Happinesstan

Yeah. Aramco @ St. James' Park. isn't renaming the Stadium, is it?

The [sponsors name only] @St.James' Park. is a good compromise, no? Obviously any other reference to a sporting venue, such as arena, would be wrong. Keeping the name of the venue as St. James' Park is vital, and as long as they do that, I'm happy. I complained about sponsoring the FA Cup, and whilst sponsorship is an intrinsic element of what is spoiling the game, the Carling FA Cup [ or whatever] isn't erasing the magic of the FA cup as it is still quite clearly the FA Cup. To be perfectly honest I'm still at the "meh" stage of this takeover. The club has been decimated, football has descended rapidly into organised crime, and I just don't know if I should even give a shit. Sure, we could be on the brink of long overdue success [by simply covering up the corruption of the PL] but it's not in the Roy of the Rovers manner that I dreamed. In fact it is in the manner of everything I have been vehemently opposed to for most of my adult life.

And encourage gamblers.

Sounds like Hope has heard in advance about Jones and put 2 and 2 together.

Not a very good photographer if he has do describe the moment in such detail.

Have the trust approached the new owners about owning 1% of the club?

I doubt there would be any reason for broadcasters to mention the sponsor if that was the case.

The way they didn't burn Steve Bruce the minute they walked through the door suggests they had sympathy with him. Our new owners are tories and probably read the Telegraph. Lampard it is, then.

I've no doubt edwards would love licking Lampard's hoop for the next 3 years.

He's also full of integrity and speaks from the heart. If he has even the slightest reservation I think he'd graciously decline any offer.

Aye because the media cunts keep bringing him up. Looking after the gravy train.

The idea that a player, such as Lampard and Rooney, can do a year or two apprentice at Derby then walk into a top job is just another destructive element of the game.

Then you have to make it so hijacking is impossible, or pointless. I'm sure we've all learned from Boaty McBoatface, by now.

Something like that would alleviate most of my concerns. When cunt changed the name, it made it easier to simply say Sports Direct Arena, and omit the relevant bit. Welcome to Aramco, wouldn't mean anything, to anybody.

It must be skeletal by now. Surely.

Aramco Avocet?

A Chronicle poll, surely. Can't restrict it to 35000 season ticket holders. Members would be close but then the same accusations thrown at the Trust, could be levelled at the owners. I detest the Chronicle, but if the new owners can build a good relationship with mutual integrity, then it could be healthy, going forwards. The new owners say they want to embrace the fans, and the community and the Chronicle [as the only local paper, should be the platform for that to be facilitated.

Yeah. At that time English clubs had one competent footballer and a brick shithoose in defence. Bruce is as much use as the latter.

The Saudi Seagull?

He was a good defender but I think saying he knew how to play football is stretching it. Schar is the type of defender that knows how to play football. Bruce was nothing more than the ubiquitous immoveable object that English football relied upon for too long.

I get the feeling it's not how it's done, outside of FM, but I'd prefer it if the DoF football was chosen to compliment the manager. I understand that Managers come and go, so there is a clear argument for continuity, but I think the managers philosophies should be the ones that matter.

I'll celebrate 17th. He's left us in such a shite position 18th would e a fucking achievement.

I guess the "abuse" levelled at him, for bringing up his dead parents, is easily conflated into abusing his dead parents/

Would rather lose 4-3 at St. James' than win 1-0 at the Saudi Palace.

We've gone from 11 games at 3pm on a Saturday to 3, in 30 years. Or do you mean just for the feeder clubs?