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I'd love there to be a behind the scenes show where Bruce and Carver manage a football team. It'd only need a couple of episodes but it could easily become a genre defining tragicomedy.

The concept of sportswashing is fallacious. Noone with a shred of intelligence changes their opinion on unrelated matters based on the ownership of a sporting team or the hosting of a sporting event. There's multiple teams with owners who face more scrutinty and derision due to sport bringing them more into the public view. It's a bit like when a prick offers to buy you a drink, you happily accept the drink but don't change your opinion of them as a result.

You're not. The Premier League sanctioned the deal, so if Newcastle supporters are expected to abandon support of the club then anyone that supports a premier league team should be expected to do the same. But the reality is there's no legitimate culpability on the fans, anyone suggesting there is is just a bitter Barry.

One of the upgrades to our training facility needs to be a Cautionary Tale / Reality Check room where players and staff are sent to gain perspective on where they are and where we've been if they step out of line. This picture should be on the door.

From one Conte to another.

What does Allardyce have to do with it?

It's mental how much of a shift - we've gone from scraping our way out of one relegation battle, feeling destined for another, to wondering which world class manager will replace Steve Bruce.

I'm sure Mike will appreciate getting the bill for them.

It sure felt like forever.

Yeah but he hasn't done it his way just yet.

This is the right answer.

The next person that suggests that you should stop supporting the club because of who our owners are suggest that they should also stop supporting their premier league team because unlike us supporters the premier league approved and facilitated the sale and being in the premier league is now tarnished.

Looking forward to us getting 3 penalties a game.

I know this is a very obscure and contradictory position but, setting aside the 14 years of suffering, has Mike Ashley somehow become the essential conduit to the good times of ambition and competing at the highest level that we finally seem to be on the path towards?

Continue the legacy of human rights violations.

That's not really a problem anymore though is it? Plus if you actually go after players based on who you really want as opposed to who's available at your price point you have always paid a premium. That said it will be nice if/when we reach the tipping point where our profile and standing makes us more appealing to the best players without it having to be entirely about money.

How long before they pay out Fun888 and replace them with the new SA based sponsor? Maybe once they have their new Airline a little further along the line.

And we no longer have to consider it in terms of Mike Ashley values, where you have to take into account, wages, bonuses, agent fees, sign-on bonuses, future costs, past costs, power bills, bore hole costs and library fees as part of the transfer budget AKA 'warchest'.

Yeah great point, no 'journalists' biting the hand that feeds them when that hand could have acted to stop the sale if it was at all about human rights. Instead it's suddenly the fans who are responsible for something they had no control over.

R.I.P. Ken

We should all give Bruce a chance to show what he can do first. 😄

If he wasn't managing elsewhere. Given his connection through Sir Bobby I think he should on paper make a good longer term option though I think he's a bit too volatile these days.

I thought it was Jonjo after visiting Rooney's barber.

All the articles and comments from holier than thou activitists are basically just a roll call for the rattled now that the sale has gone through. Someone please let them know that the horse has bolted and no amount of self righteous moaning is going to change it. The lasting popularity of a football team is dictated by the players and coaching staff and not by whom the owners are. Take a look at the countless examples that are out there now and those in the past. We're not following a team to make a statement about human rights, otherwise we'd all be supporting local amateur sides because Gav the club president is down at the soup kitchen every other week helping the disadvantaged.

Listened to the Football Weekly podcast to hear what they had to say about it - it was recorded when the deal was imminent - Barry Glendenning went so far to say that if he were a Newcastle United supporter he would stop supporting them if PIF became the owners. Probably shouldn't take anything seriously from someone who willingly chose to support Sunderland. Also it had been a while since I had listened and I was wondering who this new guest 'Nikki' was with a very distinct voice. Turns out Paolo Bandini came out as transgender and witb that she has has a whole new voice. Is it usual for a transgendered person to wholly change their voice like that? Her new voice is quite off putting in the context of a football podcast.