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Personally speaking I would rather they ran us like a Leicester than a PSG, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that

I'm not saying they're not interested at all, and it's amazing that we're being run in a much more professional way and investment is being made available. I find it hard to believe, of course, that they bought NUFC solely to save us from the clutches of Mike Ashley and give the fans a taste of being run like a Leicester - but aye, I also think there would maybe have been more sabre-rattling and challenging of the blatant anti-competition rubbish which continues to just spiral, if they were pushing for global superpower status rather than just investing in a club trying to do the right thing. It's just been my feeling for a while and SAK is the first person I've seen post similar; I've got no strong evidence for it one way or another, but I've been tempted to post it in the Eddie Howe thread for weeks when people post that PIF will be losing patience. I'm not sure they're even looking

Aye this is my view like genuinely don't think they're that arsed about nufc, Eddie Howe's performance, stadium, whatever.

Surely that was one of us

fair, and equally artisan cafes may miss the ready access to hipster unpasteurised town moor milk

It's already got a fuck off dual carriageway across it, and a golf course. It's not like it's been too carefully preserved so far I feel like the cows would be happier cows 25 miles north in rural Northumberland.

I guess this is just one of the problems with the commercialisation and gentrification of the game. People who wanted to go to experience the football ground atmosphere but not contribute to it eventually outnumbering the people who created the football ground atmosphere in the first place, and before you know it you've got a stadium that politely applauds goals and otherwise moans noisily about lack of excitement, and those same people are on the focus group about bringing back the noise Quizzes wew

I would happily lose it to a new stadium but it would not fulfil the essential City Centre criteria so non starter for me. Out of interest what's the distinction you draw between the green area of Castle Leazes and the Town Moor? Or Nuns or Hunters for that matter? All just weird and fairly worthless fields in the middle of houses, to me Would also happily move the Hoppings rivet by rivet to Beamish

Aye, always amuses me the distinction drawn between us winning something late 60s and them winning something early 70s, four years later I wasn't even born when they won that FA Cup and I'm old as fuck now

Honestly cannot wait for the elite level men's game to finally collapse in on itself and become an exhibition league of ten or twelve teams custom designed to entertain world audiences that don't particularly like football As long as we're not part of that, of course I'll still be happy just to be rid of Mike Ashley I reckon

Get in

Well fuck

top of the hill though, easier to manage

Build a new state of the art hospital on Castle Leazes, which will be an easier sell to the public than a football stadium, then level the RVI and put the Saudidome there New hospital will have to be taller on average to fit in the space and will no doubt block light to Leazes Terrace alas

Sunderland looking likely to go up this season I guess, from the current leading position and the fixtures they've got left. Could maybe do without the derby next year and pass them going the other way at the end of next season

Nice impartial questions there Cameron

Football has always been parochial for me, it's less about admiring and pursuing pure technical brilliance than it's about the feeling of belonging to something, and getting some pride from something local. I get the exact same buzz from watching the lasses that I did when I started going to watch the men 25 years ago. I'm a very reserved and quiet person by nature and it's only a Newcastle team that can make me shout until I'm hoarse, or be the only voice yelling support in a big crowd. Absolutely loving it since I started going this year.

It's one of the reasons I'm drawn to non league and the women's game at the minute, just a much purer football experience for me these days. The shit that surrounds the top flight mens game is almost intolerable. I was at Alnwick Town yesterday and some lad who played for Killingworth had a proper pop at the referee, for which he was rightly sent off. Premier refs either told not to, or too scared to do it.

Honestly could have taken or left it until I found myself on Northumberland Street and Haymarket bus station ten minutes before kickoff vs. City. Glimpses of the level 7 lights from all over the place and I'd forgotten how monumental it sounds from the town; then everybody spilling out afterwards and not just heading for cars then going home. Getting on for a unique experience now I guess, it's to be treasured.

Hopefully not given in retribution for Salah being a cheating diving cunt

Just like every week then

Friend of mine paid about £35 for two tickets at the Etihad for the Manchester derby, it's not super expensive even at the top (not yet anyway)

much more like it gbandit Howl's Moving Stadium