TheBrownBottle

Must get boring after five minutes, given that you can’t say anything anymore. They must just sit and stare at each because of that.

Far right group - basically Tommy Robinson clones. Here’s a lovely picture of a meeting between NUFC and SAFC racist wankers, a beautiful moment of truce to get pissed and rant together about the real enemy - wearing appropriate clothing outdoors. I think it’s lovely that those barriers can be broken so that everyone can be happy and racist together. Starring that cunt with the NUFC tat on his belly, the one who isn’t Beefy

Excellent. Set a reminder on my phone. Can’t tell if I should’ve been more aware, or if Newcastle hasn’t done the greatest job of letting the world know. God knows I get enough junk emails from them.

I only just realised that NUFC’s official YouTube channel is streaming some of the women’s matches. Baaaals. Anyone know if they’re streaming the Halifax match? I’ll happily watch the matches when they’re on.

Lovely stuff. The price tag would be terrifying, but it’s not my money …

No-one is going to granted permission to knock down Leazes Terrace, whatever histrionics are printed in shitrags like the S*n. I can remember Blackburn struggling to get compulsory purchase orders to buy the last couple of terrace houses for their renovation a few decades ago - and they were buying old Victorian red brick terraces, not Georgian sandstone town houses

I’m going to join the unpopular crowd and agree. SJP has seen nothing but failure (albeit sometimes glorious failure) for decades. I don’t get misty-eyed about it at all. There’s practically zero chance of SJP redevelopment getting us to where the club say they want to get to. If John Hall had stuck to his original plan- which pretty much no-one had any issue with other than Friends of Leazes Park - we wouldn’t even be having this conversation

If they weren’t a Mag before, they’re a Mag now

Except it isn’t when it doesn’t make a lick of sense

Does changing a single name in a song even make it a terrace chant? Using Wham! is already bad enough …

Honestly, never took it as a personal attack mate - just a back-and-forth debate. I don’t have any skin in the game for that - I dislike all of the clubs which would even be in the debate. PS I did think of Haaland after I wrote what I did - he’s the first Man City signing where he was one of the world’s very best players when he signed. 100% agree.

Wasn’t in Beardsley’s class

It changed it from ‘sick note’ for me

It’s funny and horrible at the same time - it of course completely exposes that they don’t know what they’re talking about, but it also shows that they’d use genuine tragedy - and the Yemeni civil war is that - to have a pop at a rival football club despite knowing fuck all about it and caring even less. It is grotesque.

Man Utd’s status long pre-dates the relatively recent PL becoming the world’s biggest league. It’s a nonsense argument to suggest that Man Utd’s status is the result of the PL’s status. Of course it’s fan base which makes them bigger than Liverpool. Are NUFC bigger than Coventry or Luton or Wigan or Wimbledon? Those clubs have won more trophies in my lifetime. A well-run Man Utd is potentially the world’s biggest club. They’ve been hobbled by their own version of Ashley. Despite more equitable sharing of revenues, Man Utd still have a greater revenue than Barcelona and are only just short of Real’s, despite being hampered by those clowns who own them and recent failings. Man Utd’s commercial revenues are higher than any other club’s - despite not being successful in the elite club sense recently - because the Man Utd ‘brand’ is bigger than that of other clubs. They’re not propping Man Utd up so that Gary Neville can make unfounded claims on TV. Signing the best players in the world is meaningless in this - and Man City hasn’t done this either. The PL has had one world player of the year since the breakaway. It hasn’t stopped it becoming the world’s biggest and most watched league. It is an argument which is virtually impossible to ‘win’, which is why I said Man Utd are arguably the world’s biggest club (also potentially the world’s biggest club). The number of clubs in that argument can be counted on one hand. Bayern Munich sell more shirts than anyone else. Barcelona has more Twitter followers than them. Real Madrid has won more European Cups. And so on and so forth.

Yep - Barmby and Anderson in particular were absolute head-scratchers for me. Nowhere near that level. It usually helps when the England manager has the London football press at his Scribes nightclub for free drinkies on regular basis. Fewer questions get asked - you can even resign over mounting legal issues and they don’t say a peep.

Apologies if it came across as my taking it as personal - it was more of a smiling shrug than an angry comment from me Man Utd are far bigger than any other club in England - and the UK is a meaningless metric, regardless of what the odd daft cunt north of the border thinks. It wasn’t hyperbole in the past - by shirt sales, by estimated supporter base etc - recent times have seen a slump. Perhaps if Man Utd got bailed out by iffy deals with the Spanish govt as Real often have been, they might be in a stronger position. Beckham’s move wasn’t seen as a step up - he’d fell out with Ferguson. Ronaldo grew up as a Real fan. Additionally, Madrid and Barcelona have been able to sustain themselves at the top table by taking a vastly greater share of footballing wealth from Spanish TV rights etc. They’re even more poisonous to Spanish football than the ‘Sky Six’ are in England. Travel around the globe, and see how many Man Utd ‘fans’ there are - and how many have heard of them.

So you think that Jim Radcliffe is paying seven times what PIF paid for us - and for a minority stake - but he has no interest in making Man Utd the world’s most successful club? Despite the fact that commercially they don’t have that much to do, they just need to be better run?

They’ve got the fourth highest turnover on the planet despite being mismanaged and not being remotely as successful recently as the clubs around them. I didn’t say they are the biggest club in the world - but they’re in the argument, and the only English club who would be. So you’re asking me to explain something which I didn’t say. But then I’m on a football forum where football fans are seriously asking whether or not Man Utd are potentially the world’s biggest club. I mean, fucking hell lads.

Number of supporters does count for something. edit: so do commercials. They’re huge commercially despite their trophy winning slowing down. Sponsors don’t pay money for nowt.

I didn’t say they are, but the argument exists. In terms of supporters etc. They were England’s biggest club when Liverpool were the most successful. If trophies are what defines how big a club is, then we’re about the 40th biggest club in England in the last half century

It’s still Man Utd - the biggest club in the country for at least seven decades now, probably more. We aren’t likely to become the country’s biggest club - so we won’t surpass them in that regard.

Yep, makes sense to me. Maybe how much control etc he gets would come into it too.

A competently run Man Utd is not an unattractive prospect. You’re talking about England’s biggest club and arguably the biggest on earth. If they really want him I suspect there is a chance they get him, just as he came here from Brighton.

Someone at some point is going to point out that the KSA and Yemeni govts are allies, and that flag represents the govt of Yemen …