OzzieMandias

The article about the "corporates" we've been discussing isn't by Louise Taylor. it's from the Independent. And in answers to someone else's question, I don't think it can simply have been taken from whoever posted about that meeting on here. The newspaper version has a few facts and figures -- about the number of renewals and so forth.

Fair article.

Been finding myself thinking the same thing.

Suppose the reputation of Liverpool doesn't help, it's an easy cheap shot when most clubs stop off on the way to go to little chef and have a piss while the scousers have a break to do a bit of mourning along the way.

Bruce Welch. Born in Bognor Regis. And even so, The Shadows were fucking miles better than Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler was born in Glasgow. I prefer Dire Straits over The Shadows. How can you speak about 'better' when it comes to music? Easily. And Knopfler being a jock doesn't exactly advance the pro-Knopfler argument, does it?

Sting is a cunt, but he's not as boring as Knopfler.

Bruce Welch. Born in Bognor Regis. And even so, The Shadows were fucking miles better than Dire Straits.

Pity they couldn't get the typography right.

So name a more boring Geordie musician than Mark Knopfler.

She has it on good authority that he was not wanted by Wise/Jimenez yet in the article on Keegan she quotes him as saying nothing discussed between them behind closed doors is discussed elsewhere? If she thinks she has not got an agenda, ask her to agree on the definition of bias. If the full facts are not known (like when she is reading body language in post-match press conferences), then always putting a negative spin on those 'questions' is bias. If you look through all her conjecture this summer and can find examples of positive and negative interpretations of the events, then she is not biased. Unfortunately for her, in each article she writes she insists on the negative interpretation of events, without the quotes or facts to back this up. Therefore, there is a negative bias (or agenda) in each of her articles. It would be easily proved by just picking out a few of her articles as examples. The nonsense she spouted today was summed up in the line "talk of KK's supposed disillusion has increased with every collapsed transfer deal'. The key words are 'talk' (who by? the media), 'supposed' (ie unproved) and 'collapsed' (according to which quotes?). As Peter O'Toole would have said, kick her in the f***ing c***. This. I believe you should write exactly that, but to the ombudsman of the Guardian and with links to her actual articles as mentioned. Oh and minus the kick her in the cunt bit...although highly amusing. Make sure you CC her in too. I might compile a dossier Worth doing for someone who's got the time. There's no doubt that Guardian stories these days always emphasise the most negative possible construction of events at Newcastle, though this is as much the responsibility of whoever is writing the headlines and intro copy (probably Barry Glendinning) as it is of the undoubtedly biased Lousie Taylor. Given enough evidence, the Guardian Readers' Editor might well investigate, causing the pair of them much more trouble than emails from us lot directly is ever going to give them.

I don't know, but I'll be well happy if he turns out to be as good for us as Woodgate was -- minus the injuries.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/fergies-long-goodbye-899008.html

Bad news. Our squad is thin enough already.

Wrong on every count!! Its not easy to be as '100% completely inaccurate' (every single word) as this post is. Rubbish. a) It's a crap tune. Face it. b) What's interesting about Mark Knopfler? I can barely type his name without dozing off. Dire Straits were one of the crappest bands ever. c) How come ir's "100 percent wrong" to want us to be more than local heroes. Happy with mid-table mediocrity, are you? Rubbish. Yes, that sums it up in one word.

Wrong on every count!! Its not easy to be as '100% completely inaccurate' (every single word) as this post is. a) It's a crap tune. Face it. b) What's interesting about Mark Knopfler? I can barely type his name without dozing off. Dire Straits were one of the crappest bands ever. c) How come ir's "100 percent wrong" to want us to be more than local heroes. Happy with mid-table mediocrity, are you?

It's the theme of a film about an American oil executive in Scotland. Got sod all to do with Newcastle or football, except for Knopfler growing up in Gosforth.

Shame. Crappy tune by one of the most boring musicians ever to come out of Newcastle. The whole "local hero" idea has something sadly provincial about it. I want us to be national heroes, or international heroes.

If you occasionally remembered how to use a full stop then some of this might be readable.

Davor Midsz – promising young Hungarian striker, currently unsettled at Ferencváros.

So you think his family will be pleased if he dies? Meanwhile, the Sziget festival is a ridiculous place to go if you're trying to stay sober. It would put you in a minority of, like, one.

What an excellent quotation! Never heard that line before.

I think it's more like 2000-01. Squad in disarray after a quick succession of managers have each torn it apart and half put it back together again, necessary book-balancing being conducted, assorted South Americans coming in... it'll take KK more than one summer to sort out the mess he inherited, just as it took Bobby a while too. The added dimension this time around is the attention being paid -- at last! -- to the academy. But that will obviously have no bearing on the season about to begin. I'm not a pessimist, but it's unrealistic to expect fireworks.

Page 151? Damn! Do you think it'll help if I slash my wrists?

I asked my postman if he knew anything about the Coloccini deal, and he said no. I'm not the kind who spreads needless doom and gloom or whines like a bairn when the club doesn't seem to be doing exactly what I think it ought to be doing, but I think this is very worrying indeed.