McFaul

The European Brian McClair if you ask me

Why should he spoil something which I've had for over 20 years though? I know mate, which is why I don't blame or want to criticise people for renewing. I do think we'll be awful next season mind. We will be I agree. Leon Best top scorer with 9 his new strike partner Jonathan Walters with 6 (3 pens). I say now I think I have as much (if not more) contempt for local toon fans who support this regime, as I have for Ashley and Dekka themselves.

Why should he spoil something which I've had for over 20 years though?

Very well summarised and simply put, it sums everything up nicely. Anyone that disagrees with HMHM's sentence is a mug, and I would say it to their faces. agreed. i'm shocked by some of phil and toonpack's comments. i honestly didn't think there were any nufc fans out there that didn't despise the twat that runs the club. some of the anti-keegan sentiment is a bit off too. I would go further than my earlier point, people who don't agree with HMHM's comment are ARSEHOLES. This is a dictatorship who were found by an independent inquiry to have systematically LIED and MISLED a customer and fanbase of well over 600,000 people in this country. Utter utter mugs. There's no defence. If we win the league with them they're still fuckin cunts.

Very well summarised and simply put, it sums everything up nicely. Anyone that disagrees with HMHM's sentence is a mug, and I would say it to their faces.

If there's any club out there that has a right to be arrogant, it's this lot. When they've won more than three Champions League then they can pipe up. I'm of the opinion the talent in world football is shite, this Barcelona team is not better than Milan 1990 don't care what anyone says. I believe England probably are as FIFA say the 6th best side in the world, that sums up how weak world football is at present.

I'm sick of hearing about Barcelona personally. Arrogant arseholes. I love these comments about Messi "Messi must be hurt cos he never feigns injuries", he's like Robert Pires man, he's just a more covincing actor. Hope Real hump them tbh. As for Real not having the drive, what based on one result? Real are better than Inter were last season on paper, and they did them Real can too.

...and Smith must score....that moment probably defined his life to this day. Showing your age now mate To be fair 85 is the first one I remember watching. That's the moment I remember the most like. Ray Wilkins scoring a cracking goal as well (assuming it wasn't a cross). The cup final was such a massive game back with so few televised matches. Also remember Mike Gatting's brother playing for Brighton and Des Lynam getting interviewed before the game because he was a Brighton fan. That's right centre half iirc. Aye the build up was class, 1215 hundreds of fans outside the hotels, and a helicopter following them through the streets. When we win the FA Cup it'll be an amazing feeling, but even 20 years ago it was 10 times as important as it is now. I think it started feeling shit about 93. Those two Arsenal - Sheff Wed games in FA Cup and Leagu Cup Finals were boring as fuck, and it never felt the same after that.

pmsl exactly. The same Shepherd who knocked back £15m bids for KIERON DYER. If anything FFS gave his managers too much support, stripping assets is the last single phrase you could associate with FFS. Some people just look for something to say imo.

...and Smith must score....that moment probably defined his life to this day. Showing your age now mate To be fair 85 is the first one I remember watching.

Good to see Brighton promoted, proper club with proper fans. They should be as big if not bigger than a Portsmouth, you tell me a club who would take 1500 fans away, 200 miles from LDV Vans game live on Sky. Been a hard 20 years for them but they deserve this and their new ground looks mint.

I agree, it'd have only been about £200-220 Mill ish I don't view the money he paid to purchase the club as "putting it into the club". I'm not going to thank him for buying it in the first place, that was his own decision. Anything he's paid over to fund the club's losses, that's what he's "put in" imo. Which I imagine is quite a lot of money, so well done him. However I don't know what he expected - I'd have thought most clubs lose money in an accounting sense. Which would have been obvious if he'd done his research or due diligence instead of buying the toon on a whim, as seems to be the case. I suppose it depends whether you view football clubs as business investments. I don't really, I think they're more like public institutions. The economics of football clubs seem to be completely fucked anyway. I don't give a shit about the balance sheet, I just want to see the team progress on the pitch and I don't understand why fans act like financial controllers at times. As long as we're not going into liquidation, I find debating what we can and can't afford to spend quite tedious actually. I can fully understand why Ashley won't put his hand in his pocket to fund losses and buy players, but then I wonder why he owns the club at all. If I bought a stately home, and let it fall into disrepair because I couldn't fund repairs from visitors receipts, would anyone be sympathetic to me? If Ashley doesn't like it, he should sell up for a realistic price and accept he made a bad investment. imo. Quite like the stately home analogy, I would expand it thus: You’ve bought your stately home, and being an idiot, and in a hurry, you didn’t have a survey done as you had the ready cash to get it for an apparently, good price, it being on of the biggest stately homes in the country, it got lots of visitors and seemed like a great way to massage your ego and possibly make some money, besides you love visiting stately homes and always secretly wanted one for yourself to play with. Once you became owner and started to look around you found it had dry rot and woodworm and you had no choice but to get that fixed if you didn’t want it to fall down and you’d lose all the money you’d put into it. So you embarked on the costly work needed to sort that out. The main attraction at the home was the art collection that came with it, to help fund the restoration work you traded some of the artwork, that hacked off the head art director and he left, sadly a good proportion of your regular visitors and art critics loved the old bloke and from that moment on you were despised by a good portion of your “customers”. You compounded that by appointing a succession of new art directors who basically just weren’t up to the job and your popularity continued to plummet, as did the popularity of your home, to the point where it dropped from the “A” list of Stately Homes to the “B” list. Despite that you ploughed on with the restoration (which has cost you more than necessary because of your mistakes). But you’ve managed to get the home back onto the “A” list. On top of that the restoration is finished and the home is looking like turning a profit year on year so you can close your wallet. As an added bonus one of the artworks in the collection became very sought after and you sold it for a huge sum, there’s another one that people are after as well. You are now at the point where you have a decision to make, the house is self sufficient and you have a surplus of cash, what do you do?? There’s two possible routes to take, firstly you could just leave the house ticking over and try and recoup some of the money you’ve put in to a point where the house is saleable again. Secondly you could spend all the surplus cash on new artwork (and its maintenance) to try and improve the house’s status. Sadly the since you entered the Stately Home game, the Royal Family have opened the doors of their castles to the public and it’s unlikely you can compete with them, so the best you can hope for in reality is a steady growth and maybe you may get more visitors than Balmoral (like that Jewish stately home just did). Unfortunately overtaking Buck Palace or Windsor Castle is not on. Although, there are some new EEC rules on stately homes which may help. At the end of this visitor season you will show, without doubt, which way you are going to go. What if Raoul Moat's hiding in the barn?

Fuckin hell £96. Where's he sitting the royal box?

Where's the poll like? Greggs mince pies 85-95 were the best pies on earth. Shape, texture, flavour everything. They went a bit ropey, but now they're ok again but too big for one person. Still easily the best pies although chicken balti's are canny.

Tom as I said on Twitter. Churchill was a fat cunt. He spent most of his life depressed and so he should because he was guilty of awful atrocities himself. Dresden was a disgrace and I'll you why, the war was won, Germany took one on the chin, and was never getting up from it, and we basically murdered between 25k and 200k krauts for no reason at all. I think it was our little revenge at the top, absolute cunts, nearly as bad as Hitler in that one instance, especially we have always promoted ourselves as being the fairest country on earth. We've been wronguns loads of times you should read this as well.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre On a separate note now, it's good twitter plenty interesting people, but if you replied to every one sending you @messages, it would take you all night to reply to them, so god knows what it must be like for the stars.

Shocking that like. If you were one of the big five London, West Midlands, Gtr Manchester, Merseyside or Tyneside it would be fixed in days. Poor yokels.

So I keep going on about this to the point that it becomes annoying? Are you being ironical again? Yes but it's not really a point. He's too thick to play around with words. I didn't even make a big issue about it, and you still pipe up no doubt urged on by your pre-pubescent N-O following. As I said the older lads understand my point of view on this some are more vehement about it than me. People like you who don't have a club, hold the opposite point of view. I know a lad who writes for ESPN well he was in my year at school, he's on twitter. Very articulate lad, he basically said most younger toon fans are irritants who don't have a clue, to the appoint they annoy him. I couldn't agree with him more. I must stress though they're not all like you, and some of your N-O chums, and thank fuck they're not.

Oh dear. Oh dear, indeed. Let's not let logic get in the way of yet another rant and thinning of the field. Oh dear again. You know in England now, on public transport, often you get on and there's kids on aged 12-15 with their phones, or little ipods playing songs as loud as possible, happy hardcore, fuckin westlifes, rihanna etc....and it's so irritating and the only way to stop it is to tell them to pipe down, because the battery never ever runs out, and that's you to a t.

http://twitter.com/lewisbarker By far the biggest legend I've seen on twitter. Bigger legend than Greenshirtmush even.

Aye is that the one beside the ladbrokes? I used to get me Keo in there, good call.

whose fake account is this? I reckon dotbum. 920 posts whoever it is must be pretty fuckin bored.

Prince Bishops? I think it's sold by Big Lamp Brewery. They have their own pub in Newburn, awful stuff, but the OC's love it. Still can't find this Kirin in any NE supermarkets or offies :(

Course he could. To get to Tottenham's level, which is almost competing in a sustainable way, would take £150m worth of investment, and a comparative drop in the ocean to him. He'll be dead soon anyway with cholesterol related health problems. Why have all that money and do nothing with it? So around 50% of his total wealth, in total, you expect him to put in. How many other owners have done that ?? He's worth £1.1b. All of his assets. £150m is loose change to him. If I had £300m I'd give the toon £280m tbh. I'd buy a 6 bedroom hoose at Heddon or Wylam, one in London, one in Cyprus and one in Thailand, build a horse stable, buy some top horses, that would leave me £10m and I COULD live off the interest for the rest of my life. He's a joker. He could do wonders with that club with his money.

Course he could. To get to Tottenham's level, which is almost competing in a sustainable way, would take £150m worth of investment, and a comparative drop in the ocean to him. He'll be dead soon anyway with cholesterol related health problems. Why have all that money and do nothing with it?

http://www.squareball.com/blog/2011/04/11/...xton-v-mcateer/ pmsl :razz: I'm not laughing at peoples mental deficiencies by the way.