Wallsendmag

I reckon we'd need a maximum of 10 points from the last 15 games to stay up. Cant see Fulham getting to 35 points.

My favourite ever season following NUFC. We'd bought our season tickets at the start of the previous season (91/92) as my dad was certain we were going places with Ossie Ardiles as manager! Obviously Keegan arrived in the February, we stayed up so it was a no brainer to renew. Back then we would park up at the dental hospital about 2pm and as soon as you opened the car doors you could instantly hear the singing coming from the ground as all the terraced areas were already full, I'll never forget that, how the noise carried all that way, how loud it was, and as we were walking to the ground you'd see loads of panicked people sprinting past us desperately hoping they'd still be able to get in! The buzz once inside was something I've never experienced before or since, and sadly even if the takeover goes ahead, it'll never match that. Football, and football fans have changed so much since then sadly. I think it was the Tranmere game when 7,000 were literally locked outside the ground, the Gallowgate was the first to lock the turnstiles and I still remember 1000s of desperate people sprinting past us as we were queuing to get into the East Stand as word had gone round that there was a little bit of space in the Leazes End, so after that every game was made all ticket which diluted the pre match atmosphere a bit as people started to arrive later. The following few seasons were amazing, and yes we had a better team but that 92/93 season, winning our first 11 games, for what it meant to every single NUFC fan and just for the atmosphere inside the ground can't be beaten. Happy 70th King Kev, my all time favourite person ever to be associated with Newcastle United.

When I think back to the way the last manager tried to strike up such a positive relationship with the supporters, which was reciprocated 100%, to this prick who seems determined to do the opposite. He's got a massive dislike of us which is becoming more evident and the feeling is certainly mutual. By far my most hated NUFC manager of all time. It's not even a close run thing.

I was at that one. Atmosphere was unreal! Went back to a little town called Haslingden afterwards and managed to get a lock in. Got back to the Toon about 5am.

The highs and lows of a (shit) football manager eh. One week he's inundated with fan mail and the next week he's getting death threats.

We'll probably lose our next 6 games on the spin and they'll get cold feet!

Glad you’re coming round Wallsend, we’ll all be scrambling to get our season tickets back shortly. Must admit I've always erred on the side of it not happening but I do think there might just be a little glimmer of light there now. However it was even money on either it happening or not and someone gave me £50 to stake on it my money would still be on it not happening. Something's still bound to go wrong!

I'd be surprised if someone as professional as him, and with the reputation he has, is a massive WUM. Just don't see what he'd achieve from that. He'll know something or at least have a massive hunch as to how this is heading.

Bloody hell there was once a time when Sunderland getting beat would really brighten my day and here we are now where I'm at the stage when I didn't even realise they'd played tonight until 5 minutes ago! Still nice that they lost like.

Which is of course the one thing he's been proven to be not.

Well whatever they received a lot of illegal funding and the final ruling from the European Commission stated that "Spain provided State funding to help the clubs gain an unfair advantage over their rivals". Seven clubs in total benefitted from this.

Just had a quick read up about it. Despite being registered as a Limited Company they were paying the same tax rate as a non profit organisation. They got away with this for over 20 years. They were also allowed to buy land to build a new training ground for £15m less than its market value. This was in 1998 so was a massive amount of money back then.

I heard that and he was Implying that proved they weren't legally separate. A government bailout doesn't prove they are of the same entity. The Spanish government bailed out Real Madrid when they were on the verge of going bust many years ago, and I believe its not the first time they have done so, but that doesn't mean the government and Real Madrid are the same entity! No they didn't. [emoji38] They did they bought the ground for millions and gave it back to them didn’t they? I remember they received a massive amount of illegal state subsidies a good few years ago but think they were forced to pay it all back? Firstly, it was the local government that bought the land off them not the actual Spanish government. Secondly they were forced to pay some of it back by the EU in illegal state aid but not the whole transaction. Thirdly, it affected several other clubs. https://www.ft.com/content/750e14a2-3f94-11e6-9f2c-36b487ebd80a So they did receive some illegal state funding then?

I heard that and he was Implying that proved they weren't legally separate. A government bailout doesn't prove they are of the same entity. The Spanish government bailed out Real Madrid when they were on the verge of going bust many years ago, and I believe its not the first time they have done so, but that doesn't mean the government and Real Madrid are the same entity! No they didn't. :lol: They did they bought the ground for millions and gave it back to them didn’t they? I remember they received a massive amount of illegal state subsidies a good few years ago but think they were forced to pay it all back?

It was. He was deeply in the bein camp at the beginning, but has since realised he’s more relevant if he gets NUFC fans hooked on his words. He’s seen the profiles of others such as lawyers, dentists, local journos and QCs go through the roof and wants a bit of it. He's certainly boosted his media profile. I'll be honest this time last year I'd never even heard of him!

Wasn't Ben the one who was leaking most of the info from the PL side on Twitter and been caught out lying about other things? Might not have been him but it rings a bell. He was definitely one of those who came across as dead against the takeover last spring, I definitely remember that.

Agree, I'm rapidly losing interest in everything football related at the minute. This is almost me, I've more or less lost touch with English football. Watched 3 live games all season, all NUFC, and haven't really got into any of them when I've been watching them, playing on my phone and only giving them half my attention which would have been unheard of not so long ago! Mixture of a lot of things. The failed takeover, no fans in the stadiums and Steve Bruce being the obvious ones. Started taking an interest in the Bundesliga on BT and I'm quite enjoying that mind.

I usually like your posts but sorry that is rubbish for me like. Pardew was levels above this fat mess we have now and also Pardew never claimed to be “one of us” either. There was a lot of good football and we used to score a fair few goals too. 5th place and a 10th place. European quarter final and also we were in the top half when he left us mid season too. Also he generally talked the club up rather than put it down all the time I remember him coming out and rightly saying we are a bigger club than Everton for example. Absolute and unmitigated horseshite. Nah there was, especially during that 5th placed finish season and we had that spell when Cisse, Ba, and Ben Arfa were virtually unplayable with Cabaye pulling the strings behind them and Coloccini different class at the back. That season alone games at home to Blackburn, Stoke home and away (they were a tough team to beat back then), Man Utd home and away, West Brom away, Liverpool home, Chelsea away were all excellent performances and showed we could go up against the bigger clubs and give them a game. I really enjoyed a lot of the football we played that season.

How do you come to that conclusion?

We had a few highs under Pardew. Obviously there's the 4-4, the 5th place finish, the Europa League run, quite a few surprising one off wins, beating Man Utd at Old Trafford for the first time in 41 years, but with Bruce there's nowt. It's just been an absolute shitfest, and amazingly it's getting worse.

He's been saying it for about a year... I find amusing that Ashley, the buyers, the PL and the lawyers don’t know what way it’s gonna go yet but there are a few in here that will tell you every single day that it’s happening and just to wait Truth is nobody knows which way it is going to go. Its all speculation and opinion, which tbf is what forums like this are all about. My gut feeling from the very beginning is that it won't go through based on nothing more than me just not being able to imagine NUFC being the richest club in world football!

I know we’d like to think Ashley is an idiot but he isn’t. He might be a twat and he doesn’t give a toss about our club but he’s not an idiot. He's an idiot when it comes to making football decisions. He's certainly made many idiotic decisions during his time here.

It's a disgrace that we're even taking about this. 3 seasons of comfortable mid table and over £100m invested in the team in the last 18 months. It's an absolute shambles.

Aye he was like. People keep calling him Keith was getting as tedious as any of his patter.

Bit harsh like. The thread had turned to shit but he certainly wasn't the only culprit if you look at the last couple of pages.