Darth Crooks

Ordem e Prosecco ??

I mean...yeah you do. You just do. I get it its a fragile career with a fraternal outlook but don't freak when people call it out.

He's so full of shit. Figuratively - and he also looks like literal sausage skin pumped full of faeces.

Fucking great.

Diarrhoea season?

I dunno man - I mean it’s a race to the bottom but I think time has been kind to Pardew and his gaslighting - he also hasn’t been able to go on and relentlessly con like Steakbakes

I’d give the lack of money I have to a spiderflag like or the one with his ears cupped.

man-manager, good family man, prove nasty newcastle/west brom/villa fans wrong

…when the muse comes calling I must obey…

Norwich…? https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steve-bruce-tipped-new-job-25844761 I smell someone sounding out media for another grift avenue

If there's one club I wouldn't wish this man on over us it's them. I'm form the midlands with a lot of Cov fan mates - they used to give me some stick about not knowing what its like and now they have the very worst of both worlds.

The man who put the garang in bang

This is healthy

This is the problem I guess - there'll be some just chasing the hashtags and SEO

It puts me off I must admit. I'm quite well travelled and open minded but covering women up to the degree some do and oppression of groups such as Queer people makes me far less inclined. Rather go to Mexico or Greece if its just to do that.

Howe: goes for the jugular vein - surgically Bruce: should go for - carotid artery surgery

Howe: Could manage his country Bruce: This cunt couldn’t try manage

Mackem confirmed…

Newcastle Wins Papality

I guess people don’t hold the same regional and heritage ties in a sport like the Grand Prix. There’s a very apparent set of hypocrisies at play which is fine to point out and is valid.- but ultimately doesn’t address any part of that issues. What can be done about is beyond fans but I don’t subscribe to the view of I can’t change it so why bother worrying. Systemically it’s a problem down the line and we’re now the apex of it.

A Saudi Prince is a different prospect to the crown Prince of the country and the sovereign wealth fund mind. I agree there’s a significant element of the ‘big 6’ bristling but my admittedly limited understanding of ‘Prince’ in Saudi terms is more akin to the landed gentry rather than a royal family and influence as we have it. To bring it back from that tangent - I agree on the deflection from corruption aspect/broken game factor and critique of the discourse and some of the intentions of the most vocal or notorious critics. I find that criticism a bit of deflection from the issue itself and looking forward there’s going to be a point where much like the Chelsea Russian oligarch situation, we may have a difference of policy as a nation as the world (including KSA) diversifies away from reliance on ME oil and traditional foreign policy alliances are less significant as a result and then the vacuum left by that brings other issues to the fore. This links to wider geopolitics in the region including the role of alliances with Russia, China and the increasing divides in the world. This is or course a mess and somewhat unpredictable. Theres a widely held view that football and politics should be kept separate and I’ve made inferences to things that may not happen and are someway off if they do but it’s exactly the sort of significance foresight the Ashley era has ingrained into me. This is the biggest example of politics and football meeting you’ll ever see - our third kit is a Saudi national flag a season in. If you’re not concerned about the issues posed by the Chelsea example then I don’t think you are considering the full implications. Ad hominem attacks of critics and intentions ignores the green and white elephant in the room that it’s not an ultimate good and a big example, if not the biggest of the problems with the beautiful game. We’ll be part of a super league proposal within a decade probably and where will our principles be then? I also don’t have any specific prejudice re Saudi Arabia beyond what the scale of this represents. I’d be the same of any other sovereign state. Not too thrilled France and China own lots of stake in our utilities for instance for similar reasons. Another point as to why this football/politics separation has been blown out of the water by this. I realise this is all conjecture but for me it’s why my full throated support for NUFC hasn’t returned in the way it was when I was protesting Ashley and in the halcyon days of being a 1992’er. (born in 86 - soz mackems ?) We’ll see success and great days and players in the short-medium term and that for many is true priority. I also get that - people have so much strife, priority and bandwidth in their lives - it’s not always a case of ‘education’. I actually think quality of discourse is a far more constructive factor in these matters than ‘the need for education/information’. I think the fact there’s prominent space on this forum for it is a net good and people though fairly partisan on this by and large keep a healthy debate. One that more disingenuous critics don’t take the time to see or find.

It’s low hanging fruit for sure.

Cheeky wank?

Nah that’s fucking cool. Good luck With B&W stripes mind.

I agree. We’re at a cross roads in it on the basis of all major challenges we face - what cost/price/extent is okay to profit from our heritage, social need, welfare of our planet. It’s a universal problem. Shits going to hit the fan with one or more of these things and football ownership is low down that list.