Alex

Later wrote a thesis on the history of enology (3.99 - 5.99)

Pretty sure it’s the one I was thinking of https://www.johnnicholsonwriter.co.uk/pages/about-johnny apart from Teesside but I remember the ‘A very northern mind’ column mentioned there which I’m sure is the one that had the carpark in the background. And that’s a great piece on the odious cunt Radcliffe. It’s horrible what he’s doing. There’s been another 200 redundancies announced this afternoon too. To make the club ‘profitable’. Meanwhile they’ve just paid off Ashworth to the tune of several million. It would be funny but for thee people losing their jobs and getting what you know will be the smallest statutory payments allowed.

Is he the lad from Boro originally? Think I’ve read a few good pieces by him down the years if it’s him. Didn’t he used to have a profile pic with the Gateshead / Get Carter carpark in the background?

First the mugs, then the crypto

Not 100% convinced they’re a genuine Newcastle fan tbh

Where’s Stevie when you need him?

The cheek of it!

Is Guimarães his married name?

I actually think he’d be great in our system as an 8 once he got used to the role. it summed Southgate up in a way that he tried to play him in the euros as one of two DMs. Then also didn’t play him when he reverted back to wingbacks. Which is probably his ideal position

Even if Man City win I can’t see anything other than Liverpool winning the league. So you want Liverpool to win from a NUFC pov. Draw is ok too

@PaddockLaddid you watch the Calcutta Cup? I was genuinely pissed pff when Scotland missed the conversion to win it at the death Talk about scraping a win. Although I suppose England were due one

The worst Man Utd team ever patter was a ridiculous statement which he also got an easy ride for. Ten Haag won two trophies and got them into the CL

They’re lucky the bottom 4 are cut adrift because Man Utd are absolute dogshit

Obviously straight men raping women (for example) is much less of an issue than trans people committing sexual offences. Because if that wasn’t the case then you’d have had all the people concerned about the latter campaigning to stop the former for years and years. Wouldn’t you? Unless there’s something else going on

The classic feign concern to be obfuscate bigotry technique

Bilbao put us out on away goals. Won 3-2 at home, after being 3-0 up and lost 1-0 away in the return leg. Everyone who went to Bilbao says it was incredible. At that time I was frequenting Chris Needham country, studying English at Loughborough

I went to the home leg in the UEFA Cup when we beat Antwerp 5-2, after the 5-0 away and the Rob Lee hat trick of headers. Happy days Also, while I’ve never been Ghent has long had a reputation for a cracking techno scene including the home of R&S Records

I mean my version was more pithy but that works too

Bye

Just seen this. Sending you lots of love, MF. So sorry to hear about your awful news.

24 clean sheets now. Which is already a record equalling feat for a championship season, including 12 in a row now after last night

Also is it Wallonia where the Ardennes Forest is and where they have F1 GP where some people speak German? Not been to that but like. I would love to go back. I’ve only been the one time (Brussels and Bruges or Bruxelles and Brugge ). The flight times were a bit shit so we saw Bruges properly and not very much of Brussels. We did see the Grand Place (and Manneken Pis ) though

That was his argument never seen a bookie offering odds on it like. You just get what you’d have won divided by two and lose half your stake so it’s not the same