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@williamrickson I'm 57, I was 6 when we won the fairs Cup in '69, I only have very faint recollections of it. other than a few years idolising supermac as a kid, the keegan promotion season in the mid 80s and the keegan and robson managerial years it's been a pretty rough ride for half a century. none more so than the last 13 years under the ownership of the hideous fat cunt from sportsdirect. I'd given up hope of ever seeing my club winning anything in the time I have left and who knows it might still be too late? what I do know is if these saudi's along with stavely and the reubin brothers make the possibility of seeing us lift some silverware come to fruition I'd happily sell me soul to the devil and I'm not really bothered how unethical that makes me. as regards yourselves and the mansours... about the only consideration I've given it is I wished to fuck they'd bought us instead back in '08 and I'd have been equally as morally bankrupt than as I am now in my happiness at seeing the back of a parasite whose sucked the soul out of nufc.

“I think this one’s genuine. “I think this one goes through. “I think it works as a business proposition.” Samuel speaking on the Sunday Supplement just now. He looks like Fred Flintstone's less intelligent brother.

Manchester City fan I come in peace I think most City fans will welcome your take over much rather fight for a title with you lot than London clubs or two clubs closer to home. Some of us will be wondering what you have been saying about our take over. Are you being consistent about Middle Eastern human rights and spending huge sums ? In my view the more competition the better it is for me as spectator I had a look at your take over topic and I think you are right to expect huge investment in both the club and Newcastle its self but do not expect it to be straight forward. First off whilst FFP is going to be relaxed due to the Corona virus but in a very minor way and if City are successful at CAS or in court it could be altered or scrapped. You are also helped by the change to the rules around new owners but. We got in ahead of the start of the rules and some would claim we fiddled the figures with UEA sponsorship money (I can explain later why this is not really the case and why City will win at CAS or in court and should never have been punished first time round let alone second) (Can Saudi Arabia do the same ?) Expect to probably over pay for a lot of players who are better than what you have but not amazing and then have to get rid of them for not very much money as you move up the league remember Wayne Bridge etc at city in the early days. On the investment in Newcastle area do not expect it to be that quick City have been slow to expand the ground the Academy took a while to be built compulsory purchase of United fans company. There is still a huge amount of land to develop New Arena finally proposed but still a lot left to put forward on site of the former proposed super casino and I think elsewhere. in the city I have read that the owner has something like 300 - 400 acres of land but the land everyone talks about is the academy 80 acres plus immediately round the ground a lot will depends on what the owners want and how much land is available more land more ambitious much much slower. I am sure our owner could have had thousands of flats built round the ground in no time but he wants some sort of Disneyland entertainment education sports thing and there is public transport to consider. Do not expect any early criticism of spending or human rights to go away at least not anytime soon

Aye but you’re a massive fanny.

We all are.

This is amazing

Norwegian ip by the way. It couldn’t be could it?

I’m getting a bit bored of fans of other clubs telling us how we should feel about this takeover. Yeah there are moral concerns and that, but as we have been told over and over, support the team and not the regime. When this is complete I will be on the cans, and when we win the league/cup/champions league treble, I will be on the cans and I couldn’t give a fuck what any other teams supporters could say.

He wouldn’t tbh. Imagine the trouble if he embarrassed club legends like.... BRB gonna have a google.

They really are fantastic local rivals to have. Utter tits. The best part about them is they can never figure out what their rating of us is, we’re either utterly shit, an embarrassment and they love Ashley taking the piss out of us, or we’re this: “Made them financially stable after they were teetering on the brink when he took over. Had them in Europe (and as far as a quarter final I think). Bankrolled Championship winning teams twice when they suffered relegation. Spent shitloads. From memory McLaren had 80m one season. Benitez had 100m plus? Bruce 60m? Appointed fans choice managers on a few occasions (Shearer, Keegan, Benitez). Eventually (it looks like) selling them to new owners making them potentially the richest club in the world. That or we can stick with nice guy Donald. Umb?” Which is them awkwardly trying to say we were good and they would rip Ashley’s hand off to take this, the agenda here being we’re deluded, ungrateful bastards. 13 years of these little scrotes trying to act like they were on the same level as us, and we were all deluded, now we’re on the brink of becoming the richest club in the world, while they’re in League One day dreaming of Mike Ashley taking their club over

AH just posted a Morrisey track on another thread with the disclaimer that the man is a wanker. It’s very possible to like his music while detesting the man just as it’s possible to support the club while being abhorred at the owner’s country’s human rights record and military interventions.

If its announced tomorrow fuck me. I best go kidnap that old dears dog over the road tonight.

I think it's quite a common trait wherever you are, unfortunately. Most of the Swedes I know are quick to defend the relaxed Swedish approach the moment it gets any criticism, even though it's liable to lead to pretty bad per capita outcomes, especially in the cities. Fortunately my uncle over there, who's undergoing cancer treatment and thus at risk, is also a healthy cynic and is now safely holed up in his retirement apartment for the duration with several cases of Brown Ale and his collection of NUFC season review videos.

They’re such a financial disaster, and so far down the pecking order that I highly doubt he’d see merit. They all have this idea that they’re some sort of exceptional club that if someone bought them they’d kick on really easily and make a ton of money, in reality they’ve been a train wreck for as long as I know of. They never seem to answer the issue of why someone would buy them and not any one of many of the Championship clubs above them, or even some of their League One compatriots. The sooner they accept where they are and what they are as a club now the better off they will be. Trying to still compare themselves to us, as they’ve been doing, is mad and it’s about to get a hell of a lot more ridiculous. Short essentially gave the club away for free and ‘the Don’ was the only taker, why do they now think there’s a queue of rich consortiums lining up to pay Donald millions for it when they’re in a worse position than when he took over?

Be careful all those things are completely different from our takeover, for reasons none of the journalists will go into but it makes it somehow not hypocritical About the Man City takeover, I was jealous tbh as if it wasn’t for Ashley it would have likely been us. I’m of the same thoughts as Alex, that I’ve thought about the human rights issues far more with regard to our takeover, I can’t really think of discussing the background of the Abu Dhabi lot. I don’t view football as some exception, if they have the ability to freely invest elsewhere then investing in football shouldn’t be off limits. I find it hilarious that we’re now hearing people calling us a ‘community club’ and that this ruins that, did they miss the prior 13 years of some arrogant fat carpet bagger just stomping all over each and every tradition, legend, or hope for the club? They can all do one as far as I’m concerned.

Morals and ethics are just words. What we want is GOALS.

mackems after a new owner https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/mike-ashley-looking-to-invest-in-an-efl-club.1515025/

You'd be surprised how many of those we have on here tbh.

Yabba dabba don’t.

I can't be arsed to walk up Dean Street

Sir Bobby, man 💕💕💕

I’ll do the euphemisms round here, if you don’t mind

I was inferring he might’ve been milking it with regard to his illness

This is true and so utterly depressing. Be in no doubt, our government has been a disaster in this, there has to be an enquiry.

Emre is a cunt, for the record.

mackems should just take our takeover on the chin

Before you go back to your tin pot, league one, absolute fucking joke of a ‘classy’ club, don’t forget to have a shite in public, hero worship a peado, racially abuse one of your player’s mothers and shout at a statue of Jimmy Hill.

Last minute decision to have a wee BBQ, totally uninfluenced by mild day-drinking. 😂 I’ve been having a bit of a duck eggs love-in lately, farm shop near me is selling them and they’re fucking amazing. So, the salad is getting a couple of soft-boiled ones hoyed on last minute as a lovely eggy dressing.

Fair play to him. They finished the season seven points from safety and still manages not to get them relegated. The man is a magician.

It’d be just our luck for his plane to go down now.

The bloke literally changed the name of the stadium for no gain to him, you could argue the decision really was for him to make more money but then why did he then set up what was essentially a photo opp where a bloke with a crowbar ripped the name of the stadium off? That’s how much of a massive disrespectful cunt he was to the fans.

Aye, community clubs largely died out a long time ago but m, fuck me, the last 13 years has seen us become just about as removed from being that as it’s possible to be

Re: Man City the ownership definitely didn’t bother me at all. I was a bit envious but that’s all. At the time the do-called elite needed a shake up and it did just that. I’ve probably thought about the human rights side of things much more for our proposed take over than other ones from the same part of the world. I think a lot of us on here have some reservations but are also finding the hypocrisy annoying and funny in equal measure. Mainly from the press. From the mackems it’s just funny. I.e. it’s ok for the Saudis to be a strategic ally we sell arms to. It was ok for Sheffield Utd. It was ok for Anthony Joshua and it was going to be fine for Man Utd etc

To be honest it hasn't been talked about extensively on here until now (middle eastern ownership) as we've had more than our fair share of ownership problems much more front of mind. As far as Man City go we've been dudded by referees in matches against you guys in fairly recent times (Habib Beye being sent off comes to mind immediately) so I've enjoyed some of our more recent unexpected good results against you. Since you became the richest club in the country I've been happy for you to win because it nails home in a patent way that at the end of the day it's all about money. If you spend enough of it, you will become the best. Manchester United and Liverpool will try to make out that they don't spend like Man City and that there is some intrinsic power in the club that elevates them above others, but the truth once again is money and winning. Players want to be well paid (this is a big part of the motivation for wanting to play at a champion's league club, not just the prestige of the competition) and they want to win. So if this all goes through we will become a much more appealing destination for a higher calibre of player which could potentially lead to the return of champion's league football. TLDR; money has ruined the game, regardless of where it comes from. But, having suffered under Ashley's ham fisted tight arsed operations for an extended period I'm looking forward to the potential for us to show real ambition.

I don’t know why PIF don’t buy them. We could use their pitch for the camels to graze on.

I was having a day off.…

Watching football from the Belarusian Premier League with a bet on ( yes i know it's a bit sad ) £10 treble Torpedo Belaz Isloch Minsk and FC Slutsk Sluts already winning...come on the Sluts !

"If you are a fantastic painter, you are never rich until you are dead. And I think it’s the same with managers. You’re never appreciated until you’re gone.” – Sir Bobby Robson

The best thing about this bread making craze is that there’s loads of bread in the supermarkets

Rumours ramping up that the sale will be announced within 24hrs. Could be absolute bullshit like most of NUFC twitter, but here’s hoping

If it’s a proper mask with a filter on it. Yes having a beard will prevent it from working properly as you don’t get a good seal around the mouth and nose. At work we need to a fit test to confirm the seal before going into areas where they are required. If you have a beard or even a few days stubble it will stop them working properly. if it’s just a surgeons type paper mask or a home made t-shirt over the face type mask the main purpose seems to be to stop your coughs and sneezes infecting others rather than stop you breathing in nasties. So the beard shouldn’t make too much difference there.

Fuck sake

You don't have to be Chris Bonnington to shop at the LD Mountain Centre, but I am, and I do.

Hey mate. Big Batman fan then? What does the Dark Knight have in his Whisky? Just Ice.

More Jam than Hartleys, that cunt.

Don't forget to «suck my plums» on your way out.

and a profoundly stupid one at that. doesn't he know that as a coventry supporter he's supposed to a bitter enemy of the mackems not us?