Crayola Kid

A West Ham player (possibly Fornals?) was getting in Shelvey’s face as they went into the tunnel at half time, until a huge hand appeared on his shoulder, Dan Burn wasn’t having it!

For me, I remember Clarke would play the ball forward quickly whenever he got in possession, setting us away time after time against defenders who were out of position. Batty would play it back and forth between himself and the fullbacks, instead of starting an attack. By the time it went forward, defenders were set waiting for it. Simplistic view maybe, and Batty’s approach was useful in games against better sides, but that was what changed our results from mid season, more than Asprilla joining.

Little bit conflicted here. Richest club in the world, blah blah blah, but, will my IPTV be fucked?

I hope Everton make a public statement about the negative response helping them decide not to give Benitez the job. I hope Keys, Gray, and all the fans gloat very publicly, and tell themselves they influenced the decision. I hope Everton get a huge name instead, like they ‘deserve’. And I hope Rafa Benitez takes Newcastle above them in the table with home and away wins against them, without speaking out. Just popping his specs in his top pocket after the wins

Stopped going regularly long before Ashley arrived. Under Sir Bobby we had a great team playing in a great stadium but the atmosphere had evaporated. Long periods of near silence, a half minute of shouting when we scored, some polite applause now and again. Watch pretty much all the games on iptv now, do get affected by results, much prefer a win whoever is manager/owner but would much prefer a new manager and a new owner. Would love to be 17 standing on a terrace watching KK’s team again, nothing will bring that back though. Miserable cunt in short aye?

Link mate? 2nd best performing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50822875 3.66 goals prevented in total this season, not per game. Unless Vardy has scored an extra 5.12 per game (not including penalties) that is

Great article. I remember at the time, seeing how he ran through the German midfield and defence at the World Cup, playing maybe three 1-2’s then scoring. To find out a few weeks that later he’d signed for us was brilliant and a perfect fit for that side

Anyone?

My first match as a kid was a year or two after Chris Waddle left. He’s just been on the radio saying that (A) there were boycotts during his time as a player, but that (B) there were still 36 thousand there every week. I don’t think either of those statements are true, are they?

Two foot Longstaff?

Good shout. Nah, don’t see that at all. Bracewell maybe, then? Before injuries cost him much of his game that is. Good control, hard to push off the ball, uses it well under pressure. Very early days of course. Hope to see plenty more of him, anyway

Fair enough! Registered in Dec 07, or earlier?

Well, it isn’t just in the part I copied and pasted, he gives reasons in his article for believing it was in preparation for sports direct taking over the retailing for nufc. Possibly just a coincidence, using ‘direct’ like that. May be nothing in it, but it would support those writing a page or two back who said the buyout was planned for longer than the three days commonly stated by the owner.

Was Polygon, not Sports Direct, that registered nufcdirect.com Is this guy barking up the wrong tree then? Poor fella definitely thinks he’s onto something! Who are Polygon, and is he right that the domain was registered months before the club was sold?

From a recent article in The Mag, but borrowed by them from elsewhere: “When Mike Ashley purchased Newcastle United FC it was said to be a spur of the moment deal, done so not for business but to allow the billionaire to “have some fun”. At the time it was made out that the deal was literally carried out in a couple of days. “The deal was put to me on a Saturday. By the Monday, in advance of speaking to Sir John, I’d deposited the equivalent of money we hoped he would accept for his shares at the lawyers and on the Tuesday the deal was effectively done. By Wednesday (May 23, 2007) the announcement was public and that was the first anyone, including the media, knew about it. Once I was told about it, it was done very quickly. Sir John was ready to act if I was and it was a very straightforward process.” If that is the case then why did Sports Direct register the domain name nufcdirect.com 6 months earlier?“ Seems to suggest this wasn’t as spur of the moment as we’d been led to believe. https://www.themag.co.uk/2018/08/must-read-why-mike-ashley-bought-newcastle-united-and-why-he-wont-be-selling-reprised/

Even Chopra scored

They could, but if it was to cost the new owner- however unlikely - it wouldn't be in their interests to qualify. Plenty of people speculated that Ashley wanted to avoid playing bonuses for performance, this could be like that but ten times bigger. Also, that would require Ashley knowing they were interested in even trying to qualify. Why would he even believe it, if a similar level of ambition to his own by the new owners would cost him cash? Just sounds unlikely

Why would the buyer be adding a clause around qualifying for the champs league? Ashley can't affect that after selling. Wouldn't it be the seller if anyone was going to add such a clause, like when a player leaves for another club and the fee goes up if they are successful, because the buyer gambled on the team doing well with the new player and agreed to the clause in order to push the deal through?

Giving feint praise for Ritchie appeared to physically hurt Souness

“If any club becomes subject to or suffers an insolvency event, that club shall be deducted 12 points. “If a group undertaking of a club becomes subject to or suffers an insolvency event, then the board shall have the power to impose upon the club a deduction of 12 points scored or to be scored in the League competition.” The points would be deducted when the club becomes subject to any insolvency action. If this is before the fourth Thursday in March, the deduction is applied straight away. If it is after the fourth Thursday in March, the club will start the next season on minus 12 points. Total investigation is said to relate to five million in unpaid tax. Not likely anyone will be made insolvent?

Their tax affairs were completely different, they were exploiting a loop hole to pay players via trust funds and not PAYE. Don't see any similarities at all. If they were found to be guilty of fraud by hmrc and the sfa gave a penalty because of this, the nature of the fraud may not matter? Anyway, seems they went bust due to not being able to afford the tax bill following that problem, before any penalty could be given by the sfa

Does anyone remember what punishment Rangers suffered for tax fraud? They were put out of business partly due to the fine, but were there any points deductions relating to the tax case, or did there new status in a lower league just come about because they went bust? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34720850

1, cos: FOOTBALL is FIXED ‏@footballisfixed 33m33 minutes ago FREEBIE: To celebrate #ChineseNewYear a gift from our SE Asian partner - #NUFC WON'T BE RELEGATED FROM #PremierLeague THIS SEASON. Trade it! Someone tell the players, quick...

It's without doubt the most impressed I've arguably ever been with any of this Team America stuff. It was clear everyone else was never going near it when it was mind bogglingly obviously corrupt so fair f***ing play. unless: http://stopwar.org.uk/news/fifa-vote-to-kick-israel-out-of-world-football-conveniently-blocked-by-us-intervention (coincidence, surely)