Jackie Broon

More self-righteous self-important Phil K rantings

Again, you've missed the point. There are almost no black managers at any level of the game. Nothing to do with PL. But where's the evidence that it's linked to racism? It could be a number of factors. Lack of ability, lack of ambition to become manager or coach etc. - the colour of their skin is irrelevant. Race still influences decisions about people in pretty much all areas of life. A lot of people seem to find it hard to accept that racism still actively exists in Britain. I work for a Local Authority, which are painted as the bastions of 'PC' by the tabloid press. But, I have seen clearly racist views aired and decisions made by councillors (from all the major parties). Just recently, in a committee meeting deciding a planning application for the change of use of a shop to a restaurant a councillor actually said 'we need more restaurants in the area, but not Asian ones' and the application, which there was nowt wrong with, was refused. I've seen perfectly acceptable house extensions called in to committee and refused clearly because the applicant was an Asian who had strayed into a predominantly white area and numerous other dodgy decisions where the applicants happened to have the wrong skin colour in the wrong area. If democratically accountable politicians from all sides of the political spectrum are making clearly racist decisions; I don't find it hard to believe that the same is going on at some level within football clubs. (Although, not in the case of Barnes; he's been given lots of opportunities and is clearly just a bad manager)

I don't want to be taken over by Moat if he can't add to the squad, we need sufficent funds to strengthen the squad end of. Shepherd was not that rich and yet we were challenging for the Champions League, Albeit with him being a bit overzealous with the clubs cashflow. The revenue this club makes could easily see us ok in the premiership under a proper chairman. 1) You make sure you do your homework on players before you buy. 2) Ensure you have a sensible wage structure. 3) Develop youth so you don't have to buy all the time. I would rather have the Arsenal model than one of Chelsea's or Man City's, even though it would be nice to have loads of cash thrown at the club I wouldn't feel the same satisfaction as if it was done from the ground up. If no club had benefactors, if there was no champions league money, then NUFC would be in the top 2 or 3 for finance. What? Look, just pointing out facts. to be a fact it has to be true. you made an assertion which happens to be false. I broughgt up facts based on season ticket sales previous, crowd figures, shirt sales. I brought in the fact that the Champions league brings in millions and build a momentous advantage, I brought in a fact that Chelsea have an finacial advantage over clubs with bigger fan bases. Now if the finance was based solely on fan base my premise would be true. Fact, fact. fact. would it bollocks, you leave out things like wages that we pay compared to the likes of bolton and wigan who even though we have higher turnover and the past euro money have far less debt than we do. it all comes down to wages. it's possible that without benefactors and champs league we may be in the top 2 or 3 in turnover but as we have been a fantastic example of ,a high turnover doesn't mean a lot if we are spending more than you can afford. edit....unless of course you are confusing "finance" with turnover like the papers do when clubs losing money hand over fist are in the rich list based purely on turnover. To be fair, he just said that, on a level playing field, we would be in the top 2 or 3 in terms of income; which is clearly the case. What the idiots running the club do with that income is a separate matter.

Well the politically correct have virtually made it an offence to try to STOP anyone breaking into your home (unless you come from some minorities, then somehow it suddenly becomes different - protecting themselves from their own lunacies, of course) Jack Straw is a turd, a sock puppet for the Guardianista lesbians - Milliband is even effing worse.

44,448 v Burnley in 2007 (their average that season was 31,000) If we can get 50k plus at some point it'll probably be the first time since Man U in the 70s there's been a +50k attendance outside of the top flight. What crowds were Man U getting that season? I.e. the average crowd and the highest crowd? Their average was 48,389. Don't know what the high and low was. Btw, we already hold the record (probably the world record) for the highest average attendance outside the top flight of 56,283 in 47/48.

44,448 v Burnley in 2007 (their average that season was 31,000) If we can get 50k plus at some point it'll probably be the first time since Man U in the 70s there's been a +50k attendance outside of the top flight.

The income that will be lost by not returning the premiership this season (£30m at least) is far greater than the cost of keeping hold of the players who might be capable of getting promoted. Selling Duff and Taylor may save the club £15m or so but it’ll almost certainly end up costing us at the very least £30m, substantially more if we stay in the Championship past the end of the parachute payments. What Ashley is doing doesn’t make any sense. He’s cutting off his nose to spite his face!

He said he'd been treated like a criminal because of his injuries and how he's having the last laugh now.

Because black footballers were taunted with monkey noises and bananas throughout the 70s, 80s (and still are in less racially tolerant parts of the world) due to the colour of their skin. Therefore, calling a Black person a monkey is likely to be seen as racial abuse by most right minded people.

he was paid to score goals and he hasn't for over 4 months, so he has to take a large proportion If it hadn't been for his performances towards the end of last season we would've been relegated a year earlier. It's not Owen's fault we were relegated, it's the fault of the hierarchy of the club for not heading the warning of that near miss and not signing players to fill the gaping hole of creativity in our midfield that has crippled every other part of the team for the past few seasons.

Well, before planing Spurs away we had to win three of our last six, minimum. I can't see that happening. We're down too!

Imo, the seeds were planted in the summer of 2002 when Sir Bobby, instead of strengthening the squad that faded into third, wasted millions on unproven, raw 'talents' who never lived up to their potential in Viana, Bramble and (to a lesser extent) Jenas. That, plus the purchase the one legged Woodgate, left nothing in the kitty for the summer of 2003. Which led to us signing Bowyer on a free and it has been down hill ever since.

Win-win-win for us tomorrow. If we lose or draw it'll dump the mackems into the relegation zone

Saw Tim Krul in the Sainsburys at Benton t'other day. Pulling along one of those girly shopping baskets on wheels, like a big (but, surprisingly, not that big) girl.

Just had a look as his wiki profile. He's twice as wealthy as Abramovich

It's not so much the looking for players. It is him being involved in pursuading them to come here. There is no one better qualified to do that than Kev, he should be involved in that process.

Wise will never be our manager. He would not move from London. Thank ****!

Wise is a glorified scout who lives in London and works part time. If there is a power struggle, it's got **** all to do with that poison dwarf.

They shouldn't be able to. There would be serious repercussions for any other club that did that but I bet they'll just get a slap on the wrists from the FA, at most.

OPEC countries will be making more money than ever due to the cost of oil, which they are keeping artificially high. The credit crunch only really affects people who need to borrow money from banks, they clearly don't.

Would be funny if they did. Man u would not be happy

He's very good, says he has Italian second nationality. If that's true he wouldn't need a work permit.

What are you on about? Hamstrings, groins and these sort of injuries often happen because something is not right with an athletes biomechanics. Eg. A wonky pelvis or lower back can increase strain on the hamstring and lead to tears. This sort of thing should be picked up at an EPL club and fixed before a player is cleared to play. I think the most disappointing aspect of FSA was that his much-heralded 'sports science' seems to have delivered nothing but less fit players. We really need to have a look at our physio department I think. Our injury rate seems horrendous. It was a few years back, but in that Sir Bobby documentary thing, and 'Goal!', it showed our gym, which was full of weight machines. Which surprised me a bit. Weight machines don't really hit supporting muscles and can lead to unbalances and weaknesses, which could lead to injuries when the muscles, tendons and joints are subject to 'real world' stresses. Really, athletes should be doing their strength training with free-weights and compound exercises. Maybe, if that's still the case, it could be one of the routes of our problems?

In a thread littered with madness and mayhem, this could be the sanest post thus far... The anti-Milner brigade have, in their indignation, thrust aside reason and poured derision on the young winger. Several times throughout this thread well-reasoned posts defending Milner's actions have been ignored - usually in favour of "I'm too lazy to read what others think, but Milner is a c***". Well, I'm with Milner, and I'd be happy to debate with anyone prepared to reason but I don't expect to... Week by week I'm more convinced that Mike Ashley just doesn't understand the nature of the business. And Skirge might be right - if Ashley sells Milner against Kegan's wishes, transfer request or not, then King Kev could very well walk. All of the signings made since the new scouting regime was put in place have looked top draw. We have signed four players in Jonas, Coloccini, Bassong and Guthrie who have all settled straight in, look to have good attitudes and are a massive improvement over those who have left. When was the last time we could say that about one new signing (other than Beye), let alone four?! The problem isn't a lack of funds, commitment and knowledge. It's that, as a club based in the North East, who have not qualified for Europe, who are not likely to challenge for honours, we just aren't an attractive proposition for the £10m+ players. If another club can offer a player European football, the potential to win things and/or a nearby Selfridges/Harvey Nick’s for their wife, they’re always going to pick them over us.

For years Carr was our best only RB...