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For the first team? Pedro played for the young uns before he went to Carlisle in 79.

If only running a premier league football club was the same as paying slave wages to 12 year olds in the philipines. If you think sports retailing is so easy you had betterexplain to JJB where they went wrong. I don't think it's easy. Neither is making a blancmange, but I don't claim that being able to do THAT qualifies me to run a football club.

If only running a premier league football club was the same as paying slave wages to 12 year olds in the philipines.

And I may be able to pull Katy Perry. It's always about what we're going to do under Ashley innit. Come back once he's done it, I'll admit I was wrong.

At the moment we'd need another 5 wins. That would mean doubling the number of wins we've managed either home or away. By the end of the season it'll be a wider margin. Not far? Is it still half term or what?

On the other hand they sacked Hughton who was performing above expectations, replaced him with someone that's performed no better, sold our best player, got into a slagging match with Shearer, failed to sell ANY of the advertising space they claim to just be showcasing with Sports Drect, moved thousands of fans who didn't want to move, jeopardised the atmosphere in the ground going forward, screwed up the renewals process so badly no-one even has a clue if they've received our applications or not and announced massive losses in their accounts. Is my glass half empty? Got into a slagging match with Shearer? Please, tell us a little bit of detail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...rroll-sale.html

On the other hand they sacked Hughton who was performing above expectations, replaced him with someone that's performed no better, sold our best player, got into a slagging match with Shearer, failed to sell ANY of the advertising space they claim to just be showcasing with Sports Drect, moved thousands of fans who didn't want to move, jeopardised the atmosphere in the ground going forward, screwed up the renewals process so badly no-one even has a clue if they've received our applications or not and announced massive losses in their accounts. Is my glass half empty?

Your opinion ignores the hundreds of millions of debt the club has to ashley, which spiralled following relegation.. Relegation didn't wipe the slate clean one bit. it hastened our financial decline. We're still a loss making club propped up on borrowed funds and technically insolvent. I wholeheartedly agree but, even without the increase in the total "debt" due to relegation, I fail to see where that level of borrowing would have come from without a billionaire owner though. I would add that the lendings are unsecured and interest free unlike almost all other football club owner contributions. Now I know everyone says "he's just protecting his investment" which is undoubtedly true, BUT relegation or no relegation, the investment needed protecting (even with the savage cost cutting we've endured) to the tune of around £100 Million. Without Ashley (or another thick billionaire) who could have protected the investment (club) ??? There's also the question of why the investment even needed protection, given as Craig states "Aye, 15 years of consecutive top flight football was a right state". I think I know the answer, but I keep getting told it's unsubstantiated pish I'm not defending Shepherd or saying we weren't looking at serious difficulties under his extravagant stewardship. Ashley defenders are polishing a turd even without considering relegation though...to try and further claim relegation has been beneficial when it's added another £50m+ to the debt is backward thinking. Only someone who would argue that finishing 17th makes you happier than winning the champions league could suggest such a thing and is clearly a WUM. The imaginary scenario of us not being able to borrow any more and going into admin under Shepherd was a possibility, but one that has no bearing on the merits of each of the respective tenureships, because it didn't happen. I could equally argue (and have) that the current owners of Man City would have got more time and a more reasonable asking price from Shepherd than they did from Ashley's daft £400m. Would we be worse off if they had bought us? All pie in the sky of course. Who's to say the wage bill would have kept worsening under Shepherd like it did under Ashley too? On the day Ashley bought the last of Shepherd's shares we also signed Viduka. He went on to bring in Geremi, Barton & Smith in his first summer, some of the most costly wastes of space the club has ever seen. The summer before Shepherd had stripped the payroll of Shearer, Bowyer, Boumsong and Viana. Shepherd was tightening his belt much more than Ashley was willing to.

Your opinion ignores the hundreds of millions of debt the club has to ashley, which spiralled following relegation.. Relegation didn't wipe the slate clean one bit. it hastened our financial decline. We're still a loss making club propped up on borrowed funds and technically insolvent.

I have no clue what the problem is with it. Can't imagine anyone's reason for objecting.

To paraphrase Fur-Q....you have to sell the people. But you can't sell all the people, otherwise there won't be any people left to sell.

Were you watching the match at work? If Newcastle won the Champions league I'd be a pissed up loon masturbating openly in the street. Then I'd go to work and get on with my job.

Transylvania 6-5000

A six-year-old girl was found safe and well after she went missing today. Sophie Morris, from Newcastle, was reported missing from the Heaton Park area of the city at 3.28pm. Northumbria Police launched a major search involving the force's helicopter as well as officers on the ground and reported that she was safe soon after 5pm. A spokesman said: "The missing girl has been found safe and well. Northumbria Police would like to express its gratitude to the media for the speed of their reaction. " Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2.../#ixzz1KecARsmI

aye, bad decision, but a sense of humour ? At least he admits it, what a shame Mike Ashley hasn't got one. These things happen. It only shows how luck plays a part, if Alex Ferguson hadn't agreed the contract with ManU, he would have been appointed instead of Dalglish [who also had as good a record as Ferguson at that time]. If you read Alex Fergusons book, he says he had 3 possible clubs to go to at that time, when he wasn't happy with ManU's new contract offer, 2 were foreign, the other was a major premiership club. As I said, I have known for years that that club was NUFC but it was obviously not to be put across internet message boards !!!!! The sort of joke onepunch finds hilarious and gets short shrift for on here. They might have won the same number of titles, but I was never a fan of Dalglish and didn't want him here. I would have been amazed if Fergie came though. About as much chance of that as we had of signing Rooney imo. All credit to them for having a go both times though. As someone mentioned before, if Mourinho started singing our praises now and begged to come (suspending disbelief), Ashley wouldn't have him, they don't want anyone who'll demand ambition in the transfer market.

Dumb and dumber here.

I've submtted a venn diagram of my own to them. It's about club owners....

Different type of thing, but Robert Fisk was saying recently there should be more some death on the news... http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/comme...es-2260019.html

Did he?? I would say It's more like some of our so called superstars didn't have the bollocks for a scrap something that has now changed. I'd take this team above the one that went down with the likes of Owen, Viduka and Martins, all just after money and couldn't give a fuck about winning He's still selling our best players though, even having come back up.

Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.

http://footballvenndiagrams.tumblr.com/archive Some funny, some not so much, for example...

Yeah, well obviously Ramsey...Ramsey goes without saying....but APART from Walcott and Ramsey, what have the Romans ever done for us?

No-one complains when Commando is on.