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If these Sunderland fans live in Newcastle, which is possible they have every right to watch her video and be appalled at her stupidity. Even though the majority of Sunderland fans don’t live in Newcastle we have a right to think it’s all abit irrelevant when the country may be on its knees in a few weeks time
 
janey said:
When she first started her popularity Mag campaign I suggested not everyone who lived in her constituency supported the Mags. The responses I got were unbelievable. Everyone living in the toon loves the toon. Okay a bit of an exaggeration but the basis of it is true
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Im a huge SAFC fan since a kid. Born in Roker. Live in Newcastle.
 
janey said:
When she first started her popularity Mag campaign I suggested not everyone who lived in her constituency supported the Mags. The responses I got were unbelievable. Everyone living in the toon loves the toon. Okay a bit of an exaggeration but the basis of it is true
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I live through here for work purposes and she’s generally a canny constituency MP. But this whole charade has been farcical. There is so little evidence that Mike Ashley’s running of the club is damaging the city’s economy whatsoever. You could even argue that by trying to be pragmatic and keep them afloat in the top flight is in fact ultimately beneficial to the city as it safeguards the club’s long term future. As I previously mentioned also, there is absolutely no ideological grounds for her complaints that he isn’t spending enough on player recruitment and wages. How can someone who on the one hand is doing a cracking job of campaigning for improvements in living conditions for low income families and reducing homelessness on the other hand be asking for the money invested in the club by some of those people to be handed over to multi-millionaires?

She should have kept out of this issue entirely in an official capacity.
 
Be Here Now said:
Having a pop at Sunderland fans

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The football world about from the Nashun finds her tedious and a fun figure...not just Sunderland fans.

Amid the mess of Brexit she is pursing this.

As a lifelong Labour supporter she is a complete embarrsment and sums up the clowns running the party at the moment.
 
Ambivalent Squirrel said:
Absolute bollocks raising it in parliament mind. Even if they as bad as Blackpool, it’s got no place there
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Now I disagree there. If it was as bad as Blackpool and there were several jobs on the line and the club was on the brink of folding due to shoddy management then it would have a significantly negative impact upon the local economy; I cannot stand NUFC but there is no denying its a city passionate about its football and plays a critical role.

However, they’re actually being quite sensibly run financially and whilst his management of the club’s coffers may not be palatable to their fanbase it doesn’t represent mismanagement at all and it isn’t a threat to the club’s long term future. Same can’t be said of Blackpool
 
The Sheepfolds End said:
Now I disagree there. If it was as bad as Blackpool and there were several jobs on the line and the club was on the brink of folding due to shoddy management then it would have a significantly negative impact upon the local economy; I cannot stand NUFC but there is no denying its a city passionate about its football and plays a critical role.

However, they’re actually being quite sensibly run financially and whilst his management of the club’s coffers may not be palatable to their fanbase it doesn’t represent mismanagement at all and it isn’t a threat to the club’s long term future. Same can’t be said of Blackpool
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Plenty of other businesses being run like shit, going to the wall, and people losing jobs, don’t get a whiff of a mention. Why is football different ?
 
Ambivalent Squirrel said:
Plenty of other businesses being run like shit, going to the wall, and people losing jobs, don’t get a whiff of a mention. Why is football different ?
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They do get a mention. And if Newcastle were in a similar position to Blackpool, that would be a serious threat to the city’s economy. 50k people get into the city every other week, they buy alcohol, food, spend on transport, hotels, shops etc and keep people in jobs. Lots of away supporters come to Newcastle and spend on the night time economy. They’ve started putting gigs on also which generates more summer income for the city.

But all that is happening in Newcastle under Ashley’s ownership. They finished in the top half last season, they were in a European quarter final just a few years ago. They bang on about having a world class manager; well Ashley got him there and employed him. All this makes it ridiculous that the MP brought this issue up in Parliament.
 
She should try to do some maths. The mags were in £170M in debt (including £27M in owed transfers and all but bankrupt) when Ashley took over largely down to the Halls and Shepherd's wild over spending which gained them 2nd in the league (chertle). He paid £43M off the debt and gave them an interest free loan of £100M saving them at least £5M a season for each of his 12 years in charge. So basically there's over a £100M he's shelled out plus the £134M he paid for the club. Obviously they are still in over a £100M in debt.

Since then he's tried to run the club as a business, slowly reducing the debt and trying to make it sustainable. Does the MP as a responsible adult see any of this? Nope.

She goes to the papers and the house of commons basically saying; haway man ya fat bastad, spend sum of ya cash on wa toon...

Deluded mag clown.
 
The Sheepfolds End said:
I live through here for work purposes and she’s generally a canny constituency MP. But this whole charade has been farcical. There is so little evidence that Mike Ashley’s running of the club is damaging the city’s economy whatsoever. You could even argue that by trying to be pragmatic and keep them afloat in the top flight is in fact ultimately beneficial to the city as it safeguards the club’s long term future. As I previously mentioned also, there is absolutely no ideological grounds for her complaints that he isn’t spending enough on player recruitment and wages. How can someone who on the one hand is doing a cracking job of campaigning for improvements in living conditions for low income families and reducing homelessness on the other hand be asking for the money invested in the club by some of those people to be handed over to multi-millionaires?

She should have kept out of this issue entirely in an official capacity.
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I totally agree, I can’t say I know much about what she does generally, but I’m glad she does what you say she does.
I think many of us have concerns about a lot of issues in football, if she’d raised them as general issues rather than just Newcastle related maybe there would have been a little more sympathy because they are by a long way one of the least poorest run clubs in the country.

iansun said:
Having a pop at us to lick the mags hoops how very desperate and pathetic.
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Succinct and to the point :)
 
janey said:
I totally agree, I can’t say I know much about what she does generally, but I’m glad she does what you say she does.
I think many of us have concerns about a lot of issues in football, if she’d raised them as general issues rather than just Newcastle related maybe there would have been a little more sympathy because they are by a long way one of the least poorest run clubs in the country.


Succinct and to the point :)
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;)
 
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