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Well it was for people like you stuck in on their own during lockdown for a bit of social action... guess I don’t need to bother

Benfica have won the same amount of European Cups, and have lost 5 finals. Porto have won the only two they've played in, but are admittedly more recent. Didn’t someone put a curse on them and since then they’ve lost every final?

It’s a headline figure no doubt but if it’s true it doesn’t bode well for the new owners and their nouse at negotiating.

And lucky to get a 2-2 draw also off them at home.

“With Chris, he couldn’t cope with where we are mentally. We are aggressive. You need to be aggressive. I don’t want a manager below me who can’t argue. You guys don’t understand how f****** horrible we can be.”

Llambias quote from years ago... “Kevin Keegan can’t take pressure. His f****** head is all over the place,” said Llambias, before revealing that Keegan was only appointed to appease potential buyers of the club. “Mike was selling to the Arabs and they wanted Kevin Keegan. The Arabs wanted him, the fans wanted him — perfect!”

Spending money on a report to prove we shouldn’t try in the cups. The fans in these 13 years that lapped this kind of thing up.

I’ve never understood the need to eat or drink at the match. Not once bought anything from our ground in 38yrs. I understand it for travelling fans as they’ve maybe made a long drive up and have one back if not making a weekend of it.

I guess owners could say to Rafa who would you keep & sell and do likewise with Poch. Probably find they are more than £20m better off under Rafa due to smaller squad rotation. Just a daft theory mind

Done a bit detective work myself and just to add a little bit to what’s kind of been said; The free season tickets are in the name of the original season ticket holder. There is a button to renew them on the website. When you click on it gives you three options but none working currently due to pricing but will be interesting if this is still the case July 1st when on sale: Hospitality Suite Season 20/21 Hospitality Season Ticket 20/21 Season Ticket 20/21

I think what makes it even more of a tough call for the authorities is the fact some clubs have played less games. If all teams had played the same amount of games I think there would’ve been a slightly easier decision to be made.

Scary figures. Football is the Wild West.

I spot 3 NO posters in that photo..... You are missing one more...

This was on my Facebook memories today. Must of been a sign. Was a good night [emoji41] See who can spot who... [emoji102]

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Yes. For obvious reasons can’t go in to it in depth but basically the better the club did the better for The Freeman. Shame it didn’t go ahead. More so for the club.

Thats it. 200 million??? For 80%

Chilli Padi have started doing deliveries due to lockdown as of tomorrow.

I don’t but if I do I could let them graze on the land Sadly the livestock does get attacked quite often unfortunately. Some sick people out there unfortunately.

That's interesting. I always thought the club paid rent to the city council? And leased the land directly from them? It’s Freeman land not Council land. The club pay us rent. Whether it goes to Council for them to pass straight to us I couldn’t argue either way as not 100% but I’m pretty sure it comes direct. Along with the Hopping’s it’s one of the two main incomes for the Freeman which is spent maintaining our land, properties and various charitable stuff.

Like I’ve said numerous times on here at the time of asking The Freeman were all for the SJH plans using the Leazes Park etc as we could see the benefits and the facelift it would’ve brought to the City. Doubt they’d think differently as long as capacity of stadium was bigger as NUFC pay us rent for SJP. (Not sure if you aware that a NUFC are one of the few big clubs that doesn’t own the land the ground is built on. It’s a long term leasehold). The history of the likely new owners might be a stumbling block possibly.

In short. A few families defended the City wall when under attack 100’s of years ago. So every male from that day on in those families was eligible to become a Freeman of the City. The reason only male was it was to keep the family name. Which in turn are part of “companies” which are basically old fashioned trades like Tanner’s and Cordwainer's etc In the last several year due to the way the modern world thinks they decided to open it up to daughters also which unfortunately has diluted its meaning somewhat as due to marriage it then creates a different family lineage with the name if that makes any sense. So in my lifetime my grandad was one as was my dad and brother. It’s a very charitable organisation but after originally being against becoming one I decided to join just to keep numbers up as they were low at the time due to male only lineage and in turn keep the Council’s hands off all the land for as long as possible. So one of the plus points of the admittance of woman is the numbers have swollen again and that should leave the land we own in safe hands for a long time to come hopefully. Hope that helps.

That was the original plan if I recall.

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