Jackie Broon

Looking back at reports from when he was sacked by the mackems and Villa they're almost word for word the same, blaming 'vile abuse' from the fans, painting himself as a victim.

However, that bit where he says it makes him really uncomfortable when his team can't keep possession. He better start learning to cope with that feeling.

Not really, although it's a very subjective matter.

He wasn't even peak handsome in that Newcastle team (Mathieu Debuchy) and Schär is fitter.

I think it would probably just be that the income wouldn't count towards the FFP calculation.

Conceived at a meeting that one club wasn't invited to. The PL already have the power to recalculate the FFP figure based on what it considers a fair market value for any related party transactions so this new rule is not needed anyway. The only thing it would do is entrench the self fulfilling position where the big 6, and Man U in particular, get massive sponsorship deals and everyone else gets a pittance.

And the restriction on joining other competitions without PL approval clearly is. That's why the government had to threaten legislation to stop the ESL. I think there's probably a lot of stuff in the rules that relies on the compliance of the clubs because it wouldn't hold up if legally challenged.

They're playing a dangerous game, because since FFP came into force there seems to have been a lot of speculation in legal circles as to whether it would hold up to challenge under competition law. If they push Man City and us into doing that they might end up with there being no FFP rules at all.

I bet Jamie Reuben, one of the top 10 highest tory donors and chairman of Boris Johnson's London mayoral election campaign, is quaking in his expensive boots at the outcome of Tracy Crouch's review. It feels nice to actually be on the right side of tory cronyism for once.

That was just the meeting with the vote to impalement it, apparently they came up with it during their No Newcastles Club meeting.

It makes sense from their point of view, it would a risk to sack him without a replacement lined up. They probably wanted to see if there would be any bounce from the positivity around takeover before making that decision, and there was, it lasted ten minutes.

It's free now.

Putting aside the moral issues around Saudi human rights, wahhabist ideology and support of terrorism the 'tea towel' thing is just embarrassing and potentially offensive to Arab people.

Oh yeah, that's the problem with a society where 1% of the population hold a quarter of the wealth and 2.5m people need to use food banks to survive

Whilst this is great let's not forget that they donate hundreds of thousands of pounds to the tories, whose policies have resulted in a 60 fold rise in the use of food banks since 2010.

Pardew was better at hiding his hatefulness, I can't remember him being as deliberately antagonistic to the fans or talking the club down in the way Bruce has. That together with Bruce being from the area and supposedly growing up a Newcastle supporter pushes him past Pardew in the hatefulness stakes for me.

I think there's a fair chance he won't survive until tomorrow now. The new owners must be fuming at how unprofessional he has been and how he's gone out all guns blazing against the press that they will want to keep on side.

Get out of our club you fat turncoat bastard!

When Bruce was appointed it don't think there was the likely prospect a takeover on the horizon. I think it's probably more of a case of desperation, him being the only manager they'd found willing to take the job on the basis of being a yes man with no say in transfers.

What makes St. James Park unique wouldn't really be lost by moving to Castle Leazes, it's still really central and actually more elevated than St. James Park so would still be likely to be visible across the city.

I don't think that would work, it would still massively impact on the setting of Leazes Terrace, it would have a more significant impact on Leazes park than the Castle Leazes site, which is Listed and a fundamental element of the significance of the Conservation Area, and would be hugely disruptive to the club to build. All for the sake of being slightly closer to the existing site.

Yeah, as much as I'd like to see a 65,000+ capacity stadium full for big games, when we were playing in the champions league we struggled to fill the stadium. Even the first time round when we had 36,000 capacity it was easy to get tickets for those matches, even Barcelona.

The PL have just been forced to allow the takeover to go ahead because of the blatent anti-competitive behaviour of the clubs, so they follow it up with more blatantly anti-competitive behaviour