Jackie Broon

You're incredibly naive and ignorant, or stupid, if you can't see the difference in connotations of being sexist towards women and men. For some reason it's become very fashionable recently to make all these sexist jokes on facebook recently. Sexism is sexism mate, don't really care about the connotations, all sexism is wrong. Just like racism is racism regardless of who it is towards and what form it is in. I find everything funny, particularly things which are controversial, so sexist and racist jokes don't bother me. Who said I couldn't see the difference in the connotations anyway? You're obviously very ignorant yourself, if you think that just because someone has an opposing opinion they're stupid. I didn't say you were stupid, I said you were ignorant or stupid, there is a difference. Racism and sexism is all about connotations. No word is inherently offensive, it's the connotations. I'm not saying it's okay to be racist/sexist to white males, but making a remark about a black female is a whole different thing. I'm not sensitive to racism or sexism towards me, but my 'group' has always been in a dominant position, doing the subjugating. A remark to me doesn't trigger thoughts of generations of being enslaved, objectified, lynched, treated like an animal and the still-existent residue of these practices and thoughts. Nail on the head! Well said.

You're making the incorrect assumption that we're not owned and run by fucking idiots.

People calling Stevenage c***s because they are c***s.

Also, it wasn't quite the howler people are making it out to be; just a misjudgement under pressure that was ruthlessly punished. Nine times out of ten that wouldn't have resulted in a goal.

Or they like all expenses paid holidays in Abu Dhabi.

First time around I argued with this but considering every f***er knew it was coming again and we've had a couple of weeks to prepare it's just a joke. The cost of mitigating against this type of weather isn't worth it for just a few days a year, for both government and individuals. Especially when Councils are being forced into apocalyptic cuts in staff and services.

A barrage of vitriol directed towards Ashley and his mates is more likely to fire the players up than stop them performing. As it did on a few occasions early last season.

He waited like a snake in the grass for the blip that would give that fat cockney bastard mate of his the excuse to hand him the job. He's a classless cunt and should be lynched along with his mate the second he sets foot in St James'.

When we were drawn away against them in 97ish there were concerns about their ground's ability to host the tie. We offered to host it as St James' with them getting the gate, or something. Behaved like c**ts and made out that we were a big club trying to push poor little Stevenage around.

Sorry, all my fault we're losing, I forgot to remind my girlfriend that we're playing and she wasn't wearing the black and white striped underwear that was instrumental in our last three wins. She's got it on now, despite protests that it's dirty and will 'probably give her a yeast infection'. Plenty of time for it to do its magic.

Has to be Barcelona. Never experienced an atmosphere like that before or since, the Barca players were visibly shaken by the intensity of it.

He's been badly treated; but certainly not by anyone in the North East!

I foresee an all expenses paid luxury holiday in Abu Dhabi for a Mr M. Atkinson.

Perch is a f***ing liability. Way out of his depth at this level.

Good. Last thing we ought to be doing is trying to close down revenue streams for the club. How much money do you see this bringing in? No idea. Have a guess. Why? I haven't got a clue what this kind of advertising might be worth to the right company. Obviously the club thinks it's enough to be worth the bother. As long as we're still making a loss, whatever comes in, is good. It is going to be Sports Direct based on what is included in the application. Therefore sponsorship won't get sold to anyone. Nah, that'll just be a placeholder. They're obviously hoping to sell the space. I look at these applications every day, and this is for a fixed design. Show us (or quote us or whatever) the bit that says that. I can see why planning permission is needed to erect a billboard. I'd need some convincing that every design it was used to display required a further, separate permission. It is in the application form. They are applying for red and blue letters on a white background for each one. The pictorial one would have to be agreed with the council as a planning condition. You know Argos changed all their signs recently for a modern design? These all had to have new planning permissions and were verysimilar to the planning application we see here. OK. I'll take your word for it. Seems weird, though. How could they ever sell the naming rights, if use of the buying company's logo was subject to subsequent planning permission? In determining advertisement consent applications the local authority can only take into account 'amenity' and 'public safety'. The content of the sign can not be considered. So, unless for reasons of amenity or public safety a condition restricting the detailed design of the sign has been attached to the consent (which I have personally never seen done), and as long as the size/illumination of the sign does not change, the content can be changed without consent.

There must be a few zeros added to his value after today. You can say what you like about his general play but those goals were quality. His general play has been top notch too. His touch, passing, movement have come on leaps and bounds in the last 9 months, he wins everything in the air and he even seems to have developed a decent turn of pace!

Aye. Wigan away would be an easy three points for us

if it was arteta cahill or jagielka you can be damn sure they'd have put it in writing They haven't put a written offer to Pienaar either. Do we want rid of him? I think we just do business like it's still the 60's and your word is good tbh. bit of a difference tbh, any written offer given by everton (even just a £1 payrise) would have meant a tribunal fee if it was rejected by gosling They were probably holding out to see how his recovery progressed.

But we don't have a good balance of strikers. Carrol, Xisco and Ameobi are all very similar players. They couldn't effectively play together. We need another player who can play alongside them in addition to Lovenkrands.

Chopra is threatening to quit Cardiff. Putting aside the fact that Ashley isn't going to part with £4m-ish, would you like to see him back at Newcastle?

What if you don't? How long can the club go on living beyond its means, haemorrhaging more and more money? There's no guarantee that a saviour will come along and bail you out.

We won't. Nailed on this is what will happen: If we get promoted, within a week Ashley will announce that the club is back on the market, with an increased price tag of around £150-200m (ignoring the fact we'll need to spend about £50m to stay up). We'll spend the summer in limbo, without a buyer and without any signings. Ashley will give up and announce he's holding on to the club for another season. We'll bring in a few loans and a few panic buys and we'll be bottom at christmas. At which point Hughton will be sacked and Kinnear will be brought back in to oversee our relegation.

The difference is clubs like Hull get underestimated; the top half see it as just another day at the office and expect to turn up and roll over them. However, despise the s***e state of our squad, we're still seen as a big club. The teams in the top half we used to compete with love beating us and will always 'turn up' against us. So, we need to be twice as good as the likes of Hull to get the same results. We're not.

Sick of the sycophancy towards him by commentators. Good old British lad Nicky Butt gets praised to high heaven for wandering into the path of a couple of stray balls (typically followed by him hoofing a 'Hollywood pass' straight into touch). Whereas those fancy dan foreigners Coloccini and Enrique get criticised for having the gaul to actually play a bit of football (despite having played like that and frustrated strikers all season with barely a hiccup). Agreed - the commentators were s****. When he kept saying "These 2 lads will always give you a chance, blah, blah, blah" - Aye, dickhead thats why we have only conceded 14 goals all season All but 6 of them conceded while Butt has been on the pitch. Despite having only started 8 of our 23 league games.

Sick of the sycophancy towards him by commentators. Good old British lad Nicky Butt gets praised to high heaven for wandering into the path of a couple of stray balls (typically followed by him hoofing a 'Hollywood pass' straight into touch). Whereas those fancy dan foreigners Coloccini and Enrique get criticised for having the gaul to actually play a bit of football (despite having played like that and frustrated strikers all season with barely a hiccup).