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It's fair to say our crowd doubled from the early 90s, theirs fuckin tripled, but we think "football was invented in 1992 FTM"

You didn't answer your bell?

Fuckin "domestic situation/happiness wars" posted on a windows vista laptop via a frankly useless dongle, in the back of a Toyota Hiace camper van, from Caloundra, SE Queensland, en route to visit @ toontl

I like that, and am also tempted by Troy Deeney...experience at this level, goals, leadership..and I wouldn't complain if he brought his mate Ikechi Anya with him...a bit of ability and huge energy...things are in flux at the Vic so they (and others) may consider a step down...

Aye, in a football world where Leicester City have just won the league title even Rafa guarantees nothing...but he is the next best thing

According to this his family had more of a say in his decision than even we may have expected, which also reflects incredibly well on our support in general http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/rafa-benitez-how-a-champions-league-winning-manager-was-convinced-to-stay-with-newcastle-united-a7048451.html

Drummed out of Liverpool for being shit years before they won the champions league, in favour of erm "world class" talents like Igor Biscan and Jimi Traore, his best offers for the next decade were from Charlton and fuckin Fulham ...as Tom said so fuckin what if he was assessing his options? No one expected him in March and no one expected him to sign after relegation..outside the usual suspects and Leicester there's no one in the premier league I'd swap places with right now, least of all the mackems. They won't be out the bottom five all season and they'll still be eating fat Sams shit sandwiches every week, only without the only two games that really matter to them.

Guilty as charged

Good bit by Al Murray from the guardian abuot BK...always liked him, don't know what this says about me but when he started doing last of the summer wine I started watching it He was also pretty terrifying as the Commandant in Tenko.. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/24/burt-kwouk-harry-hill-pink-panther?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Is this like getting beat in the play offs by the tramps in 1990?.....we had to suffer for nearly two seasons after that but without that 18 months there'd have been no SJH,KK, promotion and the rest, this is different but there are similarities....being kicked in the bollocks by the mackems can be good for you

Is that when the court order runs out?

An appraisal of the Lion of Gosforth from F365.... I've abused him in the past for him thinking he was bigger than the club, and I do partly stand by that, but when you see all the stats in this piece laid out, he was a fuckin phenomenal footballer.. http://www.football365.com/news/portrait-of-an-icon-alan-shearer

Ps...don't let Fish's jibes get you down mate, bit out of the blue that one like...

Umm.....that's a bit tricky...if you're as unprincipled as him though probably not....

Fuck me, it's an even more bizarre essembee

Mourihno v Pep in the same city. Tasty, but I can't help thinking that neither of them suit their new clubs....you'd think Manu would want someone less of a cunt than LVG....so they appoint just about the only one bigger, and the citeh of Paul Dickov and Geoff Whitley appointing the worlds best(?) 17 years after they were in divi 3...is that more of a shock than us appointing Rafa??

Congratulations SEW, hope youre all well

They keep very quiet about the tosser who gobbed on SAINT Niall Quinn in front of his wife and kids outside Roker Park in 1996...tbh I didn't know until recently either but it's comes from Quinn's own mouth in this book... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Up-There-North-East-Football-Boom/dp/1909245178

That reads like a paragraph from this... http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28676.American_Psycho After you with the nail gun

Well there you go....what do we know about the background to those deals? Who were their agents and what sort of historic relationship did NUFC and/or Carr have with them?....Doumbia by all accounts has in the past looked a good player, but who struck THAT deal with his handlers? Don't know anything about Saivet. Was he signed to replace Tiote, who didn't in the end leave, and just fucked around after? Is any of that in the job description of the man who is basically being payed to identify talent? If his role was too much for him, why the fuck wasn't the problem identified and sorted out by someone? This "board" was just a fuckin nothing when it came to addressing what was truly going wrong at the club and that all comes back to one man.

Had lots of arguments with mates about whether he's to blame for much of our current car crash....I think he's in credit tbh,it wasn't down to him that decent players he brought to the club like Tiote, Cisse and Sussoko have been complelty de motivated for the last two seasons or so, but it's difficult to know what actually went on with Thauvin, Cabella and Rivière, or the Saivet/Doumbia debacle...players often don't go somewhere for "playing" reasons nowadays, look at the shit Dennis Wise and his wanker mates were up to behind KK's back etc.... I bet he could write a really good book about the Ashley years at NUFC, but I expect they'll be some "silence" clause in his leaving deal...shame, strikes me as one of the few actual decent people in the public eye that Ashley has employed.

That's a great career Think it was Stevie who mentioned the 4-2 aggregate shoeing (4-nowt first leg @ SJP) we dished out to the Feyenoord side who would win the European Cup itself 12 months later...that was probably our best result outside of the final.

Agree with most of this apart from the "profit" bit....to build a team to take a club managed by Rafa where he wants to go will require debt, and that's where it's all going to fall down sooner or later....

We might be surprised who stays if Rafa does..