Newcastle Takeover Called Off !!

[bfcjon]

Wow, if they were banking on the £250 million pounds coming in from the Saudies , Surely relegation fodder for next season
Reported they have pulled out...

Poor Messi, and all the top players they were going to sign

[sinkov]

Poor Messi, and all the top players they were going to sign

Reminds me of the time Blackburn fans actually believed they were going to sign Ronaldinho.

[Supersub6]

Don't knock it because it will mean that all the protesters will continue to boycott matches and make it easier to get tickets if I decide that I want to go to a match.
Meanwhile on the streets of Newcastle there will be much weeping and wailing about Ashley mainly because he comes from south of the Tyne and brought in some others of his ilk in order to steady the club many years ago when they were going down the pan.

[Altobelli]

At least my brother-in-law will be happy that towel heads with hardly any human rights isssues have failed to get hold of his Club.

[1959_60]

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

The Yanks are next!

[alfinyalcabo]

Poor old Newcastle.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Yet we complain about the way our football club is run? Be careful what you wish for guys?

[sinkov]

Yet we complain about the way our football club is run? Be careful what you wish for guys?

They seem to be run very much like us BT, they lost a very good manager because he didn't get the money he wanted. Garlick wants to be careful what he wishes for.

[18nufc92]

Meanwhile on the streets of Newcastle there will be much weeping and wailing about Ashley mainly because he comes from south of the Tyne and brought in some others of his ilk in order to steady the club many years ago when they were going down the pan.

What a load of bolloсks. Malcolm McDonald, Les Ferdinand and Rob Lee are 3 club legends from “south of the Tyne”. You’re clearly the type of ill-informed football ‘fan‘ that nods along enthusiastically when so called pundits like Richard Keys and Paul Merson talk drivel without any clue about what they’re talking about. Educate yourself, you must be better than that...

[Supersub6]

What a load of bolloсks. Malcolm McDonald, Les Ferdinand and Rob Lee are 3 club legends from “south of the Tyne”. You’re clearly the type of ill-informed football ‘fan‘ that nods along enthusiastically when so called pundits like Richard Keys and Paul Merson talk drivel without any clue about what they’re talking about. Educate yourself, you must be better than that...

I speak as I find. I married a lass from up here in 1966, have lived in Ashington since 1988, have been well involved running lots of local football, do lots of voluntary charity work in aid of ex-servicemen and I am halfway to being accepted.

I do not listen to pundits because they talk crap, however, I do listen to what the local football fans say and if you think that they ever accepted Ashley then it is you who needs the education. You know fine well that he has never been accepted by lots of fans, for whatever reason. However,
I do know how parochial people are in this area, even one of the football teams I ran used to moan if they had to travel from Ashington to North Shields because "it is a long way" ---I am not talking about kids, I am talking about adults, some of whom were miners.

As far as Paul Merson is concerned, I knew him when he was playing junior football and he was an arsehole then so I would be really interested in what he says. As far as McDonald, Ferdinand and Rob Lee are concerned --yes they are club legends and deservedly so, however, I was not talking about them, I was talking about the attitude of many fans towards Mike Ashley and where it came from. I seem to remember that Dennis Wise was extremely popular amongst thesee same fans who do not show bias.