christ

McClaren, Benitez, Bruce, Conte would be the funniest run of managers.

If I were in their shoes I’d be banging on about human rights abuses too. This’ll ruin their year.

I woke up at about 3am and had to check my phone because in my half-asleep state I thought I’d dreamt the SSN coverage.

I was 19 when he bought the club. I’m 34 now, so obviously life has happened - births and deaths, love and loss etc. Two main ones that stick out though… My grandad died. He had long since stopped going to matches before Ashley arrived, but he was the reason me and my brother were black and white daft. He took us to our first games, dragged us around the club shop so we could get fully kitted out, had us in awe with stories of Newcastle old. Trophies and world class players. He handed over the baton in a way, as when he stopped being able to attend me and my brother started going. Football was always our thing, and for the last decade of his life our conversations about it were uniformly miserable. Also, my daughter was born. I took her to her first game at the start of this season against West Ham. She was pretty nonplussed to be honest, but she enjoyed the idea of liking the same thing as dad so she didn’t outright say she was bored to tears. Anyway, she was sat with me watching the Leeds game on TV a few weeks later and when we went 1-0 down she says “Do I have to support Newcastle?”. You kind of hope that this takeover will put an end to questions like that.

Just woke up. So yesterday really happened then lads?

Credit where it’s due, that’s funny for him.

Football clubs famously don’t work evenings and weekends.

Do we know where Ant is?

Not sad at all. The last 13 years have been miserable for the most part.

Especially that sexy cunt who bought ashleyout.com in 2010 and sat on it just in case it was needed.

Always weird when players from my Merlin sticker books pop up in really senior behind the scenes roles in modern, successful football clubs. Isn’t Scott Sellars doing a similar job at Wolves?

Some absolute pricks have decided that today is the day for back to back to back to back meetings. Fuckers.

They’re going to be getting drained once the announcement is made.

350ish. They’ve absolutely piled the pages on. Not rattled at all.

Morning all. Logging on and strapping in.

Always find the local angle. First rule of journalism.

You’re class. Please hang around.

At this point it’s probably a matter of pride. But us just to prove they can, let us rot

Hope not. I’ve got back to back nights out this weekend. I might fucking die.

Just enjoy this while it lasts. It’ll be the highlight of the season.

What was it they said? One day we’ll wake up and find the club embroiled in an 18 month legal battle with the Premier League to allow a takeover involving the most evil regime on the face of the planet?

There’s a degree of reading between the lines required. We’ve got to assume that someone is briefing everyone and they haven’t just all decided piracy issue resolved = takeover is on.

Fuck off

I’ll not believe it until our fans have disgraced themselves by reacting badly to an Amnesty International protest outside the ground.

Yeah but he’s a daft cunt so…