Wullie

In keeping with being the best poster on here now, I think you've absolutely hit the nail on the head there re: the Athletic in a way I've not been able to put my finger on (I'm not a subscriber as you know, but I've seen the odd piece and the headlines/bylines of articles). Stuff in a national might be written about a particular club but it's written for everyone. That doesn't seem to be the case at The Athletic, as you say it's more like a collection of fanzines but with only a couple of writers at each. That feels like a very niche audience to sustain.

Caulkin will have to start taking out restraining orders soon.

Even I don’t remember that. His personality does rub me up the wrong way mind so is entirely plausible. Wor lass has just asked me what I’m laughing at RE your documentary comment n all. I found it, it wasn't you, it was neesy111[/member] https://www.newcastle-online.org/forum/index.php?topic=96984.425

Remember when someone dobbed Disco[/member] in to Taylor with a screenshot and he spent days tweeting about it.

Not this again, Wullie[/member] has posted plenty of tweets from him to show he was against takeover of MUFC. Right ok then he may have had reservations about it but his constant tweeting of Newcastle fans was ridiculous. He should have just ignored them. Had you heard of him as a journalist before this all happened? This is the whole point isn't it? Just because you've had no interest before now in reading about sportswashing and issues caused by spurious club ownership doesn't mean nobody else has. Miguel Delaney has been writing and talking about this stuff for years and years, like this fantastic one largely about Ashley: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/fight-footballs-soul-manchester-united-newcastle-greed-apathy-english-game-a9041066.html

Surprised Taylor Payne has time to do a podcast with all that focus on that documentary that he's definitely making.

Not those agendas again.

Never heard of it, just watched a clip, isn't it Mornington Crescent?

Absolutely no need at all to have them on the weekends, especially now the weather's nice. Nobody's sitting inside on a hot Saturday watching Burnley vs Southampton in an empty stadium. Just stick one or two on every weeknight.

They're still there on mine full stop. I'm really annoyed they've not had Belarus cards up at all.

I've watched football in practically empty grounds, big and small. From the Northern League to the Korean third tier. The difference is that there is still some people there who are engaged, and being at the side of the pitch or in a ground is a totally different experience to watching on TV. Personally I find watching a Bundesliga derby, where there should be 80,000 people there, instead being completely empty and silent, just depressing. And it absolutely will change the intensity and context of a game. Perhaps to favour the technical teams - little surprise this was Dortmund's biggest win in about 50 years. The idea that I don't like football because I can't enjoy such an inhibited version of the real thing is nonsense. I could equally apply the same to you for being able to do so. But I didn't do that, it's each to their own. Definitely think this is a thing on what I've seen so far.

"We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing. We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them." - Alex Mather, founder. Just a thoroughly unpleasant bunch with a few quid who don't actually give a stuff about journalism. I don't think we need American companies to control our journalism just because we happen to speak the same language either but that's a personal bee in my bonnet that everyone already knows about. I wouldn't advocate posting their articles in full on here but that's mainly because I wouldn't want our site to get in any trouble. I like George Caulkin a lot personally and professionally but The Athletic can crash and burn.

Their business model is pretty repulsive. American venture capitalists with a stated aim to destroy journalism other than it.

He did, left foot, I'd forgotten that one.

Despite my dislike of him, I love Jenas's vs Man United in the 2-6.

Christian Poulsen, arguably the big 6 as he played in Holland as well. I Googled that btw.

Oliver seems to have a very low threshold for something being ‘classy’... Not to say it’s not obviously the right thing to do by Everton, it’s just that they’ve probably only done something that will become inescapable in a week a or so. https://www.football365.com/news/football-charity-coronavirus-opinion

Belarus league is great like.

Walton was a shit Aaron Spear.

Seen some cunt walking round earlier with a half and half Disney/Warner Bros scarf, embarrassing.

Disney are a public company, hence why they can buy shares so easily. Having a bit of a mare with my choice of words here A football club is a community club, look back at that Bobby Robson quote, "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It's not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It's the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city." You can't compare a football club to normal companies I wish people could hear themselves arguing this position. Barking mad.