goddard, I can only assume they earmarked Michael O'Neill to play alongside Mirandinha as opposed to instead of him. Given the language barrier, Mirandinha's selfishness and O'Neill being only 19 at the time I think the Beasant / Thorn money would have been better spent on a direct replacement for Goddard.

Aye. As I said earlier, let's hope they use this as a springboard like they did the Brentford game last season.

Some talk that he's a known paranoid schizophrenic in the Peterborough area who's been reported in the past for wielding a large knife in a barber's shop.

Precisely. It's the need for added validation I don't get. Nothing is prescriptive here - what works and feels right for one person, doesn't for the next.

The stats make the picture look worse not better, man. For all that possession and passes, we had next to fuck all to show for it. Only 33% of shots were on target as opposed to West Ham's 60%. And this is comfortably the worst performing PL team over the past 6 months. We got away with 3-1 IMO.

I disagree. The goal aside - which was a counter-attack in itself, we did absolutely nothing all game. Had we been beaten 4 or 5-1 it wouldn't have been unfair.

I don't doubt some see an additional benefit of it, but in the main they're doing it because their religion implores them to do so. 2 billion muslims aren't fasting as a lifestyle change. I guess it's how you interpret it but the comment was made in response to KD's point about normalising the skipping of breakfast and lunch.

Same bloke has been charged with attempted murder for a separate incident that took place on the DLR in the early hours of Saturday morning.

So Muslims fast as a weight-control mechanism do they? Nothing at all to do with their religion.

Is 'Corporate Boy' that confident that he'll underwrite the bets?

CT or Mr Blobby?

Next week he'll be telling us something is 'fact' because he's seen it on Wikipedia.

So basically in CT's world, if the IMDB listing has a favourable NPS he has no option but to say it's good?! Riiiiight!

When you think about the post, had Thiaw not timed his tackle as perfectly as he did, the marginal offside decision in our favour and the saves Pope made, we could have easily been on the end of a hiding.

Ironically we go to Brentford on Sunday and how we perform there is crucial as to whether this is just a bad day all round or whether there's a deep rooted issue. I don't think Wednesday night is the time for that - I expect we'll turn up, the crowd will do it's thing and we'll get a result. Week after Brentford is Man City at home. Wouldn't it be typical Newcastle to give that lot a hiding?!