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March to June 2020 - NEWCASTLE UTD fc

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superdougle said:
Right I’m trying to reason with you here, if for argument sake John hall bought Sunderland back in the 90’s? And we had replicated exactly the same as Newcastle do you think Sunderland would have attracted any less fans than Newcastle , reason being im 40 ish from a middle town not Sunderland not Newcastle and the amount of people that changed allegiance in that time was quite large, people started going to games that would not usually, as the team become more successful, nobody want to watch a shite team believe me. It’s the same as Man City shirts or Chelsea shirts, that you see now, you where a media darling at the time, places like Durham Bishop Auckland even seaham Sunderland stronghold becoming 50/50 if not worse, the Point being let’s say the Saudi geezer bought Sunderland tomorrow and just pumped it full of cash for the next 20 years became massively successful, Newcastle treaded water under Ashley, do you think the effect would be any different?? I don’t. Same fans different shirt the people are the same.
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You give a perspective from well outside the city that I would find it hard to relate to having always lived within 5 miles of the stadium. I would not know about people making a choice and had assumed the vast majority of Newcastle supporters have a deep seated emotional attachment to the city as well as the football club?

Yes, most probably if somebody had set Sunderland off on a higher plain during the early years it might have been different. Certainly, there is a club there that could fill a 48,000 seat stadium and then some.
 
Warren Barton interview.

Said it was the passion of the mags supporters that convinced the Awabs to make a move. "They've looked at Man City, they've looked at PSG, they've looked at Chelsea. But they just haven't got that, you know, if Newcastle got a Champions League game, it's a 60k sell out. The likes of City haven't got that".
 
martinlumley said:
So when's it happening then, cos another weeks passed and its very quiet. Lots of pending and no f***ing spending as far as I can see. These Arabs are a bit notorious for hanging onto their dosh, its why they're so wealthy.
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No idea
I'll stick to what I always say and that is i will believe it when it happens.

Still exciting though that it might happen.

I thought they where notorious for blowing hundreds of millions and massive mansions and yachts not hanging onto their cash but maybe i'm wrong.
 
Ericsgate said:
I have always considered myself very fortunate to have been brought up as a Newcastle fan. There is no ambiguity no sharing the city with other teams.

We are a unique city with a strong attachment to its football team. Not least because the Gallowgate is a few hundred yards from in the city centre.

Where else can you stand in a city centre and from any vantage point see the stadium? Where else does a buzz run through the whole city on match day?

I have followed football in this country closely for 40 years, no other club has that formula. It makes it unique what is so difficult to accept.
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So despite supporting the most amazing club in the world why did you feel the need to pretend to support their nearest rivals on the internet?
 
They’ve only been pulling in 30 odd thousand mag paying supporters lately for Premiership games, despite Big Mike shattering their transfer record in the summer.
 
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