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The club didn't issue it, as SkySports just ran with it. Imo this has come straight from Keith Bishop. Article on the previous page said in house PR department. Might well have been Bendy Wendy. She's got extensive form for just making stuff up.

Nowt to do with stones, he just wants his cash as this is his last job in football.

Anyone know where this game might be on in Malta?

Beardsley, of course!

He literally can't help himself though, can he? He's as clear a case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder you'll see this side of the X Factor auditions.

This is it for me, surely you would sue as matter of principal, the money might be pennies but it would send out a strong signal. Letting it fly says they knew more than they admitted. What signal? "Don't be a nonce while playing for us"? They probably just don't want anything to do with it anymore and distance themselves from it as much as possible. Move on and all that That's Nonce Sense, isn't it?

Nee chance he'll play in English professional football again imo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Thomson_%28footballer,_born_1991%29

I remember his home debut, can't remember the opposition. Askew picked the ball up just outside our box and went on a mazy run up the left of the pitch, leaving opposition players in his wake. I was thinking: 'we've got a player here' but he ran the ball out of play and that was it as far as his NUFC career was concerned: five seconds of brilliance.

No he didn't. Nor did 'he' spend £6m on Riviere (£1.8m), nor £12.5m on Cabella (£5.2m), etc., etc. Let's be generous and leave the TV money, all half-billion of it since Ashley oozed into town, and consider the £25m/yr advertising he's getting in lieu of the 'interest free' £130m he 'loaned' himself when he became owner. So on that basis alone, he's into us for about £100m, Sky and prize money excluded, which is pushing half-a-billion. #fuckingthievingfatcunt

Good one!

What do you mean? I think the poster was being sarcastic. The profit warning of sh!t direct is very bad news for the club. He needs that £180m TV money and free advertising more than he ever did. This could end up being the cash that keeps his businesses together...

As we have been able to judge from the entire 4 minutes he's featured for us this season My arse. he's had much more than that and has done and will do f*** all. About f***ing time, he's s***. Soft as s***, over priced, over hyped and utterly unsuited to the PL or the British game. It is considered by the majority that Thauvin hasn't had an honest amount of time on the pitch. Care to cite that?

Oh, it really will be, for the 'club' is his £180,000,000 cashpoint for next season if we stay up. SD are not tanking, but they are struggling, and cash from the 'club' is a real godsend for the Slug to support the rest of his businesses (plus the £25m/yr free advertising) He's had us for about half-a-billion to date.

Clubs are not collecting their taxes? WTF is this idiot on about?

I think there's far too much analysis going on directly above. Ashley knows what he is doing: the absolute bare minimum spend to finish 17th or above and, as a consequence, the amount of money he can misappropriate from the club. That's the beginning and end of it.

That's exactly like us with Lerner for the last five years. So long as we could cling on in the top flight, that was enough for him. 17th is a success for him. Other than the fact that Ashley is also, as a person, a massive, massive c*** (which I don't think Lerner is), their reasons for being involved in the game are the same. All that CGAF / slopey shoulders / just don't get relegated attitude drips down from the top and permeates both clubs like a leaking f***ing toilet. And that is precisely why the rest of the league, let alone fans of teams in other leagues, want the likes of us and you (and Sunderland, for that matter) to get relegated, because as much as it is always funny to see big names suffer, both clubs have contributed absolutely f***ing ZERO to the league for years. Check this out, for example. This is our CEO speaking, yesterday, a day in which we've completed our 19th game without a win. How can you even begin to deal with people with this attitude? What concerns me is that SD is not performing well in many areas (and becoming a very toxic brand - it's hardly scientific but I walked past my nearest SD many times in the lead up to Christmas and it was visibly quieter than every other shop in the centre) and NUFC is increasingly becoming his cashpoint. We will stay up by the skin of our teeth as Ashley literally cannot afford to lose the £180m, the vast majority will be siphoned off, as it has been every year since he arrived, to his other businesses. He'll NEVER let us go.

If you had an ATM card that gave you access to £100,000,000 a year (and rising) in cash, would you chuck it away? The tv bubble will burst within 3 years. Need the guy to get a love for the club again and invest Get a love for the club again? He hates the club and the fans as shown by his behaviour over the last 8-9 years. All he wants is the TV and prize money and, as pointed out above, the free advertising (worth £25m a year and rising) which is 20% interest in lieu of interest on the supposedly 'interest free 'loan' he somehow owes himself, and which he has paid down not one penny. 17th is the goal, that's it. We're not a football club any more. There are only three clubs in the league whose sole aim is to chug along in mid-table and rake in the TV money, it's obvious from the table which they are. It doesn't work anymore, there's too much money available to every club, when every other club is putting in 100% effort no club can afford not to do the same. If he doesn't tear up this self defeating, doomed business model and spend big this month he's going to lose that income. He's not going to be able to fluke his way back to the honeypot at the first attempt this time too, he dismantled the spirit and backbone that did that for him last time. It's not about love, if he doesn't wake up and see that aiming for mediocrity is no longer a sustainable way to run a premier league club he is going to personally lose a lot of money. Absolutely, and this is why a significant section of the support (and maybe 90% of those who've racked it in) want us to go down, perhaps a couple of times. The goodwill towards a new owner who wasn't a thief would be incredible.

If you had an ATM card that gave you access to £100,000,000 a year (and rising) in cash, would you chuck it away? The tv bubble will burst within 3 years. Need the guy to get a love for the club again and invest Get a love for the club again? He hates the club and the fans as shown by his behaviour over the last 8-9 years. All he wants is the TV and prize money and, as pointed out above, the free advertising (worth £25m a year and rising) which is 20% interest in lieu of interest on the supposedly 'interest free 'loan' he somehow owes himself, and which he has paid down not one penny. 17th is the goal, that's it. We're not a football club any more.

If you had an ATM card that gave you access to £100,000,000 a year (and rising) in cash, would you chuck it away?

Indeed. It wouldn't make the slightest difference to how much we 'spend' on the team.

What's going on? A difference of opinion that has been reined in and one that the two protagonists have subsequently discussed in private. I agree with your second sentence to an extent. That is to say, I am convinced that Anita would show what in my opinion is his undoubted quality if he had not been managed by three of the poorest quality men ever to carry that mantle at SJP. Even McFaul would have better known how to use Anita than Pardew/Carver/McClaren.

Thanks for correcting me. I had no idea that I got that wrong and that I was using an appropriated colloquialism!

An increase of 15p an hour covers less than 90 seconds spent when staff get their full body cavity search at the end of their Shirebrook picking shifts. Various reports have the amount of time spent having your clothes and belongings checked at between four and 12 minutes. So this is pretty much par-for-the-course for Slugley - a pay cut masquerading as a real terms cut. Only Ashley... It's a bit like pretending to spend a combined £18.5m on Riviere and Cabella when the monies paid for the respective players' registrations was about £7m. Because of his multiple, multiple previous in this area (and that of Sh1t Direct), who would believe that we actually spent £54m in the summer? Even then, we bought mainly tripe. Again. And where's the change? Deloitte values the stadium advertising (2014) at £25m/yr. This is 'in lieu' of the £129m 'loan' that Slugley has lent himself and is supposedly 'interest free'. Debt paid down? Not one penny. You do the math. I remain convinced that Ashley's WHam interview was a bet with one of his dickhead pals.

Appreciate your input also. I think some of the finer details need to be revised, however. I have deleted my previous post.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell. I had a season ticket at PSV Eindhoven from 2005-2012 if that helps. It would if I believed you. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dutch-supporters-boost-sir-bobbys-1471152 Keep digging. It's missing the parts where you identify as 'James Kidd' and that you had a season ticket for seven years. Keep trying. My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell. I had a season ticket at PSV Eindhoven from 2005-2012 if that helps. It would if I believed you. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dutch-supporters-boost-sir-bobbys-1471152 Keep digging. It's missing the parts where you identify as 'James Kidd' and that you had a season ticket for seven years. Keep trying. Aye no doubt they've got loads of PSV season ticket holders living in Wallsend who are the same age as me. Also the fact I directed you to that link in a matter of seconds should be a dead giveaway. I've made a mug of you, time to let it go now. Who's 'me'? What age is 'wallsend mag'? Whose to say you don't have a friend who goes/went? I know plenty who go to de Kuip. Where is 'seven years' mentioned? You're right, it's definitely time to let it go now. Go into a pub and spin that yarn with a bunch of strangers, let alone a court, with that 'evidence', and they'd still be laughing now.