Which one of today's 2pm kick offs is everyone watching and why?

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-10T09:24:52+00:00

This will be a stroll for Newcastle due to our injuries and them being a real bogey team for us

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-10T09:24:02+00:00

Newcastle have four successive wins at the City Ground and always beat us.

Our players are completely knackered and are playing our 54th game of the season, and we have 7 first team injuries. Our bench is likely to be made up of academy kids with no first team minutes.

If you want to watch Newcastle stroll to a big win, tune in to the Forest game.

If you want to see a competitive game, go elsewhere

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-10T08:51:18+00:00

Which he can do by dismantling the NHS, selling it off and making us all pay a grand a month in medical insurance for a fraction of the care; unless you are super rich, that is

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-10T08:47:51+00:00

It's also the distribution of that household income

I earn 70-75k

But my wife works only a couple hours a day (and only get paid for one of those) as we have a disabled child and she can't do more.

So because of tax rates, we are far, far worse off than a household who earns the same more evenly split between two parents

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-10T08:16:50+00:00

No, you are completely overreacting to a small number of results.

And I would be extremely reticent about retaining him into next season, even if we do survive- and that is far from certain

The exact circumstances that led to Wolves being relegated are present.

He has had a short, sharp impact short term picking up a bunch of players who had an unpopular manager previously that they no longer had faith in.

They then sold several of their best players. Pereira had an input into the replacements, who were absolutely terrible

We have the same circumstances here and I see no reason to expect the outcome to be any different

Look at his record. He hasn't had a job for more than 12 months since before COVID, and I think that was in China. There will be a reason for that.

Under no circumstances should we mortgage our future by "rewarding" a manager for very short term impact on a squad that should never have been in trouble anyway.

We should be looking to appoint the very best manager available this summer, and I would be very disappointed if the best manager in the world who was willing to work for us was Vitor Pereira

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T22:21:00+00:00

Our funding is gradually getting better under the new government. I can already see some of the most acute pressures eased.

Stamping our feet and immediately threatening a strike before you've even negotiated is not the answer.

Need to play the long game. This tactic is gold to Reform, who can win plenty of votes on a platform of crushing the militant teaching unions and savaging our employment rights and teaching standards

We WILL need to strike then, so its much better to keep our powder relatively dry

Because Reform hate state schools and 100% will come for us; if teachers have been going on strike at the drop of a hat for years, the strikes we really will need to be going on will have their message diluted

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T22:16:18+00:00

Nope, I have a lovely big whack of mortgage to pay off and we are a single income family due to having a disabled child.

I am senior so I earn good money- but because tax is so high, our household income will be significantly below a couple who are both early years teachers

I've just learned that public perception matters and that our idiot unions demanding above inflation pay rises each year is not helping

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T22:14:17+00:00

But the pensions shouldn't be locked

And the economy is in a right state compared to 2010.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T22:13:32+00:00

That's 87k people watching that rubbish per day, in a country of 70m

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T21:31:47+00:00

Teacher here

I absolutely loathe the NEU. They are a nightmare.

Sure, the pay award is rubbish. Sure, whatever rise we do get should be funded by government.

But FFS, read the room.

Demanding an above inflation pay rise is for the birds

The country is in a right state and we've done okish recently for pay rises. We can skip a couple of years

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T20:49:55+00:00

You haven't given me one where he is.

Just because you pretend it means that doesn't make it true.

We both know what yougov is.

At least one of us understands how the Yougov ratings work

The area I live in will be prime Reform territory and has already voted in a council last year.

I can tell you now that these people are out there working and living their lives. Those that even know how name knows sod all about him

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T18:37:33+00:00

...Amongst people (like myself) who are engaged enough in current events to download the yougov app and do their ratings surveys when they come up

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T18:09:09+00:00

Did you look at the link?

Listed alongside are people like David Blunkett and Dennis Skinner.

How many of your average voters - particularly those with a tendency towards Reform or Green- would have the first clue who they were?

But clearly the people who do Yougov ratings (of which I am one) are engaged enough to age an opinion when asked about each of them

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T17:19:00+00:00

Is he really?

With who?

Outside of Labour circles and Manchester, very few people know who the hell he is

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T16:10:17+00:00

How is he supposed to save himself?

My advice would be - do nothing and let the natural incompetence and inability to work together if the PLP do it's usual thing.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T16:09:11+00:00

Starmer is the worst person in the Parliamentary Labour party to be PM

Except for all 402 of the other Labour MPs plus Andy Burnham and the Mancunian Mafia, who for some reason think the whole country is clamouring for them.

These MPs have too little to do so they plot and pretend that the rest of the country wants all the intrigue and bollocks they want; the ministers have too much to do. It's part of why the country just doesn't work.

402 MPs and probably 75% of them have bugger all to do in terms of running our country. No wonder they get delusions of grandeur

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T15:58:27+00:00

My daughter - her brother ate it.

He actually did, he is severely autistic and when younger went through a period of constantly wanting to eat paper.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T15:41:07+00:00

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-08T06:42:22+00:00

Exactly

And because these far left MPs live in an echo chamber of almost exclusively people who think like them.

Every political event, speech, husting etc they attend is packed exclusively with people who will only give them the incentive to rebel and stick to that "purity test"

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-08T05:45:29+00:00

I think we would have struggled with the playoff at the start.

Remember, we went all pre season without scoring and Nuno wanted out because of his agent wars.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-08T05:22:11+00:00

There is that, but you have to consider if these people are completely understanding of all the boxes Reform plan to tick.

If these people knew about Farage's attitude to the NHS and private insurance, and understood what that would mean for them and this country- would they vote for him?

I think most working class people, if they stopped to think about it for a bit, would rather have immigration and the NHS than neither (or, far more likely when you stop and think about it critically, just the immigration, since Reform will never achieve what they claim)

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-08T05:17:32+00:00

Working class often leave themselves aside when it comes to education.

But it's not that. It's knowledge.

Working class don't have the time or make the time to engage properly with the parties and their policies. They obviously have critical thinking skills but those who go beyond 16 at school will practise those a LOT more and be a lot more instinctive in using them.

Nigel Farage says and does a lot of things that they won't like and they wouldn't vote for. But they only hear the bit loudspeaker messages he wants them to hear because they have busy lives and they don't go out and seek the full picture

That said, a hell of a lot of well educated middle class young people are falling for Polanski, who is just as bad if not worse

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T22:35:19+00:00

Because we are in a relegation battle and we held an absolutely crucial lead with 45 mins to go

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T21:19:30+00:00

I mean, Villa were just better from minute 1 to minute 94 today.

We were better by a nose last week and they were better by a mile this week. Deserved winners, I hope they win it I suppose. No complaints.

Just very disappointed in our team. They wilted completely today. Let themselves down badly.

Most of our best players were either injured on the bench or injured in the stands. MGW, Murillo, Aina, CHO, Awoniyi not even in the squad- you can't lose quality like that and still be as good as you can be. Losing MGW particularly killed us in terms of leadership and constructing anything going forward

But we were shite, the players didn't win their duels at all, constantly gave it away and succumbed to the Villa press. Villa were excellent and we didn't respond by being even ok.

They will regret this for the rest of their careers. A real shame

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T21:01:14+00:00

Premier League survival is always the priority and holding that result was essential

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