Wolfcastle

A sliding door at the bottom of the back of the East Stand like Centre Court at Wimbledon now - for light purpose on none match days would be better than it is now even if they built over the road - obviously just thinking outside the box because luckily we've the only ownership where SJP and expansion is possible. St James Terrace can be sacrificed yet I'd love to keep those cobbles as part of things.

Like Luton where you have to go through the buildings to get into the stand

Was a bloke in the 90s in Leazes near where my mate used to sit that would hand song sheets out that he'd come up with. Wasn't well thought of. Though these things have to start somewhere just seems so inorganic to see it in action, especially before the player has even played for us, compared to someone starting a chant off at a preseason game that takes hold.

Its of the standard of the last one at least.

Milan once bought for a world record fee, and nearly five times the most expensive English transfer, the best player from their nearest European competitor (the only team to beat them in Europe in 6years) at the height of Berlusconi's then unlimited sums and their dominance. Bet it was just fine then. *to say nothing of sabotaging the floodlights to get a game called off that they were losing to said team.

Ravanelli won the champions league and left the biggest club in Italy to go to Middlesbrough in the same year Vialli (having also just won the CL) and Zola (like Ravenelli a fully fledged starter for Italy) opted for a club that hadn't finished above mid-table in living memory that was getting 15,000 the previous season in a ramshackle half-built half decript stadium. Money might have been involved. Football's been finished as a beautiful game for decades. But that sums up the attitude behind the ESL - wah wah only we should be allowed to dominate its not fair to get a taste of our own medicine

Maybe he's just browsing, looking for more souls to buy.

Bet if Luton were in for him he'd have managed it *whoever he is

I was thinking a better version of the nerd on Die Hard 4.0 (and other films I haven't seen) ish

"Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason Luke Edwards is shit." - Danny the Dealer (1969)

And that's over now, that's the entire point. The exact opposite point could be made since we had finished above Spurs the lions share of the time pre Ashley and still had a bigger stadium, but which club offered more. They're not going forward we are.

Its common place for a rising club to supercede an established one in player destinations. Blackburn, Chelsea, Man City players all left and/or turned down more established clubs to go somewhere with a brighter futures and a buzz. For footballing reasons there's no reason why you wouldn't. Were far more likely to have it and challenge for it on a sustained basis than Spurs. Were not going away. They're clinging on to it.

Similar sized clubs once you take Ashley out of it. They've peaked and will only return to those heights fleetingly with their fans suitably morose about it. No CL, no magic. Were only going in one direction and will only drop out fleetingly. CL, magic. If anybody would even mull over us or Spurs at this point I'd make their minds up for them and move on. Doesn't indicate they'd have the right mentality for us

Have you heard the one about how Geordie identity, which we reinforce (!?) to feel relevant, holds the region back?

Not a chance these are better than they were in the 90s.

That's how it was under Ashley. Anyone good would be sold. Anyone shit could get a testimonial. The key to the illusion is probably young players and reinvestment. The same risks, anybody good will be sold, hung over during Ossie Ardiles reign but because they were young players it didn't seem so sterile and cold plus there was some expectancy it would be reinvested in the club not disappear into some fat c*nts portfolio of scams businesses

Good intel. For further context it was £26 in 97 (literally PSV was the stub I found) and £32 in 02 where I sat. It was the perspective of having to pay for them all at the same time that brought it home. Hull (bottom of the 4th division) in the league-cup was more expensive than Barcelona in the CL a month earlier.

Three Euro finals, one Euro win and a world cup win since the PL became the richest in the world - but Italian players not good enough for England.

£20 in the mid 90s for Bristol City and Oldham might justify the CL pricing in 2023. I dont see it as a disgrace as much as that's just the way it is as it pre-dated me. Think the problem is mostly it all mounting up. Like a financial version of players tiring after Europe and two cup runs. Individually its probably not that far off for what's being sold - number one league in the world and the biggest competition in club football. For all I far preferred the 90s

Don't care for her attitude there to be honest. Three CL tickets in my seat was a weeks wage in 02/03, factor in travel to Turin and Barcelona was the best part of a months wage. Its hardly a disgrace. Its always been that way. So someone else can go instead. Think that's quite good actually. Keegan used to like it when people didn't take up their option for cup tickets and it allowed people who couldn't get in to go, take the kids and stuff. Cant argue with that bloke.

The major reason big Italian players dont often leave their league is because they've never had to. Serie A was the biggest league in the world until the 2000s and their top clubs can pay really well even in todays climate. Its not a homesick, culture thing. Not many English players have gone overseas for the same reason.

Eranio and Baiano from Milan and Florence to Derby Ravanelli, Festa and Branca from Turin and Milan to Middlesbrough Santon from Milan to Ashley ran NUFC Sereni from Genoa to Ipswich Silenzi from Turin to Nottingham Di Canio managed Sunderland ffs There's no way a club in the champions league with a boat-load of money can compete with that. Cant believe there are people that still don't think money is by far the most important factor and always has been when players have been coming to English footbal and every rinkydink club and town you can think of for decades.

Nice difficult start there. Can see the glisten from the knives in the media and on here already

I can easily imagine there's nothing in it. The scenario where Inter are needing to sell (apparently) and that being the sort of thing our team will be all over I can quite imagine. I don't think Edwards is good enough to have factored that in and has just stumbled across something. Given his past slagging off of Amanda I cant see how he'd have any legit intel.

Man United in 94/95 and Boro 89/90 (to the ground) and mackems away 96/97 (arena) were shown live. Platinum club beambacks too showed live away matches. This sounds like an extension of that. The place was drunk dry for a match at Bolton. That plus the price of tickets, probably made a fair wedge for them. Wonder if something has changed with the rights. *just sifted through my ticket stubs - Sheffield Wednesday in March 94 was £10 a ticket