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For now

Wonder if this will become the new borehole which will be used to explain why we haven't signed a player we needed

People in real life have seemed much more furious about it than people on the internet in my experience.

Guess there's another exclaimation mark at the end, maybe it was a toon fan with Spanish heritage and he just forgot to invert the first one...

Just snapped this opposite the Barrack Road entrance to the ground http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/2310/37632010150455876142324.jpg

It's probably Lambias to be honest. He is to Ashley as Karl Rove was to George Bush.

Soopa fantastic in this thread at the moment, like. I've sat in the same seat for the last 21 years at the Sports Direct Arena and I've got my name on it, what do I win?

It's easy enough to attack the argument rather than the person to avoid threads descending into an ad hominem slagging match. Don't let Mike make us fight amongst ourselves, just makes us look stupid.

Gentlemen, tensions are understandably high, but please remain civil to your fellow supporters, regardless of which anatomy they remind you of.

Shame that they could sponsor the stadium and shirt for the next 119 years and we'll still owe him £100m.

This is so obvious it's barely worth posting, but here it is anyway. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/10/newcastle-sports-direct-arena-sponsorship

Maybe it's an Occupy SJP type thing and he's waiting for the workmen to come and change the sign so he can go apeshit on them like a rabid gremlin.

Holy shit, a mackem with a clue. That's quite terrifiying actually, it's like that Dawn of the Dead remake where one of them starts learning to open doors, use guns and communicate.

So now he's getting pelters for buying players and paying them decent money? Do you think his actions, such as our five manager season which got us relegated, have cost the club more than the £100m he loaned us?

Also remember that the money he put in he then spent on things like Alan Smith (£6m fee, what, £13m contract?) covering the losses he made when he took us down through his own stupidity, covering losses from replacing nearly all our paid sponsorship boards with unpaid ones, buying and paying players we didn't need and managers didn't want as favours to friends, paying money to people he wrongly sacked... And none of this money, nor any of his free advertising, including the stadium name change, has reduced the amount we owe him by a penny.

Telefonica own O2. I'd be surprised if they were in the mood to start a big sponsorship deal considering today's news.

Look it up in the dictionary. Extortion (also called shakedown, outwresting, and exaction) is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion Embezzlement is the act of dishonestly appropriating or secreting assets by one or more individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted.

Extortion? Wut? Are you thinking of another word, like embezzlement, which it isn't either?

Trying to say Sports Direct is trademarked as one word It's like that not on any of their websites and they even put a space in the url in sports direct.com adverts you utter fucking gonk http://www.sports-direct-international.com/

When they change the Barrack Road sign someone needs to set about it with a sledgehammer or a can of petrol...

I imagine you won't be fine about it, then.

Advertising phones at the exact time and place where no-one is capable of using the product, great idea. Might as well rename the Stadium of Light the Imperial Leather Arena.

But then it's the customer's fault for getting pissed off, don't you see??!!!

Tom Hark/ 'We Hate Sun'lun' Ashley's clothes Are fucking gash They fall apart and they give you a rash They fade in the wash and they fray at the seams Cos they're made by children instead of machines

Not worth the paper they aren't written on, unfortunately.