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Not my experience unfortunately. I did a tour of the San Siro recently. The tour guide asked which club I supported. I said "Newcastle" with a grin on my face. He just looked puzzled. "Kevin Keegan, Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer". He was still not getting it. "Oh ffs, Sandro Tonali, we've just played Milan in the champions league? " He was Still scoobied, and asked me whereabouts Newcastle was. I told him the NE of England. "Ahhhh" he says "Vicino Sunderland?L'argomento di Netflix? Il black cats! Jack Ross, Phil Parkinson, Simon Grayson? Il Loch Ness Drogba! Founders of Athletico Bilbao! Mamma Mia! Il Sunderland è una squadra di calcio enorme. Forza Sunderlando!!! Gutted, tbh.

I was once on the Munich stadium tour and the guide asked me and my mates who we supported. Told him Newcastle and he went “ah, big club, big stadium” but just with a German accent. I can’t recall stopping the tour in its tracks so I could fire the beacons up and inform the rest of the Geordie Nation that a bloke in Munich thinks we’re a big club

I can tell you why Burn starts, it’s because no fucker lets 10k whingeing unqualified big girls blouses tell them how to do their job. Oh and Tino covers four positions from the bench. You don’t have to agree, but this is the reality of the issue, Tino’s adaptability is why he’s not starting . Howe was criticised for being too loyal to certain players at Bournemouth and it’s showing here too. I can just about put up with it because I can see Howe is performing a balancing act, what he’s losing on the swings he must feel that he’s gaining on the roundabouts…

Seems like the lad in LA is really invested in them What’s their obsession with random people from other places knowing they exist? Why would you give a flying fuck if a tour guide had heard of your club . “Ahhh me deliveroo driver saw my sunlin polo top and sez he’d seen aal of Netflix sheeewwwuh, an he hoped we made it to the championship as it seemed it would be a big deal for a clerb like sunlin, ah telt him that we’d already got promoted an he just shrugged and fucked off on his bike. Proper massive club us like”

5-0, obviously. We need to step up to the mark here lads, and give a full account of our annihilation of these as PL and his mini bus full of Southern Ponces will obviously not be making the game due to overindulgence and/or arrest the night before. Any suggestions for titty-bars or warehouses* still welcome in PL’s “ Where the fuck can I take this lot without getting them chinned?” thread. * dyslexic pimp. @sammynb- this is your early dementia tag to find the match thread- you’re welcome. Edited title because “at home”.

Sky tried to get a shot of a West Ham fan applauding Rice off the pitch only for the fella beside to start doing the wanker gesture.

Do not sell at any cost!

They were talking about a title charge not so long ago Not so easy to break into that top 4 is it? Especially if your manager has ZERO cojones

"..... So it's Aston Villa v Manchester United and it's time to handover to our commentary team of Peter Drury and Andy Hinchcliffe. Lol. It's Gary Neville, really."

You could see what it meant to him when he was wheeling away in celebration pointing to the Castore badge. The lad really loves below average quality sportswear.

The only midfielders that are due back are Willock and Anderson. They’ll allow Miley to be taken out the firing line but I don’t think they’ll be able to tighten the midfield up massively. It’s a shame Big Joe isn’t due back anytime soon.

35-0 Dan Burn to play all defensive positions simultaneously and make everyone look stupid. Andy Cole to score the goals

Emery looks like someone's microwaved his gazpacho.

That’s what we want….Bruno ** NOW WITH ADDED EXTRA GOALSCOARING** and Harvey Barnes are going to reel both these gimps in…I’ve cast the runes, it’s all appeared before me…we’ll get a point at the Emirates and beat Maidstone United in the semi final of the cup and Liverpool in the final in Klopp’s last ever game as Liverpool manager

Probably about 20,000 West Ham fans have already left! Cockney Stevie in there somewhere

I normally stick up for the lads that get targeted every week (Almiron, burn, Ciggy) as they all give 100% and that’s all we can ask as a supporter. There is no reason to ever get on their backs. We all want a team that tries, hey. Having said that Howe has an issue here. The midfield are too weak without Joe/Tonali so that’s leaving Burn to be targeted. I’ll leave it to Eddie to decide the action. If he feels swapping Burn out would help than I’m fine with that. If he wants to spend extra time on the training ground working on the midfield pressing properly. Also fine.

erm, I accept that he’s the manager and he makes the selections. I absolutely love Howe but he’s not above criticism. I’m questioning his continued loyalty to a player clearly out of form (and arguably out of position) because this is a Newcastle supporters message board. I mean sure, he’s a pro manager and I’m bullshit artist, but what else are we going to talk about?

Just had a look through the first few pages of their match thread for our game and they’re all hammering Burn and asking why Tino isn’t starting too. Now I’m starting to question my judgement

No! Football has to be perfect! It has to be 1 + 2 = 3. It’s not played and coached by human beings with all their idiosyncrasies, foibles and habits, it’s done by robots who should do exactly what you program them to do and you’ll get perfect results 🤓 PS Livramento started at left back for the 4-1 defeat at Spurs and the 3-1 defeat at Everton. Can someone please explain why we got beat in these games with the player who people are claiming to be the key to unlocking footballing glory beyond our wildest dreams ACTUALLY STARTING THE GAMES??!! 🤯

The first goal the midfield were nowhere, ball was inside Burn the fullback, CH is the one who should cover when that happens. One on one Elanga’s gonna do just about anyone tbh. But I guess we’ve gotta have a target to piss and moan about. We won btw. 4th away win on the bounce. You’d think we were bottom of the table the way some are going on 🙄

15-2 (because we always let the other team score more than once) - all 17 to Krafth

I'd like to see us make a play for Ferguson from Brighton, but I'd guess they'd want crazy money for him.

Tbf half the time he's getting smashed to bits the other half he's down when I accidentally bump the telly. He does himself no favours like. The refs know he's a diver so he gets practically no freekicks even when their players do kick lumps out of him. Joelinton is very similar and he's built like a fucking universal soldier.

And for anyone that knows the good family Longstaff, tell Ciggy to harden up and stay on his feet. For a 70+kg 6ft man he's a fucking fanny, the slightest touch and he's on the ground, gets nothing and then is like a petulent cunt in the referee's ear for the rest of the game. If he was to stay on his feet we wouldn't turn the ball over half as much, he might even get us further up the pitch or in on goal - imagine that? I noticed even Miley has started doing it, most noticeably on the edge of our 18 yard box in the final minute while we were under the cosh. That shite don't fly, it's bad enough Bruno doing it when he's having a huff but he's fucking Brasilian so he at least has an excuse.

Tops, thanks bloke. BTW the edit means we're fucked.

I’ll take ‘things Mrs. Wyki would like to insert into Callum’s anus’ for 500.

Average day on the SMB, perfectly normal behaviour.

Longstaff has, by all conventional wisdom, struggled recently but he’s also beaten his best goalscoring season with 3 month to go. This is a team of contradictions and impossible to figure out

Three defeats in a row at home for Villa. Lovely to see.

He's had better days tbf.

We should absolutely be hoping for Europe next season and planning a transfer window to significantly bolster the squad for it. Failing to make Europe will affect what we can sign in the summer.

Wanting arsenal to win, man.

Yeah. I’m 50/50 whether a Europa/Conference spot would be good. We should be able to put out B side and see off the poor teams. It would be good for the likes of Anderson/Miley to continue their development in that competition. Howe wanted to play the same XI for both CL and PL which is completely understandable but we won’t necessarily need to do that with a lesser competition.

I've virtually written off this season because of the difficulties we've had to put up with so in the cold light of day I'm not going to really call anyone, obviously a bit different if I'm in the house having a few beers watching it but other than that it is what it is. I'm sure I saw someone say only five points worse off than at this stage last year which seems mental and a credit to the effort the uninjured are putting in. The trajectory should be up, learn some lessons, make notes of the cunts trying to stop us and hopefully rub their noses in it in the future.

There will only ever be one Munter Hunter

That’s because most of us have no idea when they’re playing or who their opponents are.

Which is the whole point. We play a nominal 4-3-3 but in reality we spend most of the game with 3 at the back as it allows Trippier to play the role people jizz their pants about Alexander Arnold playing. Trippier who has the most assists in the League, let's not forget Burn being able to slot so easily onto a 3 is vital to our set- up The times we revert to a traditional 4 at the back is mainly facing free kicks and corners where Burn's hight and strength are vital. People are desperate for a scapegoat for reasons I don't understand.

I think the point about not changing things is further driven home by our not really looking troubled after Howe made the change to a back 3.

And in other news, our man on the ground in Italy has a scoop, over to you Ciaoman.

Fucking this, all the morons calling out Burn being at fault, both those chances for Elanga came from no midfielder filling that space in front of the defence (Miley who is allegedly playing there being caught out of position) and then ball in behind , not dinked over the top of the defence but diagonal behind the defenders backs or in the case of the first goal, just spliting the defenders.

It’s a fucking shite buffet mind.

Miley has done a great job but he's not ready for anything more than a cameo yet. The future's bright for the kid. He needs a rest.

The thing is with Jamie Redknapp is that he’s a fucking cunt

The midfield is part of the problem. I don’t think anyone has suggested otherwise? But while your midfield is weakened and offering the fullback less protection, do you play the 6ft 7 31 year old bloke ,who looks like he is running through treacle when exposed one on one, or the young lad with pace?

That is one angry marrow.

Doll eyes fuckin Redknapp saying the scabs should’ve had a nailed on pen! Why don’t all the fuckers on Sky just wear “We hate Newcastle” placards around their bastard necks! The fuckin creep presenter may as well be eating a cheese slice and drinking fucking blue pop, the cunt.