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I do miss his infinite stepovers leading to a misplaced cross.

That'll be a nice consolation at 3-0 down

We (Newcastle) are running on fumes. Howe's persisting with this high intensity, high pressing style that worked well last season, but we don't have the legs for it and are getting found out time and again. If Joelinton is fit we can at least compete physically in the middle of the park, but...

If I were you I'd not be afraid of PSG or Dortmund. We were one dodgy penalty away from taking 6pts off PSG and if we had a full strength team I'd have fancied us to have gotten through ahead of them anyway.

I think that from a sporting point of view it makes sense to prevent the richest clubs in the world from simply hoovering up all the talent by virtue of having the most available funds. However, when the playing field was so uneven before, it's blatant hypocrisy for the likes of Liverpool, Man...

Hah! No, Mrs Fish has no interest in football and is a Posh Yorkshire lass anyway. I live in Cheshire now and obviously you get chatting to lads in the pub, or the dads at school drop off/pick up. They try and appear reasonable and humble, but for the two red clubs, the entitlement and arrogance...

I understood the goal they were aiming for; ensure the community entities like a football club were protected from reckless ownership. It makes sense to have rules to prevent an owner gambling the club's future on expensive transfers. A good comparison is us and Leeds in the 2000s. They spent...

Can't speak for all Newcastle fans, but the ones I know always had a soft spot for Man City probably because of our tete a tetes with Man Utd in the 90s. When you won the lottery we were happy for you, you'd shake up the established elite and for a team with history and a good fanbase to get...

As a Newcastle fan these new rules they're* trying to push through are hilarious and so fucking transparent. We've abided by FFP, we've got a stack of new 'fair market value' commercial deals, and now here's some new hurdles. The established cartel are bricking it that we'll usurp them. We...

Think the occasion got to us in the Final last season. But we're not the same beast we used to be. When they came to St James' last season we put on a clinic.

From a Newcastle POV it looked very much like two second strings in the first half and then we brought on two players who arguably the most important to the way we play and you didn't. We upped our intensity, our aggression and our ambition. It felt huge because of the team we put out in the...

Loads, there aren't any 'away' pubs as you'll be welcome in all as long as you don't act the fool. The ones already suggested are good, I'd add the Town Wall, The Forth, Tilleys, Rosies. The Trent is small, but good too. If there's a bigger group of you, try the Mile Castle All of them are...

Read somewhere that for the teams aiming to finish in the European spots, us and Liverpool were the least impacted by the World Cup. In terms of number of first teamers in Qatar, amount of minutes they played etc. I trust Howe to stagger the players' return and I trust Ashworth to have lined up...

No idea how Eddie will juggle ASM, Almiron, Isak, and Wilson, but I've almost total faith that he will. We've only had a 5 players at the World Cup and only Trippier played a significant part, so hopefully we'll have a fit squad ready to take advantage of any teams who've been more impacted by...

The bit in bold is key for me. No club has a divine right to trophies, or European competition or owt. But it was the active avoidance of competing for anything that killed the club. We somehow managed to get 5th in 2012 and as everyone knows that it's best to strengthen from a position of...

I'm not bothered about the Liverpool fans getting up upset about our... ahem... gamesmanship. Aye we wasted time, too right we committed tactical fouls, absolutely dead on some of our lads played 'injured' and you know what? I don't care. Fuck 'em if they do. They've done it before, everyone...

Need any pub/restaurant advice? Geordie in peace here. Think the consensus amongst us is that a 1 or 2-0 loss is fine. These days Man City is a fixture you don't target for anything better than damage limitation. Keep it organised, disciplined, reduce the game to the first and last 5 minutes...

At the players' entrance underneath the Milburn Stand. You should be able to get close unless it's all COVID-secure. Go under the Milburn stand and the Players' entrance is on the right.

Geordie in peace here, Congrats on winning the league. Bit of a weird season, but your lot got the job done and dusted without too much fuss. Shame that you didn't beat Chelsea to win the thing, but I guess that doesn't really matter now. I say guess, because I've no idea what it's like to win...

I think most of us see the 'journalists' like Miguel Delaney or Richard Keys for what they are. They've a dog in the fight. I think it's fair that Kashoggi's widow and Amnesty international use the spotlight to get their causes into the public consciousness. But I'm not having Delaney...