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I've heard that old soldiers are starting a charity called 'help for hangers-on'. It's a charity that encourages military hangers-on to seek psychiatric help through counselling and medically approved drugs to wean them off their addiction to 'our boys' and images of the Union Jack. Please, if you can, think about donating to this worthy cause. Thank you.

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From the old aged teen wolf himself, Richard Keys. So I'm pretty sure we can expect an announcement of the Saudi takeover being completed tomorrow.

"The Club told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

I want to ignore you because I don’t want to get my hopes up but I can’t because I’ve gotten my hopes up

Logs on to his gambling accounts, sees the odds......boom! There's another article for the punters.

And that's how it starts...

Which the prison service has already said they can't do due to budget cuts. But instead of addressing that the government will just chuck out life sentences to anyone with a sniff of extremism about them instead. They've already spun it this morning to be the fault of the legal system on this country. You know, the one they've been in charge of for 9 years. The Brexit idiots lap it up though

It was Gemmill's pulling system before he decided the chemical route was much faster.

I actually think he’s pretty thin-skinned given his previous reactions to things. On the other hand he seems stubborn as fuck, so I tend to agree with you in the sense it probably wouldn’t have made a difference.

I cant imagine the lunatic brexiteers going out to buy a Nissan. Unless they brand it a Spitfire & put “Help for heroes” on the side anyway

Aye, a plan that relies on 1 in 5 cars in the UK sold being a Nissan, an increase of 500% on current sales. A plan also completely at odds with reality.

It's almost like the fat little cunt only reads the headlines written by the journalists and ignores the actual contents........

Did someone say fat little cunt 3 times?

Why give away 10,000 free season tickets if it doesn’t bother them?

Sinn Fein leading in the Irish polls. Taking our country back is going to result in Ireland and Scotland taking theirs back. Top job Boris

While I agree with you in principle we’re that far away from that in terms of our prison system I think locking them up and throwing away the key is about the closest possible thing to a sensible option. But we won’t even get that. There’ll be a load of bluster and little else because the daft cunts who moan the most about it are the last ones willing to pay for it

I'd donate to that in a flash, it'd do more to fix our country than most ideas I've heard recently...

Jimbos TV!

I think it was a yellow because of who he did it to

Seeing as he’s such a cunt I often, against my better judgment, try and make CT look stupid but, try as I might, I never do as good a job as he does

Had a weekend in Amsterdam. Had a few people ask me about Brexit and when they saw me sigh they laughed. What a fucking laughing stock we are of a country.

The bottom line with Ashley is that he wants to make money. He only wants to sell the club when it can't make money (e.g. after relegation) or when someone is willing to pay way over the odds. When Staveley wanted to buy a couple of years ago, she, being appropriately business-like, did her due diligence and offered a price based on the club's risky position. She was a time waster because she was unwilling to pay over the odds. Now, when someone is apparently willing to pay the sale price (or thereabouts), there is less risk of relegation and he will now want much more, and when the goalposts have been moved again, this "takeover" fails, he will blame Staveley again for being a time waster. The only time waster is him, because he wants to be and does not really want to give up his golden goose. I think he will be here for many years yet, because there is no deal which he will be willing to do. Even relegation won't make him sell, because he won't get his investment back. Only a long time in the lower divisions will lead to him giving up, and I am not sure I can really wish that on my club.

The more our games are shown live on tv,the better it is for Sports Direct.Even better if we’re doing well and playing exciting football in front of sell-out crowds.10,000 empty seats every home game wouldn’t look great but I don’t think it would damage the Sports Direct brand as much as some people think.

There’s been a contrarian void since CT flounced again

The finger on the pulse of the United beat once again

and the rest. in the previous decade or so... kevin keegan, a bloke who for my generation is a god. single handly transformed us a team whilst a player, he then as a manager saved us from relegation to the third division, got us promoted the following season, took us in to europe by finishing third in his first season in the top flight. came agonisingly closing to delivering a title. had us playing the most breathtaking football i've ever seen in over half a century, was a catalyst in generating a feel good factor in an entire city, transforming the ground from a run down demolition site in to one of the finest, most vibrant stadiums in the country, ensured the immediate future generation would be captivated by nufc. ashley treated him like an utter, utter cunt. our supporters response? pack the stadium out for the following game against hull. alan shearer, greatest goalscorer in newcastle's history. treated like an utter, utter cunt by ashley. humiliated and ignored, refused permission to have a statue erected in his honour on club property and renamed shearer's bar under the gallowgate. st james' park. stamped all over the heritage of the club by renaming the ground the sports direct arena. plastered advertising boards for possibly the most tackiest, morally bankrupt company in the country from the foundations to the roof. neglected any meaningful maintenance in it other than on his own eyesore adverts. sold the land the club owns behind the gallowgate to ensure the stadium cannot be extended and the ground will be obliterated from the skyline. refused any kind of investment in to the training facilities or academy ensuring both remain a laughing stock and are light years behind that of our destitute third division neighbours. treated a thoroughly decent and likeable bloke in chris hughton like an utter, utter cunt and replaced him with alan pardew. in alan pardew's first interview he lied and stated he hadn't been approached by the club prior to hughton's sacking. followed that by giving pardew an 8 year contract to be his mouthpiece for a whole host of further lies and a concerted effort to lower expectations by stating we we weren't in a position to compete with clubs not fit to lace our boots. ensured two self inflicted relegation by his own mismanagement. the former of which was by employing his mate joe kinnear, the latter steve maclaren. as well as presiding over several near misses. a scandalous record in cup competitions. employ lee charnley. doubled the club debt. decimated the clubs commercial revenue. overseen the club being raided by hmrc and being subjected to an ongoing investigation by them. plastered the front of our strips with the logo of a company which was arguably the only one in the country at the time who could compete with his own for being the most reprehensible in the country. hit the jackpot by having a decorated and dignified bloke like rafa benitez approach him to manage the club. his response being to lie to him continuously, refuse all reasonable requests for investment and blank him during supposed contract negotiations. replace benitez with a never-has-been dinosaur in steve bruce who has extremely questionable morals. make him the lowest paid and most grateful to be in his position manager in the country. stick him in front of the cameras to be the mouthpiece for yet more ashley lies and nauseatingly see through pr. follow the failed sunderland method of bringing in loan signing after loan signing rather than proper investment in the team. further follow the failed sunderland method of giving away thousands of free tickets to portray a genuine interest in a failing product. it just goes on and on and on man. it's fucking laughable that 30,000 people are happy to not only pay to have their arse dry fucked by the repulsive fat cunt, but will defend the piece of human scum too. another decade? we've got the cunt till he departs this mortal coil and it's what the 52000 braindead morons in SJP yesterday deserve. and yes Kid Dynamite, i very much include you in that, you fucking cretinous twat.

That's one goal per 278 power naps. Not a bad return.

The full Newcastle segment was posted there https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/competitions/premier-league/11924732/sunday-supplement-the-newcastle-debate Edit. Actually having watched it it's not the entire segment. There's a bit from Hope about the takeover which is basically just what he said about it looking very familiar from other fakeovers. Hope though seems to be of the opinion that these approaches aren't sufficient as opposed to Ashley just messing about for his own advantage. He does question Ashley's willingness to sell, and he doesn't shy away from criticising Newcastle, so perhaps he's right and it's a case of both Ashley being an unwilling seller and there not being any particularly reputable buyers. I have to say I find it hard to believe that none of the supposed groups looking to takeover were serious or had the finances, but I'm not a journalist with contacts either.

He's an absurdly good grafter and presser but he plays on the front foot all the time, he uses the ball well and is able to start counters and switch play better than he used to. The goals are probably a purple patch but it's hard to understate how good an on-pitch leader he is; always vocal, leads by example, doesn't allow anyone's focus to shift. Hard to believe it's the same player from 4/5 seasons ago.

I think you’re both discussing two different shows

In World War II the average IQ of the combat soldier was 100. In Parliament Square it was nineteen. N-n-n-n-nineteen.

Well I’m off to join the IRA.

OK, now I'm angry

fucking hell, i wouldn't be against cracking down on immigration if we're faces with an influx of aussie climate change refugees. there's already too many of them in london

Big Stick Energy

Mind, elsewhere in Brussels...

Can tell that's a Ryder article by, not only the infantile subject matter but by the trademark, one-line paragraphs. Reinventing tabloid journalism.

He was a fat cunt when he was playing!

Cracking

Class Clive James programme (New York one) on BBC4 atm