General NUFC stuff

[timeEd32]

All things being equal in the game, don't think we would have won yesterday if the game had been at home.

[Si]

 

 

 

 

That first tweet tells you everything you need to know about Rafa. He works so hard to manage the squad and counter the opposition before kick off and it must be so frustrating when we can't deliver what he wants on the pitch.

[Scoot]

All things being equal in the game, don't think we would have won yesterday if the game had been at home.

 

Ok thanks.

[Greg]

All things being equal in the game, don't think we would have won yesterday if the game had been at home.

 

We've already beaten Stoke at home this season so who gives a fuck.

 

At home we've stopped the rot, time to make sure we beat Swansea and get the job done.

[Guest neesy111]

All things being equal in the game, don't think we would have won yesterday if the game had been at home.

 

We've already beaten Stoke at home this season so who gives a fuck.

 

At home we've stopped the rot, time to make sure we beat Swansea and get the job done.

 

This.

[timeEd32]

What I said was in relation to the negative atmosphere at Brighton. The fact we beat Stoke earlier in the season is irrelevant.

[Guest neesy111]

We started off very shit vs Brighton, if we started like we did vs Stoke then the atmosphere would had been much better.

[timeEd32]

Would have gotten very tense after the Clark miss. Anyway, it was a stupid comment. I've moved on to stalking Amanda Staveley's London addresses.

[Dave]

Brighton game was the worst atmosphere I’ve experienced in a long while like, hopefully yesterday’s result will help it pick up for Swansea.

 

Probably be similar tbh, we'll be expected to hammer Swansea.

[Disco]

https://twitter.com/bigchrisholt/status/948162037733093376

[Tooj]

There's absolutely no context behind that whatsoever.

[Greg]

There's absolutely no context behind that whatsoever.

 

Based on expected goals stat would be more interesting.

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Newcastle United is the 12th richest club in the English leagues and one of the wealthiest in the world, according to a new report.

 

The club is ranked at number 36th in the inaugural Soccerex Football Finance 100, which lists clubs across the world in order of their financial clout.

 

Newcastle managed to gain its strong position on the table due to its relatively high asset values and its ownership by billionaire Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley .

 

One of the key financial measures used in the report was the amount of potential owner investment the club could receive. Clubs were also ranked on player value, the value of fixed assets, the amount of cash they had in the bank and their debt levels.

 

In a measure that might raise eyebrows with many fans, who believe Mr Ashley has not invested enough in the team, the report estimated that Mr Ashley’s potential investment could reach £91m.

 

Newcastle’s score was also boosted by the value of its playing squad, which is said to be worth £134m, as well as its £88m of fixed assets. However, the club also has net debt figure of £120m, which negatively affected its ranking.

 

The club’s ranking puts its ahead of Premiership rivals like Crystal Palace, Swansea and Bournmouth, as well as European giants such as Ajax, Roma and Porto.

 

David Wright, Soccerex marketing director, said: “We’re delighted to reveal the results of our first Soccerex Football Finance 100 study which highlight how the global football landscape has shifted over the past two decades.

 

“We wanted to create a study that provided a broader evaluation of football finances, one that reflected the modern reality of football, impacted by increased owner investment and the need for better financial management.

 

“By looking at factors like asset value, debt levels and crucially the amount the owner or ownership group could invest in the context of their direct environment, the report evaluates both the financial standing of each club and the economic potential they have in the market. The results have certainly been eye-catching.”

 

Despite its recent troubles - with the club currently bottom of the Championship - Sunderland was also named as one top 100 richest clubs in the world, placing 86th overall and 17th in the UK.

 

The Wearside team’s greatest assets were said to be its players, who are valued at £78m. However, Sunderland has one of the highest net debt levels in the English leagues, with the club owing £208m.

 

Manchester City has the biggest financial muscles in the world. A player value of £637m, fixed assets of £534m and potential investment of £788m secured its position.

 

Arsenal came in second, ahead of French giants PSG. Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United came fifth and seventh, respectively.

 

Despite Chelsea having the backing of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the club only came in at number nine. This was due to Mr Abramovich’s investment being listed as a loan. Chelsea has the second highest level of net debt at £400m, after Manchester United’s £536m.

 

Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande - winners of the country’s Super League for the last seven years - are ranked fourth richest in the world, one of nine Chinese teams in the top 100. American teams take up 13 places, led by LA Galaxy.

 

But the way the rankings are calculated punishes Spanish and German clubs, whose ownership model means they tend not to have wealthy backers.

 

Real Madrid, Bayern Munich Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund all score highly for the value of their squads but are ranked at zero for ‘owner potential investment’.

 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/newcastle-united-names-one-50-14112350

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[SEMTEX]

that kurtis russell (who!?) goal was a delight

[Greg]

That positioning from the Blyth 'keeper!

 

What the fuck is he doing? Having a chat to a mate?

[Guest firetotheworks]

The Kurtis Russell goal was mint. Shame they're bottom of the league, like.

[Paully]

5th!

 

[HaydnNUFC]

When do the club post away tickets? Do they post them perilously close to the date of the game?

[SteV]

When do the club post away tickets? Do they post them perilously close to the date of the game?

 

Usually about about two weeks to a week before the game, give or take, although generally they seem to have been a bit earlier most of the time this season. If you're waiting on Man City tickets I'd expect them some time this week probably.

[HaydnNUFC]

When do the club post away tickets? Do they post them perilously close to the date of the game?

 

Usually about about two weeks to a week before the game, give or take, although generally they seem to have been a bit earlier most of the time this season. If you're waiting on Man City tickets I'd expect them some time this week probably.

 

Ordered my Man City ticket before Christmas, was just fretting a tad as you never know with our box office.

[SteV]

When do the club post away tickets? Do they post them perilously close to the date of the game?

 

Usually about about two weeks to a week before the game, give or take, although generally they seem to have been a bit earlier most of the time this season. If you're waiting on Man City tickets I'd expect them some time this week probably.

 

Ordered my Man City ticket before Christmas, was just fretting a tad as you never know with our box office.

 

Aye, with away tickets they generally don't send them out until they've sold them all (or least the majority of them). They must have some kind of process to go through to make sure all travel groups are sat together. If it hasn't turned up by the end of the week I'd give them a call.

[Guest neesy111]

20 years since Keegan quit the first time.

[HaydnNUFC]

[Guest Howaythetoon]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/07/22/47DD15BD00000578-5244615-image-a-1_1515365253486.jpg

 

A shot in time: Defences were scared of Chelsea's famously infamous hitman Hughie Gallacher

 

Imagine this trio turning up at your door. More like bailiffs — or worse — than the Chelsea forward line, Jackie Crawford, Hughie Gallacher and Andy Wilson carried more than a goal threat when they posed like this.

 

It was 1931 and in west London, as well as Chicago, Al Capone was in vogue. These three look like they are on their way to, or on the way back from, a hit.

 

Two, Crawford and Gallacher, are smoking, because that was what you did. The other, Wilson, has one glove on, not because he had returned from somewhere he did not wish to leave fingerprints, rather Wilson had fought in the First World War and received a gunshot injury to his lower left arm at Arras.

 

A Scotland winger, Wilson was a Middlesbrough player then. He joined Chelsea in 1923 and stayed in the team for eight seasons. After that he joined QPR, and all that time he wore a glove. Later he underwent amputation.

 

Wilson was 34 in this picture, as was Crawford. He too was a winger, from Jarrow in the North East, where he worked in the shipyard before joining Hull City. He moved to Chelsea at the same time as Wilson.

 

Crawford played for England — once. At 5ft 2in, he is thought to be the smallest ever England international. His height meant that he was one of the few players 5ft 5in Gallacher could look down on.

 

The two Chelsea wingers were, appropriately, either side of their famously infamous centre forward, Gallacher. He was the headline act. ‘Wee Hughie’ Gallacher was a walking headline.

 

Born in 1903 near Glasgow, Gallacher came to Newcastle United’s attention playing for Airdrieonians. By the time he was 23 he had won the Scottish Cup with Airdrie and finished runner-up in the league twice. He had scored 100 goals in 129 appearances and won his first Scotland cap.

 

In December 1925, he moved to Newcastle for £6,500 — £50 short of the British transfer record. He scored on his debut at St James’ Park and never stopped.

 

In his first full season — 1926-27 — Gallacher was made captain. It was a surprise to someone with a reputation for getting his retaliation in first but he responded with four goals in the opening day 4-0 win over Aston Villa.

 

Hat-tricks against Tottenham and Everton followed and in the last home game of the season, against Sheffield Wednesday, Gallacher scored both goals in a 2-1 win. It gave Newcastle the league title for the first time since 1909. And for the last time.

 

In 41 league and cup appearances, Gallacher scored 39 goals. In four and a half seasons at St James’ this phenomenon scored 143 goals in 174 matches — an 82 per cent strike rate.

 

Years later his team-mate Stan Seymour said of Gallacher: ‘Stanley Matthews has only a fraction of his casual genius.’

 

The Newcastle Journal wondered if Gallacher possessed ‘more than the usual complement of feet’. Gallacher became a Geordie hero. There was more to it than goals: he was a man about town, liked a drink, then another one, a sharp dresser with a sharp wit.

 

But he also had a temper and a willingness to spend. Ultimately those characteristics influenced his life as much as his talent. Frequent suspensions, court appearances, front-page headlines and an offer of £10,000 meant that Newcastle sold arguably their greatest ever individual to Chelsea in May 1930.

 

There was uproar on Tyneside. Gallacher was an idol. Chelsea’s first away game the next season was at Newcastle. It was on a Wednesday afternoon and 68,386 turned up to see him, with at least 10,000 locked outside. It is still St James’ Park’s record attendance.

 

At Chelsea Gallacher was still the star, just not as prolific — but then he was on a two-month FA suspension in this picture for abusing a referee. Later in the year he was declared bankrupt. His Scotland career had ended by then — 24 goals in 20 caps (only Law and Dalglish have scored more). Gallacher left Chelsea, without a trophy, for Derby in 1934, then on to Notts County, Grimsby and back to the North East with Gateshead, where he settled.

 

He was content, still scoring — in total 463 goals in 624 games. But there was tragedy in his past and more in the future.

 

At 17, Gallacher had married and his wife Annie had a son, Hughie, who died before his first birthday.

 

With his second wife Hannah, they had three sons, but when she died in 1950, Gallacher was shattered. He kept the house together but after a row with his youngest son, Mattie, in 1957, Mattie was taken into care.

 

Gallacher was due in court again but that morning, he wrote a note apologising for his behaviour and made his way to a stretch of the London-Edinburgh railway line at Gateshead. It was known as Dead Man’s Crossing.

 

Some locals would later say they had seen him convulsed with anguish. Aged 54, Gallacher stepped in front of a train.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5244615/A-shot-time-Defences-scared-Hughie-Gallacher.html

 

 

He once gave his fur coat to a tramp outside the Central Station and would regularly drink with fans. Ive read many a match report from his games and he must have been some player to watch.