Stifler

None football fans during tournaments are bad like. It starts off with them kicking off about Eastenders not being on TV that night, and that football ruins it, it should all be on a sports channel. Then England get out of the group stages and they suddenly start being a super fan, trying to get you to drop your plans to watch the match with your mates so you can watch it with them with a few ‘nibbles’ etc. Then them simultaneously knowing everything about the game, and not knowing anything and asking questions about the basics. No Jessica, I don’t want to go and watch it round yours whilst your 5 year old is the background screaming and playing with a football like it’s a basketball, whilst we ultimately get beaten by France, and you sum it up by saying they should have just showed Eastenders instead.

Be disappointing if they lose out on automatic qualification, but it was always hard to see them making their venue work. Just let them play in Liverpool.

It will be Liverpool. It has to be a Northern team by the rules of the Premier League. I think it will be Man City, based on how we are paired with the North London derby for our derby which is replaced by a northern team who come up, last year it was Sheffield United. They won’t put the North London derby on the Boxing Day, so it rules that fixture out. With Sheffield United and Burnley down, it means that we will likely get paired with Man Utd on that fixture (outside chance either us or Man Utd gets paired with Leicester instead, but I doubt it, as they would likely get paired with Forest), which would rule that being a Boxing Day match. In the Manchester derby we were paired with Wolves, and Crystal Palace for the Merseyside derby last season, which we will likely retain. We know they won’t play a local derby on Boxing Day due to safety concerns, so that rules both Wolves, and Palace out, although Palace would be ruled out in anyway due to not being a Northern team, and I doubt Wolves would be considered a suitable fixture. This would mean that we are left with about 5 possible teams to play that weekend. Everton, Liverpool, Man City, and there is an outside chance that they would go with Forest (which is who we got last year), or Leicester. Villa (like Wolves) will likely be classed as too far away for a Boxing Day fixture. Now we know they like to give us Everton during midweek, so that likely rules them out. As mentioned, last year we got Forest, they could go for this again, but I doubt it. This leaves 3 likely possibilities, Liverpool, Man City, and Leicester. * Edited for further clarification.

100% not going to get a midweek game there whilst they are in their first few years of getting a feel for their new stadium. Them away, and Palace away are my hopes for the first few fixtures, get them out of the way instead of playing them at the business end of the season again.

The new Juventus away shirt actually hurts my eyes. https://www.footyheadlines.com/2023/11/juventus-24-25-away-kit.html In other news, Everton have announced their kit deal with Castore, and it may include stadium sponsorship.

We’ll see an ESL, with possibly games in the USA or something, but no team will permanently relocate. Although Chelsea is a difficult one really, because their stadium isn’t ideal for expanding, and if they leave it, then also have to drop the Chelsea name, so you might be right on that one.

I think the basic view is that we need to balance the books before the end of June, after which we will be able to spend again due to our 1st year of transfers under the new owners coming off the books, and then the increase in commercial income. As it happens I don’t think the club would have put us in a position where we do need to sell or face a points deduction, we might be close to it, but I don’t think we would have crossed the line. Of course though, none of that sells copies of the Sun, gets people watching SSN, or phoning in to TalkSport, so the narrative will be that by the media.

Anyone noticed that he’s wearing the official players version in the video, but in this picture he is wearing a fans version?

No you can’t, they said they are going to bring it in, but can’t do it just yet.

I hope it shot all over their training ground. Fuckers, you can’t spend 100 odd years with a gun as your mascot and then sack it off for a chocolate Labrador so you can sell the kids a soft toy. Relocate to the USA and sell them a fucking gun.

If we sell him then first of all I hope it’s not to another Premier League team, and secondly, I hope we have both a buyback clause/1st option clause, and sell on fee’s included.

I think that’s decent, as we know it’s difficult to do stripes, so it’s alright that for a 1 off.

The fuck?

The Brighton project will end in tears. I’ve seen it all before, and not just at NUFC. To be perfectly honest, they’ll probably never qualify for Europe again, unless they lucked a cup win.

This along with project big picture is what pisses me off more, more so with project big picture. All the red tops banging on about Man City’s 115 charges, charges that only came in because they tried to circumvent rules that the red tops brought in to stop them. Meanwhile you have the red tops, along with their red top friends Spurs, and Chelsea trying to gain a power grab on professional football in England. They wanted the power to veto takeovers, not only in the EPL, but the EFL as well. They wanted to scrap both the League Cup, Community Shield, and FA Cup replays (nearly there lads) and have the power to propose and vote through any rules they liked, and veto proposals they didn’t like. All this to temporarily give the EFL some of the money the FA should have been giving them in the first place, and for them to have ever reaching and lasting power. The FA and the football leagues should have told them to fuck off then, and when a few months later they came back with the ESL, if they hadn’t have been kicked out, they should have been then. They should have been playing 10 years worth of friendlies with each other in the USA, Oceanic, Asia, and Antarctica, anywhere but England. Instead they got to choose their punishment, which was fucking suspended in anyway. They tried to do far more damage to football in England than Everton trying to build a stadium, Forest trying to stay up and not sell them one of their players on the cheap, and Man City, Villa, and us trying to compete ever fucking have.

Probably is, but when you have the likes of Everton up for grabs, and a large chunk of Palace, if you were either a very rich individual, or a consortium, where would your money be going? That’s not to mention that you also have both the Sheffield clubs up for sale, and Reading’s takeover falling through and them being up for grabs for next to nothing as well.

There have been times where I have preferred Newcastle to win a corner than England win a World Cup.

Exactly. If it was meant to protect clubs from going bust, then debt would be either outlawed, or severely restricted. Instead you have Man Utd in at over £1bn worth of debt, and Spurs at about £800m worth of debt.

Absolutely loads of you will pay extra if it means that’s the only way you can access the retro shirt remakes etc.

Same, I was just pointing out the swing in the pendulum.

That’s just Real Madrid wanting more money. For European teams, it’s essentially going to replace whatever pre-season tour they do. So they are going to want to have a load of money to play in it. Real Madrid will be just saying that they wanted the biggest share of the pie, they are the biggest name, won so many Champions Leagues in so many years etc.

Yeah, what was that called?

I honestly think he’ll see out his contract here, then go and play with his brother for Toronto FC.

If there wasn’t a river dividing Newcastle and Gateshead, a lot more people would recognise it as a part of Newcastle, much like you would Byker. RTG’s really did not turn up to that geography class in primary school you had that explained City centres/Urban core, Suburbs, and Rural areas.

In all honesty I see Man City’s point of view. Every club before them who had any extended period of success has done so by being able to be funded by owners without the need to go through sponsorships. One of those clubs shares the same city as them and has probably taken a fair chunk of their supporters base because of it, another of those clubs is in the same region as them. Flip the situation around and say Sunderland and Boro did it to us, we’d rightfully be biting back saying what goes around, comes around. To a lesser degree, you also have to remember that these sponsors are not just sponsoring Man City, but they are usually City football group wide sponsorship deals which represents 13 clubs or so world wide. As we have seen ourselves, it’s absolutely fucking shambolic that the Premier League have done fuck all to protect clubs from bad owners, aside from keeping the red tops happy, what the fuck is the point in protecting clubs from good owners? Even the Everton situation is on the Premier League. If they allowed them to spend when their owner, be that Moshiri or who he was funded by to invest, then Everton would have done what we did last season, and Villa did this season. Even if their owners did get caught up, they would have had a team ready to compete, going into a new stadium, they would have easily been able to sell them for about £1bn, instead of attempting to sell to Ponzi schemes, and every want to be ‘Investment consortium’.