chicago_shearer

Christ on a bike, Spain. 

http://www.newfootballkits.org.uk/new-england-third-kit-2010-world-cup-1972.html

Nice.

Egypt?

Internal problems and 'terrorist' threats.

 

Hmmm... difficult to tell when the next one could be, tbh. 2050 was probably conservative now I think about it.

Spain/Morocco co-host.  First intercontinental World Cup.

Anyone think South Africa will make it out of their group? I initially didn't give them a chance but they're just finding some good form and a few handy results. First game is pivotal though, they desperately need to win it to have a shout.

The Mexicans look good, I'd be surprised if SA got anything out of the first game. 

and reversed? reversed of what? theres nee white inside the blue top. that blue top is sexy like

Is it one of those shirts you can wear inside out?  Jesus.

Some more pics - and even without those disturbing watermarks

 

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00x47LkaRv3q6/610x.jpg

 

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0cba1jO1cT3De/610x.jpg

 

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07gEdFhed43ti/610x.jpg

 

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0gzr3FT0NJ9f4/610x.jpg

 

 

Great pics.  Any chance of a wallpaper size?

CHAMMMMMMPIONS.  Can't wait to see them lift that trophy.

He only ever had lukewarm support in this thread until we won the title.  As soon as we hit the brick wall of reality next season it will all go back to being his fault.  Always blame the manager first.

Nicky Butt leaving is almost like doing the double.

:drink: :bng:

Winning is fantastic.  We should have tried it years ago.

Switch the white and and black...

 

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7291/nufcpumareverse.jpg

Wide stripes, lots of white & the v-neck reminds of the NTL strip from the Robson Champions League era.   

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/779128/CHRIS-HUGHTON-has-done-a-fantastic-job-taking-Newcastle-up-at-the-first-time-of-asking.html

 

Hughton should quit before he is stabbed in the back

10/04/2010

 

CHRIS HUGHTON has done a fantastic job taking Newcastle up at the first time of asking.

 

Now he should do himself a big favour and get out of Toon with his head held high before he gets stabbed in the back.

 

That way Hughton will give himself a future living as a proven boss at a decent level.

 

Not end up being sacked in humiliation after five games at the start of next term.

 

If success in management is based on being a good coach and man, Newcastle should not be paying Hughton a big bonus now that they are back in the top flight but also a proper contract. Yet they have not and will not.

 

Let us put it this way - being back in the Premier League is worth a minimum extra £30million a year for the club but Hughton will be lucky to see much of it.

 

And from what I gather Hughton's job is up for grabs, no doubt on four times the wages.

 

If owner Mike Ashley succeeds in selling the club this summer then new owners will want a bigger name than Hughton.

 

If Ashley fails to convince buyers Newcastle is a good investment to take off his hands at £100m then he is as likely to do the same in the belief he can up the ante.

 

OK, Hughton may need help on charisma but he has done a job this season that even Toon hero Alan Shearer would never have come close to achieving.

 

Yet there will now be a campaign to install a name of Shearer's status or a foreign guru.

 

Well the Geordies do like to clutch failure out of the jaws of success.

 

There is talk in the north east that Hughton is now surplus to requirements because he can't control four so-called senior players

 

Yet if Hughton has managed to keep the egos of such overpaid, overrated "stars" in line, then he must know what he is doing.

 

And if Hughton, brought up in London's tough East End, wants to flex credible muscles, he may remind certain people he came from a mixed race background during the 1960s and 70s when that was not easy.

 

Yet he ended up playing in the same Spurs team as Glenn Hoddle and Ossie Ardiles as well as playing for the Republic of Ireland.

 

Chrissy Hughton has rubbed shoulders with far bigger men than, for instance, Joey Barton.

 

So he should be embraced by the club's current or next owners. But he won't be.

phil k.....you'd have a point with that piece of crap mate.

Understandable really. 

If I was a tabloid sport journalist I would hate having Chris Hughton at Newcastle.  Not only has he been successful, he has more importantly made NUFC boring.  That is a disaster for the tabloids.  Other than the Taylor/Carroll story, there has been nothing to write about.  Writing crap about Newcastle is the lifeblood of the British tabloid gutter press.  Nobody wants to read about boardroom struggles at fucking Pompey do they?  They want the manager to storm out, protests, intrigue and our players beating up teenagers in McDonalds. 

GET IN. 

NYC->Montreal->Toronto->Chicago or a pre-season tournament in any of those cities.

  Newcastle need to come back to the States and not play friendlies in shit places like Columbus Ohio.

What you wouldn't want Hodgson as manager? I'm being serious there!!

 

Why would Hodgson want to leave his current job?

 

Have you been to Fulham, great little club, fantastic stadium but you are never going to achieve much. Dangle the prospect of managing in front of 52,000 fans and saying he has full control over the football side would tempt him. Any manager with ambition would know that if he had full control of the football side of things at the club  and did well that the possibilites are endless. If not him there would be others, I’m sure of that!

 

As things stand, Fulham are a bigger club than us. He wouldn't leave for anyone, let alone Newcastle.

 

Wrong - as things stand, Fulham are CURRENTLY a more successful club ; they haven't won as many trophies, haven't got anything LIKE the stadium of fanbase, haven't been in European football as often...this is a worse statement than if someone had tried to claim that NUFC were a bigger club than Liverpool back in 1993 simply because we had a better team spirit at the time.

 

Fulham will NEVER be a bigger club than Newcastle United - just as we will never be a bigger club than Man U.

 

The issue about Hodgson is really nothing to do with the relative size of the clubs - he is not a young man and is unlikely to want to have the task of taking over a club like NUFC, although I very much doubt he will be given the chance.

 

Newcastle = Newly promoted side, big expectations, alot of deadwood still remains in the team.

 

Fulham = Established top half side, playing European football, decent playing side.

 

That's how a manager sees it. They don't go "ooo that's a big ground'" or "Well they've won more trophies than that team in the last 100 years". Whether Hodgson is 18 or 80, he won't touch 'the poisoned chalice' when he's doing so well at Fulham.

 

Why else have our last few managers included Graeme Souness, Glenn Roeder, Sam Allardyce and Joe Kinnear?

 

...so why did Shankly leave a comfy post to join a run-down Liverpool ? Simply because he could see that the potential was much better than where he was and that is EXACTLY why a decent manager would join NUFC.

The reason why we have had all the names you mentioned as manager is because Shepherd had made such a mess of everything and our name was mud after the way he treated SBR ; in the case of Kinnear,you only need to be able to recall events with Ashley/Wise etc 18 months ago to see why we got HIM.

 

We would not attract a top manager right now because there is too much uncertainty surrounding Ashley's ownership and running of the club - if we were taken over by a major concern run by the likes of Makhtoum there are very few managers in the game who would turn the job down.

Sorry, but they DO look at things like the stadium, support base and financial standing when deciding to join a club and in the circumstances I have described, we would be looking at bigger names that Hodgson.

As things stand, the club has little choice but to persist with Hughton AND give him the proper support in the market ; if the club struggles after that, they will have to look at replacing him because relegation once more would be a disaster.

Based on this thread, I think it's pretty clear that the consensus expectation for next season is not merely survival.  Because survival is going to mean struggling, playing poorly, losing and living with the prospect that you might go down again.  That is what it means to be in the bottom fourth of the league.  And if that is the story of 2010/11 it will be because of team selection, tactics and Kevin Nolan.  We know this already.

If Hughton wants to survive, he needs to do what Reading managed in their first season in the Premiership or Birmingham are doing this year.  2010/11 needs to be comfortably mid table, with a very strong start.  Because if his support is lukewarm now, the knives are going to be out when we drop points at home against mid table teams. 

People might say their expectation is survival, but it won't play out that way.  Anger, fear and frustration at a return to bad results (which everyone might acknowledge before the season begins) will build quickly, and he'll be hated again when reality sets in.  You can practically hear the intake of air before the giant 'I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO, HUGHTON OUT' and a return to the good old days of speculating whether Curbishley or Mark Hughes would be a better option, before they sign up Gary Megson or Joe Kinnear.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/apr/05/newcastle-united-promotion-premier-league

Giving power to Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith, Steve Harper and Nicky Butt, a man who as a Tottenham full-back had mixed in Trotskyite circles watched that 'Politburo' ensure his coaching drills and game plans were strictly adhered to.

I like this guy more and more.  Long live Comrade Hughton.

Watching football.

It might not be a popular in certain circles, but it is a fact that Hughton found himself managing the most expensively assembled and highly paid squad in the division. Not to mention by far the best supported team. He started with an advantage and maintained it. This isn’t to take away from what he has achieved, only to put it into perspective.

 

Perhaps the debate needs to be turned around and ask what could he have done to scupper our promotion bid that he didn’t?

 

 

Rewind......in August this expensively assembled squad made up various managers signings was going drag the club down financially off the pitch & take us directly to L1 on it.

Which CCC team started the season with a better squad of players than NUFC?

I certainly didn't think at the beginning of the 08/09 season that there were 17 clubs in the Premiership with better squads than Newcastle.  Most people didn't think there were 10 or 12.  And yet 17 finished above us.  How is it that Stoke, Blackburn, Hull, Bolton etc. managed it? 

If success this season is all down to the attitude of the players upon getting relegated, then I really wish they could have summoned that effort and consistency a little earlier on.  Nice of them to start now though.  I hope they don't lose interest again next season, poor little lambs.

Just got back from an NASL game tonight in Carolina and there was some guy in front of me with a yellow Shola Ameobi away strip.  Not Messi, not Rooney, but Shola Ameobi.  The international superstar. 

They might have crap stadiums in some cases, but these aren't small areas in Miami, Atlanta, Baltimore, Montreal etc.

A promotion/relegation structure is going to mean a financial hit for the team that goes down obviously.  But you can work out some sort of revenue sharing for the first three years to keep the bottom clubs afloat.  And in the long run, it brings a much larger market for the league.  The MLS can't remain a closed club.  Not when you have an essentially suburban area like Columbus with a pro team and a massive Hispanic (and football mad) market like Miami or Puerto Rico without one. 

Will the MLS owners go for relegation?? I can't see them accepting the idea.

 

One of the fundamental things of the american sports leagues is that, no matter how badly your team do, you will still be in the top league next season. This is what enables them to pay huge money to the stars (yeah, i know they don't get paid s*** loads in MLS compared to NFL, NBA etc but they do when you consider the size of the audience is a lot smaller than the other sports) is the fact that they know the Broadcasting money and sponsorship will still be there next season, unlike here where if you get relegated from the Premier League you know you are gonna take a massive hit financially.

The alternative is a competing league (or two) which doesn't serve their interest either.  I do think the MLS will go for a European style league structure in 2011.  You won't have a competitive American domestic league until it happens.  It will be better for the MLS clubs in the long run.

I currently live about 10 min away from the Carolina NASL team in the breakaway league.  Last week they hosted New England in a pre-season friendly, they have Montreal this weekend.  Going to both.  They had Sheffield Wednesday over last summer.  The quality isn't anything great at the moment, but when they host the Mexican sides for friendlies it is really worth going.  Place is packed, $2 tacos, Tecate beer.  $1 beer on some of the mid week matches. 

I think it's stupid for a foreign based supporter to claim that they have a better idea of a how a certain player is performing, especially this season when none of us have seen more than a handful of games.

But having said that I don't understand the resentment of foreign supporters having an opinion.  We get a thread like this every year.  Having Geordies (and non-Geordies) in Dubai, America, China, Europe etc. is one of the things that makes Newcastle a big club.  I'm sure the Scunthorpe and Doncaster season ticket holders don't have to put up with the opinions of a load of foreigners.  But you can't have it both ways.  If people take an interest, then people will have an opinion.  And it won't always be the same as yours. 

He was lucky today, he did nothing to change the game.

Teams don't often come back from 0-2 down away at half time, away from home, and secure a point.  When they do, good management plays a big part in that.  It isn't just down to tactics and substitutions.  Newcastle sides from the not so distant past have given up in similar situations.  This side didn't, and they almost never do when they go behind.  He may sound fucking dull in his media interviews, but he does a good job inspiring confidence and professionalism with the players and that is what counts. 

Play through the pain Nolan.