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interesting way to put it, seeing as we just had a manager who was excelling despite the restrictions placed on him pity he fucked off really

wonder how come there aren't more clubs beating a path to KK's door? it's a reasonable question IMO actually before anyone starts...he did very well with what was frankly shite until he stormed out, wonder if anyone else is looking at him? spurs, for example if not why not? are we just blinkered where he is concerned, or is everyone else?

Couldn't care less about Nigeria or that chinless cunt Nathaniel, his plans sound shit. gonna presume that bit in bold is a fucken pisstake

they don't, that's why no-one quite understands why you keep doing it i'm so tired of the "debates" you lot get involved in - some of you should go to a class or something, learn how one statement or fact being true does not necessarily make another, often unrelated fact, untrue for example your repetition of the european places stats doesn't make other people's repetition of the diminishing league places and dogshit managerial appointments + spiralling debt untrue you saying everyone operates with debt doesn't mean that when analysed our debt was sustainable indefinately with the way things were going on the pitch under FS macbeth posting financial statistics from the period when FS was chairman that make some horrible reading do not render your european qualification stats useless, 'cause they're not the fact ashley has totally fucked up now doesn't mean that under FS and the PLC we weren't already in that downward spiral and pre ashey it was all CL places and sipping champagne in the bernabau, 'cause it wasn't see what i'm doing here? lateral arguing if everyone could live by this agonisingly simple process on the forum then things would be so much better, it'd be like the sound of fuckin music on here...

this thread has become tangible proof that evil really does exist

Of course it was about money, stop trying to change history. If anybody doesn't know then have a look here as this is how I remember it, it looks like at least two of us are wrong. http://www.toonarama.co.uk/managers/dinnisfall.html mick also said : see the season before the link you provided. re the strike, and also this http://www.toonarama.co.uk/seasons/1970s/1976-77/1976-77_diary_jan.html http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=56230.msg1515143#msg1515143 No reply I take it ? mackems.gif mackems.gif that board must've been a success though,european success,two cup finals and at the time you're talking about recently finished 5th. clearly, you have no idea, just like mick. You're not having some sort of a relationship with him are you, defending him like this ..... or as he has clearly been shown to be spouting bollocks, does he still have his tail between his legs... You're another person who insisted we would be so much better off without the fat b****** aren't you. wouldn't say insisted but given the choice of where i could see us headed with that board i thought it was worth the risk. what i do and i'll keep doing when you spout "champs lge.....top 5 in europe etc" is balance things up by pointing they appointed souness,roeder and allarcyce and were taking us backwards on the pitch whilst racking up debt off it. well, europe only once in 3 years is pretty catastrophic like, were you in a coma for those 3 years ? We're going backwards now, and fast too, since the fat bastard left. We will soon be in the position we were when the fat bastard found us, 16 years, a revamped stadium, and getting on for 100 games in europe later....... Shame you keep answering when mick is the one being asked. i'm not one of these people who confuse a knowledge of football with a knowledge of the history of a football club but the bit in bold: FS was the instrumental one was he? who bought out the club and then initiated the floatation a while later? genuine interest, i always thought john hall was the "leader"... did FS build the metro centre as well?

he's fucking useless man, if we could get someone to take his wages we should drive the arsehole out of town tie smith up in the boot while we're at it, fake ransom demand...double tap to the forehead 'cause we smelled the rozzers or something

what occurred to me today is that with the club in real threat of relegation what would really, REALLY boil my piss would be for ashley to make a huge profit on his investment and us get relegated...if we're going down i'd like to have seen ashleys money go down with us and us get bought out after he'd lost shitloads of cash i can't think of another example like it (should it happen, which we all hope it won't of course) the thought of him sitting with another 100m or whatever he gets and us being in the first division is too enraging to conjour up...i can hardly contain myself at the thought never mind the reality

Unsurprisingly - NE5 being completely floored again. What a condescending idiot - worse still being patronising for the wrong facts and lies !! he's not an idiot, to say he is demeans you he's like someone out of catch 22, he has a small unmistakable line of reason that can't be disputed no matter how hard anyone tries that niche of reason protects him from the elements of rationality and reason but it's hard to argue against cut short he's a patter merchant

that is the first time you have ever written down clearly what you think, and feel. EVERY other time you have tried to put words into peoples mouths, made accusations about what you think they think, or what they want. If you had expressed yourself as you have in this post then you would have few arguments from me, or others. My grouse with Hall and Shepherd began in 2003 n they seemed to take their eye off the ball. Up to then they had speculated to try and improve, then, for some reason they just started randomly increasing salaries, givinbg out 5 year contracts, randomly appointing managers, and not speculating to improve, but gambling to survive. That was the difference. Without a shadow of a doubt staying in the top division was a major achievement, worthy of credit. I am old enough to appreciate this. Every side in England has a new stadium, or vastly improved stadium, though, us having one doesn't Shepherd apart from the rest. The last season under McKeag we lost £3m, on only £4.2m coming in to the club. The club spent £440,000 on new players. We also spent £300,000 getting rid of a Jim Smith. We had a wage bill of £2.6m. We had debts of £7m. The reason I quote all these boring numbers is that if you multiply them all up it is essentially the state that Shepherd left the club in 16 years later. £32m loss on £87m income. Spent more than 10% of income on new players. Spent the same sort of percentage sacking the manager, again. Wages were 70% of income, debts of £70m. To me Shepherd has left the club with the same financial mess that John Hall inherited, we have had great fun along the way, many fortunes have been made, but looking at what he has passed to his successor, it is scarily similar to 1991. Just as it couldn't go on in 1991 it could not have continued in 2007. We were fortunate to get Sir John, we have been unfortunate to get Mike Ashley. If Shepherd had stayed in charge there would have been no money to "speculate" cos there was nowhere to get the money from, it had all gone. You're a liar. You wrote a piece in the mag in 1998, around the time of the FA Cup Final, whinging on about dividends etc. I quoted this once before. Have you forgotten , because you replied to it, and also harped on about your moronic support of that cretin Adam Crozier and how he would be the "ideal" chairman of the club. I have ALWAYS said, and said it often, that the Halls and Shepherd left the club miles better than how they found it. If you weren't so obsessed with reading your balance sheets, and concentrating on the football which happens to be the industry that we are in, you would have seen it. The fact that you have disappeared for all this time, and re-appeared talking yet again about nothing but finance should tell its own story. I really couldn't give a toss about those figures above. The simple fact is, the club was bankrupt in 1991, counldn't sell it for 2.5m quid, had one foot in the 3rd division, played in front of a cow shed masquerading as a football stadium and 15 years later, had qualified for europe more than everybody but 4 teams, played in the Champions League, expanded the stadium to one of the best and biggest in the UK, and filled it, bought major international players instead of selling them, and was worth one of the highest valuations in the country through massively raising the profile of the club, is the legacy. By the way, you have constantly whinged on about the club "doing a Leeds", through overspending. Well, the club is now heading the way of Leeds, and its for the opposite reason to your claims. Its heading that way because of underinvestment on players. Even you should find this slightly ironic. I'm sure a smart lad like you will recognise the irony of this.............. You're clueless. And you have one hell of a chip on your shoulder, just because the ex board refused you a say in the running of the football club, which is a strange demand to put it mildly. One last point. You say we were "lucky to get Sir John". Well, Sir John was lucky to have Fletcher, Hall Jnr and Shepherd as his co-directors, because these were the people who were completely responsible for getting Keegan to the club first time round, when Sir John didn't want to change the manager and they almost threw him into his lap and forced him to sack Ardiles. Depending on who you believe, but I tend to believe what Keegan says in his own book. Unless you think what we achieved would have happened with any old Charllie Bloggs as manager of the football team, such is your apparent view that the "business plan" and the balance sheet come first. You really couldn't make this up. Someone else who has learned absolutely nothing from the events of the last 2 weeks. NE5, give it up man, please, just retire gracefully with your dignity semi intact like FS did some of the shit macbeth is posting here is fucking terrifying, it truly is...spending the northern rock money then loaning shit off them...? come on dude, it's amateur hour and FS is the ringmaster..you think that's sound business do you? please answer that one ay least lets skip the bit where you tell me you've seen it all and i'm a sky fan, why don't you deal with the reality for once? you can't, 'cause all you have is your european qualification and shit, well they'd passed us by well before MA came along yet i'm guessing you're blaming him? i can't be arsed to continue, get a grip man terrifying ? Do you think the clubs current predicament is also terrifying ? How terrifying ? I can understand that people like you, used to supporting a club trying to be progressive and competing at the top end, are terrified. But me ? You think I'm terrified ? I'm not half so terrified [what a grand attention seeking word] as when the club couldn't find a buyer for 2.5m quid, and had one foot in the 3rd division. I'm also a lot more "terrified" at the clubs current predicament in comparison to when the club disgracefully had to resort to qualify for europe via the intertoto, and also sufferered the utter humiliation of being booed for only finishing 5th in the premiership. Of course, you witness tonights attendance and apathy, and the lowest crowd for any league or cup game since, eer.. before the Halls and Shepherd took over the club, and also.....eeer........took it forward from a situation whereby the crowd and apathy of tonight was pretty much the normal and occured every Saturday afternoon league game for years, in fact decades apart from the odd blip where the club actually achieved a mid table position in the old 1st division, which is now the premiership for the younger lads. Also of course, people like mick [and he said this ] have said that tonights crowd and general apathy, which was the norm for years and years, is "the same as" that of the last 15 years. You couldnt' make it up. The surprising thing is that people like you actually believe this to be true. Instead of listening to people who were there. There has been a lot more "terrifying" events at this club than this son ........ believe me. bollocks, drunk dialling again...disregard it as shite, which you've done anyways and yes, i'm terrified now alright too - i'm just terrified by both, our current state of affairs more so of course, agreed Sadly, its not a rant or anything, its all true. I take your point about leaving it alone too, you've got a point again. After the latest events going on at this club, and you STILL won' take note of all this, there is really not much point in continuing to say the same thing all the time to you and others. Some people are seeing though, I suspect they are some of those keeping quiet. i think i agree with elbee there to be honest in a way, i'm with you about many things and have said so in the past i just feel i can be worried about both, or at least see that there's something to be worried about in both scenarios, whereas you appear unable or unwilling to concede there might have been something not 100% perfect in the last setup anyways done to death as you say, but you're totally right about how bad things are at the moment and that's due to chronic underinvestment on players and driving a good manager out - something the last board didn't do much of (SBR excepted)

that is the first time you have ever written down clearly what you think, and feel. EVERY other time you have tried to put words into peoples mouths, made accusations about what you think they think, or what they want. If you had expressed yourself as you have in this post then you would have few arguments from me, or others. My grouse with Hall and Shepherd began in 2003 n they seemed to take their eye off the ball. Up to then they had speculated to try and improve, then, for some reason they just started randomly increasing salaries, givinbg out 5 year contracts, randomly appointing managers, and not speculating to improve, but gambling to survive. That was the difference. Without a shadow of a doubt staying in the top division was a major achievement, worthy of credit. I am old enough to appreciate this. Every side in England has a new stadium, or vastly improved stadium, though, us having one doesn't Shepherd apart from the rest. The last season under McKeag we lost £3m, on only £4.2m coming in to the club. The club spent £440,000 on new players. We also spent £300,000 getting rid of a Jim Smith. We had a wage bill of £2.6m. We had debts of £7m. The reason I quote all these boring numbers is that if you multiply them all up it is essentially the state that Shepherd left the club in 16 years later. £32m loss on £87m income. Spent more than 10% of income on new players. Spent the same sort of percentage sacking the manager, again. Wages were 70% of income, debts of £70m. To me Shepherd has left the club with the same financial mess that John Hall inherited, we have had great fun along the way, many fortunes have been made, but looking at what he has passed to his successor, it is scarily similar to 1991. Just as it couldn't go on in 1991 it could not have continued in 2007. We were fortunate to get Sir John, we have been unfortunate to get Mike Ashley. If Shepherd had stayed in charge there would have been no money to "speculate" cos there was nowhere to get the money from, it had all gone. You're a liar. You wrote a piece in the mag in 1998, around the time of the FA Cup Final, whinging on about dividends etc. I quoted this once before. Have you forgotten , because you replied to it, and also harped on about your moronic support of that cretin Adam Crozier and how he would be the "ideal" chairman of the club. I have ALWAYS said, and said it often, that the Halls and Shepherd left the club miles better than how they found it. If you weren't so obsessed with reading your balance sheets, and concentrating on the football which happens to be the industry that we are in, you would have seen it. The fact that you have disappeared for all this time, and re-appeared talking yet again about nothing but finance should tell its own story. I really couldn't give a toss about those figures above. The simple fact is, the club was bankrupt in 1991, counldn't sell it for 2.5m quid, had one foot in the 3rd division, played in front of a cow shed masquerading as a football stadium and 15 years later, had qualified for europe more than everybody but 4 teams, played in the Champions League, expanded the stadium to one of the best and biggest in the UK, and filled it, bought major international players instead of selling them, and was worth one of the highest valuations in the country through massively raising the profile of the club, is the legacy. By the way, you have constantly whinged on about the club "doing a Leeds", through overspending. Well, the club is now heading the way of Leeds, and its for the opposite reason to your claims. Its heading that way because of underinvestment on players. Even you should find this slightly ironic. I'm sure a smart lad like you will recognise the irony of this.............. You're clueless. And you have one hell of a chip on your shoulder, just because the ex board refused you a say in the running of the football club, which is a strange demand to put it mildly. One last point. You say we were "lucky to get Sir John". Well, Sir John was lucky to have Fletcher, Hall Jnr and Shepherd as his co-directors, because these were the people who were completely responsible for getting Keegan to the club first time round, when Sir John didn't want to change the manager and they almost threw him into his lap and forced him to sack Ardiles. Depending on who you believe, but I tend to believe what Keegan says in his own book. Unless you think what we achieved would have happened with any old Charllie Bloggs as manager of the football team, such is your apparent view that the "business plan" and the balance sheet come first. You really couldn't make this up. Someone else who has learned absolutely nothing from the events of the last 2 weeks. NE5, give it up man, please, just retire gracefully with your dignity semi intact like FS did some of the shit macbeth is posting here is fucking terrifying, it truly is...spending the northern rock money then loaning shit off them...? come on dude, it's amateur hour and FS is the ringmaster..you think that's sound business do you? please answer that one ay least lets skip the bit where you tell me you've seen it all and i'm a sky fan, why don't you deal with the reality for once? you can't, 'cause all you have is your european qualification and shit, well they'd passed us by well before MA came along yet i'm guessing you're blaming him? i can't be arsed to continue, get a grip man terrifying ? Do you think the clubs current predicament is also terrifying ? How terrifying ? I can understand that people like you, used to supporting a club trying to be progressive and competing at the top end, are terrified. But me ? You think I'm terrified ? I'm not half so terrified [what a grand attention seeking word] as when the club couldn't find a buyer for 2.5m quid, and had one foot in the 3rd division. I'm also a lot more "terrified" at the clubs current predicament in comparison to when the club disgracefully had to resort to qualify for europe via the intertoto, and also sufferered the utter humiliation of being booed for only finishing 5th in the premiership. Of course, you witness tonights attendance and apathy, and the lowest crowd for any league or cup game since, eer.. before the Halls and Shepherd took over the club, and also.....eeer........took it forward from a situation whereby the crowd and apathy of tonight was pretty much the normal and occured every Saturday afternoon league game for years, in fact decades apart from the odd blip where the club actually achieved a mid table position in the old 1st division, which is now the premiership for the younger lads. Also of course, people like mick [and he said this ] have said that tonights crowd and general apathy, which was the norm for years and years, is "the same as" that of the last 15 years. You couldnt' make it up. The surprising thing is that people like you actually believe this to be true. Instead of listening to people who were there. There has been a lot more "terrifying" events at this club than this son ........ believe me. bollocks, drunk dialling again...disregard it as shite, which you've done anyways and yes, i'm terrified now alright too - i'm just terrified by both, our current state of affairs more so of course, agreed

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

we don't disagree often dude, but we do now...

that is the first time you have ever written down clearly what you think, and feel. EVERY other time you have tried to put words into peoples mouths, made accusations about what you think they think, or what they want. If you had expressed yourself as you have in this post then you would have few arguments from me, or others. My grouse with Hall and Shepherd began in 2003 n they seemed to take their eye off the ball. Up to then they had speculated to try and improve, then, for some reason they just started randomly increasing salaries, givinbg out 5 year contracts, randomly appointing managers, and not speculating to improve, but gambling to survive. That was the difference. Without a shadow of a doubt staying in the top division was a major achievement, worthy of credit. I am old enough to appreciate this. Every side in England has a new stadium, or vastly improved stadium, though, us having one doesn't Shepherd apart from the rest. The last season under McKeag we lost £3m, on only £4.2m coming in to the club. The club spent £440,000 on new players. We also spent £300,000 getting rid of a Jim Smith. We had a wage bill of £2.6m. We had debts of £7m. The reason I quote all these boring numbers is that if you multiply them all up it is essentially the state that Shepherd left the club in 16 years later. £32m loss on £87m income. Spent more than 10% of income on new players. Spent the same sort of percentage sacking the manager, again. Wages were 70% of income, debts of £70m. To me Shepherd has left the club with the same financial mess that John Hall inherited, we have had great fun along the way, many fortunes have been made, but looking at what he has passed to his successor, it is scarily similar to 1991. Just as it couldn't go on in 1991 it could not have continued in 2007. We were fortunate to get Sir John, we have been unfortunate to get Mike Ashley. If Shepherd had stayed in charge there would have been no money to "speculate" cos there was nowhere to get the money from, it had all gone. You're a liar. You wrote a piece in the mag in 1998, around the time of the FA Cup Final, whinging on about dividends etc. I quoted this once before. Have you forgotten , because you replied to it, and also harped on about your moronic support of that cretin Adam Crozier and how he would be the "ideal" chairman of the club. I have ALWAYS said, and said it often, that the Halls and Shepherd left the club miles better than how they found it. If you weren't so obsessed with reading your balance sheets, and concentrating on the football which happens to be the industry that we are in, you would have seen it. The fact that you have disappeared for all this time, and re-appeared talking yet again about nothing but finance should tell its own story. I really couldn't give a toss about those figures above. The simple fact is, the club was bankrupt in 1991, counldn't sell it for 2.5m quid, had one foot in the 3rd division, played in front of a cow shed masquerading as a football stadium and 15 years later, had qualified for europe more than everybody but 4 teams, played in the Champions League, expanded the stadium to one of the best and biggest in the UK, and filled it, bought major international players instead of selling them, and was worth one of the highest valuations in the country through massively raising the profile of the club, is the legacy. By the way, you have constantly whinged on about the club "doing a Leeds", through overspending. Well, the club is now heading the way of Leeds, and its for the opposite reason to your claims. Its heading that way because of underinvestment on players. Even you should find this slightly ironic. I'm sure a smart lad like you will recognise the irony of this.............. You're clueless. And you have one hell of a chip on your shoulder, just because the ex board refused you a say in the running of the football club, which is a strange demand to put it mildly. One last point. You say we were "lucky to get Sir John". Well, Sir John was lucky to have Fletcher, Hall Jnr and Shepherd as his co-directors, because these were the people who were completely responsible for getting Keegan to the club first time round, when Sir John didn't want to change the manager and they almost threw him into his lap and forced him to sack Ardiles. Depending on who you believe, but I tend to believe what Keegan says in his own book. Unless you think what we achieved would have happened with any old Charllie Bloggs as manager of the football team, such is your apparent view that the "business plan" and the balance sheet come first. You really couldn't make this up. Someone else who has learned absolutely nothing from the events of the last 2 weeks. NE5, give it up man, please, just retire gracefully with your dignity semi intact like FS did some of the shit macbeth is posting here is fucking terrifying, it truly is...spending the northern rock money then loaning shit off them...? come on dude, it's amateur hour and FS is the ringmaster..you think that's sound business do you? please answer that one ay least lets skip the bit where you tell me you've seen it all and i'm a sky fan, why don't you deal with the reality for once? you can't, 'cause all you have is your european qualification and shit, well they'd passed us by well before MA came along yet i'm guessing you're blaming him? i can't be arsed to continue, get a grip man

oh fuck me, this is so ludicrous it's going to happen isn't it? it's the logical next step in our decline club bought for 300m on nigerian loans...sweet jesus

did the liverpool and manu protests involve a co-ordinated call to arms that swore to hit the owner(s) of the club in the pocket by not buying any merchandise whatsoever until the owners were gone? if they did then fair enough you've got a point but as far as i'm aware they didn't & haven't - wonder how long the glazers, gilletts & hicks' of this world would hang around if they stopped receiving matchday revenue? my guess is not very long personally i agree that ashley has chucked it in too easy, he wants to sell now as he's probably realised running a football club isn't all downing pints and nightclubs...still you get what you wish for and he did what "the fans" wanted didn't he? as i said in another thread he just hasn't done it on our terms yet (i.e. sell to a megabucks billionairre for no profit within a week) nor do i expect him to you rightly say fans ARE fickle and if he'd ignored the protests and signed a shit hot manager and we'd started winning the whole mess would have went away in a fairly short time...what has become evident to me though, personally, is that ashley has seemingly bought a club and put his faith in certain people (wise, veterre, jiminez) who must have been recommended to him by someone else i guess, maybe this kelmsley character? my point is it appears the first level of advice was shit as for who to take into his management team and stick with, as if they think the squad we've started with is good enough then they're fucken deluded, but these would be the people choosing the next manager lest we forget!! my money would have been on a right pile of crap, and we might still see it

...man city type owner comes in...? YES ...Reinstall Keegan...? NO PLEASE you've commited suicide in your first sentence by comparing KK to ferguson and wenger...laughable, as much as i like the man and he did wonders for us, he's playing a different game to those two

Absolutely right - a team without any real conviction, very little grit or motivation, and scandalously lacking in depth, with no possibility of improvement in the foreseeable future. Almost certain to be bottom of the Prem after today's games and likely to remain there. Unless there is a takeover soon and a decent manager installed , relegation is almost a certainty - at the very least, there will be a re-run of last season's escape but with less leeway this time... The NUFC chickens are coming home to roost in flocks.... said that to a mate this morning; i thought last year might have been our year, then KK came back out of the blue and turned it around even making the massive assumption we get a new manager in it needs to happen fast 'cause the rut and players morale will end up being far worse than what KK took over last year worried doessn't cover it now, i'm shitting bricks

Yet the majority of the fans thought we needed an attacking midfielder and a striker which we signed, nobody gave a toss about a left back. ooh! careful baggio, don't expose flaws in the logic and "thought process", they'll start demonstrating against you next...

Blaming fans for the club's situation is like blaming passengers on an aircraft because it crashes due to bad maintenance of pilot-error...! no it isn't, it's more like blaming the passengers because once they heard the maintenance department had fucked something up pre-flight, something repairable, the passengers picketed the maintenance department demanding someone else fix the plane before it takes off again - the maintenance department are understandably unhappy with this situation and thus allow the plane to rot in the hangar until someone buys out their contract for an inflated fee the fans never got us to the point where KK was sacked, but they had an influence in getting rid of shepherd with the demonstrations...we got ashley, one thing led to another then the fans kicked off at the drop of a hat, asked the guy to leave but like the fella out of pirates of the caribbean when he agrees to release the tart then makes her walk the plank into the sea perhaps the mag & true faith should have set out their terms to nasty mike before it all started with a letter outlining what they wanted clearly: "dear mike, we the peoples voice are about to embark on a series of demonstrations against you personally & financially wherever we can affect your businesses. our intention is to get you to sell NUFC as we don't like cockneys up here. however we feel it necessary to point out the following demands; you need to sell very quickly and not try to make a profit because you love football, freddy shepherd hung on for years until he made a massive profit but he was a geordie so it's OK you see? if you can't sell quickly then maybe we'll think about you staying as long as you sack all of the people you appointed that we don't like & bring KK back. also if you can't sell quickly we think you should identify a good manager and bring him in to steady the team, although we recognise it might be impossible given the fact people probably think we're all foreign-hating caveman xenophobes. yours sincerely, the angry mob" best intentions but this situation will not be resolved quickly and therefore we will be stuck with hughton "managing" the team - THAT is a direct result of the protests, nothing more nothing less imo

jesus f***ing christ...someone take a copy of that to the public meeting so people can try and t*** him now for who he ACTUALLY is Nothing to do with a bit of free publicity though... ha ha, yeah never thought of that...wonder if he does when someone puts the rezzy windows through!

jesus fucking christ...someone take a copy of that to the public meeting so people can try and twat him now for who he ACTUALLY is

Most of that previous article in The Times is a classic case of them building us up (over the last 15 years), then enjoying knocking us down now. They do it every time. Reminds me of the line in The Dark Knight You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain. Or something like that. perhaps a better line from that movie would be "i'm like a dog chasing a car, wouldn't know what to do if i caught one" realise that doesn't make any sense but neither does NUFC!

"Why has he backed former Swindon manager Dennis Wise ahead of two-time European Footballer of the Year Kevin Keegan, and why does he feel his London-based cabal of friends are the best people to run Newcastle?" stopped reading after this, might as well have said: "Why has he backed former comprehensive school 50m backstroke swimming failure Dennis Wise ahead of two-time European Footballer of the Year Kevin Keegan, and why does he feel his London-based cabal of friends are the best people to run Newcastle?"

cockney mafia tbh, they'll just leave some animal appendage in the bed of some oil rich arab, hey presto! new owner