This is quite literally what he did in the clip. I've done plenty to stand up for NUFC without any of that. It's nothing to do with "having balls" Having balls is standing by what you think, I don't agree with that attitude.
If this was a world leader talking about other nations then fair enough, this is a chap who is asking why the likes of Brighton or whoever are racing ahead of us when in reality, they have nothing on NUFC and while I would always want someone who is representing fans to be more tactile, I’m not going to condemn the guy or get my knickers in a twist about it in case it offends others are makes us look arrogant or whatever. Again, who cares. We shouldn’t and as fans we need to stop being precious.
The media and average internet fans consider us deluded Geordies and a laughing stock anyway, I say internet fans because people I speak to away from the web, fans of all kind of clubs, usually have nothing but good words and indeed sympathy for us.
Again, if more fans had the mindset of this fella and were pepaired to actually voice it like he has, MA and his cronies wouldn’t have had it so easy the last decade or so where 2 relegations, renaming the stadium, taking KK to court (and losing) and the other charge sheet list of crimes against our club, still hasn’t softened his ownership or woken fans up.
The general gist of what The Magpie Group and other fan groups are doing is to enlighten the rest of the world to how horrible Mike Ashley is in an attempt to gain more traction in pushing him out. Spouting stuff about NUFC being better than other clubs in public whilst representing the movement that's aimed at enlightening the rest of the world to Mike Ashley does not build sympathy, it plays right into Keith Bishop and company's hand: "Look at the fickle NUFC fans with ideas above their station. We're all just doing our best and they're never happy".
What we may or may not think about how big we are compared to other clubs on a personal level is more than fair enough. The issue I, for one, have with this is that it's being aired in public and feeds the "Geordies have deluded expectations" storyline when we're trying to wake the world up to what Mike Ashley is doing to the club.
There's a time and place to not be humble, and that time is when we're not trying to gain sympathy of others to make the crusade against Mike Ashley become so poisonous for him that he has no choice but to cut his losses.
I get all that, mind it’s not the wider world we need to target, it’s our own fan base. Stick to what we are trying to fix here, not workers rights at SD or Ashley’s business deals, but our own club. That’s what I care about. Again I wouldn’t have said what the fella said in the way he did, but surely anyone half intelligent should get what he is saying and as far as our own club and selves is concerned, shouldn’t be concerning ourselves with how others might perceive what was said?
The fact some consider it arrogant is because of how far down the ladder we have went as a club under MA where we are now ironically not even in the same league as the likes of Brighton when it comes to spending and facilities. That’s the reality and that should offend and anger NUFC fans much more.
Aye but this is total fucking shit. It's nowt to do with where we perceive our position should be in the global football scene, it's about not needlessly being a cunt to teams that we have zero reason to belittle. Especially given the decades we've spent being belittled by every fucker imaginable.
