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Greg Dyke - hypocritical pig! September 2nd; “Sunderland’s first game of the season against Fulham there were only four players on the pitch at the start of the game who were actually qualified to play for England. “Mind you in the Newcastle team beaten 4-0 by Manchester City on that same opening weekend it was even worse – there was only one English player in their starting line-up.” October 9th; "My view is that we should be looking for talent and then look at what the rules actually say, and then ask if we can actually do this. We live in a world where all sorts of people live in all sorts of places so let’s see if Adnan Januzaj qualifies to play for England."

Apparently we're offering away tickets to visitors at SJP for £20 as long as the clubs in turn charge us the same!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Steve Wraith about an hour ago near Newcastle upon Tyne.Allegedly Joe Kinnear was at Birminghams game the other night, he asked manager Lee Clark, I like the look of your left winger whats his name, Clark said, Shane Ferguson, he's on loan from newcastle united!!

Top lad this lad - he's coming back over next year! http://www.true-faith.co.uk/united-states-newcastle/

Unbelievably (well, no surprise) - The Ronnie have not reported the 'cup competitions' quote! Mike Ashley has no intention to sell Newcastle United, fans told 25 Sep 2013 11:16 Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has no intention to sell up – after board members relayed the information during a fan forum this week Share on printShare on email Mike Ashley and Joe Kinnear talk before the game against Hull City at St James' Park Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has no intention to sell up – after board members relayed the information during a fan forum this week. A report from Newcastle United Supporters Trust indicated that a panel including secretary Lee Charnley and finance director John Irving took questions from the club’s fan forum. In what was described as a positive step forward by NUST a statement reflected on the meeting by reporting that Ashley has: “No intention, desire or ambition to sell the club.” The club’s blueprint remains to sign players under 26 years of age but there is still flexibility to bring in more experienced players. The report also reveals that United did not dip into their £60million TV cash jackpot because the club felt that the extra revenue merely inflated the current market. And this was one of the reasons why they brought forward their transfer activity to January. As reported in the Chronicle last week, the board also confirmed that there was money put aside to spend this summer but those funds weren’t used because they were touted prices above what United felt was the valuation of the players on their shortlist. The report indicated that director of football Joe Kinnear tried hard to bring in players but the he wasn’t always “at fault” after agent fees and “other issues” hindered the deals. NUST’s report also says that United confirmed that cup competitions aren’t the priority for Newcastle and that the will be used to look at squad players. Newcastle stated in the meeting that a top 10 finish is the main aim this term. On the finance front United told fans that they were working on a three year cycle with the TV money and that there are no debts at United apart from interest-free loans to Ashley and they won’t be called in “until or if” the club is sold. A statement from NUST also read: “The Club accounts show that Mike Ashley took an £11million short term loan back last year but the £18million short term loan he was due to take back this year is being rolled over to future years. The long term loan of £111million will stay in the accounts but there is no definition of long term. This means that our only significant debts are the interest free debts to Mike Ashley. “On the Commercial income side we are one of the weakest clubs around. The Directors are working with Wonga and Puma to improve that situation but there was little information about what plans we have in place. Our commercial income shown in the accounts is about £13million. Man. Utd for example was shown recently as £153million! We were told that we couldn't compete with Man. Utd.; “They were asked if Sports Direct paid for adverting at St. James' Park and it was confirmed that they do not. John Irving said that Sports Direct were using space that would be otherwise unused but didn't say how hard the commercial team were trying to find other (paying) advertisers,”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2430997/MARTIN-SAMUEL-COLUMN-Paolo-Di-Canios-Sunderland-reign-going-end-tears.html#ixzz2ft0qnslo You didn't need to be a soothsayer to see that Di Canio's reign would end in tears By Martin Samuel PUBLISHED: 23:00 GMT, 24 September 2013 | UPDATED: 06:13 GMT, 25 September 2013 • • • • 1 View comments There is a Scott Adams cartoon strip in which Dilbert is bemoaning the fact that he can never remember a name after introductions. ‘Maybe I can use a word-association memory trick,’ he thinks. A new engineer offers his hand. ‘Hi,’ he says. ‘I’m Dee Alamo.’ The final frame shows Dilbert’s blank expression. A think bubble above his head reads: ‘Darn . . . nothing.’ It was much the same when Sunderland appointed Paolo Di Canio. If only there had been some clue, some sign that he was impossibly high-maintenance and unsuited for management at an elite level. If only he had called his players stupid donkeys, or substituted his goalkeeper after 22 minutes, or invited his critics among the supporters to buy a season ticket with their local rivals. If only he had conducted a long-running feud with the management, threatened to walk out, walked out and then broke back in again in the small hours, forcing the club to change the locks. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Paolo Di Canio being booed by own fans The end of an era: Paolo Di Canio's brief reign as Sunderland boss came to its all-too inevitable conclusion Painful viewing: Sunderland amassed just a point from a possible 15 this season, with Di Canio masterminding just three wins in 13 games If only he had behaved in a way at Swindon Town that would, quite plainly, be ruinous at a major club, with all the added attention and adverse publicity such antics would bring. Of course, he did precisely this. He did everything listed above, and probably more, because what emerges is not usually the half of it. There was no fire so small that Di Canio could not sprint towards it with a bucket of gasoline. He escaped widespread condemnation only because Swindon do not make headlines. It was obvious that once Di Canio’s behaviour was transported to a significant club, the repercussions would be significant also. Di Canio booed by his own fans Hauled off: Di Canio hooked Wes Fotheringham (right) after just 22 minutes, branding the Swindon keeper 'arrogant' for his display at Preston Wearing his heart on his sleeve: Di Canio reacts as Swindon lose to Oxford in March of last year Di Canio: Higher maintenance than the Sistene Chapel... Read how Martin Samuel called it here... This is not being wise after the event. Last February, in a column about the possibility of Di Canio being a Premier League manager — he was being linked with West Ham United at the time — I wrote: ‘Di Canio’s passion play unfolding in the spotlight could have a ruinous effect on a smaller Premier League club . . . there is a method for achieving success in the Premier League and starring in your very own daily soap opera should never be part of that plan . . . Premier League managers are as good as under surveillance. In the modern game so much is out of their control that if they go rogue too, the club can quickly descend into chaos . . . At a smaller Premier League club, confidence and stability are key to survival. Di Canio is wonderful for those who like a show, but whether a leading club can afford to be part of his next psycho-drama is another matter entirely.’ I’m not Nostradamus, it just wasn’t hard to spot. Di Canio the manager had not greatly evolved from Di Canio the player. Harry Redknapp’s forthcoming autobiography contains several pages of stories about Di Canio’s time at West Ham. All are told with fondness because Redknapp loves Di Canio and rates him as one of the best players he has worked with but, viewed dispassionately, each reveals a selfish personality that was not cut out for life as a high-profile coach. Big fan: Harry Redknapp (left) is particularly fond of former charge Di Canio after bringing him to West Ham in 1999, alongside the late Marc-Vivien Foe (below) More from Martin Samuel... • MARTIN SAMUEL: Clueless owners who care nothing for history should be dumped in a skip 22/09/13 • MARTIN SAMUEL: Gazza, Charlton and Robson all came from the North East... why have Sunderland stopped looking there? 17/09/13 • Fail like Torres? Expectations are high with that price tag but Bale's flying from day one 15/09/13 • MARTIN SAMUEL: With Roy it's the hoof, the whole hoof and nothing but the hoof... 15/09/13 • Chelsea going Dutch and Parma's squad of two hundred and twenty six (yes, you read that right, 226) show that the transfer market is now more like a cattle market... football needs to beef up loan rules 10/09/13 • MARTIN SAMUEL: Replacing Welbeck with Milner shows lack of ambition, Roy... why not seize the moment and make Ukraine think by picking in-form Townsend? 08/09/13 • MARTIN SAMUEL: You'll know all about too many foreign coaches, Greg. You hired one from Germany 04/09/13 • MARTIN SAMUEL: Man United's biggest blunder is the harm done to Moyes by his novice sidekick 03/09/13 • VIEW FULL ARCHIVE There is the tale in which Di Canio reacts to mild criticism of his performance by aiming a gigantic barrel of Gatorade drink at a team-mate; the one in which he alone is reluctant to board a plane for an away match because he is not happy with its technical condition; the one where he sits down on the pitch and refuses to play on, in protest at having a succession of penalty appeals turned down. This last story is among Redknapp’s favourites. In a recent Sky TV interview, his description of Di Canio asking to come off and, when ignored, squatting cross legged on the pitch, immobile, as the game went on around him was priceless. The punchline is that the fans start singing his name, the ball comes near him, Di Canio rises, inspired, and goes on to win the match. And that was the difference with this second act. Di Canio, the manager, didn’t have the wit to influence the game as he did as a player. All Sunderland signed up for was histrionics and hysterics without the redeeming genius. Di Canio could still emote and pose like any old ham — hands on hips attempting a mute, self-serving empathy with the fans after his final game — but he did not have the smarts to be more. Di Canio always knew what was wrong. He just didn’t know how to fix it. He would talk about the players being unable to defend, or being unfit, uncommitted or having rubbish in their heads, as if he was divorced from the problem. Roman salute: Di Canio earned a one-game ban in 2005 for gesturing towards Lazio fans during the Rome derby Fans' favourite: Lazio's supporters hoist polemic placards in 2002 during Di Canio's stint at West Ham. The text at the centre reads: 'My Lazio? 11 Paolo Di Canio' There is a lot of this in football; a lot of failings identified as if that alone makes them go away. Marking a test paper with a giant F is not the same as educating. And this is the person around whom Sunderland appeared to build a long-term strategy, with an Italian backroom staff, an Italian director of football and an Italian head of scouting, all at his service. So, the crisis does not end here, with Di Canio sacked. Short-term managerial whims will affect any club if they are allowed to melt into long-term strategy and Sunderland are not out of the woods. At Queens Park Rangers, Redknapp inherited the residue of the Neil Warnock era, mixed in with the remains of the Mark Hughes era, and then attempted further changes of his own. The next manager of Sunderland will be the third since March and must find a coherent team out of Martin O’Neill and Di Canio’s regimes. Can Sunderland then afford to indulge his choices, too? Dedicated follower of fashion: Di Canio strips to his underwear after the 2005 Rome derby (above left), leaves West Ham training in 2002 (above right) and sports a natty jacket at Upton Park a year earlier (below) Loan stars are corrupting the game It was actually a great weekend for Manchester United — in the Championship. Jesse Lingard scored all four goals as Birmingham City beat Sheffield Wednesday, Federico Macheda struck twice as Doncaster Rovers drew 2-2 with Nottingham Forest, while Nick Powell (below) scored as Wigan Athletic defeated Ipswich Town. Ryan Shotton, at Wigan temporarily courtesy of Stoke City, scored the other goal in that game. So, once again, three cheers for the good old loan system — remorselessly corrupting a league near you. Di Canio brought his backroom team with him, as is correct. There is little point employing a manager without also engaging his support network. The hierarchy of a club, however, should be above short-term projects. Sunderland claim the appointments of Di Canio, Roberto De Fanti (director of football) and Valentino Angeloni (head scout) were not linked, but it is too coincidental that all three share nationality. A look at some of the names circulating as Di Canio’s replacement suggests options are therefore limited: Roberto Di Matteo was the prime candidate and on the short-list is Gianfranco Zola, another Italian, plus Paul Ince, who played in Italy and speaks the language, and Gus Poyet, who according to Zola learned Italian in six weeks during his time at Chelsea. There were 14 players purchased in the summer and Sunderland must hope their new manager also shares ideas and values with the recruitment staff that made those recommendations. Sunderland are not the first Premier League club to create a continental enclave but none did it around a coach as risky and temperamental as Di Canio. Arsene Wenger was plainly at Arsenal for the long haul and Rafael Benitez won the Champions League in his first season at Liverpool, making it probable he would stay to complete a very Spanish-led project. One imagines Tottenham Hotspur see Andre Villas-Boas finishing what he started, now in the company of Franco Baldini. Yet was Di Canio ever going to last five or 10 years at Sunderland without imploding? How could the directors of the club be so unaware of the likely outcome? And how could they base a hierarchical strategy around the presence of a manager with such a record of instability? Infamy: Di Canio pushes referee Paul Alcock after being shown a red card against Arsenal in 1998 Full-blooded: Di Canio celebrates scoring for Celtic against Rangers in 1997 Di Canio’s sacking, it is said, shows the distance between his regime and that of De Fanti and Angeloni. Yet it is unimaginable that they were not consulted, even if owner Ellis Short delivered the news to Di Canio, and chief executive Margaret Byrne took the calls from disgruntled players that precipitated the end. So this was a face-saving exercise. The only way De Fanti and Angeloni remain in credit is if they can persuade the owner that the poor form this season is wholly down to the personality of the manager, not the quality of their signings. As ever, the director of football has 10 years, the manager 10 matches. It is a mess, and an avoidable one. Sunderland must now hope that Di Canio’s successor does not share his dismal view of the players De Fanti bought, or does not have another 14 good ideas of his own for the next transfer window. For that is a dangerous road and quickly runs downhill all the way, as QPR discovered Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2430997/MARTIN-SAMUEL-COLUMN-Paolo-Di-Canios-Sunderland-reign-going-end-tears.html#ixzz2ft0qnslo Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Our best chance of winning something and with our next game not until Monday night then he simply has to go full strength but he won't. He deserves all the abuse he gets if we get turned over with a scratch side out.

Good article by Adrian Durham on the situation; When Paolo di Canio got the job at Sunderland I said in this column that he wasn’t appointed for football reasons. He was brought in to upset some egos and kick some backsides. Which is also the reason he’s been sacked. Believe me, footballers get very upset if a new manager changes their routine. They cry about it to their mates, and before you know it ‘the lads’ are in it together, playing in such a way that the manager’s dismissal becomes inevitable. Down and out: Paolo Di Canio's methods were not popular with the players and he paid the price I’ve seen it happen time and time again. How about the international (not at Sunderland, I hasten to add) who hated new training schedules so much he told his new manager that he saw it as his job to get him the sack as soon as possible? Or the well-respected player who told his new manager he wouldn’t adhere to the new defensive tactics because he preferred playing a different way? Both times – the manager was sacked after a matter of months. I’ve read stories about players being upset about di Canio’s rules on chatting with club staff. Forget whether the Italian was right or wrong to impose a rule like that. Instead, ask yourself this: should that affect player performance on a Saturday afternoon? Really? Sinking feeling: Sunderland players look dejected as former striker Stephane Sessegnon scored for West Brom Do you honestly believe it’s logical that players perform worse if they’re not allowed to chat to the tea lady? How unprofessional is that? Are they all big babies or what? And apparently there is outrage at a di Canio rule that youth team players couldn’t use the gym if a senior player was already in there. One of the biggest problems in English football is young players thinking they’ve ‘made it’ before they’ve achieved anything in the game. People long for the days of apprentices cleaning boots and showing respect to management and senior pros. Yet this rule brought in by di Canio to keep young players’ feet on the ground has been criticised. Don’t feel sorry for the players at Sunderland. They’re well-paid, and they play football all day. Life wasn’t so unbearable for them. They were given a manager who asked difficult questions of them. They couldn’t be bothered to work harder, so they contacted the board and got him the sack. They preferred the old ways of no demands, no expectations, and no achievement. Remember this was a group of players who couldn’t be bothered to do their jobs properly for a man like Martin O’Neill. The fans might get all excited if they beat League One Peterborough in the Cup tonight, but it’s a game that should be comfortable for any Premier League side. The fans deserve more than a routine cup win. Sunderland is a club that has been mediocre or worse for years and years. Heading for the exit: Paolo Di Canio was sacked by Sunderland after just 13 games The players have got their way, so they’d better start producing something decent. Until they do, the fans should treat the players with the contempt they deserve – they were unprofessional, they under-performed, lost games, and eventually forced the manager out. Di Canio wasn’t perfect, and I can’t see him managing in the Premier League again. His strict disciplined regime didn’t go down well with players who prefer an easy life. Had they embraced his methods, Sunderland might have been successful – we will never know. The sad state of the Premier League these days means managers have to be nice to players or you lose the dressing room and the players get you the sack. Speaking to Swindon players about di Canio, they tell me they were so hungry for success they were ready to go along with what he wanted. That tells you all you need to know about the hunger of the Sunderland players. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz2foKw2NHh

No surprise but same team as last week confirmed!

Andre Ayew looks a very tidy player!

David Craig is no longer the North East correspondent for SSN! He's been moved to London and replaced by Keith Downie!

Kinky!! Paolo Di Canio admits it is driving him crazy that all his foreign signings cannot understand basic English because it has cost them points. He added: "Who's got the character to get close to the others? To explain, to help us to do this. On the field, in training sessions, in the shower, in the bed, wherever they want. This can be the worst problem."

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And all his class he showed for one night comes tumbling down It was bound to have been said jovially when talking about the match - fair play to him for turning out IMO

@simonbirdmirror: Di canio on harper testimonial: "A mackem scored in front of 50000 geordies so it was a good night!"

Cracking night that! Di Canio was by far the best player on the pitch and fair play to him for turning out! Dabizas was our MOM imo - the chiseled Greek loon! Hopefully the 3 charities benefitted very well!

226 players at Parma!? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2416860/Chelseas-Dutch-enclave-shows-transfer-market-like-cattle-market--Martin-Samuel.html

Dyer and Speed in the middle as well! Robert was absolutely magic and is the best left winger I've seen at NUFC! Ginola was a lot more skilful but Robert produced a hell of a lot more!

They only have 2 forwards I think. Fair play to him mind - he knows he's in for a rough rude!

@NUFC_Stats: ‘John Carver playing golf at work. Confirming he has never met JFK. Says club is a shambles. Option to buy Remy tho’ (via @will90barker)

I bet he scores and slides on his bastard knees!

Ha ha @Azzurri_Ltd: Azzurri would like to announce Paolo di Canio will play in Milan Glorie team in Steve harpers charity match 11 September @steveharper37

'Time for Change' http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-united-fans-plan-mike-5850798 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/nufc-fans-hope-replace-mike-5850805

Harper is on Soccer AM after the adverts!