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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.

Just talking about it makes me fancy one to be honest. I have the very occasional, and I mean very occasional spliff, am nee Shaun Ryder, but that has to go as well, because that's what got me back on the tabs in the first place. I don't like the old 'happy baccy' but someone we know smokes it all the time, I mean ALL the time....more of that than baccy in every roll up! Hubby gave up smoking years ago but still fancies a spliff but daren't, as like you he's worried he'll start smoking again. Too much temptation, then afterwards you smoke a tab "aye one will dee nee harm", nextthing you know you're on 20 a day. Academically I'm quite intelligent, but I've got fuck all common sense. I might sound like DEADMAN here, I've got a pipe but I don't know how to use the cunt! Keep burning the blue tac bit at the bottom but fuck all happens. Buckets and the like other people have always done them for me. Buckets always killed my throat so much too.

Just talking about it makes me fancy one to be honest. I have the very occasional, and I mean very occasional spliff, am nee Shaun Ryder, but that has to go as well, because that's what got me back on the tabs in the first place.

Would cost a lot of money because we'd have to pay for strengthening the foundations around the Metro Station. I'm nee civil engineer, but have been told it's not as straight forward as sticking the stand up. The East Stand is a no no unless someone burns those Georgian student houses down. It's a shame because 60-65,000 would be about right for us.

Good stuff, Stevie. I'm not taking the piss when I say smoking is a fuckin' MUGS game. Aye if you smoke fucking blokes. Homophobe. I know snakey, it makes you look an OC before your time. Makes me look rough as fuck to be honest, when I've been smoking for a few month. Changes your skin long term and makes you feel like shite, and can't run as fast. Fuck knows how Vialli and Ginola smoked 40 a day as professional footballers.

He was the lad from Hampshire with the crooked teeth? Another example of a total gimp. Did you physically meet him? You'd make a very good air traffic controller. Either you're very observant or am shite, probably a bit of both.

We're £49m in the black from player deals since he's been here, Statto (HF), put a break down up a while ago. That's not taking in to account over all P&L though.

I think it's four weeks tomorrow since I had a tab, appetite back with a vengeance, taste buds coming back even salads taste nice, but I still fancy a tab. I'm over the worst now though I think, there's no turning back.

Do you think if Paulwyn42nufc walked to the front of that boat it would bring it down?

...and here's me thinking the Tyneside area had completely dried up to due to better customs.

He was the lad from Hampshire with the crooked teeth? Another example of a total gimp. Did you physically meet him?

Sad news that mind. I bet it would have been down to some swipecard dangling, shit-sniffing Health & Safety jobsworth at Council . always used to be fun when some idiot decided to drive down there honking their horn just as 30,000 people tried to go the same way - we used to walk right over the cars I can just picture it too ! A choice of route only taken once. Remember when berks that beeped while trying to get by Strawberry having their cars rocked like cots too. We used to exit the ground via the express route of a 'dangle and drop' from back wall at top of the corner. huge electric cables an allsorts running along it thinking back haha. Beep beep "fuck off" then over the road to Keegans hot dogs 60p hot dog with onions, seemed like a gourmet meal in them days.