ScottishMagpie

You mean like the last 13 years?

Never told us how you and your lass met.

Fuckin' love that toon!

slightly off topic but was scrolling through the replies to the PL tweet and seen this: WTF?!! First time I've seen/heard of this quote. If it's an actual quote from the man himself.

Just sat down and read this properly. Well done to all involved in producing it.

Really impressed with Chi's letter. Especially like the bit where she says something along the lines of "I know you're probably just gonna tell me to get lost" but inserts the line about need for "greater regulation of the PL".

I don't think it's completely dead yet but it's on a ventilator and relatives have been told to say their goodbyes. Only way I think this comes back from the precipice is if the government get involved. After this manoeuvre by the buyers I can't see the PL just suddenly turning round and going "oh, okay, come back to today and we'll approve it". They'll need external pressure applied to them and I don't think our fanbase marching on the PL HQ is the answer. Gonna hate myself for saying this but possibly Big Mike going to the government and basically telling them that the £300m was going to go to "saving" the high street they might be motivated to get on the blower to masters and tell him to kiss the ring.

Fuckin hell. My piss is boiling after reading that! PL are Qatari cuckolds.

I want to believe that last paragraph but honestly not sure.

Maybe it's the kg of chocolate I've consumed tonight but I'm more fucked off with the PL than I am with Ashley in what's happened today.

So, IF the above is true then Ashley must be raging at the PL for costing him £300m no?

Presumably this means people at the club? Who I guess have no idea what's happening 99% of the time. Keith was on SSN not long ago and was saying it was Barnes who was handling the takeover stuff on behalf of Ashley. Didn't have direct quote from him but said it was a surprise to Barnes that this happened this afternoon.

where's this from? Jim White on Talksport, he says she rang him about 15:45 Cheers! Think I was a couple of pages behind when I asked. Was encouraged until I read that it was JW who said it.

where's this from?

I really want to cry but don't want to give those kunts at the epl the pleasure. I'm all but done completely with nufc. Will keep on this topic for a little while longer just to keep an eye on the fall out of this but any other topics, transfer rumours, steve bruce.... I couldn't give a flying fuck. Sky sports package is getting cancelled. I'll just sign up to NFL game pass to watch proper football. Fuk em all!

Can just picture the yank in a cold sweat, his mrs asking what's up and him panicking del boy style going "that fat limey is going to call me wanting to do a deal! FFS! Did he not see i was only kidding! "

Exactly! IF the article is correct and the PL have been giving the 'no comment' line to all and sundry.... If I were Masters I'd be fucking raging to know who's talking to a pair of wallopers from the telegraph. And when does a management structure have to reflect the split in ownership? If PIF want to relinquish control to Amanda then so be it.

FFS!! Why is it taking so long? Scale of ineptitude is staggering!! Will someone make a decision on whether Manorpark is banned or not?

I've seen it. Its just lightweight heras fencing blocking the steps and entrance off Barrack Road, and across the bottom entrance of Strawberry place. It was just to deter supporters from trying to congregate and/or get into the matches I think. Its been there since the matches restarted, as it was shown on local news reports. Which Toon fans in their right mind would be trying to get IN to one of our games? Fence is doing us a favour by keeping us out!

So are you saying after Sunday's game, from the 27th onward its going to be "okay" politically for the rejection to come out? Why then and not now? Politics isn't one of my specialist subjects so please explain?

https://mobile.twitter.com/MoneyMikeAshley/status/1285945513448214529

Oh please let this be the case!!

So strange that it's been the conventional way of distributing sports broadcast packages across most of the Middle East, Spanish-speaking Latin America and vast swathes of Africa for decades. So strange! Yes, it is strange because it seems like a completely backward way to offer content. What if a French company outbid all UK companies and took Bundesliga, La Liga, Formula 1, NFL and only allowed you to watch it via their set top box or online subscription service? What if within that time frame relations between France and UK went completely backwards? It's not an issue to you Penn, because you're sitting at your home far away from the area. I'm not defending Saudi in this, I'm just saying it's fucking odd when you think about it deep down. Put yourself in their shoes. But if that's how the rights are sold, that's how they're sold. If you can't watch something for some reason, tough shit. You have no intrinsic human right to watch football matches. I mean, most of the 3pm games are available in countries which are NOT the UK, but we can't watch them. That's just how life works. We have the right to watch the things we have the rights to, that's it. People in China can watch different PL games to people in Spain, who see different games to people in MENA. Everything is packaged up and sold as the PL wish, and there's fuck all any of us can do about it (legally). We, or indeed any of those countries, certainly can't just decide to rip up the agreements that the PL legally struck with any country or territory just because we don't like the deal's impact on us. That's nonsense. And yes the way the PL offer out content IS backwards. It has been for years. It will continue to be so for years because their objective isn't to offer what works best for the consumer but to maximise their own revenue. Watching SA devalue BeIN's contract by unilaterally banning them from broadcasting in the largest country in the region they hold the rights to is NEVER going to go down well with the PL. A company, the PL, whose sole purpose is to maximise revenue, has watched one of its major rights holders have their rights massively devalued and are then have the country who did that ask them to approve their ownership of Newcastle. I can completely understand why the PL are somewhat reluctant to do this. You can't watch them but somehow find a way to do so. I'm not arguing with you on the PL's point of view either, totally makes sense too. Just trying to think clearly about this whole thing (which is a fucking mess). I would like to know if the countries within the region agreed to be part of this or not. I assume they did, but not sure. Me too! I'm struggling to get my head around how the rights thing works.

Hello Kate Stewart.