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They were talking about Aston Villa on the radio yesterday. They've just had their best ever PL season and are playing in the CL next season. Now they've been forced to sell one of their best players, aren't likely to get out of their CL group and are highly unlikely to finish top 4 again next season. All because they aren't allowed to invest further. It's nonsensical and damages the PL 'brand' internationally.

For my own amusement, I'm gonna pretend that every youth signing this window is the result of information found on a mysterious hard drive labelled "Secrets for Jim" found haphazardly jammed in the paper shredder in the hallway outside Ashworth's NUFC office some time during February.

🎶 Working on the site Making up tales of shite That's mackems alright (That's mackems alright) Then copying wor flags Slagging off the mags That's mackems alright (That's mackems alright) Working all day For a pittance of pay Then blow it all on Saturday night And you tell tall tales But you don't know their names That's mackems alright. Working in the sun Drinking pop having fun That's mackems alright (That's mackems alright) Then a shite in the stand Spreadin' it around That's mackems alright (That's mackems alright) Fixed your seat all day For your owner you say? And sneak a cheese slice back to the wife Still you keep a little here To go with your free pint of beer That's mackems alright Yeah you play the game Then it's auf wiedersehen That's mackems alright (That's mackems alright) Telling the lie With a glint in your eye, 'Cause tomorrow you'll be back on the RTG site And you tell tall tales But you don't know their names That's mackems alright Yeah you play the game Then it's auf wiedersehen That's mackems alright (That's mackems alright) 🎵

Small world! Our car's gearbox packed in about 50 miles from there sometime last year. If I actually supported Newcastle and didn't actively dislike Hearts we'd be like brothers from another mother. Heads up, the mods and regulars here are largely a weird mix of ex-pats, ex-polis and potential serial killlers. To quote Fox Mulder "Trust No One" and "If I'm not home by midnight, feed my fish".

FYP

is it really any different to match fixing? Yes, yes it is

Not just the elderly but the infirm too, see Gemmill for example A.

mackems inventing something, then getting angry about it?

OMG I can't believe they've messed with the sacred heritage of the... MLS Allstars.

There was a similar club in Keswick in the late 80s, the name of which escapes me now. Weird place, it had a four sided bar island that took up most of the main floor, with a tiny dance floor to the side- 10 people on it and it was getting intimate. A bunch of us from the place I was working went in one night with the express intention of seeing how fast we could all get thrown out- one lad stuck a bottle down his pants so everyone he approached thought he was sporting a magnum dong erection, I approached every lass at the bar, said hi, took a drink, then went in to my best lines whilst dribbling said drink down my chin, I can’t recall the other methods - one lad came up with one of the best comebacks I’ve heard Approached the chief scrubber sitting with her gang of scrubettes, asked her for a dance. “ No, I’m fussy who I dance with”, said Chief Scrubber. My boy came straight back with, ” Shame, as you can see, I’m not…” Poor lasses face dropped as far as her tits probably have by now. We were all “helped””back outside within about 15 minutes. There was one in Hexham too, but it was basically fight club for the local goons.

Welcome. Got mates up in Hawick, been out a few times up there and they have been down here, still can’t understand a word they fuckin say and probably they can’t understand me.

Probably should lay off eating cow shit mate

keitj fighting a lonely battle in that thread. several of his fellow mackems have tried pointing out to h that he's wrong, but he's not having it, bless him....

“The £40,000 club opened with a billing as a luxury nightspot in 1972, fulfilling a lifetime dream for owner Donald D'Adamo - better known through his Hexham hairdressing business as Donalde.”

A few of us stayed in Langholm (I think that’s how you spell it) near to the hotel was a nightclub..well if that’s what you can call it …The Elephant Shed or some fuckin thing if I remember rightly …the village/town was dead all day, and then around 11pm it was like the Thriller video, people appearing out of drains and shit and heading to this ‘club’ so we thought aye let’s have a look, after being there for 15 minutes or so, a local gimp came out with what is up there with a great chat up line to a lass who was in our group, asked if she was staying in a hotel and if he had any chance of a shag (true) only been chatting on for about 10 mins, she replied unlikely mate as it’s the wrong time of the month….he replied with sincerity, “That’s ok I’ll stick it up your arse” …strange place indeed, one of us upset the locals and we got told to leave, for saying to a right stunner on the dance floor ..you divvent sweat much for a fat lass. Happy days

Liam O'Brien: "Ah, sure you just walk up casually to a free kick, no drama or clenched jaws and you'll find the ball usually goes in the far corner of the net, not a problem. It helps if you're at roker park, mind."

The first results are in from the 2024/25 Premier League. Nottingham Forest 1 Newcastle United 1 and Newcastle United 1 Nottingham Forest 1 https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/psr-corruption.1636051/

There you gaan.

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There was a regular disco at the cross keys hotel in Kelso. Bar shut at 12, they didn’t kick out till one. So from 1130 everyone was queuing up to buy half a dozen pints each, of which no more than two were ever drank Typical small town scene, everyone knew each other and the various little feuds that were at play. Into that mix whole teams of rugby players would turn up, including on one in occasion in the late 80s the Bath team who were packed with England players of that era….they genuinely looked fuckin astonished, I don’t think they could believe that they were in a place with as many vodka crazed slappers and farmers running around trying to murder each other

Ah… so he’s making sure no one mistakes him for a local woman.

Poor old Michael Finnegan

I just said Ibrahim, you added the weirdo.

I went to one in Jedburgh when I was 18 and living in Kielder. The Kielder lads I went with said words to the effect of “ If you can’t get your dick wet at The Riding, you might as well cut it off” Knees were successfully trembled.

It’s amusing to see him getting more and more annoyed. Whilst showing less and less understanding and using dafter and dafter analogies with each post he makes in that thread. He’s a fucking moron

takes some doing being the biggest dickhead in a team that includes bruno fernandez and joao cancelo

yep, the most in history will likely go up year on year. i wonder what percentage of that was win bonuses given we won the treble. record revenues, record wages, record trophy haul. money reinvested in the club, not withdrawn probably worth noting that our wage bill this year is being reported at £200m which compares favorably to man uniteds £205m, Of course both clubs might need to add bonuses to those totals yet. i'm sure the newcastle picture will be similar once you successfully navigate the cartels blockades.

This dirty little Yorkshire bitch posting stuff I've already posted elsewhere.

This is what happens when you privatise the fuck out of every public service. The irony that they're deeply concerned some of their key votes may not be delivered on time is not lost on me. You reap what you sow. Government 'urgently' investigating general election postal ballot delays | Politics News | Sky News

All aboard the Shania Train!

What does he think the party he has now signed up to is like?

His free kick routine is nauseating too. The superman stance and the clenched jaw. Retire, you bellend.

That Chelsea hotel shit needs investigating.

I genuinely hope you are. As a City fan we obviously have our own issues, but if i was a fan of a club nowhere near PSR issues (i'd have named one but i'm not sure i safely can) i'd be well unhappy with all these "swap" deals to make clubs compliant. I'd be like, "why did we bother following the rules when other clubs bypass the rules with these deals". Villa having to sell one of their best players in Douglas Luiz was just wrong. It actually makes me mad and i'm pretty relaxed on most things. My anger at that isn't even softened by City having a sell on clause on him. These swaps just go to show how inept the PL is. 1. The rules are wrong. 2. They don't work. I believe clubs should have a positive bottom line and thats it. A bit like how you or i live our lives, a mortgage is fine but maxing out the credit cards is bad. That's roughly how football should be. Nothing wrong with gifts from the family. When my parents pass on, i would hope that i would be allowed to spend any inheritance or if a wealthy uncle bought me a flash car. Football should be the same. What i'm saying is that i should be worried about your spending power, but thanks to PSR i don't have to yet. And thats wrong.

The lad on the right doing a John Redwood “ Whit thae fuck they sayin’ ?l

They have their own language in Hawick, they basically just sing instead of talking

Reading the decision is grim. It’s a blueprint for a fascist state and dictatorship in very much limiting the ability to hold a president criminally accountable for abusing his power. First the republican majority bottled it when they turned the impeachment trial into a farce but claiming Trump’s criminal conduct should be dealt with at courts. Today’s politics isn’t about responsibility and morality. Just staying in power is what matters, a perversion of core democratic principles and a total disregard for the rule of law.

Relentless

They can't argue the toss. Those are arms length transactions with clubs that we have no affiliation with. They are, by definition, market value - in fact for Minteh we accepted less than Lyon offered us because the player didn't want to go there. And I completely disagree that it was mismanagement. They wanted to sell Anderson in January but he was injured. They tried to sell Miggy in January but he refused to go. Think something similar happened with Wilson. In the end, they sold two peripheral players and got £8m for a bloke who we were paying to sit around the house. He's now off the payroll now too. It all happened at the last minute because it was in the buying clubs' interests to make us wait til the last minute. Same reason a load of transfer window business happens on the last day, cos it's the point of maximum leverage. I honestly don't see the problem with it. We had a messy situation and we got out of it without any of our big stars going. Shame about Anderson but I suspect he was never going to be good enough for where we want to go. I don't know why there's so much fuss being kicked up about it. Fans on twitter saying "we need answers from the club". Answers to what? We had a PSR hole and we sorted it. There's your fucking answer.

It’s unerected itself so much I’ve now got a vag.

That's up there for moment of the season. Brilliant.

I hate transfer windows, just months of whining bitches crying about made up bollocks.