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Like this nice easy save for Karius.

Joelinton and Bruno playing very well with composure and ASM wants everything forward, pretty good start especially with Dalot already on a yellow.

Fucking Bein shit, they cross to their commentary.... it's been a minute and a half of just stadium noise!

Hope Karius has a nice easy bit of involvement early to settle the nerves. His too.

Wor Bruno looking nervous, moreso than Loris.

The black and white in the stadium looks fantastic, got to be a nice lift for the boys.

He'd be inhuman if he wasn't nervous! I'm nervous sat in my lounge room 17000km away!

Such an absurd set of circumstances with Karius in goals.

This is on Bein sports here with Richard Keys and Andy Gray, fucking hell they are terrible. Keys has been blabbing on about Rashford, and keeps asking the same question of Gray whether he's the best player in the league, and whether he'd swap him for Haaland.

The boys suggested I wake them up so they can watch the game with me, but it's at 3:30AM and they have school after. Plus they'll just fall asleep.

As I was watching the earlier video in the tweet that Diego posted when local hero came on both my boys and my wife started humming the tune 🥰

Nice work @Christmas Tree it was a bit emotional hearing you and your daughters speak in the context of the atmosphere there and the impending game. Hope you all have a great time and more importantly that we win.

More than anything, it will be "our season fell apart because Newcastle United won a cup."

Was just thinking this to myself the other night as I drifted off to sleep.

Taekwondon't care.

Like how he calls himself Lorius Karius.

Something to look forward to.

Noone is suggesting sleep should be lost, just that there must be an acknowledgement of distaste when anyone other than us are referred to as United, and doubly so if we're not referred to as Newcastle United.

People aren't welcome around here if this doesn't bother them. The only one who could probably get away with it is Diego as he'd no doubt have a little anecdote to go along with it.

And for the record we were United before they were (1892 versus 1902).

I was going to say that it wasn't like his finishes were spectacular here, had acres of space and put them on target. Good finishes but on any other day at least one probably gets saved. When you're in form they have a way of finding their way in. We'll have a tried and tested proven entity in goals *checks notes* Lorus Karius. Tried and tested by his extremely fine wife at least, one would hope.

I'm imagining them in full kicknboxing outfits. Either like this: Or preferably this:

I just hope that he comes back and plays his natural game and doesn't feel like he suddenly has to do everything to make up for being out.

You're going off the deep end mate. The joke someone else made was at our expense - and fair enough if another teams keeper did what Pope did, we'd be taking the piss too. Enrique responded to that with a joke that IMO mostly takes the piss out of him and he has further explained why he considers himself a Liverpool supporter first and Newcastle second. Can't see any problem with that. When Enrique played for us he always gave his all. If Ashley didn’t delay in giving him a new contract chances are he never would have gone to Liverpool. Even if you want to be bitter about it (why?) the sticking point is we definitely had his best years.

Yes you dills, Pepe Reina headbutted James Perch and was sent off. We were 2-0 up at the time and they'd used all their subs so Enrique went in goal for them and kept a clean sheet for the remainder of the game. He's making a joke at his own expense.