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There's a classic new #NUFC chant somewhere in the 4 tops song.. "It's the same De Jong" Somebody else sort the details please.

Never heard that quote before. Happy to be on the same page as him

Rare for me to mention personal circumstances, but CT needs shaming. My mam has had a pituitary gland disorder for 30 years. On steroids that whole time but previously managed and varied with regular specialist visits that monitored her chemical levels. She's been housebound for the last 6 years. Not blessed with any referral to see a specialist from the GP in that whole time, just more and more steroids. She's lost the home she owned as the condition worsens, and she has had her disability allowance stopped. She now has to accept my charity for a place to live and from the whole family for extra money to live on month to month. My brother was born with Marfan syndrome. He worked from 16 years old to 30. But his health deteriorated then. He is almost entirely deaf now, no sense of taste or smell. Losing his sight so he can barely read. He is a single parent to a 7 year old son. They live together on the small pension left by his partner and son's mother, who died shortly after he was born. In council property, he gets no further benefit assistance, because of the pension. He (and the rest of us) have had to pay for our own sign language lessons to try and communicate with him in a small way. He had a brain hemmorage 3 years ago that put him in a wheelchair. He sees a specialist once every 6 months or so. The haematologist refers him to the brain surgeon, the brain surgeon to the geneticist, the geneticist to a physio etc. None of them, actually doing any tests or providing any care/assistance. My Dad has worked his entire life. An ex navy man, he's a self employed taxi driver now, he has had 2 bouts of bowel cancer, both operated on, but went back to work within days of leaving hospital each time. Worked through chemo. He had to sell his house during the second course of treatment due to lost earnings. He moved into council property but has to pay full rent. He has a tiny colon now and can't be 5 minutes from a toilet, which inhibits his ability to work late which reduces earnings on the taxis. He's not entitled to help though. He's 64 and constantly knackered running round after my mam (his ex-wife) and my brother. His worry now is he will not be able to retire, he'll have to work to the grave to have enough to live on and support his ex and his handicapped son (grandchild). Touch wood, I am healthy. I've worked since graduating. My wife works. We own a home and rent 2 properties out. We've just had a son. Of those 4 people, the Tories have cut the income/assistance and/or medical treatment for the 3 worst off. For me, they have increased my tax free earnings allowance (and that of my wife). They have started paying us child benefit and frozen my council tax. They've lowered the corporation tax for the company I work for, increased the amount I can put into an ISA tax free, increased my tax-free childcare support, cut the cost of a pint and will give me money to buy another house if I want. The bank of England rate remains just above zero to keep my mortgages down too. They're fucking vermin endangering the wellbeing of the weakest in society for the benefit of the strongest. Anyone who thinks it's in anyway justified is a vile human themselves.

aye 3 in 10 seats taken by a ST holder.

Season tickets available at the back of the Gallowgate...

Irrespective of injuries, it's remarkable to me that Ashley has sanctioned £6m on any player with just 12 months left on his contract.

You have to wonder how much Pardew had to do with it, given that I read he's a "number 10" and how little appetite Pardew has previously shown to have some creativity behind a front man...or 2 front men. ...despite already having the personell.

Pardew stifles players, but the capitulation after Cabaye left shows the difference a bit of quality makes. He may not be used as he should, be asked to play on the wing or to sit deep and allow Anita to get forward or some other mad shit Pardew comes up with, but just that quality of being able to take a free kick, to hit a ball on target from long range as opposed to letting Tiote kick a dozen balls into L7 will be worth more points than we had hope of yesterday. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is debatable as once again, it's new signings that will dig Pardew out of his morass rather than tactical guile, so mid table will unfortunately ensure his survival.

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No. He did better than Ashley though. Difference is Ashley can afford to subsidise his mismanagement.

Over 15 years #NUFC amassed £90m debt extending SJP to hold 20k more fans to earn an extra £10m+ every year and building a squad to fill it every week. In 7 years Mike Ashley has sold £150m of talent, added £60m of debt, got the club relegated, and chased off half of those supporters. Yet people still defend Ashley because he saved us from Shepherd.

I read the Sports Direct annual report and did a 5 page write up for this months True Faith on the benefits Sports Direct have seen from the deal. No-one tell Michael Martin, but you can read it here.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j4xucAXIOXcNQdMwBJZcQyOjCXRX3Q6T3-FmNHlgdSs/edit?usp=sharing

That dignifies his tenure with more intelligence than he deserves. He's still £240m in the hole. I don't see it as well thought out asset stripping at all. It's inept bungling from one opportunity to recoup some losses to the next.

Averages of Shepherd's last 7 years and Ashley's first 7 years.

In his time average income from players sold is £21.2m a year.

Most recent transfers... Hart - £2.1m Foster - £4m Forster £2m Baines - £6m Cahill - £7m Jagielka - £4m Lambert - £4m

My Mrs mentioned that you could rent that whole place for £140 (I think) a couple of weeks ago. We thought it would be great for a party. Was it you that organised it or were you invited? Wondering what you have to pay for the film on top of that.

Obertan was a little over £3m from what I read. Not sure professional pride involves walking away from a preofessional club when no other wants you. Professionalism would be to come back full of focus and vigour, charged up for the challenge of breaking into the first team regularly.

It's the previous 4 years of money spent on signings that gave me pause to think he'd do something this summer. We were consistently investing more in the first team squad, year on year since relegation we increased what we paid on incoming players, and then it just stopped abruptly. Perhaps it IS the year he looks to sell up.

He bought the club May to July 2007 but the accounts for each year start on July 1st so I say that it's his anniversary today. To celebrate, I've got some graphs £35m profit on transfers.... He's spent less this year than in any other, including the Championship Combined with the sale of Cabaye that's led to one of his most profitable years on the transfer market... I'd wish him many happy returns but I'd be lying. Twat!

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