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Dear Sport Republic, Buy. A. Clinical. Striker. FFS. That is all. Thanks, Trousers (Lord)

Perfect result. Last thing we wanted was Newcastle needing to come out on the front foot at SJP....

Both VAR decisions correct IMO

Bugger. Defo handball

Gooooaaaallll!

There's the Newcastle goal we need so that they get complacent in the second leg...

Yep, we definitely don't need a clinical goalscorer this window....

Good to see us mixing up the corner takers though.

A Che Adams special there from Joelinton

FFS. Sky still banging on about the disallowed goal.

This. It's not difficult, is it?

Can someone educate Given and Ferdinand that VAR isn't there to correct incorrect decisions per se, but to only overturn any 'clear and obvious' mistakes by the referee. In this case, the referee made a reasonable decision based on what he saw at the time, ergo VAR shouldn't/cannot overturn it.

No. Some, not all...

Yeah, this...

What do our in-form, high-scoring B-Team starlets have to do to gain a spot in our matchday squad...?

Agreed. A narrow defeat tonight could well be the best way for us to achieve victory over the two legs...

Insane

Let's imagine Bednarek wasn't our player and the club brought in a new CB who was a regular international starter for Poland... They'd be people on here lapping it up...

Agreed, although at least they bothered to use an apostrophe

People that don't know that this is called a die. Ignorant twats.

People that don't have soft closing toilet seats and you automatically assume they have

This. I'm usually a "let's wait to see how things pan out rather than jumping to premature conclusions" kinda chap (Exhibit A: my regular berating of the 'happy to be proven wrong' brigade) but my gut feel on us not re-signing Ings is that we'll end up regretting it. Nothing more than a hunch but I just feel he's exactly what we needed in the short term given the current circumstances. Assuming both he and the club were open to the notion of him coming back then I think we've made a mistake in not making it happen. Happy to be proven wrong, of course...