Paully

Is anyone else’s commentary ahead of the footage?!

Brilliant this https://theathletic.com/4745608/2023/08/03/eddie-howes-summer/

57K members and Wi-Fi! https://twitter.com/tfalex1892/status/1686796056678260736?s=46&t=FsEm6VC2ijNnTjHjyXU7DA

One of the most maddest stats I’ve seen!

Wonder what it drops to - sold out on 45 last season but a lot of people who 'went' then won't be going this time...........

Unreal!

Absolutely spot on!

I kind of think that but there was no need for the eyes emoji if he was referring to that!

Are we taking anything into this?! "and for sure you will see me again" with eyes emoji!

Ha ha class! It's the same with them all - if PIF didn't own us, they'd be buzz for 'Jowdon' getting a humongous pay packet at the end of his career and begging him to come back to their shithole and back them financially after it!

“A general feeling of absolute despair… We were a comedy club… I’d become tired of fighting for the team… It was an embarrassment, a disgrace… There had to be more to life than this, getting battered every week… In my eyes, nobody gave a fuck… It felt like I cared more than anybody else… The club (played) bullshit politics behind my back, claiming it was all me… I was hurting at the time and, to be honest, I’m still mad… I didn’t have the chance to say goodbye.” The words Given uses now, when he sits down with The Athletic at the back of the Brewhouse, both of us reeling from the heat which touches 91F (32C), are equally laden with feeling. “I left the club and hadn’t been back and it feels like part of you is missing because that was such a long time,” Given says. He pauses and repeats himself. “Part of what I’d done in my life was missing because it felt like the door had closed. Now it feels like it’s open again.” Kinnear went public to say Newcastle had “bent over backwards to try and keep” Given, who knew that was a contortion of reality. He was told he could not leave unless he submitted a transfer request, waiving 10 per cent of the £6million fee ($7.7m at today’s exchange rate) City paid for him. It was petty, penny-pinching and, in any case, no player with ambition could truthfully claim Newcastle were trying any more. Loving the club was agony back then and the agony lingered. There was no farewell. No appreciation. He was a Newcastle man, via Lifford in County Donegal, but Newcastle was lost to him.

https://theathletic.com/4727022/2023/07/28/newcastle-given-us-tour/

Check out the video in the General NUFC thread (I don't want to post it in here!)!

Was just going to post that - lovely to feel my absolute hatred for this utter twat return with a vengeance!

NUFC POTS 23-24 - bookmark this!

Nice to see another Brentford fan at our match again last night! Just need one at New Jersey for the hat-trick!