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Looks like they are having a fire drill at Everton - impressive how they get to the evacuation point that quickly
 

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Very poor antics from Newcastle throughout this game... Not something I'd normally associate with the club. I wonder if it's a manager driven thing.
As a Newcastle fan...I detest it and hated watching it. It only serves to rile the opposition, get the crowd sparked up and puts fire in their bellies. At the end of the day it only causes time to be added on (admittedly not as much as perhaps should be), when you are tired, and if the match is on a knife edge, just puts you under more pressure late on.
 

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As a Newcastle fan...I detest it and hated watching it. It only serves to rile the opposition, get the crowd sparked up and puts fire in their bellies. At the end of the day it only causes time to be added on (admittedly not as much as perhaps should be), when you are tired, and if the match is on a knife edge, just puts you under more pressure late on.
Millions and Billions of pounds in the PL .
but they won’t employ a time keeper.
makes no sense.
 

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Everton made a real game of that for 70 minutes...they hustled and harried and Newcastle were off their stride for large parts of the game....lots of misplaced passes from us that allowed Everton to carry a threat at times but those misplaced passes were largely due to Everton's work rate. Ultimately though, Calvert Lewin was Everton's only real threat and the game was settled simply due to clinical finishing by Newcastle who in 3 minutes just took the game away from their hosts.

Any brief life Everton might have had after their goal was immediately snuffed out by a magical run from Isak...when he finds his feet in this league he is going to run some defences utterly ragged...sure Everton stood off him and could have stopped him but, dare I say it, that run was Maradona-esque.
 

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I've got a hazy memorI think it's all guesswork and only time will tell. I'll enjoy it whilst it lasts. There was always talk that Pep would do his usual and move on after a couple of years at City. Here we are with him still at the helm 7 years on.

Hasn't Pep just signed an extension to his contract which also did something to affect Haaland's contract/release clause? I've got a vague memory of reading something about the two things being linked - maybe the £150 million release clause in Haaland's contract no longer being valid because Pep had signed an extension. Or I might have just made all of that up.
 
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