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Northumberland Shepard’s check plaid/maud/tartan; shepherds’ wives made it by spinning untreated wool into garments that were fairly waterproof for the times. It’s closely linked to the Duke of Northumberland and it’s one of the theories as to why NUFC play in black and white…

Don’t read too many nowadays but listen to lots in the van. Just finished The Psychopath Test (am looking at some of you fuckers very differently now 🫵😑) before that Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Books are tricky nowadays but I flew to and back from Edinburgh last weekend and managed to make a large dent into Emancipation for Goalposts which is about Yugoslav football and the war in the 90s…

No you predicted that the club’s communications on this matter were of no real concern and this time for a change you guessed correctly. Me and Wykiki asked relevant questions and it was talked through between us and we came to the same conclusion that you did after you stated that you worked in a bank and how the fuck should you know anything, which is a conclusion many of us had reached some time ago

It’s not that I don’t believe what the club or Howe says. It’s that I don’t have the medical knowledge that can get me from “almost ready for the next game, not quite there” to “he’s got fluid on the knee, he needs an op and is out for 8 weeks” Is it a chronic condition? Had the issue been ongoing, was it being managed thoughtout his recuperation from his ACL, if it was that bad why was he almost in contention for a place on the bench v Fulham etc etc?….… anyway, I’ll leave you to your latest book “Lee Harvey Oswald definitely killed JFK by acting alone, the FBI are stand up guys”

If they're coming back 1330 Monday they'll miss the match. Apart from that it's brilliant

Ian Dunt has deleted it too https://bsky.app/profile/iandunt.bsky.social/post/3ljpblpn5z22z

Bullshit from someone on this…..

His other knee needs surgery? What a coincidence! And having said that, Howe said he was close to returning v Brighton. There is definitely fuckin porkies being told about this like….

Trump pauses intelligence sharing with Ukraine, affecting early warning systems which save thousands of lives weekly…. so not that keen on saving Ukrainian citizens’ lives after all….

Do you have any peer reviewed empirical evidence for this claim young man? 🧐

To keep those worshipping the Mitchell/Bunce axis sweet. Those of us who identified them both as shallow know nothing charlatans very early on in the piece iirc know a lot better obvs

I’d forgotten about Krafu

Yeah I’d be happy with just having a right go now and not disgracing ourselves. Our only chance is a wonder show from Isak so I don’t want him anywhere Near East London at the start of next week Are you procuring a ticket for the final?..,

Supposing Botman doesn’t make it am wondering who the 3rd CB would be? If it’s a 3 I’d play Tripps there and play Targett on the left…

We did Orbital last year, think I was median

We’ve not had a Kendzior for a few days @Gemmill this one instructs you to buy the most important book of the last decade 🫵🏻 https://bsky.app/profile/sarahkendzior.bsky.social/post/3ljkuw2pduc2m

Big Lech here, world leader of all sparkies and ancillary trades, also in his spare time President of Poland, booting Putin square in the fuckin stones ✊🏻

Not wanting to accept it is one thing, being under the constant threat of violence by a dominant and now unopposed neighbour is another. There’s nothing to stop Putin now, it’s over. There will be semblance of nationhood but Ukraine will be dominated by Russia and resistance will be brutally crushed. They may emerge as a democratic nation again after Trump and Putin are gone but both will try to leave some sort of bullshit legacy where the absolute stitch up they’ve just pulled will be seen as some sort of achievement

Zelensky will sign, resign as president and there will be elections where some as yet (media) unidentified Putin puppet will be “elected” . Expect anyone bold enough to stand against this individual to be vilified and their allies intimidated. Election observers will have a list of complaints like something written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Then Ukraine will be like Belarus; compliant, autocratic and mostly irrelevant. Apart from the odd outbreak of rebel violence in Oblast areas newly taken by Putin which will give him the opportunity to invade again, see Chechnya, Georgia and Moldova for details 😑

Yeah their 2/3 years of success in the 80s seemed to get them a disproportionate amount of followers from North Wales ( and Cumbria iirc) Speaking as someone of that age from a similar predominantly rural wasteland I can completely sympathise. The difference is that I personally just didn’t bother with the 2/3 years of success bit. Still waiting

Thought you might be 🤪

Right cheer up you massive sad sacks of shit, I’M FUCKING GOING TO THIS and I won’t have any of this nonsense fuckin negativity, fuckin capice? 🫵 😆 And STFU about who starts the threads for crying out loud, any more of that patent bollocks and I’ll sell you some lucky white heather 😑 West Ham are a different proposition at home tbf but ffs LADS, ITS WEST HAM! 😀 they’re even more unpredictable than our collection of schizophrenic fuckin odd bods. Few outside the top 6 can boast a forward line with 3 talents like Fulkrug, Kudus and Bowen but they’re 15th and we're 2 points off the fuckin champions league ya cunts so ffs cheer the fuck up , you could support fuckin SUNDERLAND m! imagine how bastard miserable you’d be then? 🤷🏻‍♂️☺️

It would be harsh to get rid of Howe but if it happens Mitchell had better make sure whoever replaces him is demonstrably better. And there’s no guarantees with that. He may view it as a good time to have a significant clear out given this apparent whopping pot of money we have to spend and bring his own man in. There’s nothing to fear in the right man (look at that cunt at Liverpool, lots saying at the end of last season that their rebuild had failed) but changing coach and a significant amount of players at the same time is very tricky indeed…