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NUFC/Sportswashing - Summer 2022

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Skellington said:
Caulkin's latest attempt at crawling up the mags arseholes. Quite a big two weeks in terms of the direction of that club, and all doesn't look as it should. Rather than asking anything awkward, he's busy capturing fan's jubilant feelings at being taken over by some of the most evil and disgusting people on the planet, marking a new low for world football in the process:

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Ask them to describe their connection to St James’ and there is a faltering. “It’s everything,” Thomas Concannon says. “It’s like church — and I was brought up a good Catholic!” says Graeme Robson. “My vocabulary isn’t good enough.” “It’s really hard to describe,” says Concannon. “But I couldn’t be without this. This is what I do.”

Sometimes the doing is agony. Robson has been coming since the late 1960s. In 2019, when Rafa Benitez left as manager, he left as well, along with thousands of others. Wor Flags stepped away. “I packed my ticket in,” he says. “It sounds bizarre, but the thing I love more than anything apart from family, I started to hate. Because of Ashley. It was 14 years of nastiness.

“I try to reconcile it with myself but I can’t. Something I loved so much, I despised. I’d get annoyed at the people still coming. I just thought, ‘How can you support these bastards?’. I don’t mean the players. They’d done nothing wrong. But then as soon as the takeover happened, it was like a switch. It was instant.”

And now? “To me, it just feels like the (Kevin) Keegan era,” Robson says. “When Keegan walked through the door as manager, it was, ‘What the fuck?’. I’m getting tingly just thinking about it. That’s what the takeover was like. That’s what it’s done. You know, I find myself crying a lot. I feel like crying now. I do. I get really, really… it feels like a new dawn.”

And at a few minutes to three on this muggy afternoon on Tyneside, with the home team about to play Nottingham Forest on the first day of the Premier League season, a banner is stretched along the length of the Gallowgate, riffing on Nina Simone. “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for NUFC… and we’re feeling good,” it reads.

I don't get how Mike Ashley is continually portrayed as something uniquely awful by so many of them.

In the time this fellas been going, they've had 4 seasons under Keegan and 3 seasons with Robson where they were top 6, and they still didn't win anything.

They've done 16 seasons in the 2nd flight since 1960, only 2 of which were under Ashley.

And aside from Keegan / Robson, they've only been 6th or higher twice since 1960, and one of those seasons was under Ashley (delivered by Pardew, who they absolutely hated).

What was so awful about the Ashley era for this bloke? If anything it should have been a slight improvement on what he was used to. You never needed a season ticket prior to 92, and you've got to wonder how many games a season these people actually went to when the team was shit. Somehow or other they've got an absolutely warped perspective, anyway.
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He started off like a local Nick Hornby, kind of gentle reminiscing mindset of a fan, kind of thing someone who wasn’t even into football would appreciate reading.

Sadly he peaked around the time he joined the Athletic. From Casanova of The Chronicle to a quick tug job behind The Strawberry these days.
 

geordiedan said:
That’s the thing though, he’ll not make more of a difference than me. The Saudis will change their barbaric ways when they want to. Not when a few Sunderland supporters want them to. I’m not sticking up for the Saudis (how could I). I’m just saying it how it is.
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The uncomfortable truth is that if Salma al-Shehab, was white and from Newcastle the 34 year sentence would be all over the media. The resultant media outcry and say, for example, a walk out, would lead to the sentence being reduced or her pardoned. But she’s not white and not from Newcastle. She is Arabic and a student at Leeds.

It is bullshit to say people can’t do anything about it. NUFC fans choose not to because of that dangling carrot, the words of Queen Mandy that “you will be challenging for the title in five years” and the fear that PIF will walk away.

But instead of being critical the bulk of fans just think we should stop using Facebook or buying petrol.
skullmeister said:
Apparently she had shown support using twitter for someone else who had been campaigning for women's driving rights. She also committed the crime of sharing other views on twitter which are at odds with the great and decent values of the Saudis. She is a student al Leeds University and had returned for a holiday.

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I have had many Saudi students over the years. Many of the female ones f***ing detest the place but have very little way of breaking free other than study. Meanwhile the privileged males think it is the best country on the planet. I wonder why? To quote the song “it’s a man’s world”.
 
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geordiedan said:
I don’t think it was just about results and league positions regards hatred towards Ashley. Little things like appointing Kinnear (twice) when he was on deaths door and had been out of the game for years. Renaming the cathedral, the sports direct arena ( not st James’ sports direct arena btw ) and not paying for the privelidge of having his brand cheapen the look of said cathedral. Telling Jonas he was sacked after battling through cancer and getting back to full fitness. Blatantly lying to Keegan (proven in court) and fans on a regular basis. There’s plenty more reasons but I’d be here all night and I want to go to bed. But if I’m being honest it didn’t make a difference to me, apart from not looking forward to watching the match because the football was shite. I was still having a good day out with my mates no matter what.
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The irony is.. if the Saudis plastered their brands all over SJP and called it the "Visit Saudi Arena" you'd be loving it. They could probably sack a player with cancer and you'd ignore it, a bit like how you ignore murder, brutal executions and imprisonment of people who have conflicting views.
 
geordiedan said:
I would have the utmost respect for exiles crusade if it had started before 7/10/2021. If nufc had not been taken over by PIF then exile would have a lot more free time on his hands. FACT !!
Hope he keeps up the good work though and really hope he can make a difference.
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why would he start before they took you over? They didn't own a PL club before that.
geordiedan said:
I don’t think it was just about results and league positions regards hatred towards Ashley. Little things like appointing Kinnear (twice) when he was on deaths door and had been out of the game for years. Renaming the cathedral, the sports direct arena ( not st James’ sports direct arena btw ) and not paying for the privelidge of having his brand cheapen the look of said cathedral. Telling Jonas he was sacked after battling through cancer and getting back to full fitness. Blatantly lying to Keegan (proven in court) and fans on a regular basis. There’s plenty more reasons but I’d be here all night and I want to go to bed. But if I’m being honest it didn’t make a difference to me, apart from not looking forward to watching the match because the football was shite. I was still having a good day out with my mates no matter what.
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so your bitching about Ashley changing a name you don't use?
Cathedral my arse.
 
geordiedan said:
I don’t think it was just about results and league positions regards hatred towards Ashley. Little things like appointing Kinnear (twice) when he was on deaths door and had been out of the game for years. Renaming the cathedral, the sports direct arena ( not st James’ sports direct arena btw ) and not paying for the privelidge of having his brand cheapen the look of said cathedral. Telling Jonas he was sacked after battling through cancer and getting back to full fitness. Blatantly lying to Keegan (proven in court) and fans on a regular basis. There’s plenty more reasons but I’d be here all night and I want to go to bed. But if I’m being honest it didn’t make a difference to me, apart from not looking forward to watching the match because the football was shite. I was still having a good day out with my mates no matter what.
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Cathedral.Cringe!
 
Skellington said:
Caulkin's latest attempt at crawling up the mags arseholes. Quite a big two weeks in terms of the direction of that club, and all doesn't look as it should. Rather than asking anything awkward, he's busy capturing fan's jubilant feelings at being taken over by some of the most evil and disgusting people on the planet, marking a new low for world football in the process:

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Ask them to describe their connection to St James’ and there is a faltering. “It’s everything,” Thomas Concannon says. “It’s like church — and I was brought up a good Catholic!” says Graeme Robson. “My vocabulary isn’t good enough.” “It’s really hard to describe,” says Concannon. “But I couldn’t be without this. This is what I do.”

Sometimes the doing is agony. Robson has been coming since the late 1960s. In 2019, when Rafa Benitez left as manager, he left as well, along with thousands of others. Wor Flags stepped away. “I packed my ticket in,” he says. “It sounds bizarre, but the thing I love more than anything apart from family, I started to hate. Because of Ashley. It was 14 years of nastiness.

“I try to reconcile it with myself but I can’t. Something I loved so much, I despised. I’d get annoyed at the people still coming. I just thought, ‘How can you support these bastards?’. I don’t mean the players. They’d done nothing wrong. But then as soon as the takeover happened, it was like a switch. It was instant.”

And now? “To me, it just feels like the (Kevin) Keegan era,” Robson says. “When Keegan walked through the door as manager, it was, ‘What the fuck?’. I’m getting tingly just thinking about it. That’s what the takeover was like. That’s what it’s done. You know, I find myself crying a lot. I feel like crying now. I do. I get really, really… it feels like a new dawn.”

And at a few minutes to three on this muggy afternoon on Tyneside, with the home team about to play Nottingham Forest on the first day of the Premier League season, a banner is stretched along the length of the Gallowgate, riffing on Nina Simone. “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for NUFC… and we’re feeling good,” it reads.

I don't get how Mike Ashley is continually portrayed as something uniquely awful by so many of them.

In the time this fellas been going, they've had 4 seasons under Keegan and 3 seasons with Robson where they were top 6, and they still didn't win anything.

They've done 16 seasons in the 2nd flight since 1960, only 2 of which were under Ashley.

And aside from Keegan / Robson, they've only been 6th or higher twice since 1960, and one of those seasons was under Ashley (delivered by Pardew, who they absolutely hated).

What was so awful about the Ashley era for this bloke? If anything it should have been a slight improvement on what he was used to. You never needed a season ticket prior to 92, and you've got to wonder how many games a season these people actually went to when the team was shit. Somehow or other they've got an absolutely warped perspective, anyway.
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You missed the part where he wrote that Keegan’s and Hall’s arrivals were a reawakening of the club, just like the takeover now?
Roker Mackem said:
The irony is.. if the Saudis plastered their brands all over SJP and called it the "Visit Saudi Arena" you'd be loving it. They could probably sack a player with cancer and you'd ignore it, a bit like how you ignore murder, brutal executions and imprisonment of people who have conflicting views.
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Depends on how much they are paying for the privilege
 
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skullmeister said:
Apparently she had shown support using twitter for someone else who had been campaigning for women's driving rights. She also committed the crime of sharing other views on twitter which are at odds with the great and decent values of the Saudis. She is a student al Leeds University and had returned for a holiday.

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Absolutely disgusting
 
geordiedan said:
I don’t think it was just about results and league positions regards hatred towards Ashley. Little things like appointing Kinnear (twice) when he was on deaths door and had been out of the game for years. Renaming the cathedral, the sports direct arena ( not st James’ sports direct arena btw ) and not paying for the privelidge of having his brand cheapen the look of said cathedral. Telling Jonas he was sacked after battling through cancer and getting back to full fitness. Blatantly lying to Keegan (proven in court) and fans on a regular basis. There’s plenty more reasons but I’d be here all night and I want to go to bed. But if I’m being honest it didn’t make a difference to me, apart from not looking forward to watching the match because the football was shite. I was still having a good day out with my mates no matter what.
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What an abhorrent list, well done to all those Newcastle fans that boycoutted that evil regime.

Imagine if you were owned by murderers, pedophiles, terrorists or human rights abusers.
The good folk of Newcastle would have the ground empty............oh wait.🤔
 
Wrenthorpe Mackem said:
Just another reminder about the reality of the regime at our nearest and dearest.

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A dental worker living in Leeds after studying there. Returned to Arabia for a holiday. Now she is subject to 34 years of torture in a Saudi dungeon followed by a 34 year travel ban although its highly unlikely she will outlive the prison sentence. Her twitter feed includes typical pictures and stories of her sons and husband, about her studies and work, about recovering from Covid etc etc. Also a couple of tame re-tweets of people who have expressed concerns about the treatment of a lady who was tortured as she advocated women's rights to drive. Show even the faintest hint of dissent of MBS and you will be dismembered or imprisoned and tortured for the rest of your sorry life. This c_unt owns the mags and they celebrate him.
 
Hot Since 82 said:
A dental worker living in Leeds after studying there. Returned to Arabia for a holiday. Now she is subject to 34 years of torture in a Saudi Dungeon followed by a 34 year travel ban although its highly unlikely she will outlive the prison sentence. Her twitter feed includes typical pictures and stories of her sons and husband, about her studies and work, about recovering from Covid etc etc. Also a couple of tame re-tweets of people who have expressed concerns about the treatment of a lady who was tortured as she advocated women's rights to drive. Show even the faintest hint of dissent of MBS and you will be dismembered or imprisoned and tortured for the rest of your sorry life. This c_unt owns the mags and they celebrate him.
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Hopefully this is a case Amnesty can take up. Pressure needs to be put on them as much as possible.

It's grim though.....and this is just one case. Christ knows how many are languishing in prisons for non crimes.
 
Wansbeck Viking said:
Amanda Stavely doesn’t have a twitter account.

I wonder if she’s been told she’s not allowed to have one.
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She’s playing the long game, once the stupid bastards have realised she’s sold them a dream. Give it 2 years when they’re not buying anyone and finishing mid-table, there will be boycoutts all over the City.
 
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