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It occurred to me this evening that my traditional posts reminding you boys to adjust your clocks accordingly twice a year (not a euphemism) is becoming redundant in this digital age. However, here I am once again on nightshift doing an extra hour for no money, a victim of my own fuckwittery because I did the rota. If you have an old fashioned alarm clock with bells on top and you wake up at 8am then get yourself another hour, you lucky bastard… (PS. Re: the current state of the hospitals. It’s all going to shit again. Don’t make too many extravagant Christmas party plans) Love you, bye! 😘

The “mosque” they’re so riled up about is actually Spanish City in Whitley

Alex Bruce seems to have inherited the overactive pastry gland

The biggest fanny of them all. Spending some of that £8m payoff, and thanking his son for running around behind him with a poop-scoop.

To be fair, as soon as Chelsea got their first, it was cricket time for me too. Only difference was I wasn't wearing Junior Soprano's glasses.

Case in point

Interesting that he needs glasses when he's at a cricket match, but we never once saw those worn on the touchline at Newcastle...

For James’ first goal Wright reckoned ‘you want Newcastle fans to get out there quicker’. The media really will blame us for everything.

At least he can walk briskly with it for half a dozen years or so to keep the blood pumping. Soon he'll be knocking 50 and having to keep stopping and waiting for it, shivering whilst contemplating it's impending death. Happy Halloween everyone.

Hope all the parents are enjoying this delightful trick or treating weather.

Interesting choice of Halloween costumes

https://www.cityam.com/abramovich-bought-chelsea-on-putins-orders-to-corrupt-the-west-book-claims/ You can certainly draw parallels between; PIF > Abramovich acting as proxies for; MBS > Putin who ordered the murders of; Kashoggi > Litvinyenko meaning they shouldn't own; NUFC > Chelsea IIRC the press at the time of the Chelsea takeover was more about blowing smoke up Mourinho's arse than suggesting Chelsea fans should be denouncing their club owner though ...

It's so he didn't have to watch the shite the rest of us had to put up with.

Not plastic enough to be a real Chelsea fan!

Did my first ever Parkrun today. I can sort of see what all the fuss is about now. Dead canny atmosphere, all the marshalls were great. I shall return. This bloke overtook me pushing his kid in a buggy, and just disappeared into the distance. That shouldn't be allowed, but other than that, a nice morning out.

He's 7/1 at skybet. Even at hills where they quote evens he's 4/1.

Sky do have the odd ‘Super’ Sunday where they throw all the shite in together and think ‘fuck the ratings today’. The only surprise is we weren’t among it.

Willock is taking injections to be able to play after injuring his toe a while back iirc. Apparently he just has to manage it until it heals. With that being said it likely explains why he hasn't exactly hit the heights this season, and is in and out of the team. And of course he didn't have a preseason and Cabbage just threw him in straight away, saying oh sure he's a fit lad.

My sheets are sodden

We need 8 from the next 4 games. The Christmas period will see us getting nowt

I know he's generally a dour fucker but after another good fourth goal for West Ham I can only take it Alan Smith's team as a kid were Villa?

on netflix..... fantastic fungi. awe inspiring programme and at times, very moving.

I love how none of the 'big 6' are playing today so Tyler, Neville, Carragher, Richards and Souness all get the day off and they just get Alan Smith and Redknaap to do it as they blatantly don't give a fuck about anybody else.

Jones started off the post match interview with a makem accent.

He's not wrong. Darlow, Richie, Lascelles, Clarke, Hayden, Shelvey, Gayle all stinking the place out since we were relegated 5 years ago. 5 or 6 of them probably in our starting XI too

That's 8 points dropped out of 9 since the club was sold. I wish we would stop "ramping up the manager search" and just pick someone. The further adrift we are come January the harder it's going to be to convince players to sign for us

Maybe not directly "asked" for it but let's not pretend that he wasn't aware this scenario was a short term possibility. I'm not taking a pop at him like, he's conducted himself in a way that suggests he's been preparing for this rather than being blindsided.

Shearer has summed it up right on MOTD. Years of underinvestment and dog shit management. Wright and Jug Ears laughing. Fucking cunts,

Spurs must be regretting picking Nuno over Fonseca now, their fans don't look happy at all. What a turnaround from the days of Pochettino. I think we need to get our man in before Spurs start pitching their hats in for a new manager as well.

I think Almiron, Dubravka, Fernandez, Schar and Willock coming into the team, and Fraser, Darlow, Krafth, Clark and Longstaff being benched could improve us considerably. Even getting Dummett back in and around the team has to be better than what Krafth and Clark are offering. Surely a decent manager would see the utility in having someone who's decent on the ball in Schar in the defence for starters. I mean the amount of times we nearly gave Chelsea the ball on the edge of our box, when trying to play out, should be indication enough that Clark, Krafth et al can't handle playing out from the back. If those players come in and the new manger finds a set up and way to play that suits said players along with ASM and Wilson, and he doesn't play people like Almiron out of position, then we can definitely improve quite a bit. I mean Rafa is a great manager, but if he can get a tune out of what was probably a considerably worse squad, then surely a very decent manager can keep us up. Or should I say keep us at least within touching distance of safety before the January transfer window, when things thereafter could change for the better.

I’ll take your cricket crowd and raise you SJP (Wasn’t expecting this flicking through the NUFC hashtag on the metro home)

Just as well he's had some practice changing nappies recently.

Aye, sounds familiar. Did you get outsprinted by a little kid at the finish line? That's more or less guaranteed too. Apparently tripping them up is frowned upon.

You can just say Joelinton now mate, I've cracked the case.

That's a beaut, can I get a cutting?

First thing is to revert to a back 5, preferrably without Lascelles. Get Fernandez back in there and hopefully we have a manager who can get the most out of Schar. We need to be harder to score against, against Spurs we were diabolical in that regard and it's been the theme for the season. Hayden has to come back into the holding midfield protecting our defense and Willock needs to show some more discipline in not pressing too high and getting out of position. We need Almiron's running back in the side and a consistent run for Wilson up top.

I’m pretty sure if we do get relegated we will get promoted again fairly quickly.