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It was in the London evening standard. An attempted face saving exercise by Levy when the player he imposed on Pochettiono's squad turned out to be fuckin useless. Who knew?

Sturgeon tweeted something fairly gracious this morning about Dugdale and the subsequent replies from her followers (Twitter has always troubled me with the use of that word) had all the hallmarks of a cult. In that regard they remind me of UKIP. Public comment to the outside world is controlled and mostly the same regardless of who is making it. Dugdale has been got at by momentum (another cult it would seem) and Scottish Labour will soon be in their sphere of influence. Think it will pan out similarly, this year's general election will be the high water mark for Corbyn, as 2015 was for SNP

Dummets not great but Gibbs isn't an upgrade defensively. Don't think we'll get one tbh. Rafa may have other priorities. And after the carry on of the last two months (and obviously a decade of Mike Ashley overall) anyone on here thinking or even hoping we'll get everything that's required is frankly on another planet. Twisting on like a bunch of fishwives doesn't change a thing. Have some faith in the manager, we can't beg him to stay then be full of doom when he makes a call like this. I've said for months this league is two thirds shit and Saturday proved it to an extent. Not saying it's going to be easy but let's see how things go. It's not football manager, a season is a long ride and any single one of dozens of things outside the control of NUFC can affect it.

Am a fence sitter by nature David as you know One thing that grinds me though are fuckin full backs who can't defend. That's 90% of them nowadays. I understand the attacking options decent fullbacks offer, but they've been around a long time now and in my younger day they didn't mind too much getting back into position after a foray up field....a dying art it would seem

An injury prone quasi-winger with a heart the size of a pea? not the left back I'd want tbh. Look at the state of Arsenal at the moment. Hes too shit for even for that fuckin shower I've never been impressed by him.

Be sure and mention this @Howmanheyman only 35 years ago today.... random snippet of Vinnie Jones at the end

20 million bid from wolves. Allegedly.

Well if Rafa is willing to sell him, what are Rafas reasons for doing so? What you're claiming doesn't make sense to me. He's a significant financial asset regardless of anyone's opinion of his playing ability him on here, Rafa has to sell to buy. You and Andrew seem to be saying he'd be selling last seasons top scorer just to give Ashley the money? Maybe he's not fully recovered from his hamstring which happened last December and Rafa fancies someone more physically robust, or Joselu is his replacement and he's going to spend the money on a left back and a midfielder?... it seems nuts that we may be about to do this but this is what Ashley has laid down, that being the case I don't have a problem with it if it means Rafa getting closer to what he wants.

Gayle not even on bench ....injured or being sold to Villa on Monday to raise funds for Jovetic or Praed?....

Don't remember leave mentioning this.....amongst all the other things they didn't mention obviously.. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-housing-crisis-uk-just-lost-its-biggest-funder-a7909886.html

Hed likely have been fighting Danny Behr for a stroke of it Alex you may remember the late Alan Macdonald played at the back for QPR when Les was there? I know a bloke who grew up AM in Belfast and he used to go to weekly card schools attended by all the QPR lads back then, can't remember who was host but they were just a ruse apparently to get Les away from his missus for a night so he could nip upstairs with the aforementioned Miss Behr for a bit of "extra training" whilst the lads played a few hands of three card brag downstairs

Saw this at the weekend. Made me sad! https://heterocephalusgabler.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/behind-brexit-lies-a-yearning-for-a-past-we-destroyed/amp/

2nd best all over the pitch to a team who finished 14 points behind us last season. Merino anonymous, Manquillo useless. Can't see a lot changing significantly in the next 10 days either Ashley's made that pretty clear.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administrations-three-court-jews-disgrace-themselves/2017/08/18/929a68b4-840c-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html

Fuck off CT

Dipped bullets in pigs blood to reeeally offend Moslems.....yeah, like good one Donnie... http://time.com/4905420/donald-trump-pershing-pigs-blood-muslim-tweet/

My 17 year old niece is there visiting her old man she's fine but she and my poor sister at home near Kelso had a massive fright

Wolfy is CT in wolf's clothing

Its not making a point is it? This is what we're getting with the budget Rafas been provided with. There's no dressing it up positively or negatively. This is it.

I think It's all there in the club's & Ashley's statements. Rafa has, in my opinion despite what he said last week, to get rid of players before he can spend even a moderate amount in what's left of this window; "Rafa can have every penny the club generates, including money from player sales" Then Ashley last week basically saying he's not going into debt to finance strengthening the squad. Fuck knows what they told Rafa in May/June. Most championship clubs who go on like this go straight back down. I think we stand a better chance than most of staying up. With hindsight being that wonderful thing it was probably always going to be like this. Tbf a lot of us said from the moment Rafa confirmed he was likely to be fucked around by fat boy and leave in a hurry at some point because of it. Or of course you could say you wouldn't re mortgage a house and go into significant debt if you were about to put it on the market.... Joselu is apparently a big lad who can hold the ball up well (if they think they can shift Mitro I think they will tbh) & 5 mill is nothing, but this lad Mounie who scored 2 for Huddersfield at the weekend was 11 million and scored something like 1 less goal than Mbappe in Ligue 1 last season. Could be an excellent signing for them. Compare that to a journeyman who couldn't get a game for Stoke fuckin City last season

Brilliant article on England's tour to the West Indies in 1986, there's a link in it to an Indian journos interview with Patrick Paterson which is well worth a read too https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/aug/13/scariest-test-england-ever-played-terror-west-indies-cricket-1986-patrick-patterson?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://newcastle-production-premium.azurewebsites.net/news/latest-news/three-fixtures-selected-for-tv-coverage Brighton away @ 4pm on a Sunday ☑️ Southanpton away @ 4pm on a Sunday ☑️ Anyone would think sky fuckin hate us...

30 years since Eric B & Rakim released Paid in Full, which I was going to put on here, but then I came across this