OzzieMandias

Should be a great read, may take few years to get past legal though. They might as well just classify it as fiction and get it straight on to the shelves. I know you not keen of the fella & at times he has been a bit of dickhead but reading the thoughts of someone who has been in or around the top at Newcastle United for such a long time should be good reading. Depends on who's written it. Could be a bland whitewash. Can't imagine the evverything-is--someone-else's-fault approach being too riveting, though obviously some will lap it up.

Should be a great read, may take few years to get past legal though. They might as well just classify it as fiction and get it straight on to the shelves.

What odds it's being ghosted by Alan Oliver? Or will Freddie employ a <gasp!> cockney?!??

seems like another opportunity to email that cockney journo and complain about the club again....you never know, they might even print it this time with your name on it Now give us your purple-arsed baboon impression.

Obviously Shepherd thinks right now is his best chance to look good -- he's bidding for the sympathy of the pie boycotters and associated mongs. But why does he feel he needs to bother? Is he about to spend the profit he made from the club on some new British footballing venture? Or is he just one of those sad fucks who just have to have publicity whenever the opportunity presents itself?

Here begins the thread's descent into the usual NE5 moronity.

And fans and managers generally.

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FYP.

So why is it okay for you to attribute opinions and quotes to multiple people - i.e. that supposedly everybody thought anybody could run the club better - when you then decry someone for attributing a view to you personally in much the same way? You make stuff up yourself, it'd seem. Can't have it both ways. because the vast majority of people DID imply that qualifying regularly for europe was "shite" and pretty much anybody would do better, as if by right. You're lost in a crowd of your own straw men.

You just live there.

There's probably a Hearts equivalent of NE5 insisting precisely that. And if you weren't shivering on the terraces while they got spanked 8-0 by Hamilton Academicals in 1963 then you've no right to disagree.

Well, that's a point that was also discussed. What stance should NUSC take on the new owners (whoever they may be)? That the new owners may be no better than Ashley, or (heaven help us) even worse was recognised. Basically, the stance taken is a 'guarded welcome' in that if they are here to genuinely build the club up then NUSC welcomes them, but if they're just aboput exploiting the club/supporters, obviously NUSC is going to be critical. Well I'm sure Greggs and the Irish Bar so far have appreciated their coffers being boosted at the expense of the football club, it seems strange though that you only offer "guarded welcome" to those who will invest big money in Newcastle United rather than feed off it. Greggs is a big business with local roots, why can't they organise a local consortium to buy the club? Because everyone'll boycott their pies if a popular manager resigns.

Best leader?!?! He appointed: Chris Mort (Loan-Chariman) the fucker could not even get him on a full time deal & Steve Hayward (non-executive Director) & they went out & got Dennis Wise (Executive Director (Football)), Tony Jimenez (Vice President (Player Recruitment)), Jeff Vetere (Technical Co-ordinator), David Williamson (Executive Director (Operations)), John Irving (Financial Controller) & Derek Llambias (Managing Director & Chairman). That crew ran/led or currently run/lead Newcastle United. Elsewhere mid 2007 the Chairman of Sports Direct left after a boardroom wrangle (I f***ing KID YOU NOT!!), Mike could not get anyone in (REALLY I AM NOT SHITTING YOU), so he went back to running the SportDirect as Chairman from Dec 2007. He leads SportsDirect, he owns Newcastle United Football. When I get the urge I will look at the rest of your post Don't bother. If you get as excited as you did about that one line you may have a heart attack or spontaneously combust or something. Anyway now that you and the rest of the pie boycotters have got what you want we can look forward to a better plan for the future and better leadership than Ashley gave us. Can't we ? I will reply to the rest of you ramble as & when . What was this plan for the future, feel free to tell me this great leadership you saw. You see thats your problem you assume I am a boycotter of pies because of this rumpus but I made it clear to you I was boycotting them pies pre-Ashley as they are £1.80 a pop. Of course on a cold Intetoto cup game TheSpence has been known to buy one of these molten lava delights & whack it under his seat & nosh it down after it has had 45mins + stoppage time to cool down to a level humans can eat. I have also been known to eat the "GUEST PIE" does anyone know if they still do that? Nah, they only have eel pies since the cockney mafia took over.

Wrong. Left Fulham to manage England. Left Man City because he said he wouldn't sign a contract extention, they said "Ok, fuck off now then." Keegan walking - is typical cockney bullshit of the type spouted by macca888. Surprised at BenwellLad for posting such tripe to be honest.

I'll keep an open mind about South Africans as I would about anyone else. It's a loooooong time since the end of apartheid.

I see Phil K is still ranting on about people who don't like racists. Bit of a bee in the bonnet, eh?

I'd forgotten that. Hell, when I was writing the long post above, I even had to pause for a second to remember their name. Hungarians were always amazed when I said I liked Vasas, and asked why. I told them it was because I liked a certain sparky midfielder called Zoltán Váci, and then they'd usually smile and say they liked this player too.

No, actually. Tell me more.

there was me thinking the "other side" would be the equivilent os stockport or rochdale. saying that i still can not understand the concept of supporting another football team. I've had a go at getting interested in clubs where I've lived abroad. In Berlin in the late 1980s, I used to go to Blau-Weiss 90 matches with a really good bunch of lads, but it was like playing at supporting a club. It was a bit like that for the Germans I'd go with, too -- Blau-Weiss had rocketed out of nowhere, spent one season in the 1. Bundesliga, and then plummetted back to the lower divisions. They didn't really have any traditional support and, in the second division on the way back down, were getting about 8,000 for a home game in the 70,000-seat Olympia-Stadion. We had a laugh, but it was hard to care very much about what happened on the pitch. I wouldn't be particularly elated if they won, nor very troubled if they didn't, and at at least one game was too pissed to notice anyway. In Lisbon I went to matches at both Sporting and Benfica, and decided I preferred Sporting -- partly to be contrary as the usual thing among English-speaking foreigners in Lisbon is to be a Benfica fan, and partly because I don't like teams that play in red and white. But in a city where every backstreet seems to have a little Sporting supporters' club/bar and a little Benfica supporters' club/bar, I truly had zero connection to either. In Budapest I tried Ferencváros (both the Man U and the Millwall of Hungary -- horrible), Újpest (the "nice" club, but unsupportable because of Fairs Cup history, inconveniently located stadium and violet strip), and MTK (the "Jewish" club, undergoing cash-fuelled revival after acquisition by local retail magnate, but no character). They were all crap; Budapest has too many clubs and too little money. I ended up favouring Vasas, one of the smaller top-flight clubs, because they had a bar behind the goal where you could watch the game in comfort with a beer, and always find a seat.... I've given up now. The bottom line is that I just don't really care whether any of these teams wins or loses. It's those wild, insane moodswings that let you know you're watching the team that you truly support.

It's worth what someone will pay for it. The OP reckoning ignores the issue of intangible assets – Newcastle as a brand, it's ability to attract support, sell merchandise etc.

I put my name on their list, as I say, so I guess I'm as "joined" as anyone who hasn't appointed themselves to a central committee. It's not very encouraging, though, when long before there's any chance to "say my bit", they're issuing single-issue statements containing stuff that I find embarrassing, laughable, mistaken, offensive, stupid or just plain wrong.