Newcastle v Liverpool - send him victorious

[Toonpack 11486]

17 minutes ago, RobinRobin said:

That's @Toonpack

 

Fuck off, I had a much loftier position, I was cleaning chimneys

[RobinRobin 12545]

7 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

 

Fuck off, I had a much loftier position, I was cleaning chimneys

[Gemmill 50418]

57 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

  

Literally just woke up on the living room floor covered in French fries and with the mother of all hangovers. 
 

Worth it  

 

 

You in the middle of your living room, doing this but with a plate of chips. 

[Christmas Tree 5153]

Just watched the post final whistle stuff back with less drunken but more tear filled eyes.

 

What a class act to have all 3 Captains lift the cup.

 

What a time to be alive

[Gemmill 50418]

Aye I'm straight into the highlights and anything that's gone up on YouTube. Lay in bed awake for about an hour and a half staring at the ceiling last night, then woke up at half 3 and immediately remembered it was real. Fucking mad. 

[Gemmill 50418]

23 touches for Salah yesterday btw. Just completely snuffed out of the game. 

[Andrew 5227]

Its been such a good fucking day

 

Only just realised arsenal beat chelsea too so we're two points off 4th with a game in hand. 

 

This season man.

[Gemmill 50418]

 

 

Carragher's face when Bruno bursts in shouting "he's from Blyth". What a fucking misery he is.

 

 

 

[Gemmill 50418]

 

 

[Monkeys Fist 45438]

I’ve thought about nothing else on the drive home. 
 

That was the best game I’ve ever watched, for so many reasons. 
 

The performance was just legendary - intense, aggressive and intelligent, every man on that team knew exactly what their job was when in or out of possession, and every one of them executed it perfectly. 
First half in particular it was extraordinary to watch, our pressing was so aggressive that the Dippers didn’t know what had hit them. 
What was excellent to watch was in the few times they had possession and attempted to advance, our men snapped in to their defensive positions in a matter of seconds. 
 

I had a good feeling before the game, and by midway through the first half I was daring to think “we might actually do this”, and when Burn buried that header I went fucking mental. 
My emotions have never been so raw before and during a game as they were yesterday, and it all came out in a guttural mix of joy, relief and bit of grief. 
 

Second half, I felt that when Slot just started throwing forwards on, it was an acknowledgement that we had them beat. 
 

Howe was ice fucking cold, his tactics were clinical, and then training he’d put the lads through was evident. 
 

At the final whistle, I totally lost it- laughing, crying, roaring, smacking the roof and sides of my cab, I went nuts 

 

I read the BBC write-up, and the comments, and there was a good few neutrals being very magnanimous and complimentary, and the usual pricks saying 

“ It’s just the League Cup!”

 

They totally missed the point- it wasn’t “just the League Cup”, it was years of disappointment, learning to temper expectations, seeing our club rise and fall and rise again and fall again, hearing the fucking lines “ it’s been “x” years since Newcastle won a trophy” trotted out by lazy commentators, envy watching tinpot fucking non-entities of clubs winning trophies, becoming almost used to being plucky losers. 
 

That final whistle pissed all that away in a split second- replaced by validation, relief, release, sheer, utter, joy! 
 

We aren’t the plucky losers anymore, that’s history, we’ve won, and won in a manner that will stay with me until the day I die. 
 

Every single member of that team, the coaches, medical staff, catering, all of them, have earned the right to call themselves local heroes, because they fucking are. 
 

Howe has pissed on the timeline again, I can not wait to see what the summer brings, and the seasons to follow. 
 

 

 

(I’m parked up at Ferrybridge just now, when I got out to go for a brew, as soon as I opened my door I heard what I thought was a load of our support, still shouting and bawling, and thought “ Get in, lads!”

 

As I walked up the trucks park though, I realised it wasn’t. 
 

Two trucks, parked right in the middle of a row of  wagons, with trailers full of cockerels crowing their fucking lungs out

 

There was a Czech lad sat in his cab right next to them, clearly sleep-deprived, in his shorts, looking like an utterly defeated man, thousand yard stare, the lot 

[Toonpack 11486]

[Alex 36888]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

23 touches for Salah yesterday btw. Just completely snuffed out of the game. 

TAA missing was massive in the end. Despite his issues from a defensive pov he sets up loads of chances for them. His not playing meant it was a case of stop Salah and you have a very good chance of stopping Liverpool’s creativity. More to it than that of course and we were good all over the pitch but we just didn’t allow Salah any space at all. 
 

[Toonpack 11486]

Sandro's lass in Covent Garden on Saturday, pic taken by Big Joe's lass

 

[Gemmill 50418]

8 minutes ago, Alex said:

TAA missing was massive in the end. Despite his issues from a defensive pov he sets up loads of chances for them. His not playing meant it was a case of stop Salah and you have a very good chance of stopping Liverpool’s creativity. More to it than that of course and we were good all over the pitch but we just didn’t allow Salah any space at all. 
 

 

Obviously Toontastic's Voodoo King takes the credit for that. 

[Holden McGroin 7712]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

 

Obviously Toontastic's Voodoo King takes the credit for that. 

I think we can all take some credit for this. I had a wank over Denise Welch.

[Gemmill 50418]

10 minutes ago, Alex said:

TAA missing was massive in the end. Despite his issues from a defensive pov he sets up loads of chances for them. His not playing meant it was a case of stop Salah and you have a very good chance of stopping Liverpool’s creativity. More to it than that of course and we were good all over the pitch but we just didn’t allow Salah any space at all. 
 

 

I like this lad's analysis, and he makes the same point. 

 

And yes I'm watching ANYTHING about us today. Don't care who made it. 

 

 

[Gemmill 50418]

Just now, Holden McGroin said:

I think we can all take some credit for this. I had a wank over Denise Welch.

 

Won't be the last, I imagine. 

[Holden McGroin 7712]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Won't be the last, I imagine. 

It’s going to have to be a big pre-match ritual.

[Gemmill 50418]

3 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

I like this lad's analysis, and he makes the same point. 

 

And yes I'm watching ANYTHING about us today. Don't care who made it. 

 

 

 

Actually I draw the line at Mark Goldbridge. He can get fucked. 

[Ayatollah Hermione 14721]

What a day. What a team. Haven’t stopped crying since last night. Off today, I’m going for a mender and celebrating in style.

 

We’ve just witnessed a team and a manager make themselves legends

[trophyshy 7345]

[MrBass 3061]

@trophyshy, what’s your new username going to be? 

[Holden McGroin 7712]

Sean Neave who has never kicked a ball for NUFC and may never get an appearance has a league cup winners medal. 🥇 

[Andrew 5227]

1.6 million views for the Extended Highlights on youtube. Pretty sure I account for about 400,000 of those today.

[Alex 36888]

17 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Obviously Toontastic's Voodoo King takes the credit for that.