Don't the big Spanish teams have some sort of public ownership thing going? Might explain why they are so fucking useless.
Don't the big Spanish teams have some sort of public ownership thing going? Might explain why they are so fucking useless.
I saw something about how ‘we should feel so bad about a once great club has fallen to’
I’ve loved every second of that cheaty scummy clubs misery. Mes que un bunch of cunts.
What have they even fallen to? Lost a few games? The horror.
They have definitely been much worse before. Their finances are shit? Who cares?
Smuggest club ever. It’s great to see.
A demotion or two would be nice. Be a good FM save that.
Bissouma under investigation for sexual assault.
Sorba Thomas' story is a good one. Hope he makes it to the Premier League.
I'm a twit
Sir Henry Winter finishing his twitter list of advice to the Saudis with 'Enjoy it. Great fans and city.' is the most Sir Henry Winter thing that he has ever done.
I'm getting a bit carried away planning a long overdue trip to St James'. Time for bed.
Please never stop, Sir Henry. Please keep being you.
Has anyone in a worthwhile position to do so ever raised human rights with City, Arsenal, the FA etc.? They all whine about Qatar, but that is a FIFA thing and it's easy to have a go at FIFA. Not so easy to have a go at the people who control your press access.
I said it before and I'll say it again, it's fantastic to have an added passion to see Newcastle lose. They should be going down this year but hopefully I'll get a chance to go and shout abuse at them at Brentford this year.
No. You can't. Now jog on Osama BinMan Jersey.
If there's one thing I'll never tire of, it's (club's fans) telling (all other fans) that they don't understand their club, as if they aren't just the same institution followed by the same slavish idiots copy-pasted all over the country in different colour schemes.
'There's a media agenda against Chesterfield, and if you can't see that, you must be as biased as the rest of them.'
When I used to take betting a bit more seriously, I'd regularly check in on the online forums of smaller clubs to get team news, etc. It was hilarious how many of them - probably 80%ish - had threads about the media/referee bias against them.
Do Sky Sports have a single pundit that didn't play for Liverpool, Man Utd or Arsenal?
They had Le Tissier but the lure of being a full time mong on Twitter was too strong for him.
If you go into their Soccer Saturday panels then probably (where I guess Le Tiss was found) - Matt Murray? Does he ever get into the studio other than on lower league weekends?
The bits I've had the misfortune to see of BT panels of Scholes and Hargreaves might be some of the most football broadcasting ever allowed onto the airwaves. They're not even entertainingly thick, just dull as dishwater.
Do BT have one good pundit?
I say this quite often but culturally English football is all about those three red teams, the others are just convenient opposition ultimately. There's far more mileage in having washed up players from those three on pundit panels than there is in having good pundits. It's all part of the narrative.
When those teams don't win, the story is them being shit, rather than about someone else being good.
Didn't BT unearth Sutton?
And there in lays the source of the complex. I don't think it's entirely imaginary.
Spurs fans are one of the main culprits of that line of thinking, but when they're playing one of the big 4 and the panel is made up entirely of ex-players from their opponent it does make it understandable.
The build up is heavily weighted towards United / Liverpool / Arsenal (because they bring the most viewers), if they win it's about how shit their opponent was (rather than how good Spurs were) and if they lose it's smug grins all round.
I don't necessarily think it's bias on Sky's behalf, they're just getting in the pundits they think their core viewers want to see, but if you're a fan of one of the 17 other clubs in the league (especially if you support a rival club) I can easily see why they think the media is against them.
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I think he's fine but he never actually says anything that makes you go "Hm, good point." He just appears to have an actual personality, such as it is, which marks him out.
That Winter exchange is perfect, just perfect.
He's like a highbrow Madeley.
When United were winning everything, I used to look at other fanbases and laugh how mental they all were. The last 7 years have made me realise that United's fanbase is probably one of the worst out there.
The modern day internet United fan combines blinkeredness and a sense of entitlement in a way that truly grates.
Arsenal fans online are really bizarre, particularly when it comes to messianic complexes about the next youth player through (currently it's Charlie Patiño. Give the boy a chance, he's 17 ffs). Chelsea fans seem to be full of wrong uns. Scousers are scousers. Spurs are just obsessed with Arsenal, the bigger picture doesn't seem to matter to them at all.
City and Newcastle basically have the same fanbase, the main purpose of which is to defend their club against the imagined scorn of others vis a vis middle eastern state ownership.
Newcastle
I really hope they do one up on City and start buying everyone.
Speaking of entitlement...
Football as a whole thinks it's far more important than it really is so is it any wonder that some of the fans are the same way?
China v Vietnam just about to kick off in Asian World Cup qualifying. Could be tasty. Unfortunately, being played in the UAE
Liverpool born Tyias Browning starts for China, as does Brazilian... sorry, Chinese striker Elkeson de Oliveira Cardoso. Alan "Ai Lan" Carvalho on the bench.
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Are there any other Newcastle fans here anymore apart from Shindig (who was an Ashley/Bruce advocate last I saw)?
Hard not to be excited but we'll see what happens. For now, I'm just going to celebrate Ashley being gone but I look forward to smashing everyone in the near future.
I was a Bruce advocate because he was under Ashley's thumb, to be honest. I have no idea how he gets on with a Saudi warchest. Ashley went from being fiscally responsible (compared to Freddie's debt) to downright refusal to spend.
The woman fronting the Newcastle takeover seems to have spent the hiatus between the first bid and now having way too much plastic surgery.
Ashley [more than] doubling his money, having probably stripped millions out in the meantime, the guy's an absolute genius, somehow.
So are these Saudis of the spunking money variety and is that their plan with Newcastle?
Does that technically count as a face covering?
In all this I'd forgotten that Steve Bruce is at the helm.
Loving the pearl clutching shit when so many scumbags already own clubs. I hope they clean up.
I think MBS's goons owning a club is quantifiably worse than the various shades of shyster who currently own clubs. Even the City ones.
Mark Hughes getting to spend City's money on a load of crap was good at the time.