TheBrownBottle

His friend (and ours) Gary Hoffman is part of the Ashley lot who now own Cov's stadium. Harambe therefore offers his 'backing'. Odious little shite

I didn’t say he was shit - but the defensive partner he has clearly makes a difference. He used to look shaky regularly for NUFC. Botman / Burn are the perfect foil for him

Burn and Botman looking increasingly like the greatest hand-holders in defensive history here. Schar looks like Schar again. Get him home to Eddie.

You’ve got to love them We’ve got years and years and years of this and I’m going to enjoy every second - these stories will pop up from time to time and they’ll get excited. Of course, they’re actually mortified that KSA will buy English football’s most famous club for sportswashing, but that mortification will often look like celebrations. And it’ll dwindle away as they realise it isn’t happening, and cling again to the notion that they definitely wouldn’t swap places, and it’ll all end in tears, etc etc ad infinitum

It’s shite like this that Chadwick said - utterly littered with total weapons-grade horseshit - which irritates: “Newcastle United has always seemed like an opportunistic purchase and I think in essence the deal for Newcastle was sold heavily to them by intermediaries,” adds Chadwick. “You had a willing seller and the amount of money they paid is small change. “The opportunistic purchase of Newcastle, I think, was a consequence of being kicked back by Manchester United in the first place. “There probably will be a certain amount of disbelief amongst Saudi officials having bought Newcastle when they really wanted to buy Manchester United. They are now in a position where they could potentially buy Manchester United. “I might be going out on a bit of a limb here, but it is not entirely inconceivable that they could dispose of Newcastle and buy Manchester United.” Yep, seemed really ‘opportunistic’ to me. So opportunistic that they spent the best part of two years trying before paying Qatar £1bn to resolve it. The good prof doesn’t seem to understand the meaning of ‘opportunistic’, and as others have pointed out, this is really the desperate ramblings of a man who wanted his club bought.

I don’t, and they could outgun the competition financially. Those clubs will be bought out with borrowed cash and heavy leveraging.

I love the fact he’s a Professor too - a Professor who is meant to specialise in his knowledge of this stuff. Yet he’s exposed as knowing the square root of fuck all

I’m not sure it’s defensiveness - I think the situation is funny. It’s a desperate misreading of both the situation and PIF’s intent. If they wanted to buy Man Utd they could have at any time - does anyone seriously think the Glazers wouldn’t have accepted a bid? It’s as funny as those sad twats from Milan and Marseille thinking that the PIF buyout was always happening tomorrow.

Bloody hell that had left my memory banks! Yeah, he used to do that every time - it was more subtle when it started, by the end he was jumping literally when the ball was kicked …

Defenders bounced off him. Unfortunately, so did the ball

Hang on, are people now saying that Ameobi was actually good? Sometimes, a line has to be drawn. It has to be.

The sickest part is that capitalism offers much easier rewards for investment elsewhere - this fucker clearly likes the power of toying with people’s emotions. No-one is going to get hung up over him doing this with a distressed sports brand or high street shopping chain. The bastard simply enjoys hurting people.

Chris Waddle and Stuart Pearce put some welly in their penalties Luckily, because they put their laces through them, no-one even remembers their misses 32 years on

Not many missed as many vital ones as Shearer, either ….

Horrible, horrible, horrible cunt The man is a fucking leech. Why can’t he just take his ill-gotten gains and fuck off? Buy a lifetime’s supply of Frey Bentos and sit in front of the telly. It’s a sport for the man. Obviously the desperate sad cases like Keys are impressed by money and sure in their own bigotry that we’re wrong. But I doubt they reflect the majority of Coventry City supporters, who’ve had nowt but shite news re their club for two decades now. The poor soda deserve a break; the fates gave them Mike Ashley

Got you. Makes sense. Always thought he just came across as a right wanker

I’m certainly grateful that Fat Sham is so ludicrously greedy he fell for an obvious sting - I don’t see England doing what they have done under him I think this is a quality group of footballers, all of whom seem like good eggs (unlike generations past). They seem to actually like each other, and I can see how someone like Southgate might blend well with them

It’s a hex on them, but I really think Japan will go through. To be honest, I’d be tempted by Morocco too, and it would be great to see an African QFist, but that’s possibly pushing it.

Yep, he can get fucked. Loads of them queued up to do it, sadly, and all remain on the shitlist. Including the man in my picture

Smoggie, isn’t he? Last I’d heard he was banging on about how PIF would deffo buy Marseille and Inter. That’s materialised, obviously. PIF bought us for obvious reasons - they can buy us for £300m, pump a lot of money in, and the club’s value will outstrip the investment - the other week NUFC was already being revalued at £1bn. Or they could buy Man Utd for £6bn with no return. Brilliant.

Give the Mackems £10m to play at the SOS for the season while they ground share with South Shields They’d get more money on their gate from that fee alone, and they’d actually be able to fill Shields’s ground with actually tickets buyers. Alright, it’s not a goer …

Pickford had a good game, and is a short armed Mackem wanker

I think he is a decent man, and he’s correct on everything he’s said in relation to discrimination, and politics and sport absolutely do mix. I just think he’s a utterly mediocre manager who has a group of players who could play much nicer football. I also think England have beat who they should beat and down nowt against sides where the odds are more even. In all three knockout games he’s won his team we’re comfortable favourites. If England beat France I’m perfectly comfortable with saying he’s got them performing above where they might be expected to be I.e. he’s earning his crust as a manager. You know, like what we do with NUFC managers. Bruce kept Newcastle up playing shit football and an average group of players. Howe has many of the same players playing out of their skin now. We don’t give Bruce credit for basically doing the same thing - though Southgate is clearly a far more decent man (which helps).

Still feels like Cameroon for me - though Colombia was a tough game - and let’s be honest, it took some ‘gamesmanship’ for us to get past them. Having said that, that Belgium team in ‘90 still had a few of their SF side from ‘86 in peak form. Enzo Scifo was still a sublime footballer.

Both at Wembley, of course. And those Spain and Germany sides were not exactly ‘peak’ Spain or Germany. Those remain England’s only knockout victories vs heavyweights (Arg, Bra, Fra, Ger, Ned, Ita, Por, Spa) since 1966. Where all the games were at Wembley. Let’s hope all the EURO 2028 games are at Wembley