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got the train in to cologne after the match, on it was the biggest gathering of old 80s newcastle hoolies I'd seen for quite some time, all being loud and obnoxious despite the police presence. suddenly a green clad copper appeared, the fucker was too wide to get between the carriage doors without turning sideways and had to bend down too. he stood there arms crossed and stared down the carriage without saying a word. complete and utter silence for the rest of the journey. never seen one man command such total respect in all me life!

Brazil's "Strongman" leader hospitalised with hiccups.

Amateur explosives engineering?

Fuck Off.

It’s a game of endurance. Your love of NUFC vs Ashley’s heart and liver (or possibly the Premier League’s ability to delay)

good. Leave the brewing to us Germans. At least it’s something we are good at.

Wummus Shitticus

Labour resurgence in Durham!

Leverkusen? Was great fun.

Yeah in a few weeks time when cases are rocketing. Despite SAGE, WHO & over 1,200 doctors advice not to lift everything too soon. Boris will be saying "its not my fault I gave the people what they wanted its their fault" Fuck him he's a cunt

Got to say like, I’ve been creased laughing at the lot who have been refusing to wear masks and get the jab who are now suffering with COVID. Fuck the lot of them

It’s hard to disagree when you look at that purple patch he had compared to the rest of his career thus far.

Willock might turn out to be another Kenedy - excellent half year loan then shite for a full year.

With no other underlying health conditions and from model families in wealthy areas. Even then, that would probably only make a temporary dent on the polls at best.

just what is the fucking point?

They’d have to be white kids.

Because of course we’ve fuck all to spend.

Would a bunch of dead kids be enough to turn people against this government?

Tyrone Mings: ‘Let’s end racism’ Harry Maguire:

Aye…

I've just always assumed that Chinese mice have enormous penises.

I guess I’m lucky in not detesting my lass and the kids. Not entirely sure the feeling’s mutual though

Aye, all of that. And then we got pulled over by the police in North Yorkshire in the dead of night because my dad, and I quote, "wasn't driving equidistantly between the lines".

Aye, TLDR Gemmill but at least it's off your chest now. You'll feel a lot better for sharing it.

I got fucking soaked. Then stuck in a traffic jam for ages due to the Oasis concert at Knebworth. The faux-hard Manc cunts

Well I'm going stir crazy stuck at home (worse at the moment with my daughter isolating which means we're all stuck in effectively). I'd fucking love 2 hours commute every day to get away from my family.

This feels like group therapy.

I think to support the national side you need as a minimum to have some sense of national identity to the country you're supporting. I once had that, I don't have it at all now. The current England team and manager are a credit to the nation in all fairness. The fans, and not just this tiny minority people claim, are a fucking disgrace. Watching it on telly is therefore one thing but the reality in the stadium is different. Other can reconcile that perhaps but I can't. Also easy to not support them because they always ultimately disappoint. NUFC I do have a shared identity with and always will. At the moment, losses don't hurt and victories don't bring joy. But that could change. I prefer to think of the club as dormant rather than dead. But either way, its true to say fottball doesn't play a big part in my life at the moment.

That moment when we came out of Wembley after that match and the heavens opened is one of the darkest moments of my life - I even entertained for a moment the idea that there was a god and he was a cunt who hated us.

i remember feeling physically sick when man u spanked us in the charity shield. these days, it's just meh - oh look another hammering, fanks brucey

Pardew’s tenure was really big for me in that respect, I remember before him a 3-0 or 4-0 loss felt like a complete fucking hammering, I would be absolutely gutted and embarrassed we got smacked like that, but he seemed to lose matches by those score lines or worse regularly enough that they started to feel like a 2-0 or narrow loss. We’ve had some right plums as manager under Ashley mind

I'm not as bad watching Newcastle as I used to be - I've been going out with my lass for five years and I've told her that even the dark side she sees now when I watch a game when she's there is nothing compared to the old me which I think in a way is healthier mentally but I still yearn like fuck for the days when it was a matter of life and death and I was frankly mental about it

it's still newcastle first for me too, but can you remember the last time a newcastle result really hurt? a bad result in a big game used to linger at the back of my mind for days after the match. these days, it's met with a shrug of the shoulders

I think the Shaw goal was as excited as I’ve been for a goal in years tbh. I’ve always been a club before country type fan, but I did always watch England. I think it’s just that prior group of players was so immensely dislikable that it made it easy as fuck to shrug off their failures, Gerrard, Terry, Ferdinand, Owen, etc are just complete and utter insufferable up their own arse bellends who played international football purely for personal gain and let their club rivalry ruin what was on paper a good England side. In stark contrast it’s clear the current lot care, and they also seem a lot more conscious of their positions in society and the weight their word can carry when they speak up on behalf of people, so this one hurt and for me it still does. I think what makes it even harder is knowing in five or so weeks I have to also go back to watching Brucey and the boys, as much as I’ve criticized Southgate I like the bloke tbh I just want him to grow, I thoroughly dislike Bruce as a person and as a manager. I’d say somewhat similar to Gemmill I’ve almost switched to enjoying watching England more. Of course sections of the fan base are outright embarrassing fuckwits which can at times make it tough, and the bandwagon jumpers tend to be the brexit rugby crew in their relaxed fit jeans and Clarkson haircuts, but I honestly try to block all that out and just enjoy football for a change since Ashley and the Premier League as a whole has done about as much as they possibly can in 12 year to ruin it.

It’s a zombie club. Tragic really, what ashley has done

I've been thinking about this, and I honestly think I care more about watching England than Newcastle these days. And I say that as someone that won't bother with England outside of major tournaments and who sometimes finds out that England were even playing the day after the match took place, so I don't really give that much of a fuck about them. But what is the actual point of Newcastle United these days?

I still don't really support England though I can get invested emotionally occasionally like in Italia 90 or this time around. I suppose I've always associated it with the negatives like Newcastle players being ignored in favour of the Geoff Thomas's of this world and others just there because they play for London clubs as well as players I actively disliked like Rooney. That's before the No Surrender brigade are considered. I still think it doesn't compare with following NUFC (although I couldn't help thinking about this season and last under Bruce on Sunday night) - I remember having a conversation with someone at work after France 98 where they asked if "normal" football compared with watching England and I replied that she should think of how she felt watching the Argentina game and multiply that by 38 times a year - she asked how we could cope and I think my reply was "alcohol".

Watching England is probably my glimpse into the mind of a glory hunting fan of the usual suspects. It's nice when you're winning but lacks the intensity of a late winner for your club but on the bright side it's dead easy to brush off when England get beat helped, as Alex says, by a certain section of the England fan base as well as the tabloids.

A lot of the England fans have helped me get over it very quickly

Isn’t that why he’s unsure how many kids he has?

Yeah, they better watch out if they make even the tiniest indiscretion. Meanwhile the bloke running the country won’t even say how many kids he has (on top of everything else)

Can you imagine John Terry being captain of these lads? I think we can judge how important this issue is for the very fuckers who actually wanted a culture war by their reaction to being 5 nil down v a bunch of kids from council estates in the actual culture war The tabloids will have received their instructions by now though...unleash hell...again...

Barney Ronay on the money https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jul/12/england-the-country-not-the-football-team-needs-to-take-a-look-at-itself

This is an astonishing political generation of sportsmen

Says a lot about him I suppose if that’s how the team felt.

I got to know ott quite well, he was the resident act in the chillout room at tribe of frog parties in bristol and always played at glade festival and ozora in hungary. very talented musician, I reckon his finest moment was playing smoked glass and chrome as the finale to his set as support act to shpongle's album release party for 'nothing lasts, but nothing is lost' he absolutely stole the night! he's a bit of an opinionated twat mind! I don't know if you've listened to globular? love this album....