Champions / Europa League — Match Week 2

Duncan, that goal by Vinicius was very good and Bellingham's was even better.

Agree Dave. They barely touched the ball for 20 mins, but one flash of brilliance and they're suddenly on top.

Was it just some kind of sick dream, or was Carlo once manager of Everton FC?

Napoli are heating it up here. Kvartawhatever is cookin'.

We should have gone for Rudi Garcoa when we got Frank. It might have ended as a trainwreck but that would have been better than the damp squib we got.

That was an Exocet missile!

That's an even better third goal by Real Madrid but was it an own goal, coming back off the bar and hitting the goalie, or did it hit the net first then hit the goalie?

Seems a few posts on the Napoli v Real Madrid game, but did anyone watch Man Utd v Galatasaray?

Pickford can take a bit of stick from Everton fans but, believe me, I'd rather him than that clown in goal for Man Utd. A terrible pass out of his own area straight to a Galatasaray player, who was then brought down by Casemiro for a penalty.

Casemiro red-carded for two yellows. Penalty was put wide, but the player who missed scored a few minutes later with a delicate chip over Onana, who went down far too early.

Onana seems to have a mistake in him every game. £44M for him. Inter Milan must be laughing all the way to the bank. Man Utd now bottom on zero points.

Dave, it definitely deflected off a Napoli defender. I think the keeper got a hand to it but it was so strong it went in off the underside of the bar.

I only saw the one replay so maybe there was a bounce off the keeper. Decent game but that Napoli back line let them down aside from the opening goal.

Dale,

I was sunk in the Falklands by an Exocet Missile, certain terms still get me twitched...

We can only hope that the skunks get turned over tonight and that their fat thick feckers in the tight-fitting replicas in the stands are waving their scarves in the air singing 'Till I die' after a lesson from PSG as their tears stream down over their man-boobs into the ski-jump humungous gut and the drop into. their plumbers crack sweat filled wrinkly jeans.

Paul, it was said earlier on SSN that many young Newcastle fans have never seen Newcastle play in Europe.

I'd counter that, by saying there are many OLD Newcastle fans who have never seen Newcastle win a trophy!

Aye, Rob, bonny lad, would that have been the old Fairs Cup like in 1970 or 1971?

But remember Rob, the BBC and everyone else are building things up for the Geordie party when in their minds they win a trophy, and it will be the greatest footy party ever coz they are such. diehards, didn't yer know

It get's worse. If it was bad enough listening to the latest episode of replay-gate, now they're on the one show being touted as the greenest club in English football, growing flowers and Maura making apple crumble with apples grown in the allotment at their Kirkby (yes Kirkby) training ground. That said, ours is in Halewood.

I feel sick. I can see a long build up to the Derby but lets get Bournemouth out of the way first before I start all of my superstitious rituals before we make the journey to our former home.

Think it was 1969 when Newcastle lifted the Fairs Cup Paul.

Everton finished 5th in 1968 but lost the European place due to that nonsensical one city one club rule and also missed out due to losing the FA Cup final to WBA. Newcastle ended that campaign in tenth place to qualify for the Fairs Cup.

Whey Aye man, but yee canna dispute that the fairs cup was a bonny cup to win, mind!!

Cheers Barry, I remember John Tudor from footy cards, Wyn Davies was it? Bobby Moncur. Ian McFaul, between the sticks, I think. Running out of names now. Wasn't there a winger, Barraclough or something, or did he come later.

Joe Harvey was the manager of Newcastle from 1962 until Gordon Lee took the job in 1975. Barraclough I seem to remember as a player, not sure he managed them but if he did it would have been much later.

'kin hell Rob, you're fluent lad, could it possibly be that you were born at blaydon me laddie

Wasn’t Malcolm Macdonald around at that time?

Of course, Lee came fom them

Now you're tookin took royalty.

Just looking at the side that stopped Everton from scoring in a goalless draw at Goodison in January 1970.
W McFaul, D Craig, Frank Clark, T Gibb, J McNamee, Bobby Moncur, B Robson (is that pop Robson?, J Smith Wyn Davies, R Guthrie (Sunderland player in 73 Cup Final?, D Ford.

Whey aye man, here's the bonny laddies who give it ta Ujpesti Dozsa Willie McFaul; David Craig, Frank Clark, Tommy Gibb, Ollie Burton, Bobby Moncur, Jim Scott (Alan Foggon 73), Preben Arentoft, Pop Robson, Wyn Davies, Jackie Sinclair.

Paul.

Alan 'Foggon' the Tyne?

No Malcolm Macdonald then??

I recognise 4 of them - bonny Frank Clark,

1971-76 Rob

Paris St. Germain didn't even exist when Newcastle last won a trophy. They were founded in 1970.

Since then PSG have won 46 major trophies to Newcastle's 0.

They finished 10th to get into the Inter Cities Fairs Cup

Major trophy! Friendly games were regularly held between teams from cities holding trade fairs and it was from these games that the competition evolved. The competition was initially only open to teams from cities that hosted trade fairs and where these teams finished in their national league had no relevance.

The last major trophy of note they won, was the FA Cup in 1955. 68 years ago.

Manchester United (2nd) qualified for the European Cup as the 1967–68 European Cup winners. Alongside champions Manchester City.

Everton (5th) were ineligible to participate in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup as Liverpool(3rd) had already qualified. Under the rules of the cup, only one team per city could participate. Chelsea (6th) took their place as the highest-ranked team that hadn't already qualified for a European competition.

West Bromwich Albion (8th) qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup as the 1967-68 FA Cup winners.

Arsenal (9th) and Tottenham Hotspur (7th) were ineligible to participate in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup as Chelsea had already qualified. Under the rules of the cup, only one team per city could participate.

Newcastle United (10th) took their place as the highest-ranked team that hadn't already qualified for a European competition.

Brian,

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

They control the media as well to get their views highlighted.

Ya were a wee bairn in ya nappy like Rob.

I was a mere twinkle in me grandparents eyes, Paul. Quite a few years before I arrived on this planet!

Rob,

Going with 1955 then, a woman named Martha Graham in the US died four years after Newcastle last won a major trophy was actually born in 1844.

Meaning she could have gone to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and met Queen Victoria and also watched Newcastle United win their most recent trophy.

Paul, that was a good team. David Craig played for Northern Ireland. I think Iam McFaul got a few caps but was understudy to the mighty Pat Jennings. He went to Newcastle from Linfield for £10,000 which was a king's ransom for and Irish league team.

Bobby Moncur looked like my dad and Joe Harvey looked likey granddad. Actually, in those days managers all looked old and wouldn't have been seen dead in a track suit.

Stan Cullis
Tony Waddington
Joe Harvey
Joe Mercer
Bob Stokoe
Bill Nicholson.
Matt Busby

Ah, the good old days, of inside-rights and inside-lefts, right-halves and left-halves and skinny malnourished wingers.

Aye man Rob ya wer no canny bairn warn Toon won cup like man!

I got Man City on TNT and Rotherham on Sky, are the Skunks not on the box?

Seeing as our current manager is a mini version of Big Sam, should we be chanting Dyche, Dyche, Gravy to the Vanilla Ice tune, at Goodison on Saturday?

With chairman in sheepskins, Andy, and big cigars.

Skunks are on TNT 2.

Gordon starting in the Champions League against PSG. Looking like a good move for him. Tbh it smarts.

Cheers, Rob, I'll see if I can get that.

If anyone else wants to watch skunks in 'merica - https://crichdplayer.com/tnt-sports-2-live-stream-uk

Remember when Rafa was here and we were linked with a move for Trippier? Then he apparently wanted to sign Longstaff on a free. Everyone was up in arms we needed better players as we were relying on the likes of Anthony Gordon.

Foden scores for Man City, why Southgate won't play him in the middle for England is a mystery to me.

Lampard to Rangers???

Kieran, I don’t think it was the Longstaff who’s playing tonight, Sean, I think it was his brother Matty Longstaff. Could be wrong though.

Southgate plays with the handbrake on with his style of football, Barry.

Saw that, Andy, apparently he's dead keen on the job.

Watching Celtic. Their Japanese players never ever stop running. Wish our players had half their energy.

It was Sean Rob

Finally watching some good footy PH

To be fair, PF Celtic are playing decent. Rodgers is a good manager.

What a fecking save or was it over, offside wasn't it anyway?

Agree PH

FFS 2-0. Got to say though, how shit are PSG.

That Mbappé fella's crap.

Fecking hell - spot on Rob, has Pope touched it?

That was fecking offside! Fecking skunks or was he played on?

I thought offside to start with, but onside when the ball payed over.

Reminded me of the position Dele Alli took up for Richarlison's goal against Palace. Dropped deep late and after the ball was played.

Great finish for their first.

Guimaraes punches a PSG player on the head, and only gets a yellow. At least it looked like a punch.

Whae aye, man, Rob ya jessie like that we nah punch fra Shearer Bruno like it wer a lassie slap Rob wat yer talkin like man.

That lot get a free pass at the weekend Rob. I'm convinced. Klopp will be fitted with a headset with direct comms to Stockley Park to advise them.

Watching PSG, who aside from the Intertoto, I think they have only won the cup winners cup like us in Europe.

They may have had great players in recent times, but it shows what playing in Europe's 5th league does. Or the "Farmer's League" as I bait my French friends with.

Too easy for them and qualify every year with little effort. Then they meet real competition.

PSG are 5th in the league right now.

City 1-1

'kin hell

We won't hear the fucking end of this…

Newcastle will think they're the bees knees now.

PSG haven't been the same since Gana left.

PSG want to win the Champions League……well they had their chance a few years ago when they were beaten in the final by Bayern Munich, because right now they are a million miles away from ever getting near to another chance.

The Saudis are just to strong for The Qataris.

Barry @185 got that damn Fog On the Tyne stuck in my head now, I owe you one!

Sorry Neil :)

Lindisfarne:

They are best known for the albums Nicely Out of Tune (1970), Fog on the Tyne (1971) (which became the biggest selling UK album in 1972), Dingly Dell (1972) and Back and Fourth (1978), and for the success of songs such as "Meet Me on the Corner", "Lady Eleanor", "Run for Home", "Fog on the Tyne" and "We Can Swing Together".

I can remember 4 out of 5 of those songs, but can't remember We can swing together.

Turning to the brain bleach to wash that song away, cheers all

Canny tune 'we can swing together', whey aye man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAwQ9Jtm6Q

Alvarez scores a great goal, after City dominating but labouring against Leipzig

Wasn't there some sort of shite 'comedy' cover of Fog on the Tyne with pisshead Gascoigne and probably Wadders?

Link

FFS

What a sad twat he has turned out to be

Lazio 2-1 90+5

Didn't deserve that PF

Gonna wave me scarf like

they played well PH

Enrique out, get Dyche in to shore up that defence.

Didn't think Gordon did all that much did he? Was he involved in any of the goals?

ps: Hope Rob Halligan isn't too upset after that. I don't think he has any time for them Skunks.

toon city final?

Sickening to think that, if our takeover was run by professionals, we could easily be in Newcastle's position. Eddie Howe was on a free and an Evertonian.

Plus we've spent more than them in the transfer market, we just operated as the worst run club in world football.

Skunks doing what we can only dream about.

Just shows what a proper football board can do for you.

Fuck off, Kenwright...

I still thank God six times a day that I'm not a Geordie Geoff/Mike.

Some confusion in Marseille as to whether Brighton had a penalty or not? Referee sent to the pitch side monitor for a handball by a Marseille player, he seemed to indicate “Penalty”, only for Marseille to get a free kick.

Weird, because Marseille had a corner at the time. Seems there was a foul by a Brighton defender in the build-up to the potential penalty. I give up with VAR… it's bloody useless.

Rob @260

It seems to protect only the chosen few clubs, I dislike this looking at the build-up to an incident rather than the incident in isolation. If somebody gets pushed on the half-way line and the official missed it, and somebody goes on to score a goal, a few moves later, it should be a given as a goal. How far back should they go?

Anyway it's all good preparation for Brighton and their game on Sunday, they might find a few weird decisions being made.

Barry, don’t forget there are an extra 14K seats at BMD. I did enquire as to whether anyone who was thinking of getting a season ticket behind either goal, could use the bars / pubs which will be located in the east and west stands? Unfortunately you can’t, you need to buy the package which includes your season ticket. I currently sit in the upper Gwladys street, and was thinking of getting a ticket in the south stand, but if I want to use the bars etc, I will need to get a ticket in the east or west stand.

Barry it was their first album and all about getting busted for doing wacky backy.

Fog on the Tyne live usually went on for about 20 minutes.

Additional issues in the Athens v Ajax match where the taker of a penalty is shown to have a mostly green face from all the lasers from the Athens crowd. Time for that to bw addressed, sickening behavior.

0-1 Ajax.

Rob @ 262
I get the fact that there'll be extra seats available in the new place, but we currently have circa 30k season ticket holders - I'm guessing a bit, plus allegedly a figure between 10k and 20k depending upon where you take the information from.

What facilities would be available in the South Stand then, something similar to those available in the Park End?

I should imagine so, Barry. Some of the images showing the bars / pubs in BMD look really impressive as well. I’ve no idea on prices though.

Rob #262 "I did enquire as to whether anyone who was thinking of getting a season ticket behind either goal, could use the bars / pubs which will be located in the east and west stands? Unfortunately you can’t, you need to buy the package which includes your season ticket. I currently sit in the upper Gwladys street..."

Rob, it's to keep the riff-raff out of the east and west stands!

Tsimikas looks like a Steve Cooper love child.

And what a splendid miss that was!

that was some poxy goal for the shite