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Excited. Nervous about getting hammered but excited. The San Siro is the most fitting place for our return. Our game with Inter Milan 20 years ago is etched in the memory of fans of that generation more than any other game since. I was there back then with 10,000 others. I will take that night to the grave. I can't go back by conventional route since we lost all our loyalty points in protest at Mike Ashley. Going from being in the top 5% of supporters after 20 years on the road to being thrown scraps for home games with the glory hunters. I haven't been able to go to any home game this season as I've lost the "ballot" on both occasions applied. The clubs box office is appalingly ran as we saw at the weekend when there were many empty seats despite plenty of us being denied a ticket. But still when I watch Newcastle United walk out again in the San Siro on the telebox tonight it will be very emotional. It might not be as authentic as it was back then with Bobby Robson and Alan Shearer, this era has no outside credibility because of the Saudi source, but in our local community, our little collective, our story and our history it will still carry enormous weight tonight. Howay the lads. 1-0 Dan Burn please.

Guess he didn't make it home, after all In all seriousness, I am very skeptical about this. The dude responsible for the finding has already had issues with credibility in the past, and this looks way too conventional sci-fi alienoid. Definitely needs to be verified independently

WEEK 7 - REGRESSION The run of progressive improvement is over as a tough post international weekend takes its toll on most who played this weekend, with quite a number of odd results in my opinion. @Stan retains his lead at the top of the table but he's miles off this weekend, as Ebbsfleet v Chesterfield ended 0-1 and the Oxford City - Dagenham game, where 4 goals were needed, ended goalless. It's a familiar theme to how mine have gone this season with many results seeming more random than ever. To rub salt into the wounds, the other bet he nearly went for at bigger odds paid quite considerably, so hopefully you took them both for real! @Pyfish rushed his selections by his own admittance and neither of his goalscorers found the net, but an interesting angle to go with as well, I think you certainly have the possibility of some nice payouts looking at those sorts of odds and I might even go up that route myself. He remains in 99p profit overall, but strangely not the nearest to breakeven. That goes to @Machado who couldn't follow up last weeks win this time around. It isn't entirely clear what he's bet on to me from the screenshot, but he's definitely in some form backed Estrela Amadora and Augsburg and both of them lost so he definitely hasn't won. @Lucas becomes the 6th member to land a winner, deserting me at the bottom of the table and in the process landing the season's biggest victory so far with a nicely executed double. Oxford's price seems absurdly big in hindsight, they won 0-3 against a dreadful Fleetwood and Chesterfield as mentioned earlier won 0-1. @RandoEFC claims the first 'push' of the season. As somebody still fairly unfamiliar with Asian Handicap's exact ruling I was at least aware that a Tottenham 1 goal victory made this a draw no bet essentially, and their late turnaround means the Barcelona 5-0 victory is enough to seal the smallest win of the season, but a win nontheless - two wins in a row after starting with five losses. And then we move onto the three who are still yet to win. @CaaC (John)'s bet I had registered as a double but neither selection actually won anyway, with a 2-2 draw in Scotland and Inter winning the Milan derby 5-1. And then me and @...Dan - he picks a nice winner with Dinamo Zagreb, who pick up a 3-0 victory over Slaven Belupo to secure the -2 handicap victory. But we must talk Lens. A pretty remarkable game, one of the weird occasions where I place a bet at a particular price, and what pans out actually makes me think despite it losing the price was slightly higher than it ought to have been. They absolutely dominated it from start to finish yet couldn't find the goal. A genuine freak of a result and a massive blow to them, their bad start gets worse as the Champions League gets underway. It didn't cost me as naturally I managed to dry up Swindon's chaos (2-0), but a Lens win here would've secured Dan a £19.18 win - which would've actually seen the forum profit by 2p overall this weekend A bad weekend. 7 fucking losses in a row. I was genuinely really good at this last season, I had my best ever season for betting but this season's been complete and utter rubbish. I'm calling a lot of bad luck. It'll come. WEEK 7 STATS Winning bets: 2/8 (25%) Winning selections: 5/15* (33.33%) Weekly forum position: -£19.16 *Includes Asian Handicap 'push' - not included as winner or loser OVERALL STATS Winning bets: 10/48 (20.83%) Winning selections: 37/94 (39.4%) Total forum position: -£210.58

I bet the aliens took the F-35. Must be a toy plane by their standards.

E.T. looks dehydrated.

Home to PSG

English media love to hate on English fans abroad. Wouldn't surprise me if they jump on saying Newcastle fans were to blame or instigated it blah blah blah. Hope the Newcastle fan makes a recovery from the stabbing. I'm all for rivalry but never to the point of violence or stabbing or at worse, fatality. It's not on and FIFA/UEFA need to be much harder on it across all countries.

It is so crazy that people feel they need to be violent because of a football allegiance. Best of luck to Newcastle tonight - big for their fans and the club.

Itl be interesting to see how it plays out. I do think hes a good manager but I dont know if he has the time to turn this sinking ship around. I think the idea of being in charge of the national team on home soil was too appealing for him to turn down though either way.

Good luck and fair play for being on the straight and narrow. It's easy for outsiders to resent your fans (and City, Chelsea) etc for enjoying the success and accuse you of signing up with the Saudis or whatever. I don't know why it's so hard for us all to agree that the ownership of some clubs is clearly unsavoury but it shouldn't be held against the fans of the club who still enjoy the actual football aspect.

I'll delete my predictions and go with that.

I thought it was because you’d forgotten to predict

Carrying you fuckers right here

It was both teams to not lose by 2 or more. Augsburg lost by 3 so it's an L yes.

And just like that, Barry Bennell has died in prison.

Zero? Wow.

4 minutes is short even in a normal game this season. Giving it when there's been this amount of explicit time wasting is incredibly suspicious.

It's hilarious and sad at the same time they're attracting followers with such dilusional non-sense.