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  1. :lol: Alf Garnett back from the dead

     

    Yep, and if it all goes pear-shaped (because let's face it this country is a tad more tightly packed than most) it'll be real funny. Couldn't happen at a worse time either, especially up in Jockland with New Year's coming up, all those people getting together could be a recipe for disaster. Still, as long as people 'did the right thing' in doing a bit of overseas care work it'll all be worth it.

  2. Must tick the following boxes to be considered by Fat Mike:

    • Doesn't want to be involved in transfers
    • Won't ask for investment
    • Is totally unambitious and content with 'just surviving' in the Prem
    • Will never question ze fuhrer
    • Hasn't any strong link with Newcastle

    That should narrow it down...

  3. From the Chron:

     

    Alan Pardew hails Yoan Gouffran and praises Newcastle United 'character' after loss

     

    Alan Pardew refused to get too downhearted about Newcastle United’s 3-1 loss at Old Trafford.

    Pardew knows he needs a response in the next two games at St James’ Park against Everton and Burnley.

    But after seeing his side denied a penalty at the Stretford End, he felt Newcastle got a raw deal in their last away game of 2014.

    He said: “I actually thought we did well in terms of matching them up.

    “I thought Gouffran did well in an unusual role.

    “If there was going to be a weak link, it was probably going to be him, but that didn’t happen. “

    Pardew believes the absence of suspended Cheick Tiote also made a difference.

    He added: “Cheick was a big loss – when I’ve played here, it’s the sort of stage he likes.

    “I’m not dispirited with the performance, and I thought we displayed tremendous character towards the end.

    “Towards the end of the Arsenal game I thought our heads went down a bit, but our mentality here was good. We did okay.”

     

     

    ... because clearly being beaten 3-1 isn't as bad as we think - it means we're doing 'okay' :glare:

  4. Meh, was to be expected, they consistently want it more than us. We'll never be the 'second team' in the North-East because we're that much bigger and more supported than them, we just have to put up with these upstart mutants making the most of our being run by Fat Mike the Bastard until things change back to normal and we get a proper owner again.

  5. From Eurosport:
    Jeff Stelling lets rip at Alan Shearer and the BBC after FA Cup fiasco

     

    The Sky Sports News presenter tore into the BBC over its shockingly-biased FA Cup coverage on Friday night. Alan Shearer and the BBC have come in for savage attack by Sky Sports News presenter Jeff Stelling.Stelling, a former host of Channel 4 quiz show Countdown, is as famous for his smiley affability and infectious enthusiasm for the game - but he shocked viewers by putting his nice-guy persona aside and unleashing a shocking rant aimed at the former England striker and his employers.

    The source of Stelling's anger was the BBC's coverage of Friday night's FA Cup match betweenHartlepool United and non-league Blyth Spartans.

    Stelling, born and bred in Hartlepool and the club's most famous fan, was outraged that Shearer went into the Blyth Spartans dressing room shortly before kick-off to deliver an inspiring speech.

    The BBC's aim was clear: they were hoping for a bit of ratings-friendly giant-killing that would get people into the FA Cup spirit ahead of the all-important third round of the tournament next month.

    "There will be heroes on that pitch, make sure it's one of you," Shearer told the non-league players in an attempt at a bit of motivational speaking that, rather surprisingly, worked amazingly well.

    Blyth Spartans went behind after half an hour, but equalised early in the second half and then scored a last-gasp winner through Jarrett Rivers - a 21-year-old who works in his mum's newsagent, and who thereby delivered a perfect underdog story.

    And therein lies the problem. Shearer's little speech no doubt did give Blyth Spartans a bit of extra belief, and it least drum home the once-in-a-lifetime chance - and Stelling was (probably rightly) outraged by the fact that the BBC directly intervened to help one team at the expense of another.

    "It's UNACCEPTABLE to have Alan Shearer in the Blyth Spartans dressing room before the game saying 'there will be heroes, make sure it's one of you in green and white'. Unacceptable.

    "There are licence payers in Hartlepool too. BBC, hang your head in shame."

    Stelling did then backtrack slightly, trying to suggest that Shearer was an unwitting pawn.

    "I'm not blaming Alan Shearer," he added. "He will be doing what he's told by a producer, who is the guilty man."

    That little addition is no doubt just a bit of diplomacy on Stelling's part; a man as old and experienced in the media as Shearer will have known precisely what he was doing, and what's more would certainly have the clout to tell his producer where to go, had he wanted to.

    Stelling, however, will have played down the role of the former England striker in the farce so as not to upset Newcastle fans. That's a little lesson in not antagonising people that a few people at the BBC probably ought to learn.

     

     

     

    Hairy little know-nowt wank.

  6. Hmm, I wonder - for example, if some good looking, ripped bloke is walking down the street how many women/girls would do the same? The real problem is that most bloke's standards are a lot lower so they'll try and crack on to anything, even the munters :shifty:

  7. To be honest I'm of the mind now that it's all pointless anyway, Ashley won't sack Pardew because (1) he doesn't give a fuck about what the fans think because in his eyes it's 'his' club, (2) he probably enjoys the misery it's causing the fans, (3) isn't bothered about getting relegated because he'll still get a decent return from the parachute payments, (4) thinks if we did get relegated hey, he got us back up at first try easy enough last time and (5) Pardew does as he's told.

     

    We might as well just sit the shit times out now until Ashley fucks off of his own accord, hopefully in 2 years time. Never forget what we should and could be but for now we're just a shell of a club being used as an advertising hoarding for cunt of a businessman while he reaps any tv money, etc the club gets.

  8.  

    From the Telegraph:

     

    Mike Ashley's loyalty to Alan Pardew has been agonising for Newcastle United's fans, which may just be the purpose of it, assuming Big Mike enjoys seeing the supporters suffer. There is a sadistic edge to his willingness to go on sitting on top of a club that is going nowhere fast. Back when Ashley thought that acquiring a Premier League football club was like enjoying a huge night out, "he was buying a lot of chips and drinking a lot of beer," to quote one Newcastle fan, in his attempts to join the Geordie clan. Arguably the most reclusive and publicity-phobic billionaire in Britain was full of bonhomie, as he still is, financial journalists say, when he is around people he trusts.

    The quote about Pardew having one more game to save his job - swiftly retracted via lawyers - was delivered to a reporter as Ashley leaned against the wall of The Golden Lion pub in Soho's Dean Street, supping with a friend. In a Radio 4 profile in March, the former financial journalist Jenny Davey portrayed him as quite the lad about town: "large" and "loud" in a London club. "He's very comfortable with who he is and he surrounds himself with people he's known for a very long time," she said. "They go out on a Saturday night."

    This is the cockney mafia Newcastle fans have long accused of turning their club into a remake of Get Carter, with Ashley as an out-of-shape Michael Caine. Yet the brains behind the retailing giant Sports Direct is every inch the modern Thatcherite capitalist; the sort of tycoon Martin Amis might draw. Ashley, the BBC profile told us, started with one shop in Maidenhead, does deals on his mobile and once spoofed for a £200,000 legal bill (and lost).

    The loadsamoney element to Ashley's rise brings out the snob in the business community. Hiring the amnesiac Joe Kinnear as director of football and doing deals with the payday loan firm Wonga are all part of his anti-Establishment ethos. Dennis Skinner, the Labour MP in whose constituency the main Sports Direct hub sits, claims Ashley has refused to answer his letters about union representation and providing jobs for local people.

    Eager to find out more, the BBC emailed friends and associates but received no reply. They claim Ashley's PR minders even refused to confirm his birth date. One source said "he frustrates to an immense degree." Yet, in his seat at St James' Park, Ashley hides in plain sight, and allows Pardew to butt opposition players (Hull's David Meyler) and abuse fellow managers (Manuel Pellegrini).

    Newcastle's fans have turned their rage on Pardew, understandably, because off the pitch, under Ashley's management, the club is sound. With Premier League 'prize money' of £77.3m in 2013-14 (an increase of £32.2m), and wage to income ratio of 64 per cent - below the Premier League average of 70 per cent - Ashley can afford to gamble on the wisdom of his scouting and recruitment network, much improved since the days of Dennis Wise. The £130m interest-free debt to the owner is the only financial burden: a relatively minor one, in this age of £3 billion Premier League TV deals.

    No wonder he denies wanting to sell, though he has tried to escape at least once in the past. This is a man, remember, who made £929m in a single day, floating his sportswear company, and is worth an estimated £3.75 billion. He has never shown the slightest sign of wanting to transfer large amounts of his wealth to superstar players and their agents. His Britishness is a bit of a curse. An American speculator running the club by email from New York would attract nothing like this scrutiny.

    But the fans have one form of leverage. Just one. Ashley's love of money will not permit him to wreck such a good asset. Newcastle are a great football club now and they will be a great football club when he has moved on to some other portfolio opportunity. The £25m transfer spend he sanctioned in the summer was not so Newcastle could drop back to the Championship. It was a classic act of consolidation to keep the team treading water.

    Newcastle, though, are second-bottom, with three points from six games, and have won only five of their 25 league matches in 2014. On any objective reading the players are not fighting to help Pardew keep his job. At Southampton they seemed to go stone cold on him. Pardew will be sacked, for that reason, mainly, and Ashley will seek a new man to run his stable, ambition-free, retail unit otherwise known as Newcastle United.

    Only the threat of a second relegation breaks the stalemate, concentrates his thoughts. One day he will do the decent thing and sell the club on to someone who cares.

     

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/11131134/Newcastle-United-owner-Mike-Ashley-must-do-the-decent-thing-and-sell-up-to-someone-who-cares-about-the-club.html

     

    That'll be the Telegraph banned from press conferences next... :glare:

  9. Ha! Skysports saying "Is Pardew due an apology?", errr, because he drew against Hull and then won against Crystal Palace reserves??? Hmm, I think he needs to do just a little bit more to make up for the extreme relegation form we've played since last Chrimbo.

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