I will make that my next read. Trying to get out of my comfort zone a little bit.

Never read any Hemingway before so I started with the old man and the sea. Fantastic. I'm a sucker for sea based shenanigans.

Been on a little bit of a western kick after this. Currently reading Lonesome Dove, also excellent but I can't stop thinking about blood meridian, the judge in particular.

9 years ago today, myself and @fran-tersist.bsky.social went to see Bob Mortimer and @profanityswan.bsky.social performing bits and bobs from athletico mince live. What an absolute treat.

Aye really enjoyed putting that one together. My favourite film!

Spot on. But without going in too much on football tribalism Manchester united have voted with Chelsea and man city to maintain the status quo in the premier league for at least the last decade. City and Chelsea cheated to get to where they are and now vote to pull the ladder up for any other club

Just started the audiobook of blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy . Fantastic but fucking hell is it bleak.

Got a bit of a soft spot for live albums and this one is particularly good. Not listened to it for ages either.

I’m drinking wine. Last time I did this before a match I was declined entry after trying to get in using my debit card.

True story. I was then forced by my Dad to apologise to the Head Steward before I was allowed in.

I was 47.

Always thought the same about Oxford because of the uni but apparently some of that is radge as well.

Took me about 30 seconds watching it for my brain to properly process what I was seeing.

The only time tennis has been good this.

Or just win the champions league of course 😉

Huge derby game at SJP for fans of regional rivals duking it out for mid table dominance. Can't wait. #nufc

Rosenior should be in bother for those comments after the game. Not sure how any professional can look at that penalty shout and not see the officials got it spot on. If it was that wrong VAR would have intervened. Gobshite.

Absolutely agree with that too. I hate that you can't celebrate a goal in case a toenail is offside. Clear and obvious error for offsides too, set a tolerance.

Currently got highlights of #nufc winning the 09/10 championship campaign on. Educating the bairns. Stay humble kids, know your roots.

Standard of refereeing feels like it gets worse game by game. Over reliance on VAR is making officials worse not better. I'd bin it for everything other than offsides and ball crossing the line. Plan looks to be the opposite though, more decisions to go to VAR.

I think there's enough there to persevere with him for another season. Same with Elanga.

Hahaha I'd forgotten about that. I think he did it a few times. Always said we've got another clubs share of lunatics. There's a club out there where every fan is sound because we've took the mentalists in.

Aye exactly. Stick the radio on or watch a dodgy stream. Stop putting money in the pockets of bellends who have no clue about the game.

And stop making 'celebrities' of people who couldn't be arsed to attend games until we started spending a bit of cash. If they 'loved the toon' that much they'd be at the game every week not spouting racist shite on YouTube.

Keep calling it out when you see it. Show people from elsewhere we in the north east are an enlightened, tolerant people. Don't let people like this speak on our behalf.

These people put themselves above you or I in an imaginary fan pecking order. Then, unfortunately, everyone thinks we are all ignorant backwards arseholes as a result.

Been off twitter for ages but every so often a reminder of the bad place pops up. They've got form from what I remember, why read that out?

I Trust Howe to get a tune out of him. I think the lack of consistency at centre forward must be fairly difficult for wingers to adjust to as well.

Very unlucky on that front I think. Could have easily had a couple against Barca. I think fans have got off his back a little too which has coincided with this uptick in form.

I think Elanga has been very good in the last few weeks particularly.

Finally surpassed the 40 point mark with 8 games to go. We are so back! #nufc

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