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My oldest laddie goes to this thing called Feet4Footvall which is all small- sided games and drills using a futsal ball. Anyway Sean and Matty Longstaff used to go and last night their Mam was there at the start of the session and gave a nice little chat about hard work and effort paying off. What a nice, down to earth lady she seems. I know, I know, good family. But it does seem like we have a great set of grounded lads who work hard for each other. I know we’ve got some too quality players we’ve brought in, if you look at Botman, Isak, Bruno, etc. But I love how we’ve got some local lads doing the business for us too who get what the city, club etc is about. I think that helps instil those values in the rest of the squad. Anyway, I’m rambling. But it’s fucking great having a side we’ve all got pride in who care, instead of a bunch of mercenaries

Am reading through the hidden thread to see their reactions and IMO it was more muted than usual (mostly because anyone who posted in the thread was roundly attacked by 5 or 6 other posters because Sunderland were playing too and no one should even be thinking of our game). Came across this though: I just want to take a moment to call this out for what it is. It's cowardice. Fear. Terror, even. The reality he is putting forward is that we have ceased to be a football club anymore, and are now something different, thus negating our rivalry with them. We are no longer Newcastle United. He's right that the rivalry has died in terms of the true meaning of the word. We are now untouchable to them in a very real sense - after a certain point this will be cemented for all time IMO, not that we're quite there yet. He knows this, we know this. It is no longer a rivalry not because we are no longer Newcastle United, but because they are so comprehensively outclassed by every aspect of our club, that the word no longer has meaning. There aren't 3 clubs in the North East anymore, there is one + a few smaller outfits like Gateshead, Blyth and Sunderland. He can try to reframe this however the damn hell he wants, but he is fucking terrified of the day he can't keep reality out anymore. The day we line up against and then absolutely obliterate them. Truthfully we are already doing this, we are obliterating them in relative terms every day of the week - but eventually it'll come through on the football pitch. This is why they don't want promotion. This is why they want to tell themselves that this is no longer a rivalry. This cowardly, weak, pathetic response from them dressed up in "humanitarian concerns" is transparent and obvious. Die on your fucking feet Sunderland fans, you lying, dismal, cringing excuse for a supporter base.

'I see. Is this 'mate' in the room with us now?'

I'm not apologising for the truth I had indeed had a few when I wrote that though, and it disturbs me a bit that you could tell

Richards is going crackers about it on the latest Rest Is Football. Atmosphere, the whole occasion. Tells Shearer off for downplaying how good it was then describes it as "One of the best nights in the history of football"

Carragher was enjoying himself but there's a bit of a condescending tone underneath the surface, 'Yous like a Gregg's up here'. A pastie or a sausage roll.' 'do the dance, we'll do it with you.' Aye it's just a laugh but imagine a cockney ex-pro interviewing him, 'ere, Scouser, you lot laahve a bit of Beatles mania daahntcha? Go on my saan, sing me sergeant peppers lonely hearts claab, I'll join in, daahnt worry.' Or how about, 'Excellent game in midfield today, Roy. You single handedly won that midfield battle for Manchester United, but you love the old blarney don't you, eh? Eh? Why don't you give us all a little Irish jig, I'll join in. Gwaan, gwaan, gwaan. Lol.'

Pissed up and googling the correct spelling of Blyth on a Thursday night. This is what rock bottom looks like, Rayvin.

Rayvin last night: Rayvin this morning: "it disturbs me that you could tell I was drunk"

You two couldn't pull a donut in Krispy Kreme's

What an epic photo!

Quoting this for when you've sobered up!

I wish I'd never fucking asked now.

I remember my mam spending fucking ages on teletext trying to book cheap holidays

Ireland is only switching off its version of Teletext next week. We really do invite the stereotypes on ourselves.

Looking back I enjoyed one of their lads in the first few minutes putting his studs on the ball and backing off basically saying "Come on then, are you gonna try and press us". And we were like "We'll get to that mate. Are you ready?" and then just fucking squeezing them til their pips squeaked for the next 90 minutes.

I liked everything apart from "however the damn hell he wants". That was a bit too Joan Collins in Dynasty for my liking.

I can't believe you didn't ask her if she knew UM? A school boy error, Alex.

Don’t get ratty ffs

Jermaine Jenas (the fucking rat)

My takeaway was how normal our players are though. That interview would never have happened with Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd players. You wouldn't see Sterling or Kane doing TikTok dances for a laugh. Whilst fans and managers of other clubs are full of fume against us, I think most pundits and journos think we are class

RAT VAN DEN HAUWE

Is it Gazza?

Yep, you never know when you might need to respond to one.

Yeah…. Southgate loves us though 🤷🏻‍♂️

He's as plastic as anyone. He would sing with the Galatasary fans one week and then slag them off with the Dirty Leeds fans the next.

big meeks is a mag, pass it on

I fucking knew I spelled that wrong - I even googled it afterwards cos it felt wrong. But then I think google returned the results for the word blythe and my inebriated brain just didn't sweat the details from that point

I’d support mass graves

All good, they’ll be taking it down the throat in a few seasons. Might even start calling us “United” or “Newcastle United Football Club” as the two red clubs from the north west become less relevant

Wykiki determined to bust this myth.

also.

Does that make you angry? 🙂

Yay! Success in the Palace ballot

My thoughts exactly, it is beyond reprehensible. He spelt Blyth with an "e"

He'd beterr apologise for it if he apologises. He's bang on tbf.

Aye this is PL and TP moaning about xG in their car pool Prius, while me and The Fish are doing donuts in our Ferraris in the car park.

They’re doing a prequel to the film ‘The Equalizer’. It’s called ‘One Nil’.

We were still 3 days shy of the 2nd anniversary of the takeover last night BTW. Less than 2 years and we're pumping PSG in the CL. I don't believe any manager other than Howe could have achieved this. We got mad lucky getting that bloke.