Newcastle United (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[northendenton]

I really enjoyed the game last night have to admit I was worried with players missing but they all stepped up and gave a brilliant performance and Phil foden was outstanding in kevs roll.
We did looked fucked last 15 mins

It's not a ROLL its Kevs barm lol

 

[bennyboy]

Great result given the opposition,injuries and the fact the lads had just been in Athens.Thought our defence looked solid and Phil was excellent Great day(evening!!)
Horrible KO time

Far better than 12.30.

 

[Dribble]

The other evening I was discussing Pep with my son (who is not a City supporter). I was being philosophical, saying “Well, you know, he might want a new challenge, might want to try his hand at managing a national team”. He just looked at me and said, “Why on earth would he go anywhere else?”

This puzzles me every time I hear "Pep will be gone in 2 years when his contract's up".

Why? Where else in world football will he face this level of competition week in, week out, & get the level of support he currently gets from our board?

He was talking long-term in the CL post match press conference, when he said finally winning the CL wasn't our endgame, it was the beginning of US trying to dominate the competition for years to come, as he didn't want City to win it once & then just fizzle out. Pep wants us to challenge every year like Real Madrid.

Doesn't sound like a bloke seeking pastures new anytime soon... \0/

 

[kaz7]

kovacic with a strong showing.

i like him a lot

 

[Eccles Blue]

Nonsense. I was there, and it wasn't silent.

And I was watching and it wasn’t silent. We are rarely completely silent. :-)

 

[pride in battle]

Contrary to the song, my Father did not say to me one day ‘is it red or blue for you, and if it’s red you’re out the door and we won’t see you no more’.

Despite both him and my Mother being Blues (and all my grandparents), he told me to take my time thinking about who I wanted to support. Rather than making me support City like he and Mam do, he actually asked me what team I wanted to go and watch and what shirt I wanted to wear.

He has always maintained that brainwashing young children into what the adult wants them to be like is the wrong way to bring a child up. He was open to let me be a City, United or Altrincham fan. It was up to me.

Same for everything, despite him being a staunch atheist, he sent me to a CofE primary school because it was a good school and he let me work out for myself there is no god and religion is bollocks (which I’d worked out by the time I was about 8), just like he let me work out for myself that City were the right team to follow.

If you bring your child up a rag you're a wrong un

 

[Eccles Blue]

He's his own man. He grew up as a tot in north Wales, then Japan, then China, and finally France. He would have laughed right in my face if I'd tried to impose being a City supporter on him.
In any case I've never been able to impose anything on him. He's his own man.

That’s what we aim for, their independence and being themselves. Without hurting others. IMHO

To thine own self be true. :-) :-)

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

My great great grandad arthur moved from leek to ancoats in 1898 and chose City as his team. Itd have been difficult and maybe a bit weird me supporting anyone other than City .

Its not a case of anyone making a child do anything. Its just guiding them in the right direction ;)

If my son had grown up in the city of Manchester, or in the Greater Manchester area, I would certainly agree with you. I would certainly have ‘guided him in the right direction', as you say. One thing for sure, I wouldn't have been taking him to Old Trafford under any circumstances. Had he chosen to be a United supporter, well, what would I have done — turfed him out of the house!?
But such was not the case.
But take the case of a family in Oldham I'm friends with. The mother is a Newcastle United supporter. Normal, she grew up there, and still has the accent. The father is a life long blue, grew up in Ashton, same generation as me (Buzzer, Nelly, etc.). He took his daughter to matches, so basically she had no choice. She sat through some dire shit (i.e. the famous Pearce season) — still talks about it occasionally. The son, who is the older brother, is a United supporter. United were winning everything in sight when he was in late childhood, early teens, he followed them.
By and large, it's merely human for children to want to be on the side of the victors, all other things being equal.
That is why, by the way, there is a massive generation of children now growing up in Manchester and its surrounding area who are going to be blues. There must be a number of families where the children are ‘forced’ to follow United. And by the way, despite our banter and what we think, United are a successful club and team. They ain't seen nothing yet. When they go down to the second — and then the third — divisions, then I'll be impressed by the supporters who stick with them.
Chance'd be a fine thing, eh?

 

[jimharri]

And I was watching and it wasn’t silent. We are rarely completely silent. :-)

You're certainly not EB. Not when it comes to a certain; er, actually; let's not go there.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

By the way, how much longer are we going to go on demeaning our own performance by saying that the opposition was poor?
Were Arsenal shit last season? We made them look like shit at the Etihad. Were Bayern shit? Were Real Madrid shit? When did you last see a Real Madrid team humiliated like that?
It's what we do to teams. It's what we do.