Matt Weston. Take a bow. Unbelievable 👏🏻👏🏻

Go on Nick!!! Danny Murphy was subbing him off five minutes ago 😂

It's a hard job btw. Much easier to criticise from the sofa/ sidelines. I refereed for years and it's incredibly tough at times. What helps is having ARs confident enough to make decisions and help you out. The AR there is 5 yards away and he can see more than the referee. He needs to help.

Referee needs to slow down and give himself a minute on decisions like that. Not remotely helpful that he jumps for the yellow card straight away. That's a habit that's come about from VAR. Give a yellow and let someone in a van be the bad guy and decide it's a red.

Great result. At times some very good football. Gordon looks more effective as a number 9. Ramsay and Willock did well.

The Mayor & other local leaders have taken leave of their senses. No sane council/govt wants anything to do with Olympics. A collosal waste of £££ UNLESS you're using it as a vehicle to build a new city/ city within a city. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/footba...

Back to the Future. It's 2026 not 1986 👍🏻

Horrendous day for the "football a gentleman's game played by thugs, and Rugby is a thugs game played gentlemen" crowd. This is real 'two tier' legislation. Time to end the ban, or extend the ban. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

I think change is needed but that's not to say Howe should be sacked. Imo a sensible start is to get 3 experienced winners into the squad. To help younger players, but also to manage the dressing room. Then Howe needs an experienced ex manager to come in & challenge / guide him. Fresh voice too.

Another performance where an inability to stay on the ball has killed us. Being able to stay on the ball as an individual, & as a team is the difference between the best and the rest.

BBC finding the time to get Farage's opinion on the Mandelson fiasco. Wonder if they found the time to ask him some questions about his own involvement in the Epstein file?

BBC sticking the boot into Starmer. A poor decision in hindsight of course. Any questions for the senior civil servants who vetted Mandelson? What of our security services who were seemingly oblivious to the fact Mandy was on Epstein island and didn't tell anyone in Govt? Balanced journalism?

The only bit I got wrong was in saying he was strong. He is for his age of course, but he needs an individualised gym plan to bulk up so he can pin PL defs. Not remotely convinced NUFC watched him play btw. Probably offered by an agent & they bit. If they had they wouldn't play him like they do.

Kamikaze football. Mental. Didn't even need to chase a two goal deficit in the first hour. Wait until they tire later on.

Get it to the last 10 minutes and then throw the kitchen sink. Get one goal with 5-10 to go and the pressure on City will be immense. Set pieces could play a huge part tonight.

Let's have it right ...there are professional footballers who are faking head injuries for a sporting advantage. The pro game needs to seriously consider the protocols. Teams are deliberately telling their players to do this to stop goal scoring opportunities. It'll be boy who cried wolf one day.

Howe changing it up worked wonders. Woltemade looks a far better player with Elanga and Willock much closer to him.

Outstanding performance all around. Hall, Ramsay, Botman and Burn tremendous. Unlucky not to get the win. Ramsay needs to be starting and given a role similar to that which he played tonight. Different class.

Lewis Hall has been outstanding so far. His ability to stay on the ball under pressure is remarkable. Willock, Ramsay, and Elanga are commendable too. NUFC need to be much more aggressive out of possession. Give away more free kicks. Disrupt their rhythm. Flip side, draw FKs and dominate set plays.

Settled into the game after twenty minutes. Good position to be in now. Manager with some smart changes & showing his adaptability. PSG highlighting the need to recruit players who are first and foremost technically excellent. Vitinha the best midfielder in this era, Pedri a very close second.

NUFC got a chance to try and get something tonight. Type of game that suits a counter attacking team. Just need quality passes into the channels & Wissa running on. PSG will dominate possession but set pieces could determine the game ...PSG goalkeeper is good but at the standard of Donarumma.

Rinse and repeat. Villas first goal ...Joelinton jumps out to press on his own & they play a one touch passing triangle to get the ball into the space he vacated & Buendia lashes it in.

Much better this evening. Looking for the forward pass much quicker. Movement on the ball much faster too. Botman looking better and better!

What it feels like reading some of the reasons as to why Newcastle took 70+ minutes to register a shot against a team on 7 teams & destined to be relegated 😂 youtu.be/vlWi1O6qSzQ?...

About 15 minutes of nonsense. Players walk back onto the pitch & Diaz tries a panenka & the keeper stands still. Wonderful.

Some craic in the AFCON final. Senegal had a fair goal ruled out by the referee. Morocco have been awarded a soft penalty in 100+ minutes after VAR intervened. Senegal manager has walked his team off the pitch and down the tunnel 😂

Change needed. Either change the Manager or change a good few of the players. Yet another drab performance. It's been a season of poor performances with a sprinkling of wins against the run of play.

2-0 down at half time. Might as well go to City and have a go. Get one back in the first 30 mins and they have a real game on their hands. Need to go away and come up with some unique set pieces and try to nick a goal from a clever corner/ free kick routine. Then it's anyone's game.

This game was crying out for 2 up top. Pointless keeping 3 CMs when you're chasing shadows anyway. Get two up top and make their CBs think about whether to come short or defend space in behind.

Haaland offside

Match highlighting the importance of having 11 players who can all get their foot on the ball and pick a pass. Playing with 9 players who can and 2 who can't will kill you against the top teams.

Keeper found wanting there

Woltemade looks a different player when paired with a natural number 9. He can come short without the fear of a defender following him in every time.

@alansiegella.bsky.social Hi Alan, my wife bought me your book for Christmas. I couldn't put it down. Thank you for writing it. The part in which you described the lady whose father was dying of cancer but had the Simpsons as a form of escapism brought a tear to the eye. Outstanding storytelling.

No quality at all in possession of the ball. Other teams play out from the back ...goad us into playing man to man ...then play 1 touch around us with their spare player in build up. Our lads are instructed to play on 2 touch minimum. It slows play down so much!

Great pass from Bruno. Good finish by Joelinton, helped by the Leeds defender pushing him in the back.

Joelinton isn't the player you wanting receiving the ball in the space between opposition back 4 and midfield. He doesn't possess the technical ability to make it worthwhile.

At a loss to understand why Howe said he sees Woltemade as a 9 & won't play a second striker with him. I'm not at all convinced he was watched properly last summer. I said on here he was a number 10 and definitely not a 9 🤣

Good result in the end! At times it was very good, other times had to dig in and be resilient. Nothing wrong with that. Can't always be gung-ho.

Watching 'Battle of the sexes' tennis match & having to wrap my head around all these contrived rules / court changes and thinking to myself ...if they were so concerned about Kyrgios being able to hit the ball so much harder why not just make the ball heavier?

Another post game reflection ... You've pinned the other team to their own box...space down the sides of the box but not in front...little/no space behind their back 4 ...they are playing 3 CBs so you're unlikely to win many headers. Why then cross it? Get it to wingers & dribble!

Much better second half. Probably worthy of a draw. Ayden Heaven - top player. Lewis Hall - best on the pitch and miles above anyone else. Eddie Howe - hasn't really recruited the players he needed in the summer. Ultimately his fault. Not sure he has the answers/ the players he's bought can execute

Paging Mr Gordon. Delivery needs much more pace and wrap around it. If that area of the pitch was designated for crossing & overlaps...why take your best crosser off the pitch?

Miley looks like he will develop into a centre back, not a centre midfielder ...on that note Lewis Hall far too good to play left back all his career.

Another striker required. Also, just sub Schar off and put someone in there that can sprint. Pin them in and move the ball with tempo. Could probably play a 352 or 343 ...no need for 4 defenders if they are just going to counter

Nowt between the two teams other than a well taken goal. If playing man to man they need to be much more physical. Defenders (bar Hall) need to be braver on the ball. Also, if continuing to get the ball to wingers then their quality of 'pass' (cross) has to be first class as Nick is playing Vs 3 CBs

Allergy to 1-2s, 1 touch passing, dribbling at a fullback, doing a feint ...

Penny for the thoughts of our supreme overloads.

Playing on the counter attack works if you have a threat in behind ... Woltemade comes short and there's no realistic prospect of him spinning and running in behind. The third man runs aren't frequent enough because the passes into Woltemade aren't sticking to him long enough.

We gave massive contracts (thanks Amanda) to two lads on the assumption, wrongly, that other teams would poach them from us. Joelinton never had the talent for his salary, and Bruno is nowhere close to being athletic enough to be at the very top of European football.