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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2005/apr/27/newsstory.sport1 Took 0.07 seconds to google.

In reality even if we don't given them money it will matter for fuck all. The majority of the club income has nothing to do with us.

If he is appointed then that's me done with NUFC until Ashley goes.

Change of title please: "Random twitter user rubbishes twitter rumour"

NUFC Fans United organised this with John Hall and then proposed it to NUFC. Nothing to do with them or Wonga. Jokers.

Full schedule announced by Friday apparently.

The USA tour was a farce from start to finish. Shite performances, a key injury and players not even allowed in the country.

This!

Meh, it'll tide me over until The Ashes.

I know a lad who is quite well connected with Arsenal. Apparently we enquired after Remy turned us down and were quoted £12m which we, thankfully, told them we'd not be following up our interest. Apparently he's possibly heading to Galatasaray for ridiculous wages.

If we were competent at setting up sponsors then the ST money would pale into insignificance.

Which point do you disagree with in partiular?

Great article from Stevie on TT: I’m sick of football, I’m sick of Newcastle United. I’ve been going to games since 1985. We were no great shakes then even, however my first game was against Liverpool and we did actually win, but don’t let that fool you, we were as shite as ever. My current mood may be attributable to the two most horrific home games I’ve ever seen. Two in a row. I’m not saying that to be controversial, the last two home games are the most horrific we’ve ever seen. I’ve seen us lose 4-1 at home to Wolves, I’ve seen us humbled off Bristol Rovers at St James’ Park, but the cowardly showing and horrendous results against two teams many of us detest more than any other, are the worst anyone in their 30′s, maybe even mid 40′s have EVER seen. My feelings about how frustrated I am about football and Newcastle United run far deeper than that though. Don’t get me wrong, I’d never stop going, because like many others, I’m a mug. When you fall in love with Newcastle United, it never leaves you, you take them warts and all, and the two biggest warts we have with any connection to the club are Alan Pardew and Mike Ashley. We’re told with great regularity that “we can’t compete with the big boys on an even level footing”. Granted when you look at the turnovers of the clubs in the Premier League, Pardew and “Mike” may have a point. What I want to know is in simple terms, why were we far richer than say Tottenham before Ashley came in, and now they generate far more than us. 2012 figures 1. Man Utd £320m 2. Chelsea £261m 3. Arsenal £235m 4. Man City £231m 5. Liverpool £188m 6. Tottenham £144m 7. Newcastle £93m 8. Everton £80m Now this was for the 2011/2012 season, in 1998 this was the status quo (worldwide). 1. Manchester United, England – £87.9m 2. Real Madrid, Spain – £72.2m 3. Bayern Munich, Germany – £65.2m 4. Juventus, Italy – £55.3m 5. Newcastle United, England – £49.2m 6. Barcelona, Spain – £48.57m 7. AC Milan, Italy – £48.55m 8. Internazionale, Italy – £48.2m Startling figures. We all know Newcastle are a big club, but our stature as a club in 1998 dictated that we had income in excess of Barcelona, a club who could put an argument up for being the world’s biggest now. Seven years ago we were generating £30m per season more than Tottenham, now with a stadium attracting 16,000 less every week they generate £51m more than us. Absolutely startling figures. The fact is this Newcastle United made more as a business in 2002 than we did in 2012. Manchester United’s income has trebled in that timeframe. I’m no financial wizard, but that is a disgrace. There are lots of people to blame. My feeling is this, Newcastle United commercially are being ran like Reggie Perrin’s empire. We’re cheap and chatty, commercially we are a disaster. He basically has got a casino manager to run what was without doubt one of the biggest clubs in Britain a decade ago. Shepherd got lots of things wrong, we certainly couldn’t sustain the expenditure we had, but commercially Newcastle WERE “one of the big boys”, we’re not now because we’re downgraded, we’re told to think small, because we are small. We’re not Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City so pipe down toon fans. This message has been drummed in to Pardew from that fat bastard from his first day on December 8th 2010. He comes out with it at least once a month. No other club in football has a manager who comes out with this with such great regularity. Pardew is a mouthpiece for Ashley, and if we stay up we’ll have to get used to him because they won’t find a front man like him. Newcastle United is a hindrance for Ashley, if he could get every penny he put in back now with a little profit, he’d take it. I’m sick of being told that we can’t expect to compete with the “big 6″. This season has been a disaster waiting to happen. If we had Daniel Levy as chairman I have absolutely no doubt we’d be a far wealthier bigger club. The financial side is killing football as a whole, and FFP will make absolutely no difference. Look at Manchester City. Before they were bought out they were generating the same revenues as Sunderland, now they’re the 7th richest club in the world. But are they? It appears that they are, but people are already finding ways around FFP. Their sponsorship with Etihad is worth £400m. Etihad are their owners. Chelsea has Abramovic. So fair enough we can’t compete with those two clubs, but why can’t we compete with Tottenham and Liverpool when we did for years? No one has been able to give me a proper answer. Mike Ashley is the scourge of this club, he doesn’t care about where we finish as long as we make a profit. You have idiot Newcastle fans who he has sucked in, who would gladly have a turnover of £93m with £3m profit, than a turnover of £160m with £0m profit. We’re under valued by the hierarchy of this club, we’re told to think small, expect small, view ourselves as small. It will never ever change as long as Ashley has control of the club. He took over the club in 2007 “to have some fun”, since then we’ve come in the top 10 once, been patronised with alarming regularity, been lied to, been ridiculed, been forced to listen to a chirpy southerner coming out with remarkably stupid blatant lies like “on me first day ‘ere I put some petrol in me car, and there was a 50 year old bloke, in full Newcastle kit including socks”, I’ve lived here my whole life and never seen that, all of these reasons are why I’m utterly fucked off with Newcastle United. I was when we came 5th, I hate the fact that they’ve divided and conquered and people accept that we can’t compete. I hate the fact so called long term fans have forgiven him for his abhorrent treatment of Kevin Keegan. I will never accept them, if we won the Champions League I wouldn’t accept them, they’re vermin and the day he sells up, and takes Llambias somewhere else they can show “how narrrsty they can be”, will be one of great delight for me.

Happy Blaydon Races day!

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Aye, that's why he left.

It's a testament to Keegan (and SBR, but to a lesser extent) that even though Dagleish, Gullit, Souness, Roeder, Allardyce, Kinnear and Pardew have all been our manager in the past 15 years, the club is still in a position to challenge the top clubs if the right owner was found. The fact that some of our bell-end fans criticise him is astounding. They're not real fans in my eyes, because if they are, they'd know their history. If KK hadn't come in, we could well be playing at a much smaller SJP in a much lower league. Hey, NUFC as we know it may not even exist at all. Keegan will always be my sporting hero. The man is the best thing to happen to NUFC in my lifetime.

Great fk that.

No, in both senses.

from Hatem

Brighton 1-0 NUFC.

How easy is it to get tickets to Serie A games? Always seem half empty but i've had a quick scout on websites and apparently it's quite hard unless you're an Italian citizen as they ask to see your passport? I'm going to Sorrento in September so keeping my fingers crossed for a CL or Serie A game for Napoli.

I know nothing about the bloke. Is he actually any good? Paul Ince is his fatha, which instantly puts a negative down for him.

Keegan shouldn't have been allowed within a million miles of NUFC. It was a decision made by Ashley designed to placate the more basic of our support. I also believe Keegans motive was to avoid financial meltdown. He never looked happy from day 1. What a pile of tosh. "A disaster waiting to happen." was how I described it at the time. It was. A disaster from the Ashley and Wise side of things, as proven in a court of law.

Keegan shouldn't have been allowed within a million miles of NUFC. It was a decision made by Ashley designed to placate the more basic of our support. I also believe Keegans motive was to avoid financial meltdown. He never looked happy from day 1. What a pile of tosh.