Kaizero

Bodø/Glimt are such a joy to watch. The town is a shithole with 30k people, but their team, "what's that, we're playing Rome? Sit back? Fuck no." All they do is attack no matter who they play. Should've been 2-0 just now if not for a fever save from the Rome keeper.

Far too much on Bodø/Glimt as per usual Glad I managed to get them at 6.00 in odds.

Using actual garb and respecting the customs and culture when dressing up in this actual garb = Yes Putting a tea towel out of the sink and putting it on your head going "hee haw I'm an Arab lol" = No It's not that hard.

Good to see you back.

I love Mourinho. Not the right thread really but can't be arsed. It's -5 degrees and cold wind in Bodø today and will be the same tomorrow, Roma are playing Bodø/Glimt and reporters asked Mourinho as he was exiting the stadium if he was worried about the cold - to which he started taking off his clothes saying "what cold" Always dreamt of Mourinho managing us due to the SBR connection and his affinity for us due to that. Shame it won't happen, for now at least.

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Spot on actually. I read some black people on twitter saying they don't find black face offensive at all and that it's great to see people from a different culture portraying them in stereotypical fashion. Snowflake brigade striking again being offended on someone else's part.

I mean, in a scenario where there were only two managers left on earth, Pardew and Bruce, I'd choose Pardew.

Class referencing

Martinez isn't leaving Belgium ahead of a WC, not that I'd want him.

I've left the room twice and each time I got back those fuckers had scored.

I have no idea why everyone is jizzing over Potter. Conte, Ten Hag, Emery, Fonseca, Glasner, De Zerbi, Frank, Bordalas, Crespo, Gallardas, Gattuso, Villas Boas and probably even more as I'm not too familiar with France and whatnot. I wouldn't really want Favre but him over Potter ten out of ten times. All attainable (based on names in the press) managers I'd want ahead of Graham "My PL win percentage is lower than Steve Bruce" Potter.

We're not exactly flush with coaches to temporarily promote like clubs that have been properly ran. I could see a scenario where they don't want to risk a shambles in match preparation and training whilst they figure things out with regards to DoF and Manager.

I once put £10 on Ameobi as next manager to post for a joke on here and Unibet slashed his odds immediately

Thought it was a good strip myself. Having spoken with Squires in the past, we're one of the teams he actually likes. The reactions here are OTT as we'd all enjoy that comic if we were not the subject matter. Just to ensure myself of that I tried reading it as if Everton were the subject matter, at which point even the 14th joke landed. Fans of other clubs will laugh at the joke, we won't. Next week we could be laughing at the Man Utd fans and their steadfast chanting of Ole's at the Wheel again.

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There is no "off topic" forum. It's a chat section full of threads with various actual topics to discuss inside.

I'd take essentially anyone other than Potter. Not at all convinced from before and just saw he is one of two managers with an even worse PL record than Bruce.

It owned 10 percent of Juventus for a while and like 5 percent of Man Utd.

didn't know @oldtype had a twitter account

What about Barriaga?

So... you care then?

What if a British owner got jailed/died and had to give up running the club and whoever took over weren't as ambitious. It's the nature of ownership, it could change and ambition levels could change. PIF owns us, they could throw tons of money at us for 10 years and then scale back investment after if we don't fit their plans anymore, even without being at war with the world. You can't get stuck on "what if" scenarios like those, man A responsible owner will try to make the club somewhat self-sufficient with academy and training ground investments and they are looking to do that. It's as responsible ownership as you can get in this day and age.

Was 17, sat on the toilet at school thinking Newcastle were finally going to be great again. Been on here about a year or so at the time after @BlufPurdi allowed me to write articles for the long gone N-O front page about who the fuck other teams were. I didn't really accept the reality of just the utter and complete shitness of the ownership until Pardew strolled through the door. Seeing Ben Arfa play in black and whie srripes will probably be the only memories from the Ashley era I will cherish, or well, Tiote's mad thunderbastard and whatever the fuck Cisse tried to do when he scored that goal against Chelsea. Colo, Jonas, Cabaye and Ben Arfa are probably the only players I will remember ten years from now. Or wait, the straight like a banana days on N-O with Nile Ranger's arrival will also remain a highlight of my Newcastle related life. Though that is more a shared N-O experience than a Newcastle one. I'm thankful for N-O, Sack Pardew, Ashley Out and more to have kept me at least somewhat interested in NUFC and footy in general. The last few years since Rafa left I've only watched international games, not a minute of NUFC. I'd even started taking longer and longer breaks from N-O and I'd not been logged on for over a month when I had to return to remind @Shak and the other cunts that I still wanted to play NFL fantasy football, only to find out the coward had pulled a @Mike and pussied out of participating himself. On a personal level there's been highs and lows. I've gone down in weight, up in weight, down in weight, up in weight and so on for nogh a decade. I've worked jobs I loved and jobs I've hated. I lost my father to a sudden cardiac arrest out of the blue, and knowing he'll never see the good days ahead for Newcastle breaks my heart. I've lived in Oslo, Trondheim, Berlin, Milan, London and Los Angeles. I've made a TV pilot that got optioned by a major streaming network and we're shooting a first season next year after living through the sadness of knowing they had shelved it as they didn't order episodes immediately, only to get a call four years later at 4am on a Friday night from a US number asking if I could send them an updated logline. I've lived through gaining friends and losing friends. Business partners have stabbed me in the back, making me almost lose out on my dream project. But things are looking better. Last year around this time I tried to end it all and had to spend a good while on suicide watch. A year later I am close to realizing a pet project (starring John Carew and a well known ex-boxer), investors have lined up for my dream project that I almost lost in 2019, a streaming network wants my show and I am moving back to LA in a few months with my now fiance, who's a fullblown actual Playmate. If myself from the future arrived and told that story to the depressed and overweight 17 year old Kaizero sat on the toilet reading the news of Ashley taking over the club, I wouldn't have believed him. Now I'm just dead scared of the better times stopping, things can turn quickly in life, sadly. But in my last few years I've learnt to truly understand that for every dark night, there's a brighter day. I'm excited for my own future for the first time in ages, I'm excited to follow Newcastle again, I'm excited to still be an active member of this community. I'm grateful for each and every one of the N-O members whose path I've crossed in the last 15 years. This place and Newcastle (up to a certain point) were the escape from everyday life I needed and no doubt still needs. I'm glad Newcastle is back on the list of escapes in life that I can enjoy again.