Exiled in Texas

Game thread Page 58 if you want a giggle at the next 5 pages of Fuck Off, Embarassing, Fucking Typical

I love that Going Home/Local Hero is part of NUFC - its a great tune and builds really well. But how did they get associated? I know that Knopfler is from Newcastle, but how did that song get linked to NUFC?

Gotta defend their Trafalgar Square diving trophy

When Mickey Quinn scored four to rout Leeds 5-2. That was a heck of a Saturday night in town.

And fade to STID … …. the wife saying to her husband … ”Why does nothing good ever happen to us, Pet?”

I think I need to change my screen name .... maybe from now on I should be known as ...... Exiled in Texas not RTG

Ahhhhghgh. Crunchie bars are one thing I really miss being Exiled in Texas. First thing I do when I arrive, and last thing I do when I leave is buy Crunchi bars. Mmmmmmm

Agree GWN, Desperate to have anything positive in their day. It's amazing how they don't see how embarrassing their behaviour really is.

One more chance tomorrow to get back into the promotion playoff. HSV play 12th placed Sandhausen needing 1pt and +8 goals (so basically must win). While 3rd placed Heidenheim play 1st placed Arminia Bielefeld. Good chance of a BRE vs HSV NordDerby playoff.

Crazy day. Bremen needed a win (and maybe +4 goals) to climb over Fortuna Dusseldorf....and indeed they did get that 6-1 win to swap places with Fortuna, who lost 3-0 away to Union, and are now relegated. Bremen go into the relegation playoff - which will be either Heidenheim or Hamburg SV. (So maybe a nice NordDerby game) Meanwhile, Dortmund lose 0-4 to Hoffenheim's Andrej Kramarić. That's not going to do anything for Lucien Favre's standing with the fans, even though he was confirmed to stay on with BVB.

I find the RTG fascination on Hendo wierd. Its not like they are just being happy for an ex-player and local lad, but its the way they are desperate to try and claim some of the Liverpool spotlight for their sad team by trying to shoe-horn themselves into the Liverpool moment. Its not like Henderson is talking about his time in Sunderland as a foundation for his accomplishments at Liverpool. It just weird how they are trying to get some of the Liverpool spotlight onto their team when no one else is thinking there is any connection.

F*** Me. Sunderland Echo has written an open letter to FPP asking them to "clarify their intentions" with the club. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/letter-to-ffp.1520759/ https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/time-fpp-sunderland-trio-glenn-fuhrman-robert-platek-and-john-phelan-make-their-intentions-clear-after-ps9million-loan-2886750 I have no issues with the Echo trashing Donald and the current ownership, but the patter about demanding the Loaning Institution to clarify their plans is so cringeworthy.

On TV ASM looked to be limping off from the stands after the game (maybe just stiff legs). Hope did didn't pull anything.

Bruce is only 2 points behind Arsenal so I’m sure that Merson will be happy to have Steve Bacon replacing Arteta. No? Thought not. C***

Thought Joelinton did well for his goal. He got caught as he played the ball through to Almiron, and could have crumpled to the ground with the contact, but he rode the challenge, kept his feet and then sprinted into space for the goal. Loved it!!

So if the takeover is approved..... how do the local Saudi's get to watch any Newcastle/PL games? The region broadcast rights are sold to beIN, but the beIN broadcast is blocked within Saudi Arabia. So there is currently no legal way to watch Newcastle games in Saudi Arabia even if the takeover goes through. Unless Saudi Arabia unblocks the beIN broadcast, they cannot watch any games. So meanwhile beIN have overpaid as they bought rights to broadcast to more countries than they are able to. Saudi Arabia has said that they will not enter into any communication with Qatar until they cease all state sponsored terrorism, no there can be not direct remuneration. Would the PL be able to offer partial right to KSA for broadcast in Saudi Arabia, and then rebate those payments to beIN? This seems too simple or too "public" a solution.

HeHeHe .... The Don gets his beloved Oxford into the playoffs

Which entity is blocking the beIN sports broadcast to Saudi customers? Is it the Saudis who are blocking beIN within the Kingdom? Or beIN refusing to broadcast to SA? Wondering how Saudi TV consumers will get to watch the PL (and Newcastle)

Follow up - but I suppose that when I turn it around and look at the state of Newcastle United, I assume that corporate direction is set by Ashley, ans that Charnley (and all employees are only following that direction). So maybe I am harshly judging them.

Don't really understand this. Those people make the decisions, who are the "club" who are to blame in your opinion? It's the way that they make "the club" blameless for anything, and put all the blame on Short/Stew/Bain etc. They completely absolve anyone at the club from any responsibility for their position. There is not one Department manager or club director or team lead or employee who has done anything wrong. All the spending and lack of control is down to only the owner. The Financial Director has no culpability for how they go where they got? They are so afraid to place any part of the blame on the club for the actions of the club, because that would mean that they would have to accept responsibility for their predicament. I just find it incredibly naive and denial to pass all responsibility upward to Short/Bain/Stewie when I know that there are multiple layers of accountability/responsibility in any organisation. How they can say that "the club did nothing wrong" when the clubs financial situation is so dire amazes me. No, RTG-lore says that its all (and only) Short/Don. But hey, its not my problem that they prefer to live in eternal denial.

Bain was to blame (because they have to blame someone). Short gets a lot of the blame too, but next one down from him is Bain, so he is target #2. I love how the "club" is entirely blameless for anything during their relegation(s). Its all the fault of Short, Bain, The Don, Charlie Meths but the club itself is blameless.

That’s Airbus’s wing delivery plane. Nicknamed the Beluga, it’s a modified A300 and it delivers wings built in Wales near Chester to the plane assembly factory in Toulouse.

Anyone notice that Mainz vs RB Leipzig had crowd noise (chants, song, general excitement) played into the game? (I watched in US on FS1 so it could have been a US feed only). I thought it sounded great. And really helped the TV watching experience. You wouldn't know it was "closed doors" unless you saw the empty seats on a wide shot.

FTM - Follow the Mags? (isn't that it? )

Werder Bremen - lebenslang Grün-Weiß