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Agreed. Although their best rider crashing into a bus didn't help much either.

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I was born in Sussex in the mid-80s. Family are all from the north-east (Sunderland actually...) and moved south in the late 70's. I only started getting interested in football around '93 or so, when I was about 8, and wanted to follow a north east team just to have some connection to where my family were from. By this time two of my grandparents had died, one was in a home and the other wasn't far behind so football was the only chance to grab a link to our family 'home'. Why didn't I support Sunderland? I guess I can only assume that Newcastle was more exciting to an 8 year old in 1993. We also always stayed in Newcastle when we went up to visit grandparents and I really liked the city. It happened and it stuck. My parents are still Sunderland fans but there is no strong rivalry amongst us. Since moving down south they have always taken the approach of rooting for any one of Newcastle, Sunderland or Middlesbrough whenever they play anyone outside the north. We live in north London now and I'll be honest, I'm gently encouraging my son to be an Arsenal fan. London is home for him. It'll be nice for him to support a local team and actually be able to go to a game without having to spend silly money on train tickets.

Even better- two games in hand. It would be a massive boost.

I know what you mean. Technically we are all jumping the gun, slightly. But I have personally lost all resilience and can’t wait any longer.

Ok cool, that’s fine, thank you. We can get back to optimism now.

Very quickly, sorry for upsetting anyone and with genuine hope that this question gets shut down as quickly as possible… can someone reassure me about how this news will help us getting out of our current predicament of being in a relegation battle. Are we hoping for a new manager impact in the main? I did notice that odds checker have moved us from second favourite to fourth favourite today, so there is hope.

Titanic?

This particular can came from last years beer advent calendar. It’s open now.

It begins…

Will I be jinxing it if I have a can now..?

There was something quoted earlier today about needing a 75% vote share (special resolution) to enforce the rule re not joining another league and expel an offending member.

Potentially stupid idea not really thought through, but could the other 14 not vote to rejoin the football league and then stop promotion from the football league to the PL?

Good point.

It must be wider than that and I think talks about this will have been going on behind the scenes for a long time (years).

I can understand why they would be one of the '6' but I'm not really sure why it has to be 6. They haven't won the league for 60 years. Surely a team like Valencia or Sevilla has more right to be there as a fourth Spanish team. The word 'right' is, of course, hypothetical as no one has the right to this nonsense.

In that case, maybe the other 14 teams could leave and rejoin the Football League. You'd then need to change the rules of the FL to stop promotion to the PL, but if that happened there would be the desired effect of excluding the 6 from domestic league competition.

Was anyone listening to the game on Talksport? I don’t know who was speaking but there was some horrendous ‘punditry’ near the end. “Newcastle fans should be pleased, they’ve been asking for entertainment all season” “They had their expectations raised a bit high by that mid-90s entertainers team” “Bruce has had lots of criticism, but he’s kept them up so he’s done his job” ”Steve Bruce tends to finish between 10th to 14th so that what you should expect. He’s not suddenly going to finish in the top four” makes me furious hearing shit like that

Would give Beardsley a mention too, even if the premier league era came a little late for him. I’d like to fit Cantona in the team somehow, but not sure where.

Well I enjoyed HTT’s post. Sad but true.

There is a small part of me that still cares but only because of Rafa. So I’m fairly sure that in 5 months time I really won’t give a shit anymore. It does make me sad when I think how much I have cared in the past. I remember being about 9 years old and being absolutely devestated when Andy Cole got shin splints ffs.

Its a view held by many but because they arent really that interested so naturally they won't do much research. TBF if Ashley was at another club we'd probably look at it the same way as them. I just can’t believe there isn’t more to it, he is ignoring any facts presented to him e.g. Luke Edward’s tweets. He shared a studio with Alan Shearer over the World Cup, surely he must be desperate to set him straight? I’m convinced that Rio is being asked directly by Mike to be a public spin doctor, whether he is being paid to do so or not. Do you honestly think Ashley is going to line these peoples pockets to try and big him up for a bit on TV and to what extent hundreds??....thousands??? tens of thousands??? We are talking about a man who wanders around in jeans that look like hes picked them up from his tatty store for a fiver. Hes hardly lavish by any means you don't see him flashing his swanky yacht or private jet, oh I tell a lie when he went to his Victorian sweat shop warehouse for a walk around with MPS he was caught with a roll of 50s in his pocket that would choke a hippo that was all for show though...the utter c*** As I said “whether he is being paid to do so or not”. Do I think that Ashley might ask his associates who have a high amount of public exposure to put a good word in when the opportunity arises? Yes, I do.

And if he is just innocently too lazy to do any research then he is simply failing at his job

Its a view held by many but because they arent really that interested so naturally they won't do much research. TBF if Ashley was at another club we'd probably look at it the same way as them. I just can’t believe there isn’t more to it, he is ignoring any facts presented to him e.g. Luke Edward’s tweets. He shared a studio with Alan Shearer over the World Cup, surely he must be desperate to set him straight? I’m convinced that Rio is being asked directly by Mike to be a public spin doctor, whether he is being paid to do so or not.