[Albion] Newcastle United vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[MTSeagulls]

Ha done a smug Eddie and made them change ends.

 

[Quebec Seagull]

Tim Howard, USA Channel, calls our man "Bale-ah-ba." I'm no longer a Baleba in Tim Howard.

Baleba himself pronounces it Ba-lay-BA... as you would in French.

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[WhingForPresident]

There will be goals today. If I were a betting man, I’d go 4-2 Toon.

 

[Bodian]

'Soft foul' on Veltman according to the commentator!!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Christ on a bike, we haven't kicked off and the doom mongers are out banging saucepans

Albion bus driver will be busy this afternoon!

 

[Clive Walker]

Route one. Not seen that for a while

 

[Solid at the back]

Who is this commentator? I remember him being a wanker many times he's commentsted on us

 

[Blues Guitarist]

It looks as if our manager has thrown in the towel before the game has even started. What a truly awful line up. Newcastle won't be at all bothered by that team.

Germans don't throw in the towel, they put it on a sun bed.

 

[Zeberdi]

I’ll be very happy if we can take a point from this. Nothing I’ve seen so far this season says we can beat an on form Newcastle.

Not ‘doom mongering or bed wetting just recognising the level - a point would be a good result.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Joel has got them well and truly rattled already

 

[Bodian]

'Soft foul' on Veltman according to the commentator!!

And now he gets away with a handball in the box. What a player he is.

 

[Bodian]

Burn Booked

 

[Hendrax]

dunk caught out, Ferdi makes a great recovery slide

 

[fruitnveg]

getting a sense already that they have been told to go down and scream for everything.

 

[chickens]

Eddie Howe is increasingly looking like Steve McFadden with a hair transplant. He’s channeling a bit of the “Phil Mitchell” quality of looking apoplectically red in the face, with the general demeanour and aesthetic charm of a bulldog chewing a wasp.

On the football side, this looks like what it is, our first time playing a system we’re not totally familiar with in anger.

 

[Seagull58]

These Geordies love a "professional" foul. Hope the ref isn't too shy to brandish the cards. One for BDB so far.

 

[willalbion]

4-1 Brighton

 

[Bodian]

They're bloody quick going forwards.

 

[nicko31]

All Toon

 

[Mackenzie]

Newcastle pressing well, they'll tire in the second half.