Choppy Chop Chop

The only way to ever improve the world we live in is to (how can I put it) 'embrace' and 'deal and communicate' with rulers and countries that are currently like Saudi Arabia, there are plenty of them. A huge way to achieve our objectives with these countries is to trade with them (ideally not weapons!) and something like 'world sport' is a very good way to get/keep this process going. If we as a country reject these people, then they (and the fate of their people) will never improve. Forgive me, but that’s a mite paternalistic, not to mention entirely false. The only way to improve the world is to eat all the capitalists. Sounds good to me

From Have I got news for you Twitter feed As Newcastle Utd’s sale to Saudi Arabia is delayed, Dominic Raab says if they chuck in a few rocket launchers he’ll ensure it gets pushed through by 5pm.

This :smitten:

Wait until you see this one for the next four months. As a representative of the "Manorparkians Group" I can tell you that you will not be seeing this Thread Title (unchanged) for the next four months. In fact I can formally announce that Takeover Day WILL BE on Monday 27th July 2020. (Remember, you read it here first . . ) I wanna be in your gang :snod:

Page 963, and the quietest day for weeks.

So confusing for mere mortals like myself

up, down, up down give me strength

In plain words why is this negative?

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Just piggin do it

Can we change the title of this thread to `The Premier League has lost the plot`

Newcastle United making up the numbers since 2007

I've spent countless months working in Saudi, I know enough of their failings first hand (and good points) as a country, and I'll certainly be critical of them when appropriate. There's lots wrong with Saudi Arabia politically. But you know what? I judge the owner of my football club on the basis of how they run the football club. Mike Ashley has catastrophically failed there. I'm not a journalist, I'm not an MP, I'm not an Amnesty International activist. I'm just a football fan, and Newcastle are my club, they always will be. Ultimately, my primary judgement on the owner of my club will be based on how they run that club. Provided that aspect is done well, I'll leave the finger-pointing and tutting to those whose job it is to tut and point fingers at those other things. I will probably even vocally agree with them whilst they do it, but I can let s*** slide to a large extent if we're being well-run. And by well-run, I couldn't give a toss about winning anything, I just want a well-run club which tries its hardest to compete and uses its own revenue to reinvest in its facilities and staff. If the British government see fit to keep trading with the Saudis and the Queen will have lunch with them, then why should football fans be expected to hound them out and deny themselves the pleasure of supporting a team which is being well-run and hell, may even win something for the first time in the memory of anyone who doesn't actually need drugs to survive? What I've had over the last decade and a bit is a shell of a club, with a man owning it stripping all the revenue out of it so the club shops are just re-badged Sports Directs and we get nothing from the sales, we don't get the catering money, half the adverts are for SD with him paying a token fee for the privilege. He just uses us as a glorified advertising hoarding for his tatty, chav sports shops, targeting 17th each year whilst spending the least he humanly can just so he can keep that advertising hoarding on TV whilst stating openly that trying to win a cup doesn't make economical sense ffs. Screw enduring even a single second more of that, it's f***ing miserable. If this goes through I may hate the new owners for their politics, but I'll take them gladly to end a decade of hating the whole club which is far worse, so that I can fill what has frankly become a void in my life on match days. I'll take so that I can stop wanting my own team to lose because getting out of the Premier League for an extended period seemed the only way to get rid of Ashley so I could have a team that actually tries again, even if in a lower division, a team whose successes, however relative, and however modest would at least be something I could enjoy because the club would be trying to improve. Not being able to support your own football club is horrible, and it's not like most of us can pick another one either. I just want a team to support again, even if I can't support the owners. I just want to enjoy matchdays again, supporting a club that wants to be the best it can be. Football has always been a big part of my life from my childhood onwards, I've been stuck in limbo for a decade and that vacuum has been awful. So no, I cannot and will not ever oppose this takeover. Great post and pretty much encapsulates my thoughts on the takeover too Excellent

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/piers-morgan-asks-questions-newcastle-18553974 Yawn

Urgh didn't realise it was the Sun feel dirty now

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Sources says the Newcastle United takeover might happen or might not happen, sources being all the local journalists :dave:

Regular BeIn pundit Sam ‘whiter than white’ Allardyce. Hmmmm... Shame i couldn't dislike the twat more than I already do

EFL rules say clubs who go into administration will receive a 12-point deduction and that has now been confirmed in Wigan’s case. As Div three is over surely amy points deduction would carry over

No source at all but Rumours circulating that Sunderland AFC might be going into administration.

Hate Ashley, but never want Newcastle to lose Want a decent manager, but never want Newcastle to lose Hate Leeds bad 1970's memories but they should be a premiership team Bournemouth no doubt will want it more tonight and will probably edge it

I shouldn't have asked

So deflated with all this, in a nutshell can someone say currently if it looks on or off

Really struggling to be optimistic today, help