Gemmill

@thebrokendoll

Big round faces and double chins with bad dye-jobs on their wispy sideburns. Burberry shirts with serious button-gape. The return of the monkey-walk.

The worst thing about it for most is gonna be traipsing away from the venue and remembering that your in your 50s now.

It'll be impossible to get an objective view on how this goes though. There'll be a huge majority who won't say it was anything other than the 90s all over again, and a minority who have already decided today that they're gonna say it was shite.

Same. There definitely was something about them live. A weird amount of energy produced on stage by blokes who barely shifted. I suspect that energy has long since left the room.

I liked the first two albums, and then thought it was largely a procession of genuine shite with a few good songs dropped in here and there. I would class myself as a fan though, but I couldn't be less interested in this. The return and all the will they/won't they that preceded it. I am interested to see the shock horror response to the price of the tickets though.

All PL footballers get financially well rewarded. But he's been bought by a club that didn't want him to complete a financial checkbox. He's had to move house, and he'll shortly have to do the same again. It's not a good way to treat someone who already was on the periphery at his previous club.

@Alexand others

Given they had no qualms about pinching their stadium name, they fucked up by not going with the Marracanã.

I feel a bit sorry for this Greek lad we signed from Forest. He's now probably gonna be loaned out, having been used as a makeweight to meet PSR. This is a bloke's career being fucked about with cos of these stupid rules.

Did you see the bit about the VAR yesterday though? Makes you think.

https://www.themag.co.uk/2024/08/i-hope-im-wrong-but-something-doesnt-look-right-at-newcastle-united-alan-shearer/

Same, I think it's the best thing he's done. Mainly cos you're not straining to hear his voice over his fucking stupid band.

Really sad, that. He always seemed like a thoroughly decent bloke.

Aye this was good.

I reckon Marty D is away, which is why he wasn't in the squad yesterday, and we want a proper understudy instead of an old man and King Poseidon.

I don't listen to ANY NUFC specific podcasts, actually, Uncle Grimace. Lineker's one is the only football one I still bother with.

Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War is a new docudrama on Netflix. Narrated by Ed Harris. Starts with the Gunfight at the OK Corral and picks up the story after that. It's canny if you like a bit of western action. Dramatised bits interspersed with patter from historians and authors.

This commentator is fucking obsessed with the hairy Egyptian. He commentates as if every attack is inevitably gonna end with him scoring.

God I hate Liverpool.

Aye, fired the starting gun on the national obesity crisis. In my head, it was the place on the corner under the John Dobson Street NCP. Last time I saw it, it was a Frankie and Benny's.

Remember the Deep Pan Pizza Company?

I've had that shit in Chicago and it's alright as an experience to say you've done it, but given the choice between that and proper pizza, there's no contest for me. It's also why the Midwest is the land of the weeble.