The Fish

There really should be a 'bridge of the nose pinching' emoji for horseshit like this.

I can't take this thread any more, it's all too tents.

Jesus, is that legit?

One thing I was thinking, would you be surprised if a restructured PIF came back for us in 2021. When the MENA region is up for tender, and all that? I'm not sure they'd fancy going another round with the PL when they could just go and buy a French/German/Italian club without any hassle at all.

Bohammed Sin Malman?

Yup. Or create a new division of PIF with a focus on Sports and name one of MBS' brothers as Chairman of that?

That extract is an affront on Journalism. How many different ways could they find to repeat the "Ashley is using his lawyers to filter out time wasters" message across?

I don't think that's true. I think the PL would have allowed it if they could get Saudi Arabia to end piracy and be satisfied that there was sufficient separation between MBS and the PIF. The first bit is difficult to prove, but the second bit is just a bit of restructuring of the entity that buys Newcastle.

Better for the PL to suggest an independent arbitrator than reject it, though?

Every season I care less and less. It's only when we're in the bottom three that I get invested, and if your football club only gets under your skin when they're in danger of relegation, it's not much fun.

To be fair, this would have gone through no problem if the Saudi state hadn't been pirating the broadcast in the first place. Or if they'd done enough to reassure the PL that they'd got a handle on it. Or if they'd not banned BEIN from broadcasting in Saudi Arabia in the middle of the takeover. PL definitely the servant of a few masters here, but the buying side have been a bit of a shitshow themselves. Now we wait for Mauriss/Kenyon/BZG/Orleggi/Moat just in time for the January window.

Aye it's not like they're going to open out onto Lake Como or owt. It's a toss up between money and earache.

No free Calippo for you, ya bellend.

It does. Don't worry about that. Mrs Fish wants an island, and black steel bifold doors going the width of the house, plus a range cooker and a big american style fridge freezer. Think she might have to lower her ambitions. She's already done it once.

There's currently a brick wall right up to the boundary that we're looking to extend to, which goes pretty much as far as we want to go as well.

Think you'll kick on under Ancelotti? Will he have the money to spend or have you spunked your load under Koeman, Allardyce and Silva?

Cheers. An architect friend, you say. I need to get me one of those. Got a builder and an electrical engineer, but no plumber and no architect.

Extending into the side return of a Victorian terrace from the kitchen and dining room, and maybe pushing back a meter or so. Aim is to make one large kitchen/dining space that opens into the garden. Have to knock through 2 external walls, stick big doors on the back and make sure there's plenty of light coming in through the extension roof. To be honest, I agree that it's probably best to wait. We're not planning on moving any time soon and while the kitchen is something we want to do, it's not in a shit state or anything.

Been looking at doing some work on the house and had a couple of questions if anybody's not a total cunt about it, I'd be delighted. a) Our mortgage is fixed for another 4 years or so, and this isn't vital work, is it worth holding off until then? 2) we'd need to take some money out of the house, but a few online valuation shows that the value's gone up enough to cover the work, is it necessary to fuck around with the mortgage or is there another (cost-effective) route? iii) is it necessary to use an architect (there is structural work required). Right, free free Calippo lolly to the first non-arsehole.

The funny thing for me is that, it's as likely that he's doing this to get attention for his drinks brand and even though he's clutching one in every shot I couldn't tell you what the fuck it's called.

Window salesmen are cunts, to a man.

Stick your history up ya shitpipe

Any news?

I'm not from Blyth. I'm from Seaton Sluice.

This country is famously accepting of people arriving by boat...