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It's not about scroungers. This weeks episode concentrated on a lad doing his CV and looking for work. It followed him on his first day working door to door canvassing for charities. On 100% commission he was banging on doors late into the night. Hardly workshy. The fella that helped him do a cv was himself unemployed and working in the community centre as a volunteer. The week before the show followed the Romanian inhabitants who were collected at dawn and dropped off at bed time. They worked a full day, were paid less than minimum wage and lived 4 men to a room under the threat of violence if they complained. They rang the police who came and did nothing whatsoever. Another group had a van and would spend their days collecting scrap metal to be cashed in. They claimed no benefits. The week before you saw a bloke using his initiative to split large packs of consumables into smaller servings and sell them door to door. The 50p man. He would let the desperate parents and children he came across have servings for free as well. Nice fella. What's annoyed me most in the whole furore over the show is the way the media has portrayed only the negative aspects of characters in it. White Dee and Fungi are only a couple of the most hopeless cases on there.

Should be said, that ties in with a lot of other Premier League teams. Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs all saw turnover reduced from 11/12. The new telly deal will come into play next year (this season) and should see us back in the top 20....along with West Ham and Everton.

The Delloite headline figures have been released and report Newcastle's revenue to be 111.9m Euros http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedKingdom/Local%20Assets/Documents/Industries/Sports%20Business%20Group/uk-deloitte-sbg-dfml-2014.pdf 25th place That's £91.8m according to a quick conversion on XE 11/12 revenue was £93.3 so we've dropped income despite reaching the UEFA quarters.

They paid £20m they're getting £40m back. I care not about a piffling £3m either side of those values

Aye. Rare that Chelsea will double their money on anyone they sign.

Wonder if you'll manage to sell your allocation.

https://play.spotify.com/user/holtc1/playlist/2cDJoangJlQ3mWh9Jgu1h9 Two of the tracks are just long interviews with a woman who became a porno star, but otherwise it's my first favourite of 2014. Dingo Fence makes me giggle. I love sweary songs and it's 10 minutes of Cat's favourite one. EDIT: Why didn't the playlist embed @@Ant ?

Whatever Ben Goldacre recommends.

This lad charged us £250 http://www.fx-entertainments.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/fxentertainment Nowt special, but which wedding DJs are? He knocked out the pop and the cheese as you'd expect. He provided some canny room lighting for the night at that price too. Not just them 4 lights on the podium like Ray Von.

Yeah, I'd be delighted if he was just Shola's replacement. You would hope he won't get a renewal in June so it's plausible. Fear that he's Remy's replacement and Campbell will be expected to step into Shola's boots though.

Bad burn on my arm currently blistering up horribly. Need a haircut.

Two 20+ goal seasons in five - Cisse's managed two in eight, Cisse one in Seven. 70 goals in 170 games (0.41 Goals Per Game) - Cisse's on 0.41, Remy 0.38

Huzzah Makes you wonder why there's riots at the 99p shop half price sale.

Keeping an eye on me AND Cat's avatar.

Remy's been offside more than anyone else in the league I hear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luuk_de_Jong The new Jimbo's telly

"Who are these people that are so desperate?!" Clearly not a viewer of benefit street.

Call me doubting Thomas, but wouldn't you close the door and ring the council rather than trying to charm it yourself?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/ How bored must you be with life to take the time to do that?

Why have no other clubs been impacted by the crash? Every other club has seen growth in non-tv revenue.

You think his aim is to charge as little as he can for a ticket? Did you seen the prices for the last remaining Sunderland tickets? People are willing to pay for a good show, but not for shite. He's had to drop prices to keep people coming because he's served up shite.

£20m of lost ground remains to be made up across the two.

Which makes their cup capitulation all the more unforgiveable.

In Kemen Out Harper Simpson Perch That's a negatory.