Village Idiot

I guess they are trying to get a Breach of Fiduciary Duty case.

Honestly, even if you don't mind ManCity buying their way to success, I find rather criminal to have unlimited funds and end up playing 3 DMs every game.

I find them to be a fun bunch, and they are quite watchable nowadays under Coyle. A relief for them after the Allardyce/Megson years.

I'm a bit lost on the whole stakes of this case. If H&G had won the case, wouldn't RBS just called in the debt and lost the club for naught? Or am I wrong and they could have held onto it?

High scoring game compared to the previous one, one can notice Benítez is off. Good news for Liverpool I suppose, are they going to get points docked?

Second half of Scotland-Spain was a crazy game of football.

NUFC, Arsenal, Bolton

Nobody relinquishes power out of sheer kindness. The only way the other clubs can pressurize the big 2 is locking TV cameras out of their home games against them, which exposes them to breach of contract lawsuits.

Interest, could really help open the league up, just a tiny little bit and stop clubs going into administration (seems to be at least 1 a season). Yeah, I posted this Madrid/Barça's counterproposal a few pages ago. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,70560.msg2552864.html#msg2552864 We'll see what comes out of this.

I hope the rumors are true and we are after Llorente.

Still slightly surreal to see Kevin Davies grabbing his first cap at 33.

We all said the same about Adam Johnson mind, but he's getting games. Johnson was more of a finished product when he signed, imho. Had prem experience already and had started regularly at pro level for the past years. Assulin needs much more development. I'll take your word for it, I know nothing about Assulin. He has lots of raw talent, but most of the time he seems to still play like a 15 year old. He's been awful these past 2 years when he transitioned from youth football.

Villa ties with Raúl as Spain's all-time top goalscorer with that pen.

We all said the same about Adam Johnson mind, but he's getting games. Johnson was more of a finished product when he signed, imho. Had prem experience already and had started regularly at pro level for the past years. Assulin needs much more development.

From my odd watching of Spurs last season, when he cared he showed he still has the goods. The manager that can get him to care regularly will have a bargain, in my opinion.

Didn't they used to be owned by two families who used to argue over the direction of the club etc. Valencia? They have had big boardroom instability these past years. I'm not that familiar with them to know all the intrincacies but they have had a few abortive sales and the two top shareholders hate each other.

Well those teams have great need of their new stadiums. Valencia have to sell Mestalla and move or they'll fold, Espanyol didn't even have a stadium (our favorite quip against them), and Atlético's stadium is sitting directly over Madrid's most congested road, which the city council wants to expand to avoid the hour plus jams during rush hour (hated those when I lived there). http://futboldeseleccion.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/atletico-de-madrid.jpg Wow, didn't know a massive road went underneath the main stand. I'm sure they were thinking of building a new stadium in the 90's is that correct? Yes. They'll move to what was going to be Madrid's Olympic stadium.

And what's worse, they can't pay for the work of Nou Mestalla to proceed which has been half-built for almost two years and it's starting to decay.

Well those teams have great need of their new stadiums. Valencia have to sell Mestalla and move or they'll fold, Espanyol didn't even have a stadium (our favorite quip against them), and Atlético's stadium is sitting directly over Madrid's most congested road, which the city council wants to expand to avoid the hour plus jams during rush hour (hated those when I lived there). http://futboldeseleccion.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/atletico-de-madrid.jpg

Noticed Athletic have a sponsor these days. Shame. Happened a couple seasons ago I think. A shame indeed, but money calls... Still can't get over San Mamés getting torn down. Great Football Stadium, my Uncle said his favorite time of the 1982 World Cup (he went to the whole tournament) was in Bilbao. Any reason for a new stadium btw. The Bilbao city council wants to rebuild that area of the city extensively (it does need some rebuilding indeed) and San Mamés is sort on the way. That's the official excuse though, if there's some political favors/real state speculation involved I don't dare say. They are going to rebuild it just a few yards away from the current site which is a bit puzzling. San Mamés is old, but it's a piece of history of football in this country and it's a shame that's going to be lost. Most Athletic fans I know abhor the idea.

Noticed Athletic have a sponsor these days. Shame. Happened a couple seasons ago I think. A shame indeed, but money calls... Still can't get over San Mamés getting torn down.

No ManUtd? Used to think Newcastle fans hated them lot. A 1990s thing maybe?

I really dislike Stoke. I see people like Fuller or Tuncay on the bench and Huth/Sidibe strolling around and I want to punch Pulis on the face. Apart from that... some slight dislikes for both Manchesters but no big deal. I'm a neutral afterall.

To be frank, I consider it a blessing in disguise. It was awfully ugly. The Camp Nou does show its age, though. I hope we can keep the non-commercial sponsor thing. Is a silly thing since we sell out to anybody everywhere else, but it still makes me feel proud.

Yeah, he was always very vocal against the dictatorship, but he was a football superstar so the authorities had to grind their teeth. Of course that endeared us to him. The football too I still can't believe you's hadn't won the European Cup until 1992, considering the players you've had in your team etc. Also was interesting to see the amount of Tourists that attended Camp Nou during our game, shows that the football team really is a huge asset for attracting people to the city. Barça museum is the most visited museum in the city... The European Cup drought is mostly due to the fact that we only won the league five times (IIRC) since the trophy was instituted properly until we won in 1992. Since that included most of our trophy drought period of 1963-1989. And we managed two finals. The old format was very hard to qualify for, when you think of it.