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Exactly. Bruce comes out with his “I’ve been doing this a long time” schtick and they lap it up like that counts for something. Yes Steve, you’ve been doing it a long time and you’ve achieved fuck all, your teams play clueless football, and you’re widely hated by the fans at your former clubs. Somebody should tell pundits like Jenas that keeping a team in the PL is not an achievement, it’s the absolute bare minimum. It’s like a bus driver saying “Aren’t I good, I’ve been doing this a long time, I haven’t crashed the bus and killed all the passengers once”.

Bruce has never achieved anything as a PL manager and as a general proposition his teams play awful football. That should be the end of any rational discussion on Steve Bruce’s credentials.

Scrap that, we have a winner

Every time a lazy pundit starts going on about our unrealistic expectations etc, a large bloke should walk on and punch them in the face. That’d put a stop to it

Cunts will always stand up and support other cunts! It’s the law of nature for the survival of cunts!

iirc it’s a myth they were missing for most of the season anyway. A myth put about by Bruce and unchallenged by anybody in the media I should add

I do also find it ridiculous that they are also always using the absence of Wilson and Saint-Maximin as a card blanche. It’s actually saying a lot about your capabilities as a manager if everything is depending on having all your best players available. It doesn’t need saying that those players make a huge difference to the quality of a team. But a manager should still be able to cope with it and make the best out of the rest of the squad. That’s where he failed miserably because he couldn’t come up with any solution. Never mind I the awful performances when he has had the full squad available.

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Interesting shift tonight- knocked on a punter in Gosforth and she answered the door with “ Can you help, call an ambulance, he’s collapsed!” I go in to find a seriously porky sparky in her kitchen, greyer than Manc Mag, sweating like Renton when the builders turn up, semi-conscious and with his 17yr old son stood rooted the spot. I got the lad on the phone for an amberlamps, checked fatty out and discerned- ‘he’s not having a heart attack right now’ which was good, checked he wasn’t/hadn’t had a stroke, then spoke to the 999 lass. Paramedic dispatched, she told me to go to Linden Road church ( which was just around the corner), and get the defibrillator “just in case” until the paramedic arrived. Medic was there when I got back, checked out Tubs and worked out that he’d probably popped a ligament in his knee as he bent over, jumped up too fast and that, combined with the admittedly excruciating pain of his knee exploding, had caused him to black out. Ffs, the useless fat fucker. Still, the wife who’s house it was was bang tidy, and very grateful. ( no, not that grateful)

Almost makes me wish Chelsea had won.

Bowtiedbull substack $10/month is a decent resource @Rayvin.

Two of Blackpool's wins in that run of form are against the mackems

Btw someone needs to tell tr2 that AC/DC didn't mean that sort of dog! Note fair warning: Don't press on the link if you don't understand the 70/80s were a different time and then want to go all Noelie on my arse.

He bums dogs. There.

Liverpool grabbing a last minute win against West Brom through the keeper scoring and Martin Tyler acting like they’ve just won the Champions League

Pt II

Less chance now of finishing higher than Rafa had us so not a bad result.We all know he’d have a dig at the fans if it did happen and his pals in the media would have a field day .

Honestly, will anyone lose that much sleep of we lose some anti vaxers? The world got a bit lighter, we lost a few morons

Darwinism in action.

Again though. It was "good old fashion British common sense" that was gonna see us avoid a second wave. And then what happened? If you had a 5 year old that kept going back to the stove and burning their hands as often as this cunt, you'd put it on gas mark 5 and be done with it. I would anyway. It's why I don't have kids.

How quaint. How old fashioned. A club that isn’t run by muppets, owned by a horrible fat arsehole and isn’t happy to lose to the BIg Six in every competition as long as it squeaks to 17th place in the league every year. Masters must be livid.

In years gone by I would've hated them because I would've wanted to be them, and envied their success. Now I'm just happy that there's someone out there carrying a torch for positive football, a good relationship between fans, manager, players, and owner, and an actual attempt to succeed on the merits, not just buy or cheat their way to something that their billionaire owners can term "victory."

Class that, wish we had an owner with even half of the ambition Leicesters owner has.

You could see from the scenes on the pitch with the owner what sort of a relationship the players have with him. It’s about a bit of money, a lot of ambition and a genuine desire by everyone to work together towards progressing the club. Contrast that with our perennial standoff between the players and owner over the bonus sheet. When you have a positive vision and unity then good things happen.

Top four, FA Cup winners and previous PL champions but still not eligible for the ‘Big six’. Glad to see them win it.

Toilet trader.

I could only think of Michael Owen. I place more stock in Anne Frank’s opinions on drum kits than I do Michael Owen’s opinions on football (and denim).

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Jenas as well as Jeans

We wouldn’t have played like that v City’s first team in say January but it was a really good end of season game. Willock was plainly shafting Arteta’s missus

Aye good luck KD I’ve had cancer twice and moving house was worse. We are one week (aka the flooring being fitted) from having the extension finished. Our lass has gone overboard on the spending for the “new” house. So now even the rooms I did and finished are full of shite. My head is battered and I’m skint. Been without a kitchen for getting on six months, desperate for some oven chips or something.

The inevitable endgame has been reached.

Does he not have his fatha’s phone number?

When they heard we might start Joelinton they wanted to put Bert Trautmann in but couldn’t register him in time.

'If patta was watta he's the fucking Sahara desert.'

well done steve. you've always had my support.

You do also have to remember that out of the 360 minutes played in April we were utter shit for 45 minutes against Burnley, embarrassingly bad for nearly 45 minutes against ten men West Ham and for 90 minutes against Liverpool except injury time. We certainly and thankfully got very good results but it could easily have been a totally different outcome in those matches. It does also say a lot that most of those people who respond positively to Alex Bruce are Man United fans.

They really don’t understand that the way they’re so abrasive and seek to shove it in people’s faces when things goes well has an impact on people’s attitude towards them when things are going bad. They’re taking the piss giving him that btw, no team did better than 2 wins and 2 draws? We didn’t even move a spot in the table in April did we? The guys still a fucking shite manager so I’m not sure why his thick son is acting like it’s some proof he’s good, also I’d been giving him the excuse he’s a lazy prick if he’s actually putting in long hours like his son says (he’s definitely not btw) that’s even more embarrassing when looking at the shambolic way the team play. As always I really can’t wait until this wanker is nothing to do with our club. “I know how much this job means to you” they realize simply repeating something doesn’t make it true.

That's actually even less surprising.

He also bums dogs.

Missed a trick not using this flavour

this not a military conflict so much as a political one. my cousin reckons netanyahu, who has failed to win four general elections in a row and is unable to form a government, is using the situation to pull off a fascist, racist coup. it's a desperate attempt to cling to power, to reinforce his image as the strongman leader, tough on security. he doesn't give a shit about the innocent civilian casualties on both sides. he no longer needs votes, just hordes of incited, undemocratic, hate-filled jewish fascists and disenchanted, frustrated and dispossessed palestinians, who have had their fill of being treated like shit by Israel and their own leadership. It’s not as simple as that, of course, but that’s the gist. the violence in Israel is unbelievable, on every level. this has to be a turning point, or there is no future for this country.

He’ll be fucking devastated when he realises it’s not a massive tube of Pringles. Edit; D’oh, just seen the photoshop

Just look at his little face.

You're getting personal now ...

No, I'm paraphrasing what he said and don't want to make it sound worse than it is, but he wanted Gaza "raised to the ground once and for all" or words to that effect. I can sympathise a bit because someone in his block had just been killed, but the Palestine causalities are a magnitude worse. Israel's behaviour has always struck me as astonishing considering their history. Just shows as a species we learn nothing.