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Shearer's take on the ethical conundrum.

It's not the fans' job to defend the owners. The thousands outside the ground yesterday weren't celebrating the Saudis, they were celebrating a new dawn and the arrival of hope once again. Enjoying the 90's wasn't an endorsement of Sir John Hall's Tory views just as a protest against Mike Ashley wasn't a criticism of his working practices at Sports Direct. It was all about the club. We're football fans happy that our team will once again be competing against the best in the country. It's as simple as that.

yeah, good luck with that one Jezza

Were these poverty-stricken “top 6” peasants bothered about The Brand when they were all going to fuck off to the ESL?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/08/angry-premier-league-clubs-demand-emergency-meeting-on-newcastle-deal All other clubs united against the deal

Last week- “ Would you have Bale?” “ If only, eh?” Today- “ Nah, he’s past it…” Gettin!

Congratulations Lads. I am very happy for you. Ashley is past.

Celebrated with a bit of pegging?

Just turned off my Google alert for "Mike" "Ashley" "helicopter".

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/may/25/manchester-citys-rise-from-stumbles-of-old-to-fine-tuned-global-product This is how he recently wrote about Man City, while he mentions the complaints about the UAEs record he does so in passing and in an article that seems to be pretty much commending them. They can’t have it all ways, I’m fine if they want to talk about some grand plan to reform the game and remove all the blood money from it, but it has to be all of it you can’t arbitrarily draw a line in the sand like so many of them do (and clearly it’s impossible to do now the game and society in general is so entwined with it). As I mentioned yesterday when the takeover fell through Newcastle fans weren’t just laughed at we were then subject to all these people looking down on us for having the audacity to be excited for the deal in any capacity. These people are honestly acting like our only option is to just walk away from the club, our club that we’ve all grown up with and followed for our whole lives, and even if we do what the fuck do we get? The show moves on and in a few years these people will be writing about what a great job the PiF has done investing in the area and turning the club into a success. We’d just be denying ourselves entertainment and being able to enjoy our football club again while the rest of the world consumes masses of entertainment that gets funding from very similar sources. If they want to attack the PL, Saudi Arabia, etc that’s fine, they keep saying that’s what they’re doing but in many cases they’re also slating the fans and that’s the bit I can’t get away with at all. Little wankers like Delaney sharp moved on from worrying about the Saudi Arabian human rights record when the deal collapsed iirc he even got a bit of a chub on at the whiff of them possibly turning their eyes to buying Manchester United in the aftermath. I suppose we’re just going to have to put up with the faux outrage and hand wringing from these types of people, all sent of course via their iPhone which was produced in foul ways by a foul regime, built from materials sourced in foul ways by foul regimes with horrible long lasting impacts on the regions it was sourced especially with how the by product was discarded, after they watched PL football games between sides owned by various middle eastern, Russian, Thai, Chinese etc ‘businessmen’ on their similarly sourced television. They of course stick their fingers in their ears and ignore all of that say what am I supposed to do about it and call the argument whataboutism, sorry like this ownership of Newcastle is absolutely no different, they can call my argument whataboutism and I’ll call them giant fucking hypocrites.

That is extremely impressive and well argued. As Mick Martin said, why is acceptable to put the ethical onus on fans when Bin Salman literally has the red carpet rolled out for him at Buckingham Palace?

The clubs should’ve tried to do something about changing the fit and proper owner’s test before now of human rights etc was their concern. Of course that might cost the current owners the opportunity to sell their club at some point in the future. All they want to do is block this deal as a one off. Tough shit. Too late

It's not the first time he's met her. 👍

Now *this* is a regime I can get behind.

The big clubs that are threatened by this were all too busy trying to plot a breakaway Superleague before anything like this happened to scupper their status. Fuck them. I'm not even a Newcastle fan and I'm not going to pretend to be now that this has happened. Chuffed for you lot though and looking forward to watching the glorly hunter Manchester, Liverpool and Chelsea fans all having proper shitfits over this. With any luck this PIF has another eye on the SPFL and breaking up the old firm, just for a bit of interest. Imagine a world where the brutualist House of Saud ends bigotry in Glasgow and unites the city in their opposition of their hatred of.......Partick Thistle.

"It is an absolute outrage that Newcastle have been permitted to become competitive, and the very idea that in this day and age there should be some modicum of challenge to the big 6 clubs strikes at the very heart of what football is all about - wealth and glory for an established elite!! Err, I mean, think of the brand!" "Moreover, the fact that we weren't given time to subvert the deal somehow really is a shocking dereliction of duty by the PL..!"

Ghodoussi should attend wearing a t-shirt with “Ligma” on the front. Then when he’s told them all to fuck off and turned around to walk out, have “ Baaaaallz” on the back.

Hit them with a flip flop.

Get him a wheelbarrow for Christmas. He'll need something to keep his knackers in when he returns to school after next summer's transfer window.

my little lad has maintained he's a newcastle fan in the face of relentless piss-taking from the other kids at school. we live in south east london but they're all liverpool/man city/chelsea fans. he's not really that bothered about watching footie. i don't really blame him given the shite i've insisted he sit though. got a feeling that's about to change and he night have the last laugh in the school playground

This whole forum has been posting using only one hand for the last two days so I think he could still manage tbf.

Looking forward to us getting 3 penalties a game.

PIF'd your post

He's one of S Club 7.

We'd be a fucking laughing stock all over again if we just became the richest club on the planet and appointed Eddie Howe as manager. Besides, I'm not ready for the club to have a manager that's younger than me yet.

Fuck me, my head.

Shaun Middleton, the 60 year old who seems to dress like he thinks he’s a 12 year old going to spend Saturday at the Bridges and who interviews people outside the SoL who communicate by burping, has now decided he’s really really bothered about Khashoggi’s widow

I love the trolling of the club’s media team now Ashley is gone.

Don’t think about it too much and never listen to Guardian readers.

With it certain we’ve got shot of Ashley, and it’s almost certain we’ll be rid of Bruce soon, I just want to say that I hope they both catch their ball sack in their zippers every single time they have a piss for the rest of their lives.

He'll have to take this down from his office wall too.

Aye, they’re boring tbh. What do they expect? Staveleys not going to come out and say he’s gone randomly when asked. We all know the prick is out in his arse, and to be honest her responses have fairly blatantly said as much, so can the press start focusing on questions that are actually going to get interesting responses? I’m still fucking howling at that absolute melt Edwards interviewing Bruce yesterday, I’ve not read a word of it and never will as I like I’m sure many others couldn’t give a fucking monkeys what Bruce has to say on the matter. He was beneath Mike Ashley’s version of Newcastle let alone the richest club in the world version of Newcastle.

imagine if it's conte, he oozes class like denise welch oozes sex appeal

Need to change it now to 'Allan' 'winning' and 'penicoptor'. I think we can safely say that this is the week that Mike Ashley finally got the hang of this football malarkey.

Long time adversary of Steven Marshall-Baines

FTM

The thing is, these people who have suddenly discovered a deep concern for human rights in Saudi are getting air time because the takeover is big news. In a few days no one will be interested in hearing their gums flap

I put talksport on driving home to a clip from a clip, in this case Jason Cundy. Cunty struggled to hold down a place in a SHIT Tottenham side and a SHIT Chelsea side who we regularly beat while he was there if you're struggling to think who the fuck this absolute nugget is? Anyway, nonentity Cundy reckons not only does nobody outside of Newcastle support Newcastle but we have zero history and have absolutely nothing. Honestly warmed the cockles of my heart listening to the fume coming from him. Suck it up cockney wanker, suck it up real good.

Also looking forward to the Toontastic welcome for all the new fans that will be coming in

I’m actually creasing at these cunts that are trying to make out there’s any chance Bruce stays on . Also just read that stupid little mackem loser Glendennings shit article, honestly the bitterness and fume from little bottom feeders like him is enough but the trophies to follow will be outrageous. Genuinely don’t know how to feel about all of this but I am steaming and didn’t do a lick of graft today, so in a way had a typical day in the life of Lee Ryder.

Cans…done Bottle…opened

Maybe Levy is frustrated Masters didn’t say anything when they were sitting next to each other last weekend. Also Hope suggesting Bruce trying to give an impression of working for his money is top trolling, too.

#bids #football #business #money

Some of you sound like the type that would win the lottery and keep going to work. GET SOME FUCKING BALLS MAN.

How would you post on here then?