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I guess this sums it up...

I think a lot of it comes down to Ricardo being out and that we don't have anyone else who's a natural for playing that right-back/midfielder role; Hamza looks okay in midfield or in defense but seems to be easy to isolate in transition. That forces panic-adjustments from the centre-backs, which gets them back into last season's form. It really feels like it would have made more sense to have a plan B rather than put square pegs into round holes.

For a slight bit of revisionist history, I've always been surprised by how people forget how many games there were left when he got sacked & how easy a ride Dave Bassett gets for having it just get worse instead of turning it around.

This is a good thing - when those sorts of parents do it, they don't try and do the job they just try and con the ref really badly, fail miserably at that, then start shouting at the ref "if you're going to give me a flag why can't you ****ing listen? what's the ****ing point" and then they'll get bored, wander off, come back and alternate between yelling at the ref and yelling at their kid. (just to clarify; that's not about anyone mentioned in this thread, just stuff I've seen happen a few years back.)

ł is a wl sound in Polish and the a with an accent under it is like ahn.

Completely impossible to predict. https://amp.spectator.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-s-petulant-attempt-to-start-a-run-on-the-pound/amp

Wout is love, baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more?

To be fair, I never got to vibrate with him.

Newcastle went from the Champions League to the Championship in the same length of time.

I dunno, I wouldn't trust people on here to spell Ward either.

It can be harsh in strength, but fair as in being applied equally.

Newcastle fans' issues with Ashley aren't that he's not rich enough, but more that after his initial burst of optimism ended with him falling out with Keegan his approach has been to run it like Sports Direct and tried to cost cut everything (including basic decency around when Gutierrez had cancer). They've gone way down the list in terms of commerical income, it's hardly increased while sponsorship deals and the like have skyrocketed for everyone else. It's not like it's being run well but outmuscled, it's choosing to extract value rather than allow for reinvesting the profits they make. The reason you'd describe them as 'faltering' is down to how it's been run; their previous finishes before he took over were 4th, 3rd, 5th, 14th, 7th. Since then, they've been relegated twice. I'm sure there's some who only see it in terms of not having any big splashy transfers, but the guys I've spoken to all see it as more the general malaise that comes with trying to achieve 17th as cheaply as possible rather than trying to make progress or achieve anything, and would have seen a steady attempt to get back to the top based on reinvesting money generated from healthy growth as a perfectly acceptable process and were happy with Benitez (who then quit and blamed Ashley). Wanting Ashley out is a different thing from wanting the Saudis in.

I'm gutted it fell apart right at the death like that, but we've had hypothetical scenarios on here way back of "Would you rather an FA Cup or a 4th Place" and I was always on the "win the cup" side of the equation so I'm sure I'll get over it sharpish.

Cursed it I was thinking about getting a new TV during the week but spent so long umming and aahing about it the one I wanted went out of stock, so 2005-vintage 720p it is. Ordered a takeaway instead.

I think this one is pretty iconic by now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ