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outside of the restaurant he owns..... Which restaurant does he own?

It's all linked in with the whole attitude of English football culture towards the Premier League and it drives me demented. In the same way that a Champions League place slowly usurped winning anything throughout the early 2000s to the point where it just became accepted as the form, we're creeping ever closer to the point where just being in the Premier League also trumps having anything in the cabinet, where keeping a team who were already in it in the top 85% of the division gets you automatically spoken of as a possible manager of the year. How many times do you read that Lower League Club X "would give anything to be in Newcastle's position"? It's difficult to fully understand the reality of NUFC if you don't experience it as part of your daily life, if you didn't have Alan Pardew sucking the life force out of you for four years to the point where you wanted to do absolutely anything than go to the match. A sporting institution desperately trying not to compete in their sport isn't something you can wrap your head round if you haven't lived it. I'd swap situations with the vast majority of clubs in the Football League in a heartbeat if it meant I could have a bit of pride in being a Newcastle fan again, and have everyone at the club pulling in the same direction. I've got tons of Boro fans on my Facebook and it made me genuinely sad seeing how proud and excited they were to be in the play-off final. Their disappointment at not winning it doesn't come close to what I experience on a daily basis, a genuine loathing for almost everybody at what used to be my football club. MA, LC, AP game plan has always been the normalisation of deviance. Unfortunately for football Premier League existence has become the desired state, be happy to be in the top x% of all clubs in the land regardless of whether you demonstrate ambition or not.

That is canny fat tbh Must have the same fitness coach as Mido.

"Why did you publicly announce a checklist for the new head coach and then appoint Carver who met precisely none of those criteria?" Just tell the cunt to fuck off. " Dear Mr Charnley, If you feel the language in this reply is inappropriate feel free to raise it with your local government official"

Cancelled mine last season, its like having a weight lifted off your shoulders.

Turned down a free ticket for this today, i'd rather cycle into a head wind then bore myself watching such an uninspiring event.

First time back at the match today since giving up my season ticket last season. Lasted 38 mins, utterly fucking pointless. I took a mates ticket so I was sitting in the East/Gallowgate corner, fucking mongs. I could have spewed with the amount of bull shit that was being churned out there, support the team not the regime etc. Fucking enjoy you pillocks, what a sad state of a club we are.

Ronnie Wallwork 1 - Steven Gerrard 0

Cases of Munchausen Syndrome are about to rocket in Liverpool.

They've just sent Tom Ince back to Hull, can't see them wanting to take Gouff Whilst they still have a chance at the playoffs they aren't going to risk that, far to much money to be gained through promotion.

"I refuse to go to sleep until Pardew signs (and has us finish in a Europa League place). It's a shambles!" http://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=106&tid=150035&page=71 Its going to be a very long day for this person.

Carragher just burst out laughing at the end of MNF when they talked about Colo being manager.

Aye, The commentator saying Pardews admitted that he's struggling to adjust to the league. Gives him 6 mins.

It's a misguided sense of loyalty to an institution that no longer exists. The club, as it stands now, is a broken shell of what it used to be and that won't change in a hurry either. The dopey w*****s still routinely ploughing cash into it are as much of a problem as Pardew and Ashley. They're being milked and they don't even realise it. Too loyal, too easily manipulated and too f***ing thick to see it. The stadium is full every week. QPR at home - 52,000, Leicester at home - 52,000. After we came up from the Championship, we were getting regular 42-43,000 crowds yet we know that big swathes of the crowd, including you and I, have jacked it in. I don't understand why people are so desperate to keep going and I particularly don't understand who the people are that have not only filled the seats vacated by others but also taken crowds up in huge numbers. I gave my ticket up last year, it was as I'm sure it was with everyone a incredibly hard decision to make. What I can't understand is the mind set of support the team not the regime. The team is here one season, gone the next no matter who the owner is. The modern game, for the most part, doesn't necessarily allow for teams to stay together long term. We all, as supporters support the club, Newcastle United. The reason why I jacked my ticket in is because in my opinion, as fans, we, I feel we need to stand against a man who is destroying our club, our institution. To cut a long and well trodden story short, what I feel people are forgetting is that this isn't the 80's or early 90's, football is truly global now. Compared to many teams we are in a unique position as a one club city and this has helped sustain us throughout our history. Fans like us grew up with a little sprinkling of other teams such as Liverpool, Man Utd etc however realistically to watch a team play live we had to go to St James and watch Newcastle. That's gone now, anyone can watch any team one way or another, this makes it easier now then it has ever been for young, impressionable boys and girls to support other teams. Teams who show ambition, Swansea, Spurs, Southampton etc. What our current set of fans don't understand is that the club is bigger then them, to sustain the club we need to sustain the fan base. MA and his branding business is exactly that, mediocre ambition, disrespecting the customer base being its day to day business. The true cost of MA's reign won't be seen today, next year or the season after, with the continued abuse of the club we will have a lost generation of fans, when we can no longer go we won't be replaced, they'll be watching Everton play in Europe. Just my opinion.

Even the adverts are about Liverpool v Arsenal FFS I don't know whats pissing me off more, Sunderland's blatant attempts to get players booked or the fact that every year we fall for it.

Utterly one sided, thats when they aren't talking about Liverpool. Jesus Christ, Taylor and co next.

Give it a day and check Youtube, it'll be there.

Just harmless embarrassing banter really. I doubt the West Brom fans, who are a great set of fans by the way, will be losing too much sleep over it. Too many people have gone soft these days. Abusing opposition supporters used to be a staple diet for any supporter but a lot of modern day fans get all precious over it. No wonder atmospheres are practically non existent in PL stadiums these days. Thought our support down there sounded top class on the telly. I wouldn't get yourself too worked up over it really. In the grand scheme of things it really isn't important. What's more embarrassing is the deadly silence at home games. I'm not particularly worked up about it however it is part of the reason why i don't attend as many away games as i use to. All teams have it, i understand that but over the last 4-5 years our away support has became increasingly more cringeworthy at times, if its not the "Green Street" mob its YTIASH or YSIFS or XYZ scores we're on the pitch or some other shite aimed at insulting the opposition. I'd hazard a guess that 65% of our away contingent struggle past the chorus of Blaydon Races. Interestingly enough i often think that most of the people singing "Don't take me home" (i like this one tbf) need to substitute work with school. Its yet another symptom of the Ashley reign, cheap seats sold to children who spew all over the busses after 2 cans and run onto local teams pitches with Burberry scales hiding their spotty testosterone filled faces, pathetic really. There is a increasingly smaller contingent of NUFC away fans who are becoming outnumbered by twats, look at the crowds at the Euro away games and then our league games, a remarkable difference. For the record I'm not precious over it in any sense, there is a place for it. However what i can't stand is the 70-30% ratio of abusing people vs supporting the team.

Just harmless embarrassing banter really. I doubt the West Brom fans, who are a great set of fans by the way, will be losing too much sleep over it. Too many people have gone soft these days. Abusing opposition supporters used to be a staple diet for any supporter but a lot of modern day fans get all precious over it. No wonder atmospheres are practically non existent in PL stadiums these days. Thought our support down there sounded top class on the telly.

If anyone is readni this on there way home, there is some fairly major train disruptions ongoing at the moment. Try if you can avoid travelling from Carlisle to Newcastle also past Newcastle heading North to Edinburgh is closed.

FFS, I pity the folk who have travelled down their to be greeted by that starting line up.

Only someone like MA would allow this to go unpunished.

Is this for real? Yep, he's just been on SSN.

We can't compete with the likes of Southampton remember, i personally think its down to their superior intellect.

David O'Leary