UncleBingo

I honestly think Ashley would take £250M now with another £100M once we get promoted. He knows he won't get anything like that if he has to sell to a new buyer, that's why he's all in with the Saudis.

A long read but it seems to be suggesting NUFC should win this case. https://www.footballlaw.co.uk/articles/newcastle-united-fc-takeover-nufc-v-the-premier-league-ksa-pif

With the players we have out injured, it's probably too late to do anything now......I actually hope Bruce stops in the job and gets to own this 100%. Well done Ashley, you fucking gormless fat cunt.

Really sad news, he was a very good centre half for us back in the day, pretty cultured in an era where most British defenders were somewhat agricultural. Decent spell as manager too. Met him a few times when I was a kid as he lived in Whickham, and he was an absolute gentleman. RIP Glenn.

Fuck The MAGAs.

A solid 7. There's a chance if Ashley acts after the Man Utd bumming but we all know that's not going to happen. All so entirely fucking predictable.

Agreed, cracking away game that one. I was just to the left of the floodlight.

The season before Varadi arrived under Arthur Cox was pretty fucking dire mind. Shinton, Clarke, Shoulder & Rafferty as our strikers.

People always talk about Rob Lee, but Vension was an absolutely superb signing, especially for £250k or whatever.

The Leazes wing of the Milburn Stand was the place to be back then. Full of absolute nutcases but they narve made a hell of a racket! It was great in there back then. IIRC in KKs playing days the away fans would be in the end section of the Leazes, on the other side of the vehicle access bit? Sure i can remember a particularly lively atmosphere v Leeds one day. Think we won 2-1. I later got my 1st S/T in the Milburn centre paddock when Ossie was in charge, Around 1991. Not sure if there still was an East and centre paddock by then or it had been made into one big paddock? Back in 1991 the Milburn Paddocks were lettered from A to E. A and B were towards the Gallowgate End and D and E were the other side of the players tunnel towards the Leazes End. C Paddock straddled either side of the tunnel I think. Then the Leazes End was split into 3 Paddocks ( F, G and H, away fans were allocated H Paddock by 1991) and then the Gallowgate was 4 Paddocks (J which was "the corner", K which was "the Scoreboard", L and M, M was known as "the old man's corner"). It was a dump tbh but I just loved the place! The E Wing Paddock was a great place to stand late 80's due to it's close proximity to the away fans, went to quite a few night games there. Was carnage in there for the mackems play off.

The Leazes wing of the Milburn Stand was the place to be back then. Full of absolute nutcases but they narve made a hell of a racket! Agreed. I had my season ticket there from 1992, second last row next to the Leazes. Was great when the away fans were there for a couple of seasons. Ended up getting kicked out even though I had a bond, but moved a few feet away into the Milburn Paddock til I jacked it in.

Was the Anglo-Italian mind. Got a lift to it by a mates dad and he was bit keen that we got out early to avoid the rush, pulled a pretend toilet trip and snook back in to catch Mickey Quinn's goal. Later honed the technique to skive whole lessons at school and kill time at work. Few weeks later my art-teacher tutor mocked up a laminated black and white birthday card with Keegan's face superimposed on a figure. Probably the material possession I've had and lost that I most miss now. Gonna watch the Bristol City home-coming match this week. It really was a genuinely messianic feeling that week and that game to a kid just felt like something massive was happening the afternoon after I heard the news and all week. I went to every home game that season including the Anglo Italian Cup games. We played Leicester, Ascoli and Cesena at home in the competition. Ascoli game was mental. David Kelly got sent off for King fu kicking one of their players and I somehow ended up on the pitch during all the chaos immediately after that. Only 9k or so there but it just went crazy. The Cesena match I remember because I took an inflatable hammer with me for some reason and it was confiscated at the turnstile. Was the lowest crowd I've ever been in at SJP (circ 4,600) and I remember a cat just strolling around an almost deserted Gallowgate end during the 2nd half. I was in the Milburn Paddock with my brother for that game, the one and only time I stood there. It happened yards in front of us and I ended up getting one of their players in a headlock on the pitch.....wasn't malicious or anything was just trying to break it up. Fuck knows what I was thinking....would probably be a life time ban nowadays. That's me bottom of the pic with the gloves on.

Not sure if these have been posted in here before, but here's some pics of Westwood's planned super stadium from 1972. Needless to say, it didn't happen.

100% this. Incredible times....we may not have won anything but by god we had some fun. I remember when we first signed him as a player, I was on holiday in Wales and me and my brother were playing in a park in Porthmadog when we got talking to this kid who was a Liverpool fan. He asked who we supported and when I said Newcastle, he said something like 'you must be happy you've signed Keegan'......we just assumed he was winding us up, as this was just too seismic a thing to believe, so we ran back to the boat we were staying on, and asked my Grandad to put the radio on. Sure enough, the news was confirmed, and as 12 and 9 year olds, we were absolutely delirious, I mean this was just huge news for a club in decline like ours that was dying on it's arse in the 2nd division. I had to wait until 6pm (cheaper calls) and rang my Dad from the phone box and pleaded with him to get us tickets for his debut, something that we never had to do before now. We came home a few days later and the players were doing a signing session at the old club shop in the West Stand car park, so I went across to town with my mate Ian. It was mobbed and Keegan was there with Imre Varadi, John Trewick and Kenny Wharton.....I was wearing my yellow Bukta away top and I was standing next to KK's big Mercedes when he got out 'Is that the away top, horrible that, we'll have to get it changed' he said to me and winked......I nearly passed out, the great man had spoken to me! I ended up getting it signed by all the players, Keegan's autograph beautifully executed on the back. I still have the shirt now 40 years later, and have passed it on to my son to look after The next couple of weeks were just a blur of excitement leading up to the QPR game and the big day finally came. I went across on the bus with my Dad and brother and there were black and white tops everywhere in town, this was nothing like a normal match day. Fittingly, it was a glorious day and we and we went up to the Hodgson Arms and we sat outside while my Dad had a few pints with his mates, the singing inside and outside the pub was deafening and it was a party atmosphere. When we went to the ground, there were huge queues to the Gallowgate, but we had tickets for the East Stand benches, the first time I had sat at a game. The colour and the noise, everything felt like it had been turned up about 200% from the previous season, there was even a streaker in luminous green socks. Can't really remember much of the game, but had a great view as Keegan ran in and slid the ball under Hucker for the winner.....absolute carnage for the next 5 mins. I managed to watch all of KK's home games as an NUFC player, and even in the twilight of his career, he was light years ahead of anyone else on the pitch. Watching him Waddle & Beardsley for that one season together was incredible. I hope if we do get taken over the first thing anyone does is recognise Keegan's huge contribution to NUFC; nobody has done more for the club in modern times. Happy birthday KK, you absolute legend.

I remember arguing with some Bruce loving Rafa hater on Twitter that Leicester were a far more ambitious club than Ashley's NUFC......he wasn't having it at all the gormless prick. Think he was one of Twitchy Toes online fwends. The fucking helmet.

Can't believe that takeover talk has dried up so much, that we've even started talking about these utter non-entities again. I'd literally forgotten they existed.......truly desperate times.

Here they go again. They won’t protest themselves which would publicise their current discontent because that would be ‘magesque’ yet they expect journalists to write a whole raft of articles about it instead. If the fans don’t give a single f*** why should journalists? Sunderland AFC - ‘Can’t someone else do it’ There's someone else in the replies basically saying that - for all he hates our fans, we make a noise about MA, so it gets attention. Both you and he have hit the nail on the head. Do we? There's a bit of discontent online but we've never really protested against him in the real world. Plenty of other clubs' fans would've had him out the door years ago. Eh?!

Well done again HTT. Cap doffed.

Utter nonsense. Good pro who rarely let us down. Used to see him in Sainsbury's Heaton and he was always spot on with my son. Good luck to him.

Is that you Graeme? Really enjoyed your tactics today.

I'm trying to remember someone else who used to brag about the amount of letters he's had in the post this week, but the name escapes me.....

Strike....

Dire from Dier.

What a cunt.

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