BottledDog

He still is, isn't he? I shouldn't have thought so. Never was.

I have been playing around with accents trying to replicate your issue with 'wonga'. This has led me to the possibility that you are inebriated, an Eton educated toff, or both.

want us to pull out of the Barclays premier league aswell, remember those boys that fixed LIBOR causing more distress than wonga could ever have a chance of doing ? Premier League should have cancelled Barclays sponsorship deal re LIBOR I'm sure other sponsors would have jumped at the opportunity to sponsor the PL. Wonga are a disgrace, can't ever remember any of the banks charging over 4000% on loans they offer!! You really cannot grasp the difference between short term/high risk loans from loan companies and long term loans from banks can you.

And bashing the Premier League for having the temerity to be sponsored by them (with journalists bringing up Sharia law, while the MP's throw their season tickets off their nearest available bridges in mass protest? Struggling to remember that, though you may be right and I've been living on the moon for the past 5 years.

Might as well get arms dealers on the shirt then. Poor logic. Wonga = the arms industry now. To be honest, while I'm sure you'd swear of football forever if we got Rolls Royce on our shirts. I'd struggle to generate the moral outrage you manage to sustain. Just a shame a good local company like Armstrong Whitworth aren't still around to sponsor us.

Surely it is the club's responsibility to interact with the fans rather than the sponsors. Sounds like the club will use them as an intermediary so they can continue to avoid meeting those ungrateful Geordies face to face. Oh Wallace.

And that is fairly subjective. I'd actually put Wonga a touch above Virgin Money in the old looks department (and a fair sized grope above NTL).

It'll be a tiny percentage compared to alcohol or gambling. Or by a ginger woman.......you know who you are........... In general, I'd happily be ruined by a ginger woman.

Apparently their complaints are next to zero and there are banks and institutions with far worse feedback than Wonga. Not that that means a great hill of beans mind (it was Llambias and co just trotting out the numbers Wonga would have given them). Out of interest, I wonder what percentage of 'Lives Ruined' is acceptable. I'd probably go with between 2.8 and 4.5 percent of customers.

I'd be very surprised if that was the case.

What they are saying is true though: As a Muslim myself I certainly won't be buying the top with Wonga on it! What they are saying is true in reflecting their particular laws (though it's a joke that the journalists only start fishing for quotes over this particular deal), but the old bollocks I take issue with is the hard and fast rule they are holding onto in the first place. These kinds of short term, high risk loans fill a gap that has only appeared fairly recently and has a lot to do with the speed with which transfers and transactions can be done now. To apply this long standing Muslim law to it as a practice seems to me inflexible, verging on the absurd. Islam is all about perception: if you believe strongly that something is wrong then don't buy it. if you don't have an issue then don't buy it. Quite simple really........... I wish that was the case and it was all down to individual perception (like your good self when wearing a plain Newcastle top by choice, got a few Toff tops myself ), and that the religious law was open enough to interpretation to not get tripped up by new forms of business a few hundred years later. However, what we have here is the Muslim Council wading in and effectively telling a number of our players not to wear our shirt before they get a chance to form their own minds. And, forgive me, but that kinda grinds my gears.

What they are saying is true though: As a Muslim myself I certainly won't be buying the top with Wonga on it! What they are saying is true in reflecting their particular laws (though it's a joke that the journalists only start fishing for quotes over this particular deal), but the old bollocks I take issue with is the hard and fast rule they are holding onto in the first place. These kinds of short term, high risk loans fill a gap that has only appeared fairly recently and has a lot to do with the speed with which transfers and transactions can be done now. To apply this long standing Muslim law to it as a practice seems to me inflexible, verging on the absurd.

The Muslim Council of Britain can cock off. What a load of old bollocks.

I still would like to know what Sports Direct are putting into the club. Indeed. Especially now they're being billed as an 'Official Partner'. Even if he just comes out says, 'It's for all that money I've put in, guv'na'. Precisely. As I don't go on and read the club accounts etc was there anything at all in the last set about it? As they're obviously gaining a lot of advertising and are on our training stuff that the players wear. I'm just yet to see any financial benefit for the club through this. Perk of the role. Does Whelan pay anything to call the DW the DW? No. How about Venkys? Just can't see why people get hung up on the figures. If another brand offered enough to make on balance more sense financially for him to swap, why wouldn't he do it? I think we'd all agree that he would. no?

The advertising space will remain advertising space I'd have thought. /Top news either way though.

I still would like to know what Sports Direct are putting into the club. Mike Ashleys millions.

I don't expect any of the advertising around the ground to change bar a bit of Wongarisation, but not having to listen to the BBC go out of their way to say 'SPORTS DIRECT ARENA!' at every fucking opportunity is a staggeringly good prospect. Huzzah!

Am I right in thinking that you're hoping it'll be similar to the one on the first page? Or are these things different/better in some way?

A morning after pill might come in handy.

Yup.

Like three side of an equilateral triangle?

Indeed. QUOTE OF THE DAY from the Fiver today "I want to remind him that I am the only one to decide who will be picked and how long those who are picked will play. There is only one to decide and it's me" – sounds like France grand fromage Didier Deschamps took kindly to Arsene Wenger's criticism of his handling of Abou Diaby, then. He's right like, but still.

Next kit like this plz. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cQCSXCSbPNI/TnHqTQqUVGI/AAAAAAAAAJo/DkoIR7ODl3c/s1600/newc.jpg

Smack Bordeaux for six and Deschamps will come crawling back.