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.

[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.

[18nufc92]

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.

The attitude around the club when Ashley took us over was one of excitement & hope until he quickly turned things sour for himself by ending all commercial advertising streams and replacing them with his own company (whom i shall not name) without paying the club a penny. It was his own fault entirely that he did not carry our due diligence checks when taking over. Ever since then he has waged war on reducing costs throughout the club, making staff on minimum wage redundant. He has not spent a penny on training facilities in 13 years, no investment in the club’s academy and other than a lick of paint here and there he has let St James’ Park turn into a rusty mess as well. Then there is the court case that he lost, spectacularly, against another club legend in Kevin Keegan in which it was admitted by Ashley that he regularly and deliberately lied to the fans!

The fact that he is from the south doesn’t matter one jot, it is simply an additional insult with which to bash the fat greedy сunt for systematically downscaling the entire football club for over a decade. The fact that we are in the prem at all is down to sheer luck and won’t last much longer under this ownership and manager, who is from Newcastle by the way.

To be fair to Ashington, it is a long way from anywhere. I’m from Cramlington and i find North Shields a hike 😉

[Supersub6]

The attitude around the club when Ashley took us over was one of excitement & hope until he quickly turned things sour for himself by ending all commercial advertising streams and replacing them with his own company (whom i shall not name) without paying the club a penny. It was his own fault entirely that he did not carry our due diligence checks when taking over. Ever since then he has waged war on reducing costs throughout the club, making staff on minimum wage redundant. He has not spent a penny on training facilities in 13 years, no investment in the club’s academy and other than a lick of paint here and there he has let St James’ Park turn into a rusty mess as well. Then there is the court case that he lost, spectacularly, against another club legend in Kevin Keegan in which it was admitted by Ashley that he regularly and deliberately lied to the fans!

The fact that he is from the south doesn’t matter one jot, it is simply an additional insult with which to bash the fat greedy сunt for systematically downscaling the entire football club for over a decade. The fact that we are in the prem at all is down to sheer luck and won’t last much longer under this ownership and manager, who is from Newcastle by the way.

To be fair to Ashington, it is a long way from anywhere. I’m from Cramlington and i find North Shields a hike ��

Fair enough and, by the way, having been around football for a long, long time, both in this country and eight other countries, I am aware of Steve Bruce's heritage.
As far as Ashington being a long way from anywhere I used to travel into Newcastle to run my business on a Saturday morning, return to pick lads up and then take them to wherever we were playing and they complained about distance!
Just for the record, I am originally from Lancashire although I have not lived there since 1966 and I have a season ticket at Burnley where I have been going for 68 seasons.
Good luck with whatever happens at the Toon --my youngest son and my grandson are fans of the Toon although my eldest has always seen sense and still goes to Burnley even though he lives almost 100 miles away.

I have always loved it up here and my youngest also married a lass from Ashington although she does support Sunderland.

[sinkov]

To be fair to Ashington, it is a long way from anywhere. I’m from Cramlington and i find North Shields a hike ��

A long time ago my sister lived in Cramlington, me and Mrs S went on a camping holiday on the west coat of Scotland, after 3 days of solid rain we packed up and went to stay with my sister, the weather was brilliant and our holiday was saved. Then my sister moved to Tynemouth and we've never been back to Cramlington since. Just three days we were there, but I still have very fond memories of it. As far as I'm concerned, the sky is always blue and the sun is always shining in Cramlington.

Incidentally Sub, we're leaving next Friday for a week in Amble, haven't been up there for over a year now, too long away.

[1959_60]

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

The Yanks are next!