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ALL NUFC and Sportwashing stuff in here. (Threads will be merged)

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gipetto said:
They've just been taken over and were supposedly in a jubilant mood, as soon as Spurs went ahead they hid and went quiet, in the end reverting to type and they couldn't hep but boo Bruce and the result, despite supposedly being the wealthiest club in the world. They are never happy.

Spurs fans were singing "is this a library", it was totally embarrassing and swathes of empty seats could be seen after 80 minutes.
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They started exiting from around the 70th minute. They're awful, in real big trouble.
 

Georgewhitt said:
I've never lived or worked or even been to the Middle East. There are a few posters on here that have, and from what I can glean from some of their posts, is that the Arab nation really see themselves as superior to westeners, morally and intellectually.
From what they saw yesterday, with fully grown supposedly adults, mocking their culture, dress, and stereotyping them, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they have gone home with no intention of ever putting themselves through that again.
The Jawdee nation basically said thank you for "rescuing" them from Ashley, by humiliating, mocking and abusing them.
To them it must have seemed excessive in its ungratefulness.

Don't be surprised if the expected bankrolling is not quite as forthcoming as you had hoped.
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:lol: don't be silly.
 
gipetto said:
That's rubbish and you know it. You picked up points past season playing a defensive style, knowing you'd invariably create a few chances and if you scored you were setup tight enough to defend the lead.

Your fans were actively complaining about the defensive style, had it been Benitez it wouldn't have been an issue even though the style of play was all but the same. Now you're playing a more open game as demanded by the fans you're getting cut to shreds by the better sides. You don't have the quality to play a more balanced game, very few clubs in the bottom half have that luxury.
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No, it's not. We didn't pick up points playing a defensive style, we picked up points when Bruce just relied on ASM or Wilson pulling something out their arses, then latterly when Willock went on an unbelievable run of goalscoring form.

The issue wasn't that we were defensive, it's that we were deep, passive and yet, somehow, still way, way too easy to play through.

In short, we weren't playing defensively, we were playing shit.
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So you don't think anything he saw yesterday would have offended him?
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I think the new chairman will have heard loads of fans cheering him, and gone away thinking the club's fans are happy to have him. I don't think seeing a few dickheads in headscarves will have him rethinking the sportswashing plan.
 
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KarenDent said:
Heard him, not from the area, started going when Keegan was manager, sounded like a right band wagon jumper
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Did you hear the one that was one just a bit earlier than him? Had stopped going to games when Ashley took over and part of protest group? Didn't like the way Ashley treated his employees in China, etc. Didn't like him using the ground to promote Sports Direct. When asked about his thoughts on the new regime and their track record with what was being said in media etc. The bloke said 'that is for the fans as a group to decide whether to focus on their support for Newcastle United...'
 
I agree. He has gone away thinking you're happy to have him. Have his power, his influence, his money.
But not enough apparently to show him and his culture the respect he will expect and probably demand. In our world it was "dickheads in tea towels". In his it was insulting in the extreme.
His idea of honour and respect probably differ vastly to yours.
 
Dark Traveller said:
Did you hear the one that was one just a bit earlier than him? Had stopped going to games when Ashley took over and part of protest group? Didn't like the way Ashley treated his employees in China, etc. Didn't like him using the ground to promote Sports Direct. When asked about his thoughts on the new regime and their track record with what was being said in media etc. The bloke said 'that is for the fans as a group to decide whether to focus on their support for Newcastle United...'
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No missed that one ☝️ but not surprised 😂 they run with the hare and hunt with the hounds ………..total sport should be fun tonight 🍿
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
It's absolutely standard for MPs to accept correspondence from only their constituents. Even then, it can take at least two weeks to reply if the matter isn't urgent (which means either time-critical for the constituent or relevant to a Parliamentary debate in the immediate future).
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Yeah, I understand that now and why, but didn't realise before I sent it to him. Coincidentally, and for what it's worth, I know him from school, and maybe he can at least take on board my comments, without a professional response.

My reason for posting it was basically to increase awareness (if it could possibly be increased any more), and make the point that anyone else could write to their own MPs if they wanted to.
 
Georgewhitt said:
I agree. He has
The Fish said:
No, it's not. We didn't pick up points playing a defensive style, we picked up points when Bruce just relied on ASM or Wilson pulling something out their arses, then latterly when Willock went on an unbelievable run of goalscoring form.

The issue wasn't that we were defensive, it's that we were deep, passive and yet, somehow, still way, way too easy to play through.

In short, we weren't playing defensively, we were playing shit.

I think the new chairman will have heard loads of fans cheering him, and gone away thinking the club's fans are happy to have him. I don't think seeing a few dickheads in headscarves will have him rethinking the sportswashing plan.
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Georgewhitt said:
I agree. He has gone away thinking you're happy to have him. Have his power, his influence, his money.
But not enough apparently to show him and his culture the respect he will expect and probably demand. In our world it was "dickheads in tea towels". In his it was insulting in the extreme.
His idea of honour and respect probably differ vastly to yours.
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cluffy said:
Another good article
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Pretty impressed he knocked that together for it to be up on the website by 20.50. Well written and an honest appraisal of what he saw. He’d never fit in with the local sports hacks.

A number of striking passages, including this one:

Even so, the rapturous welcome offered to Al-Rumayyan a few minutes before kick-off will probably remain the most enduring image of the day: the sight of grown men opening their arms and exalting this affiliate of a thuggish autocracy as if he were some sort of god: saluting him, praising him, shaking their fists in ecstasy.


3 years ago, bin Salman and high level Saudis struggled to get an audience in the West in the aftermath of Khasshogi’s death and were considered pariahs.

Now the chairman of the Saudi oil company and the head of their investment fund, which owns the planes used to kill Khasshogi, gets a welcome like that in Newcastle.

I’d expect he regards everyone in the stadium as a barely human scumbag. Obscenely wealthy people can be like that, and his state’s religion instructs him to regard us all as infidels.

But given how they were perceived quite recently, I expect the Saudis will see value in receiving a reception like that from a Western crowd on global television. I’d be sickened to support a football club so willingly complicit in something like that.
 
El Oso said:
Yeah, I understand that now and why, but didn't realise before I sent it to him. Coincidentally, and for what it's worth, I know him from school, and maybe he can at least take on board my comments, without a professional response.

My reason for posting it was basically to increase awareness (if it could possibly be increased any more), and make the point that anyone else could write to their own MPs if they wanted to.
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Sadly he would be ploughing a lonely furrow if he was to speak up. The Tyneside and Northumberland MP's are massive mags and have already endorsed the takeover despite previously having issues with zero hour contracts and Wonga. Lavery and Onwurah being the two worst.
 
willo said:
Sadly he would be ploughing a lonely furrow if he was to speak up. The Tyneside and Northumberland MP's are massive mags and have already endorsed the takeover despite previously having issues with zero hour contracts and Wonga. Lavery and Onwurah being the two worst.
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True, but doesn't do any harm to try to get an elected MP to highlight hypocrisy.
The other part was about the transparency of Johnson's alleged steamrollering of the PL Chairman into accepting the deal in exchange for the arms deal to SA. And a look at the unredacted minutes of the meeting.
 
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