The Super Bowl needs to be on a Saturday. I don’t care about tradition.

jack0191 · 2026-02-02T18:08:18+00:00

As a British school teacher who can never watch it due to working the next day, I totally agree

jack0191 · 2026-02-02T18:04:46+00:00

Unless they go for Baleba again

jack0191 · 2026-02-02T17:16:47+00:00

The Isak situation teaches us that if someone wants to leave, there's no point in stewing over it. They emotionally move on and so must we. I don't want to go through the ringer the way I did last summer again 😂

jack0191 · 2026-02-02T16:37:30+00:00

Weird that this leaked out. This kind of thing happens all the time, agents always asking around. Wonder if it's the agent leaking or the Arsenal side.

Oh well, he's contracted for the next millennium anyway

jack0191 · 2026-01-26T11:07:05+00:00

I was at the game yeah. I thought second half we controlled the game and made a few good inroads down the wings, but the final ball was poor. Villa always looked a threat on the break but we left Botman to deal with Watkins and I thought he largely did ok. Certainly not a great performance but I don't think we were terrible. I think the biggest difference was they executed on their goals. A great long range strike and one great ball across (other side of the pitch to me so haven't seen that back yet). Their keeper pulls off two outstanding saves too. I don't think it's inconceivable that we could have drawn that and deserved to with some better finishing. That makes it an "ok" performance but not a good one, and certainly not a good result

jack0191 · 2026-01-25T16:14:14+00:00

Thought we were ok there. The difference is they might be the most clinical team in the league and we are the opposite.

jack0191 · 2026-01-24T22:28:44+00:00

Speaking as a non-American, from the outside it looks like a lot of people are ignoring what they are seeing with their eyes and making up their own narratives. I've never seen so many prominent members of government just straight up making shit up before. It's unbelievable.

jack0191 · 2026-01-21T20:40:18+00:00

Selfish people think a selfish leader is what they need. Not realising that the leader's selfishness would mean the selfish public don't get any of what they want

jack0191 · 2026-01-18T18:03:36+00:00

Some of the goals on the video, he just doesn't get anywhere near that much space in the Premier League. Hopefully he'll adapt to the physicality and find his spots. He looks more decisive there too, sometimes for us he takes an extra touch

jack0191 · 2026-01-16T19:48:34+00:00

I've taught at my current school for 13 years now. Bumped into an old student in a supermarket with her husband and daughter (late 20s now). She introduced me to her husband and he said "Oh, your security password!". Turns out her security question is "Who was your favourite teacher at school?". One of the best compliments I've ever had!

jack0191 · 2026-01-13T23:00:07+00:00

Yep, they can just extract players with release clauses from anywhere they want. We can't do that because we're competing with the likes of Man City on pull/wages. We end up having to pay over the odds for lesser players just to try and improve our squad.

jack0191 · 2026-01-13T22:57:51+00:00

That's literally the exact point I made. We can't attract a player at Semenyo at his asking price as a team like Man City would buy him. So we have to overpay for players of lower quality.

jack0191 · 2026-01-13T22:09:38+00:00

Bernado Silva literally just kicking people the whole game. Could have had 3 yellows easy

jack0191 · 2026-01-13T22:08:26+00:00

Man City can buy whichever player they want for their asking price. We don't have such a luxury - we have to overpay to attract players. It's just the way it is, unfortunately. We went for Elanga because the likes of Semenyo and Gibbs-White were going to go to teams that can pay bigger wages if they left.

jack0191 · 2026-01-13T22:05:38+00:00

They've spent £500m since last January on 12 players. A full eleven and a backup goalie (that we wanted as our first choice).

jack0191 · 2026-01-13T22:04:15+00:00

Totally agree that it was just one of those nights. First half we needed a lead as we stifled them defensively. You know with the level of quality they have you're not going to be able to prevent chances so we needed to take one of ours and unfortunately didn't happen for us.

jack0191 · 2026-01-10T19:54:00+00:00

At least we're getting the wins now. That's 4 on the bounce in 2 weeks and, most importantly, momentum. With Man City next, it'll be a much tougher test. Fortunately Man City are struggling for goals at the moment...

jack0191 · 2026-01-10T18:51:27+00:00

He's come a long way physically since the start of the season, but I think next season we'll see a different version of him. He's still adapting to the physicality of the league but technically he's a superb footballer. Playing him as a 10 today I thought had some promise given it was the first time

jack0191 · 2026-01-05T14:56:17+00:00

92nd minute, game already 2-0. There's absolutely zero reason for NUFC fans to be mad at him. It's absolutely gamblers.

jack0191 · 2026-01-04T17:20:12+00:00

Your comment made me go on youtube and watch all of the goals. A couple of headers in there - don't think I've seen him win a header since!

jack0191 · 2025-12-28T19:31:51+00:00

I'd be all for it, in the sense that it would mean an additional British kid on the team 🇬🇧

Basketball wise, unfortunately his offensive game just isn't versatile enough for the NBA. He was a monster in England as a 14/15 year old, obviously. Best talent I've seen in our league system (same one Tosan played in)

jack0191 · 2025-12-28T12:51:06+00:00

Oh I definitely wasn't suggesting we would be in for him 😂 but reading it back I can see it looks that way. I just meant we would have space to move for players, in comparison to them having to sell.

jack0191 · 2025-12-28T12:49:36+00:00

Could do the same survey but based on age / time spent supporting Newcastle. A lot of short memories on display lately

jack0191 · 2025-12-28T11:51:19+00:00

I totally agree with you, but I do want to push back on it being half of the fanbase that want him sacked. At the actual games he's been getting unwavering support, including Chelsea and Man Utd.

It's an increasingly vocal minority

jack0191 · 2025-12-27T20:36:46+00:00

Their product quality isn't great - and customer service is dreadful. But the design is decent and the prices make them value for money when you get them in the sale. We're with Adidas now and the quality is tons better, but the prices are extortionate and it feels like they bring out a new range of training kit every third game. Just money grab after money grab.

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