Happy Face

Earning less than Pardew.

Pardew has been handed £100m of new talent in 4 years. £40m of it has been left to rot on the bench or shipped out for free because he didn't fancy them. How does a title winning, champions league performing cb like mbiwa not fit the team but Mike Williamson does?

Yeah, that I'm a div. Should be 0.75. my spreadie counted the upcoming away game too

How #nufc have had the worst injury record in the league ever since Pardew arrived. http://nufc-ashlies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/fitter-happier.html

Nope http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tyne-wear-derby-new-era-8327294 *smug*

Nicos Papavasiliou He's got Ermis 3rd in the Cypriot first division now and has his English UEFA A license. #sackpardew

The Theory of Everything I enjoyed the Imitation Game but I thought this was better. The trailer did nowt for me. Annoyed me that they seemed to have turned The remarkable achievements of Stephen hawking into a romantic film, but the fact that it is based on his ex-wifes book means she was bound to be a massive part of the film. For a while I would get angry every time it left the classroom/lab and went back home, but the story of his home life is what ultimately set this apart from the imitation game. Both films about the work and personal lives of brilliant men, there's much more heart to the Hawking film. In the end Hawking doesn't take as much pride in his work as he does from his family. As a new dad, that got to me. The Achievements of Turing are remarkable and the real world application obviously hugely important and dramatic, but of the two men Turing is a workaholic shunning any close ties with real people while Hawking is a pisshead randy bugger chasing every bit of tail and tossing out brilliant theories left right and centre as he goes. Amazing performance from Redmayne too.

https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/articles/the-velvet-revolution/ Great Read. Can't help but think of Newcastle when reading it. Nowt wrong with refusing to spend massive amounts or concentrating on youth rather than throwing good money after bad, but don't leave it in the hands of Joe Joyce and Dave Watson to inspire the kids. Can you imagine Beardsley or Moncur doing what Cruyff did there?

Cheers. The club have gone from 438 admin staff in 2007 to 41 in 2013 as well so maybe leaving out wages isn't really fair.

@@ewerk can you tell me if I'm being daft making an assumption based on these figures? Keep hearing that the outsourcing of catering and retail is what accounts for the reduction in Matchday and Commercial incomes. I've attempted to quantify the difference. 99% of the wage bill is playing staff so removing that from the equation and removing TV income as well, I think Ashley has driven revenue down £16.3m but only driven costs down £8.9m. So the changes implemented have cost the club £7.4m a year. And the vast majority of that isn't from Matchday (cheaper tickets etc) but from commercial (Sports Direct handed the retail wing). What have I missed?

Voluntary redundancy. Me and my manager were the 2 people doing the job. Me as her deputy. Covering 10 hour days and out of hours pager 24/7 between us. Now I'm the only one doing it.

Happy birthday

SFA hearing about him http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30486272

Tweeted it out and it's hitting a nerve with Rangers fans too.

Does this amount of racial tension always alert Russian property robots?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-long-migration-of-english-football/ The references to West Ham and Southampton being a force this season are bollocks, but it's an interesting trend otherwise.

Bump

looks younger

Happy birthday Sir