NurembergVillan

13 hours ago, sidcow said:

So so so many questions. 

To answer the first one, no - I didn't take the picture myself.

54 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

My dad was in to his Carltons for a while.

1 hour ago, chrisp65 said:

…so an absolute win for Chinese factories, Japanese finance and French logistics.

 

"Don't forget me!"

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

Nobody is defending the financial doping.

In fact nobody is saying the money doesn't make an absolutely massive difference.

It does. Of course it does. It makes the job far far easier.

 

What it doesn't do is mean that any manager could do it, or any manager could have had the success Pep has had. They couldn't. Otherwise they'd sack Pep and get Chris Wilder in for 30k a week

I don't disagree with you. I think he's incredible at coaching elite athletes and that in itself is a unique talent.

I was just taking the opportunity to asterisk the "spending" part of the conversation.

2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Man Utd and Chelsea have spent as much money as Man City have. 

At least until we learn a bit more about the 115 charges of financial impropriety.

3 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said:

As noxious as it sounds, I fear that the worst collaborationists would have been in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and that Ireland itself would have eventually fallen to the Nazis.

Can't imagine the Aryan race being able to fathom the ginger hordes.

From 13th April, we have a 4-match run of Brentford (h), Arsenal (a), Bournemouth (h), Chelsea (h).

In the same period, Spurs have Newcastle (a), Man City (h), Arsenal (h), Liverpool (a).

There is still a lot of ground to be covered in this race.

2 hours ago, Leeroy said:

We did play better against Man Utd than Arsenal, but Arsenal are a much better side than Man Utd so I'm not sure it tells us too much. West Ham outplayed them too just last weekend at Old Trafford and shouldn't have lost.

So are we talking about performance or results here?

Objectively, we've played well in our last 2 league matches and could have had 8 goals. As it goes we've scored 6 and conceded 2.

From a performance perspective, you could say the Arsenal game (after the goal) was an indicator that the players were running out of steam and results might be about to change. We won a game that we probably deserved to lose.

By that measure, we're now in better "form" having played well in our last 2 league games.

If it's just results that determine form, we've lost 2 league games since 5th November. Both against relatively "in-form" teams.

This isn't a post I'd have written on Sunday night, but right now I'm feeling optimistic purely based on what I watched in our last 2 league games. 

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

I was fuming saturday night but this is the answer. 

And that was 24 hours before we'd even lost against Utd

The F1 Drivers Championship, but Lewis Hamilton is the only one in a Formula One car whilst everyone else's vehicle is road legal.

Hamilton is still an amazing driver in an amazing machine. Incredible to watch. It's just no longer a race.

Redemption arc incoming?

I'd rather he was in there than the Belgian international Dendoncker, even though I've barely seen him play.

Genuine question from a conversation I had with my brother earlier.

Given the squad we have now and the limitations of FFP (or PS whatever), would we happily take Champions League qualification now if it meant a "Newcastle" season of two steps back?

They qualified but weren't ready, got dumped out of Europe completely and are fighting to catch the pack now.

I know it's not binary and there's no evidence that the same would happen to us, but if our squad is struggling to be strong enough to qualify, how would it compete?

I don't think I understand the rules any more.

6 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said:

I used to like this ref. No clue why I did.

He's a well groomed fella.

3 minutes ago, bobzy said:

Cash dives - Casemiro booking.

As usual, ref has been fine. VT blames ref for our inadequacies. 
 

Edit: also obviously depends what players are actually saying to the ref r.e: Langlet and Fernandes. 

So the Varane push in Ollie's back wasn't a booking either?

This ref is utter dogshit - always is.

Fernandes knee-caps Bailey, no card.

Lenglet shouts Sacre Bleu - booking.

4 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

CHECKING BADGE

No yellow card

And again.

**** me.

Just now, 479Villan said:

Maguire not the captain, yet constantly in communication with the referee and delaying the corner.

 

 

Literally just said that. The rules don't apply to these rocket polishers.

Just now, Wurzel said:

Why is that not a yellow as well?

CHECKING BADGE

No yellow card

5 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

As soon as he can understand it this is what we'll be doing. 

We're currently stuck between the tablet keeping him quiet for an hour when he's up at 5am and it acting as an incentive for him to get up at that time.

As soon as he has any concept of time I'll be doing what you did

Say hello to my little friend...