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  1. Toonpack
    Nope, it's just I'm not a hate everything he's done merchant just because he's Ashley and his brand is Sports Direct and on this forum to a greater degree that is the top and bottom of it. We are a football club, we were skint, we had to go through the bargain basement phase (unless Ashley was prepared to continue to pump in £20 mill a year, which he wasn't), we will make our highest ever revenues under Ashley. We have just agreed a new more lucrative sponsorship deal, we're on the up. I work down south, the only people I hear whinging about "cheap" is on here, to everyone else we are Newcastle United the big club up north.
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    - Pish Spend £120Mill to make £93 Mill would equate to something like spend £300Mill to make your £200Mill, yeah dead easy. We are cheapened because WE HAD TO cut our cloth P.S. We'll have our biggest turnover EVER under Ashley, who is a complete and utter bassa, but folks don't make his sort of cash "nicely". Best owner we've ever had, seriously.
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    And the white players as well obviously. That would be fun
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    Scary: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9620223/Jimmy-Savile-He-was-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.html
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    I would agree this will get MUCH deeper, Savile (I would hope) is the outlier but the culture “at the time” will undoubtedly come under scrutiny. I have a good friend who was/is a pro comedian, he (and his “troupe”) appeared on The Comedians show in the early 70’s and from that their agent was approached by a producer about a TV series for them, obviously they were “interested”. Agent went for it and started negotiating the deal. Deal was all but done and the agent came to them and said as much BUT there’s a “condition”, the condition (as stated by the agent) was “one of you will have to drop your trousers for the producer”. They refused and “another offer will come along” but it never did, and they remained club circuit. My mate always says, “I wonder what all those who did get famous in the 70’s had to do” The old casting couch in operation. Bearing in mind that “at the time” being gay was illegal and if even that was as brazen in the 70’s as in my mates tale, the heterosexual side of the coin must have been at least just as rampant, I would reckon. There’s laws to protect folks these days, there weren’t then. Even in my own working life (late 70’s), the culture of what’s sexual harassment these days was just office high jinks in those days, (at work no-one would think nowt of patting a nice lasses/woman’s backside if they were bent over for example, cue squeal/”hey man” and laughter all round, and btw the women gave as good as they got an all). Given that was “the culture” in a “normal” working environment, goodness knows what the culture was in “celebrity/TV/Radio world”.
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    Footballers I guess are similar these days, but the status of radio one DJ's in its heyday was unreal, there's loads of footballers but there were only 8 or so radio one DJ's in the whole country with attendant nationwide "worship", radio one was "it" for music, in truth there was bugger all else, three tv channels and radio one. I wouldn't be surprised if the road shows weren't conceived or set up so they could get their "kicks" around the country.
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    He undoubtedly became a serious sexual predator, but I doubt it started like that. Rantzen's right to a point, it was a different time, Radio one DJ's were THE celebrity, hard to explain or provide a contemporary example, there were 6-8 blokes who were gods to just about every young girl/woman in the country. Bigger than footballers or even the pop stars themselves. They'd have had young girls/women throwing themselves at them all the time and I doubt many of them turned it down. They'll all be shitting it now though. Savile took it to a different level, maybe he couldn't stop as he got older and it wasn't on a plate anymore so he became the predator or maybe he just felt "entitled". I'll be amazed if there's not follow up stories about other DJ's and they'll be labelled "fiddlers" but they won't have been anything like Saville, but did they screw young women, at the peak of their celebrity, you bet they did, but those young women will have been more than willing at the time.
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    He should have moved to Spain, age of consent there is 13 !!!!!! (14 in Germany, 15 France). We're a bit of an outlier at 16 in Europe, which surprises me.
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    I think you think wrong, I'd cite Sir Alex F as corroborating evidence.
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    He was the ref when De Jong snapped Ben Arfa in two, no free kick.
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    How could the leg/foot he was swinging through the air, kicking the ball with, "stick in the turf"
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    Corrected, maybe you'll understand it now.
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    Were you 8 pints stone cold sober again ???
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    Reckless (at worst tbh). Never "using excessive force" he was stretching and leaning back.
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    It was miss-timed and aye maybe he should have pulled out, but given he was being fouled which effected his ability to make the subsequent challenge, was a yellow IMO. A two footed lunge type challenge over the ball should be straight red, he never took his eyes off the ball, no way was he trying to "do" Fletcher.
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    Is the correct answer, he was also off balance and reaching because of him being pulled back.
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    Haven't got a clue tbh
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    Thought Williamson was excellent today an all, Colo was imperious though. We should consider cashing in on Tiote in Jan/the summer, still don't accept it was a justified red but he's evidently been booked something like 27 times in 54 games, ref's are looking for him.
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    No, but in the name of consistency, you'd have expected a couple of yellow's out of 14 fouls, if 16 = 4 yellows and one red. I can think of two Larsons kick in Shola's chest, and Gardners taking out of Santon 2nd half, which should have been yellow. Cuellar's "non foul" through the back of BA was worth a yellow by today's standards an all.
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    16 fouls we commited and got 4 yellow and one red, they commited 14 fouls and got fuck all, how's that work ????
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    Tidied But on the bright side, they are utter shit.
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    Anyone else notice the golf ball chucked at Cabaye at our last corner ??
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    He books WIlliamson, yet didn't book Gardner for taking Santon out minutes earlier, un-fucking-believeable.
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    Not at all, was a yellow at the very worst, Atkinsons hardly card happy today, see the Larson/Shola incident for evidence. If Tiote'd tried to do him, fair does, but no way on earth did he, I'd be screaming blue murder over Tiote if I thought that, I'm not his biggest fan by a long way.
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    Nope, not at all, never a straight red in a million years, extremely harsh red. Fletcher flopping around like a beached salmon didn't help
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