LionOfGosforth

Yeah John and i've also seen worse sides put in magnificent, tough, tactically-aware performances there and get draws or even wins. This was a defeat before we even kicked off and there was never a shred of doubt we'd get a hiding by anyone with half a brain.

John Cadaver. Fucking arsehole.

Exactly, even if we can get Ashley to sell (and I mean really sell not the fake platitudes of buying a 10 year box) then we need a buyer who has at least 300 million to spend on a football club. A much broader question is, is football just broken beyond repair? Has the money fucked the game to the point it can never be fixed. Someone on this forum a few years back posted this exceptional rant that I had to keep. It's as pertinent today as it was when posted in 2008: "Football is fucked, being ran by rich cunts who know jack shite about the game. I've had enough of Sky and Setanta and their "SUPER DUPER MEGA SUNDAY LOLZ" and "relegation clashes" after 2 games. Andy fuckin Gray and his never ending "tikaboos" and "Stevey Gs", over analysing every game to the point of depression, and trotting out the same fuckin clichés about "the big four" ad nauseum. The fucking England team struggling to turn over pub teams then picking the same eleven shite players for the next "mega international" against Kazakhstan. I'm sick of fat fuckin chairman running clubs however they feel like with no regards for the fans - charging what they like, charging away fans more than home, upping season ticket prices at a time when people are struggling to keep their house warm. I'm sick of foreign "investors" coming into British football, buying a club and spending more on one player within 12 hours of taking over than most teams have spend in their entire history, whilst clubs at the bottom are having to start on minus 30 fucking points because they can't afford to pay the fees to the league or keep their ground up to scratch. Some clubs spend more on their superdupermegastores and superdupermegatron screens than other clubs can spend on wages in a year. Then there's the players, holding said clubs to ransom over wages, when they earn more in a day than most people earn in a year. Slaves? They should try working 12 hour shifts for a company they fucking hate then going home to the aforementioned houses having had to spend half their weeks wages on food. Wankers such as Joey Barton getting done for chinning someone in the street, then their club defending them because they know if they kick them out, the only people who will be hit by that will be the club themselves, whilst the player fucks off to another club on big wages and a huge signing on fee. Same clubs winning the same trophies every season and boring the rest of us to tears with their stories of "great courage in the face of adversity". Fuck off. " Whomever posted this said it better than I ever could. Wish I knew what the answer was.

We currently appear to have one of the dimmest and most apathetic fan-bases on the planet. Wasn't like this in the 80's when we had plenty to cry about as well (granted the era prior to Sky money was very different), a lot of fans got up off their arses and tried to affect change and relatively things did change for a while. I don't know if it's the general demographic at games has changed from being the predominantly died-in-the-wool fan to being more predominantly the typical sky-era "mostly couldn't give a f***" fan or what but we've turned into a subservient embarrassment. The passion, fight, ambition and hope appears to have been extinguished/knocked out of us almost completely. I agree on the most part but Sack Pardew has shown change can be still be forced If done correctly. Ie without clowns like wraith Agreed, they deserve huge credit for the way they got their point across in an elegant and reasoned way, everything they put together was inarguable by anyone but the thickest cunts out there. We need more of that.

We currently appear to have one of the dimmest and most apathetic fan-bases on the planet. Wasn't like this in the 80's when we had plenty to cry about as well (granted the era prior to Sky money was very different), a lot of fans got up off their arses and tried to affect change and relatively things did change for a while. I don't know if it's the general demographic at games has changed from being the predominantly died-in-the-wool fan to being more predominantly the typical sky-era "mostly couldn't give a fuck" fan or what but we've turned into a subservient embarrassment. The passion, fight, ambition and hope appears to have been extinguished/knocked out of us almost completely.

Dam you LionOfGosforth I was going to make that joke. I was going to say he's sweet like chocolate but hott like fire! Chocolate Fire Garde. But actually reading that I'm ashamed Thought mine was bad

Let's hope he's more use than a chocolate fireguarde

You may not be on the radar, but did you throw your hat in the ring?

Who with? himself.

Amazing, seem to remember Peter Fear sort of resembling an evil Warren Barton. **EDIT** Somewhat confirmed: http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/Peterfearcurtains.jpg

Still got Gouffran on to create as well. Game on.

Ashley's hitman kid?

Fairly extreme innit? Not really, its exactly why. Absolutely. Only a matter of time, whether it's this season or next, that we'll start to hear Pards bigging him up in the media. Very soon after that it will be "we'll have to be strong if any bids come in for him this transfer window, don't want to lose him but we're not in the strongest position financially etc etc blah blah blah". Enjoy him while you can, he looks like a potential star.

That's class when you zoom in. The lad in the middle of the photo, northwest of Colo's head looks like he couldn't give the slightest f***. Just staring at Pardew. That's the serial killer bloke man. Looks a bit like how Ashley might look as a young flabby hitman

Some great faces in there like. Bez from Happy Mondays next to lightbulb, mad looking serial killer in the blue jacket just staring into space and a demented David Copperfield gadgey just above Mangala's(?) shoulder.

Not to mention the 24 months of gym work. Canny big difference between lifting and running in the gym and playing 96 minutes at the Etihad after 2 years out and playing with a scratch team like. Not to mention managing to clear the ball with his bollocks in the 85th minute.

He's a naturally fit fucker, that's for sure.

Turd burglar did his best to give us no chance whatsoever but we pulled it off anyway. Maddest result of the season.

Christ, tbh

That team tonight. Haddaway and shite Pards, you're fucking rubbish man. Never has there been a more "Alan" Alan than this cunt.

Christ, i'm so sick of this c***, even just the sight of his name on the main page of the forum drives me round the frigging pipe. "Alan Pardew" for f***s sake.

This cunt been binned yet?

Hope we let in 7 on Saturday and someone pisses in cuntface's pocket.

Piss off Pardew you're shite man