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Gemmill and the pacemakers.

Another abusive far left troll

I'm guessing his usual formal wear was in the wash

I don’t think we are turning on him, are we?

We’ve timed it perfectly for the time the government voted to pour shit and piss into our water sources.

I’m honestly not aware of any proper stick Bruce received. There were chants in the stadium but rarely, he got off incredibly lightly due to Covid. During the Spurs game home and away fans were singing “your getting sacked in the morning” which is hardly abusive or unfair. Most managers underperforming to that level will have received far, far worse stick. The media narrative has been absolutely beyond belief, Bruce has been a shit manager for 20 years and this is probably the best treatment he’s received.

I always took it as they were meaning that, even Bruce himself went on about only having good experiences with fans he encountered in real life, I’ve never seen any indication he received any threats or bother when out and about only on social media, which he doesn’t have. I always assumed Alex would print off a list of abuse and bring it to Sunday dinner where Steve would go “come on then son, let’s hear the damage this week” “you won’t believe it this week dad psychotoonfan27 said you’re an inept cabbage headed cunt” “I don’t know how I’ll go on son, Luke Edwards will hear about this”.

I had the misfortune of having Messrs. White, Jordan and Murphy on in the car earlier discussing Mick McCarthy's dismissal from the Cardiff job and the chants he was getting at the match. The consensus among them was 'he's a big boy', 'results weren't good enough' and 'he's well paid to take that abuse and he'll walk away with a big pay off'. The hypocrisy is staggering. For the life of me I can't see why Bruce has been afforded this view that he was hard done by.

Hope you’ve got some nice chairs on there

Well I know two blokes who won't be making it on the tour bus.

Watch Neville's body language in the last 5 minutes of this. He's so fucking uncomfortable when faced with the prospect of having to criticise his friends. Souness is spot on, basically saying I'm offering up my idea of a solution and you're just knocking it down, but SOMETHING has to change, and Neville is squirming in his seat because the only answer to what is wrong at Man United is that his real life friends aren't up to the task. This is how you end up with these situations where an objectively poor manager like Steve Bruce can't be criticised.

(PP I believe?)

tbf the first paragraph has me reeled in

British shit and piss, Tom. None of that foreign muck.

Was offshore on the ropes until the Lurgy hit. I was thinking of knocking it on the head for a while anyway, so called it a day. Doing this until I get my Class 1 HGV then I’ll be out trucking and killing prozzies. 👍

I mean why the fuck would you go dressed like that to meet the Queen?

It's the Tories' fault, innit?

Seaton Sluice is near Blyth numbnuts. Rag n Boneman just filmed his new music video there. It's the Joshua Tree of Northumberlan.

In all the justified shit Guillem el Ballbag's getting, grouping him with 'elite people' is fucking beserk and so far flew right under everyone's radar.

5 minutes on social media and you’ll see a considerable amount of people saying the hope Ole dies, hope he gets cancer etc I’ve even seen some trying to get #oledie trending, that’s about as bad as it can get really so aye there’s absolutely no chance Bruce got it worse it’s just complete media bullshit. Bruce got the same treatment as any failing manager, which considering the way he tortured the fan base with his comments in pressers was more than fair it could have been a whole lot worse imo (as seen by the treatment he got from mackems and Villa fans)

The media pile on for Ole is delicious! All of Bruce's mates who defended him last week now sticking the boot in when it affects their club

I am not sure about Fonseca. I don't know him to much, but I can tell some things about him. I think he is a coach that need time to built his team and not to get good results inmediatly. And we need to win since next match. Fonseca did very well with small teams in Portugal with 0 pressure. In his first experience, in Second Level of Portugal League, he ended the League in 3rd position with Deportivo Aves, a team that should be top5 or top6. Ok. Is good. Well done. In his second experience, he ended in third position with Paços... A team that should be fight in the bottom of the league. Veeery Well. This team was so smart. Playing defensive football, not conceding in the back and doing so well the counterattack. This performance made him to sign with Porto... And he not convince. Bad in League, Cups and Europe, he had a very good team, with Jackson, Quintero, Quaresma, James, Fernando, Danilo, Hector Herrera, Varela, Alex Sandro, Otamendi... He was eliminated in Champions in groups and was fired when he was third in League. Come back with Paços and did well. He discovered Diogo Jota this year playing the end of the season and ending in half of the table. Again, a new experience with a better team. Braga, probably the fourth of the country behind Portp, Benfica and Sporting. And he did very well. He won the half of the matches this season. He won the Cup, ended the season in 4th and QuartersFinals in Europa League. With Shakthar is not easy to evaluate because Shakthar is by far the best team in the country. In the Ukranian Championship he did very well. Three leagues and three cups in three years. But not in Europe. First year, a bad Europa League, being eliminated by Celta. Second, good performance, getting 12 points in Group Stage and later downing by Roma. Third, bad again, being 3rd in Group Stage and losing later in Europa League against Frankfurt. In Roma, he was correct in League in first year (5th, but not have a squad for more) and correct in Cups, being defeted by Juventus and Sevilla. But second he ended in 7th and the squad was for more. He had lots of personal problems with Dzeko and bad relationship with the players. I am not sure about him. He have never getting a team in the middle of the season. Not experienced in this kind of situation. He need more time to work and this team needs to win inmediatly. Hehave done very well with bad squads, and very bad with strong squads. He have played almost his all career with 4-4-2 formation, and 3-4-2-1 in Rome. And this team need to sign better defenses to play with 4 in the back.

I'd like to do it tbf. But it's a one way ticket to becoming a fat bastard. I'd also be one of those who would overtake another lorry on a two lane motorway if it was going half of a mph slower than me.

We fuckin blocked the cunt

Just get a diary and post it as a hand written image. That way you can cross words out when he's trying to spell something and make his handwriting sloppier after sinking 12 pints and a Ryder special

Proof that I can be brief. My wife can attest.

Waiting for International Rescue to come fix my puncture There’s worse places to be stuck, like.

I'm not going to lie, I read that post in the voice of Donald Sinden from 'Never the Twain'.

Double denim

Murphy was also saying, in regards to Solksjaer, that at the end of the day the manager bears responsibility for the way the players play, their tempo, attitude, application etc., and the stats concerning efforts on goal, goals against etc. are important. Again the hypocrisy when comparing their comments about Bruce, to their ones about McCarthy and Solksjaer is ridiculous. It's got to the point where I think it's possible that Bruce runs a knocking shop on the quiet, and has compromising videos and photos on various figures in the football world Jeffrey Epstein style.

Fair play on your magnanimity towards them, fish.

Iain Macintosh is doing a series of articles for the Athletic where he manages Newcastle on FM22. This post is probably solely for the attention of @The Fish, I guess.

Gingaz

Alreet, Gemmill and the ants.

The best bit is him saying he won’t comment on work he hadn’t seen. Like the coaches at Man Utd can’t be criticised by him because he wasn’t in attendance at the training sessions. Like you’re saying, that’s what you’re being paid to do as a pundit, ie provide some analysis. Not state the fucking obvious

“Did you hear him talking about it”

Non-NUFC media is about the only thing Bruce played well.

You know that’d end up with Noel fucking Fielding finger-blasting Mary Berry whilst the scouse cunt had a whitey in the corner. Maybe.

If I did it I'd hate the world even more. I've got tourettes just normal minimal driving.

Cricket governance has been farcical for years now, and the BCCI has been maneuvering politically and economically for years to crush Pakistan cricket. This was a major fuck you Bloody over the moon. Sport finally seems to have turned a corner, all around

Aye but do you wear a Björn Borg head band?

At least he has their strip on.

I put the other i in and it didn't look right. I think it might be him that's spelling it wrong.