Newcastle (a) pre-match thread

[80s Shorts]

Whooosh!

Bit windy where you are ?

 

[deano ou812]

I am really worried about Shelvey and about this game in general.
Merlin will be a huge miss we will miss his vision and ball retention imho

Yeah it could be a banana skin,but we could say this for most games now the longer we go unbeaten,we should be fine but you just don’t know and the run will eventually come to an end hopefully not tonight though,shelvey is only back from a ban just hope he doesn’t have a rush of blood and injury someone...

 

[Dax777]

Maybe for you Yanks.

We have a more subtle understanding of football and still don’t care about the one team Bundesliga

Oh really!

 

[80s Shorts]

I think a few of us are nervous-the run will end at some point, but let’s not forget this is still a wonderful team full of skill, energy and most of all self-belief. C’mon City!!!

It's not so much the loss that will inevitably happen but more the reaction to it. Hopefully, it will spur them all on to another tremendous run.

 

[deano ou812]

Anyone know peps record against rafa’s sides ?

 

[kaz7]

COME ON BLUEBOYS

 

[SebastianBlue]

Oh really!

@SWP's back @ChicagoBlue Come lads, can we keep the thread civil... and have it not follow us in to the match day thread?

 

[SebastianBlue]

Anyone know peps record against rafa’s sides ?

72-3-1

 

[aguero93:20]

Bit windy where you are ?

It's the hot air mate, it rises.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Bit windy where you are ?

Often, not today!

The point is a pedantic one, but you’ve jumped in at the end. I have no doubt that people see the Prem the way you say. But, the record books don’t make allowances for the quality of the teams you had to beat, only that you beat them! And, you will notice that most of these records only cover the “Top 5” Leagues in Europe just so that the likes of TNS don’t break the record every year! So, it’s already included in the record, if you want it to reflect some qualitative standard. Until this year, though, Spain, Germany and sometimes even Italy had teams getting deeper into the CL than British teams. This year’s 5 teams deep in the CL means it is indeed a feather in the cap, but the record books don’t have such asterisks, unfortunately.