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Just guess his email address.  I've done it once with a business to their CEO and got a decent response from his secretary over the issue. :smugdog:

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Just guess his email address.  I've done it once with a business to their CEO and got a decent response from his secretary over the issue. :smugdog:

 

I did that with Chris Mort when he arrived at the club and we had a brief discussion about the merits of setting up a proper scouting system.

 

Wish i'd never bothered now...

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There's no way he'd have been saying the last bit if we'd beaten them then :lol:

 

Aye just like there's no way he would have said all this crap if we beat them the other week.

 

Was in the position of i beat them i can say what i want like the c*nt he is.

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Just guess his email address.  I've done it once with a business to their CEO and got a decent response from his secretary over the issue. :smugdog:

 

I did that with Chris Mort when he arrived at the club and we had a brief discussion about the merits of setting up a proper scouting system.

 

Wish i'd never bothered now...

 

So you're to blame over the Dennis Wise managerial structure?

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Fair do's to Ferguson for those comments IMO, I knew it was a clear he was wound up when he said that because he's generally been respectful to us down the years.  Can't disagree with any of his comments there, it's a joke how long we've gone without silverware.

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If Ferguson had said we were a big club because we had great fans but with a small-club mentality at the top, he would have had no argument from us....

 

He cannot operate brain before opening mouth when he is wound up - he cannot now undo what he has done.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2257764/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-breaks-silence-Newcastle-wee-club-comment.html

EXCLUSIVE: Ferguson: I was talking about Newcastle's lack of trophies, not the Toon Army, when I made the 'wee club' comment

 

By Bob Cass

 

PUBLISHED: 22:45, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 22:45, 5 January 2013

 

 

Sir Alex Ferguson claims he has received backing from many Toon Army members following his controversial comment that Newcastle United is a 'wee club in the North East'.

 

The Manchester United manager revealed that, among many emails he received about the issue from fans of the Tyneside club, several welcomed what he said.

 

'Among the criticism there were also messages from people who feel they have been let down by the club and that it has not matched their own ambitions for success,' he said.

 

Ferguson has sought to exclude Newcastle supporters from his observations last week, insisting that they were directed only at the club's lack of success over the years - a failure compounded by their 2-0 defeat at Championship side Brighton in the third round of the FA Cup.

 

The Scot, who celebrated his 71st birthday on New Year's Eve, clashed with Alan Pardew after the Newcastle manager commented that Ferguson had been fortunate to escape FA censure following his confrontation with Mike Dean and his assistant Jake Colin, after the referee reversed a decision to disallow a Newcastle goal during the fiery 4-3 battle at Old Trafford on Boxing Day.

 

The FA chose to take no action because Dean did not include the incidents in his referee's report on the game.

 

The United manager sparked a storm of anger in Newcastle when he hit back at Pardew, saying: 'The problem for me and Manchester United is that the profile of the club is huge. I'm the manager of the biggest club in the world. I'm not like Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East.'

 

Now Ferguson wants to heal any possible rift with Newcastle fans. 'It was never my intention to belittle Newcastle fans,' he said.

 

'I want to clear up any misunderstanding that may have arisen over what I said. I have nothing but the highest regard for Newcastle fans and I always have had. They are up there with the best supporters in the game. Their passion, commitment and fervour have never wavered, even though they have had little to celebrate.

 

'They have turned up in numbers to get behind their team wherever and whenever the games have been played. When I take a team to St James' Park, I have stressed to the players that not only have they got to beat the opposition on the field, just as important is coping with the atmosphere created by the fans.

 

'Sadly, results have not matched their loyalty. If Newcastle's achievements had matched the support of the people who pay to watch them play, the club would be among the game's giants. It's tragic that they haven't been able to win a league title for over eighty years.'

 

It was United's barnstorming finish to the 1995-96 season, when they won nine out of their last 11 matches, that denied Newcastle the league title, after Kevin Keegan's team was 12 points clear at the end of February.

 

The following season they again finished as runners-up. Ferguson said: 'The whole country would like to see a Newcastle team that matched the one in the Keegan era when they took us to the wire.'

 

:ronaldo:

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2257764/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-breaks-silence-Newcastle-wee-club-comment.html

EXCLUSIVE: Ferguson: I was talking about Newcastle's lack of trophies, not the Toon Army, when I made the 'wee club' comment

 

By Bob Cass

 

PUBLISHED: 22:45, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 22:45, 5 January 2013

 

 

Sir Alex Ferguson claims he has received backing from many Toon Army members following his controversial comment that Newcastle United is a 'wee club in the North East'.

 

The Manchester United manager revealed that, among many emails he received about the issue from fans of the Tyneside club, several welcomed what he said.

 

'Among the criticism there were also messages from people who feel they have been let down by the club and that it has not matched their own ambitions for success,' he said.

 

Ferguson has sought to exclude Newcastle supporters from his observations last week, insisting that they were directed only at the club's lack of success over the years - a failure compounded by their 2-0 defeat at Championship side Brighton in the third round of the FA Cup.

 

The Scot, who celebrated his 71st birthday on New Year's Eve, clashed with Alan Pardew after the Newcastle manager commented that Ferguson had been fortunate to escape FA censure following his confrontation with Mike Dean and his assistant Jake Colin, after the referee reversed a decision to disallow a Newcastle goal during the fiery 4-3 battle at Old Trafford on Boxing Day.

 

The FA chose to take no action because Dean did not include the incidents in his referee's report on the game.

 

The United manager sparked a storm of anger in Newcastle when he hit back at Pardew, saying: 'The problem for me and Manchester United is that the profile of the club is huge. I'm the manager of the biggest club in the world. I'm not like Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East.'

 

Now Ferguson wants to heal any possible rift with Newcastle fans. 'It was never my intention to belittle Newcastle fans,' he said.

 

'I want to clear up any misunderstanding that may have arisen over what I said. I have nothing but the highest regard for Newcastle fans and I always have had. They are up there with the best supporters in the game. Their passion, commitment and fervour have never wavered, even though they have had little to celebrate.

 

'They have turned up in numbers to get behind their team wherever and whenever the games have been played. When I take a team to St James' Park, I have stressed to the players that not only have they got to beat the opposition on the field, just as important is coping with the atmosphere created by the fans.

 

'Sadly, results have not matched their loyalty. If Newcastle's achievements had matched the support of the people who pay to watch them play, the club would be among the game's giants. It's tragic that they haven't been able to win a league title for over eighty years.'

 

It was United's barnstorming finish to the 1995-96 season, when they won nine out of their last 11 matches, that denied Newcastle the league title, after Kevin Keegan's team was 12 points clear at the end of February.

 

The following season they again finished as runners-up. Ferguson said: 'The whole country would like to see a Newcastle team that matched the one in the Keegan era when they took us to the wire.'

 

:ronaldo:

 

Frankly it's not even a backpeddle from the "great" man himself. Most likely a statement prepared by "advisors", aimed at damage limitation, which they have persuaded him to put his name to.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2257764/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-breaks-silence-Newcastle-wee-club-comment.html

EXCLUSIVE: Ferguson: I was talking about Newcastle's lack of trophies, not the Toon Army, when I made the 'wee club' comment

 

By Bob Cass

 

PUBLISHED: 22:45, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 22:45, 5 January 2013

 

 

Sir Alex Ferguson claims he has received backing from many Toon Army members following his controversial comment that Newcastle United is a 'wee club in the North East'.

 

The Manchester United manager revealed that, among many emails he received about the issue from fans of the Tyneside club, several welcomed what he said.

 

'Among the criticism there were also messages from people who feel they have been let down by the club and that it has not matched their own ambitions for success,' he said.

 

Ferguson has sought to exclude Newcastle supporters from his observations last week, insisting that they were directed only at the club's lack of success over the years - a failure compounded by their 2-0 defeat at Championship side Brighton in the third round of the FA Cup.

 

The Scot, who celebrated his 71st birthday on New Year's Eve, clashed with Alan Pardew after the Newcastle manager commented that Ferguson had been fortunate to escape FA censure following his confrontation with Mike Dean and his assistant Jake Colin, after the referee reversed a decision to disallow a Newcastle goal during the fiery 4-3 battle at Old Trafford on Boxing Day.

 

The FA chose to take no action because Dean did not include the incidents in his referee's report on the game.

 

The United manager sparked a storm of anger in Newcastle when he hit back at Pardew, saying: 'The problem for me and Manchester United is that the profile of the club is huge. I'm the manager of the biggest club in the world. I'm not like Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East.'

 

Now Ferguson wants to heal any possible rift with Newcastle fans. 'It was never my intention to belittle Newcastle fans,' he said.

 

'I want to clear up any misunderstanding that may have arisen over what I said. I have nothing but the highest regard for Newcastle fans and I always have had. They are up there with the best supporters in the game. Their passion, commitment and fervour have never wavered, even though they have had little to celebrate.

 

'They have turned up in numbers to get behind their team wherever and whenever the games have been played. When I take a team to St James' Park, I have stressed to the players that not only have they got to beat the opposition on the field, just as important is coping with the atmosphere created by the fans.

 

'Sadly, results have not matched their loyalty. If Newcastle's achievements had matched the support of the people who pay to watch them play, the club would be among the game's giants. It's tragic that they haven't been able to win a league title for over eighty years.'

 

It was United's barnstorming finish to the 1995-96 season, when they won nine out of their last 11 matches, that denied Newcastle the league title, after Kevin Keegan's team was 12 points clear at the end of February.

 

The following season they again finished as runners-up. Ferguson said: 'The whole country would like to see a Newcastle team that matched the one in the Keegan era when they took us to the wire.'

 

:ronaldo:

 

Frankly it's not even a backpeddle from the "great" man himself. Most likely a statement prepared by "advisors", aimed at damage limitation, which they have persuaded him to put his name to.

 

Dont think he would give a shit to be honest. I'm taking it as he's put it.

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Was just about to post that, Dave. Seeking to curry a bit of favour with regards to us fans and to be honest, it's hard to disagree with what he says even if it is very late.

 

Will be interesting to see if Llambias responds.......

 

Our fans should be grateful for their lot, without Mike and myself they wouldn't have a club to support. Instead of berating us they should be giving us free goes on their lasses given what we've done for them and their club. Their attitude is quite frankly shocking and it holds the club back. As a result of the comments from Mr Ferguson we have extended Mr Pardew's contract and put ticket prices up for next season.
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