David Icke - Son of God

"There was a YouTube video, your honour"

That's beautiful.

Mortal drunk at lunchtime? Monday n'al... Kudos. When did they get WiFi in the Beehive?

It would have to be a transformative amount of money for us to sell him IMO. Something absolutely daft that would allow us to splurge on three or four genuine top quality players.

Most of the cash they recoup will go on paying the millions in back transfer fees they're scheduled to pay this summer.

Bet he owns a wallet on the end of a massive chain.

They appointed ex-Journal editor Brian Aitken a few years ago to head that side of things up.

Shut up and take my money.

Quite a ride these last few pages.

We tried to play them together a few times and they both stunk the place out (Sheff Wed away, for example). Presumably this is something Rafa has worked at on the training ground for ages.

You sound like a massive prick.

On the topic of their support, I went car shopping up Wessington Way today at about 2pm and it was absolute dead. Nothing that you could even begin to describe as typical match day traffic. The three or four double decker park and ride buses were more or less completely empty, so much so that my missus commented on it. She knows fuck all about football.

How much truth is there in this? Appears to be quite a sore point.. the Keegan side. Comes up a lot. (Not from the North East. ) But they didn’t ‘lose’ any fans did they? Their numbers didn’t go down. Ours went up but that was more in line with the general increase across the country following the increase in exposure/popularity due to the formation of the PL. You hear plenty of Mackem accents in the ground on matchdays. They could quite easily just be from South Shields or Washington tbf. Mackem accent is quite a bit different to the Washington or South Shields accent. Aye, a proper Sunderland accent makes your ears bleed. Washington accents are a right mixture. I lived there for 30 years, my parents were from the West End of Newcastle and loads of my mates had parents from places like Stanley (not many from Sunderland centre back then). The result was that Newcastle folk would call you a Mackem and Sunderland Townies would call you a Geordie. Have to say that since I left a load of scruffy gits from Sunderland have infested the place thanks to Sunderland Council. The Galleries is used as a free place to keep warm as they’ve already burned all their furniture to keep the house warm. Fuck off you cheeky twat

I think he technically can, as he only played in friendlies.

On this note would it make sense for them to go into admin this season when they're all but dead but not quite? Get the penalty this season rather than next. I have no pretense to be a financial expert, but what I have gleaned is... It is currently costing Short £20m per season to keep the club afloat and he wants rid as soon as possible. He is willing to virtually give the club away to anyone willing to take on the club and its other £30m of debt secured against the parachute payments, writing off the remaining debt owed to his company. Administration would allow Short to simply walk away, the administrators would look to find a new owner, who would be liable to pay the secured creditors (including the £30m) and 30% of what is owed to the unsecured creditors (including Short's company). Going into administration before the 22nd deadline would mean that the club doesn't end going into next season with a points deduction, which would almost certainly lessen the chances of finding a buyer. Unless I'm completely wrong in the above (which is a distinct possibility) if relegation is still looking inevitable on the 22nd there may be significant benefits for Short in pulling the plug and putting the club into administration. The external debt is £68million secured against the parachute payments isn't it? The rest of the debt is owed to Short so he would be writing his own money off which doesn't make sense to me. Nor, the debt is secured against the SoL, the training ground and a certain amount of equity in the club.

I'm on it. Will be complete with earth shudders & explosions as he crunches into tackles. Don't forget the Evanescence soundtrack. Bring Me To Life or My Immortal are fine.

I'm eagerly awaiting his sliding tackle compilation video to drop on YouTube. Can't be long now.

I quite like Carragher, if only for his barely concealed contempt every time Jamie Redknapp opens his stupid fucking mouth. Gobbing at kids is a bit shite mind.

We haven't had a keeper that can command his area like this in an absolute lifetime. It's not very Newcastle United.

"My teams are better than that." Oh no they fucking aren't. I watched one of them for fuck knows how many seasons. Getting arse rodded by the rest of the league is par for the course.

Aye, but it's not 'rented' in any conventional sense though is it?

I saw one or two of their lot claiming that going into administration, selling the ground and renting it back would be fine because we do it. Who the fuck are we apparently renting St James' Park from?

Administration can't be far off for them. Short seems to be on a mission to just get rid of them by any means necessary.

I have never known somebody make an arse of themselves on Twitter as frequently as Andy Dawson does. Comes to something when you have to delete your tweets every couple of months because you've been made to look a prick by people like Curtis Stigers.

Form what the lads tell me there is constant investment in the location and site. Id image this Ireland location would be a loop hole they could potentially use to get around any possible tariffs if we don't get an agreement with the EU. They would be mental to completely relocate that factory, it would be suicide for a decade or more until all the new workers are at the same level of skills and experience as the current workers, let alone setting up the production lines from scratch and making sure all the robots and machinery are operating at 100%. The best way for the car companies to continue as is, is for the UK and EU to come to an agreement on trade and movement of goods. You seem to have made the assumption that Nissan operates in Sunderland and nowhere else. They have a huge presence in Barcelona, where the majority of their vans are currently made. The infrastructure is already there, so I'd imagine it's not beyond the wit of one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world to transfer production from one site to another realtively quickly and with little impact on their production process. If it becomes financially unviable to ship parts to the UK from suppliers elsewhere in Europe, and if it becomes increasingly difficult to remain competitive across Europe then what incentive is there to remain? You can whack another couple of grand onto the cost of making a Qashqai in Sunderland based on the governments own figures, and that's before you even consider tarrifs. The thing that really vexes me is that this corner of the country has a long, long history of reliance on industry that sharp f***s off the minute the economics of a particular situation changes. You'd think we'd be wise to that now. Not sticking our fingers in our ears and hoping it won't happen yet again. No, Nissan has the most efficient and productive car plant in Europe located in Sunderland, it would be difficult to suddenly switch all that production from one plant to another and even more difficult to create a new factory from scratch. Even if you switch the production to another existing plant, Nissan cars or a Renault factory producing Nissan cars there's decades worth of manufacturing experience that would be lost and would take years to catch up on. If you switch it to an existing plant then you'll still have to create all the production lines from scratch as I would assume they would not want the current lines affected which would impact their production levels at that current plant and impact car sales. We've seen heavy industry leave these shores and bugger off to all parts with little regard for the apparent experience or expertise of those left behind when the economics change. Why is Nissan apparently immune to these same market forces? Access to Europe was the carrot waved in 1982 to get Nissan to set up shop in Sunderland in the first place. Over the last 30 years they have repeatedly said that not having that access could impact on the long term viability of the Sunderland plant and understandably so. They have suppliers all over Europe that send parts to Sunderland, and the majority of the vehicles built there are then shipped back to the EU. Whack tariffs on importing and exporting goods between the EU and UK, and there will be tariffs if we leave the SM/CU, then the Sunderland plant isn't so efficient. There's some poor b****** in Yokohama with a massive spreadsheet, furiously trying to work all this out and decide whether over the next 30 years it'll work out cheaper to pitch their tent somewhere else within the EU or continue as things are. Maybe I'm less sanguine about this because I live a literal stones throw from Nissan, plenty of my mates work there or for suppliers and the impact of the plant shutting down or even scaling down operations would be f***ing disasterous. At the best of times walking around Washington is like a George A. Romero film, it would be end of days stuff if one of the biggest employers naffed off. Not forgetting all the government subsidies they have had here over the years to invest in that plant. Ill say they aren't going to move lock stock and barrel from that plant. Means bugger all if the sums no longer add up in the next 5, 10, 15 years. I imagine they will probably be able to eek out some further Government support if things go badly over the next 12 months. From a lot of the coverage you can already see Nissan in Sunderland is the bellwether by which people will gauge the ability of post-Brexit Britain to retain and attract external investment. That said, there's going to be a long queue to the door of No. 10 if they start dishing out handouts.