Howay

Get Ritchie and Diame off tbh.

The rubbish on the pitch man it’s like playing at the stadium of shite.

Another shot by a bloke that shouldn’t be on the pitch. Borderline yellow/red followed closely by a clear yellow card challenge in the first half. You know Refs are crap when this utter cunt of a bloke is seen as the best in England.

Ritchie’s delivery has been absolutely shocking so far. I’d like to see Ritchie come off, when he come off last week Almiron seemed to get on the ball a lot more which is a positive.

Big Dean missing a clear penalty for a slight pull on Rondon in the box (if being consistent). Followed up by completely ignoring another clear foul outside the area.

It’s also always annoyed me when they give pens for “fouls” on players that have no chance whatsoever of ever getting a chance on the ball, violent conduct aside. It just seems incredibly harsh to me. The worst I’ve seen was the on given against Coloccini or Williamson against Sunderland for a pull on a shirt, the ball was about 20 meters above everyone’s head as it sailed right out.

Really harsh, you could give that on every free kick or corner. He also had no chance whatsoever of getting that ball

Agreed he stitched Ibe right up tbh, as he kept within Ibes reach the whole way, which gave Ibe the impression he’d catch him so he held off until he clocked on he wasn’t getting to him

For that entire run I knew that cunt was going to foul Almiron. Fucking quality free kick and well deserved after that bellend cynically fouled Almiron, cheers for waiting until we were within shooting range stupid cunt, if you’re going to do that do it near the halfway line he was never catching Almiron ffs.

Think that was a red really. Over the ball and studs up. We’ve started canny enough tbh

Aye, anyone that ever expects any different from fat boy is always going to be disappointed sadly. He’s proven time and time again that he simply never learns from his mistakes, if he give Benitez a moderate budget, let him spend it as he wants, and doesn’t interfere, Rafa would keep the club in the PL. Instead he’s going to gamble it all again on whatever bellend manager dickhead Zahavi or whoever chooses and it’ll inevitably end in relegation so Ashley can lump another £30m on his “loan” to NUFC (which is never going down despite how many years in the PL we have nor how much profit we make in transfers). Rinse and repeat until the wanksplat either keels over or sells up.

Why don’t they just give the bloke a fucking budget, however many or few players that gets him is up to him, and he gets a percentage of money from player sales to re-invest and bolster his set budget. I honestly think that is all Rafa would want, he’s not a bloke who needs a fortune but he needs to be given a clear and honest budget that he controls. Instead this bunch of morons will offer a chance of signing one ‘marquee’ signing and expect that’s enough, they’ll then act like they’ve been fucked over when he turns the offer down.

The best people, wonder if they ended the night with spewing into a fireplace.

Least goals conceded outside the top 7, so it is an accurate assessment imo. You can point criticism at the side but we don’t concede much.

He’s a good focus of the attack, what I’ve noticed recently and was very clear in the Everton game is he likes to get goal side of his man and back into them halting their run before accelerating onto the ball. I know he’s ‘only’ had 8 goals but he has struggled for fitness for a lot of the season and we’re a side that generally doesn’t score many, the ones he has scored have generally won us points since we are so solid at the back. I agree the front 3 of Rondon with Perez and Almiron playing off him has potential. It’ll all disappear at the end of the season when bitch tits messes Benitez about further then penny pinches WBA so we end with no Rafa and no Rondon.

“There will be plenty of cars traveling down, all with scarves hanging out of windows” they really do think they’re some massive, brilliant support. It’s the cup above the FA Vase and a thread where a bloke is asking how other people make a 4.5hr or so drive

I find it incredible that they will sit and be absolutely buzzing that we are losing 0-2 to Everton, then without any self awareness when we go 3-2 up start going “no idea why the fuck the mags would be happy in any way, Liverpool and Manchester United have won trophies, even tha lads have since they did”, so we can’t be happy we turned 0-2 down into a win, but they could be happy that we are 0-2 down at the half while at the same time their lot are 1-0 down away to Wycombe Wanderers? Need to knock the smack on the head the bunch of gimps. It’s also massively pathetic and small time as fuck that they’re desperate for their two Jordan’s to do well against us and do it for the lads, when both couldn’t have got away from the lads any quicker ah well, they best go back to hoping a paedophile re-joins SAFC then, now the nasty mags have won they can go back to thinking up ways to rationalize why it’s ok now.

Awful that like, really dangerous as well since Grealish knew absolutely nothing about it. Blowing kisses and giving a thumbs up ffs, hope Grealish presses charges.

And the team they unsettled and took him from are 6 points above them and still in the FA cup

Aye I was thinking similar about his second half tactics. Pardew level stuff really, just hand all the control and momentum in the game to the opposition. I think it’s clear he’s not the top manager he thinks he is, and he’s coming out with nonsense excuses for every poor result. We are 3 points off Everton ffs, that alone imo shows the absolute gulf in class between how good Benitez is and Silva. Sigurdsson alone cost basically what our starting 11 cost, we completely deserved 3 points yesterday and while one offs happen the small gap over 30 games isn’t a fluke.

As NJS pointed out Zouma would have likely walked for his nasty challenge on Almiron as well. It was two footed, wreckless, and dangerous imo.

Watford making 7 changes and apparently playing 6 at the back against Man City. Is Javi Gracia going to get slated like Rafa did? This is even more negative

Aye because a 94th minute equalizer against Wycombe is absolutely class. They could have won 6-0 and I wouldn’t give a fuck as they’re in fucking League One

Love Silva whinging crying about offside yet ignoring the fact his team should have had 10 men most game, then saying Sigurdsson should have had a pen errm it was a blatant dive. You were 2-0 up and have a squad that cost 300m or something daft more than us, it’s high time that fraud was out of a job tbh.

Chuffed that Pickford being a complete donkey lead to one of our goals. As powerful and good as the Almiron shot was he should have palmed that over or punched clear instead of bundling it.