Considering the supposed passion of the geordie fans, I'd say the protests against Ashley were largely really weak and a poor effort from the fans considering also how much they apparently despised him.
As for the Saudi take over, I can't comment on how our fans would react overall but it's...
They are 100% the next set of fans to become an arrogant bunch of t0ssers overnight though (on the whole). Just you wait till their visit next month.
Does make me wonder what would happen if we were taken over in the same fashion. I just can't see the majority of us being OK with it, and I can...
Shearer getting in on the act too. All that talk of morality in football etc when the super league was announced eh. He's conveniently forgotten about morality now.
I absolutely LOVE the way we are run. Doesn't get better in my mind. Local die hard passionate fan of the club. A superb youth system and countless youngsters coming through with many being promoted to the first team squad. Something to be proud of. Absolutely amazes me the reaction of the...
Getting to a point where I'd like these petrostate/super rich's plaything clubs to **** off and play in their own league now. Any new club that gets taken over in the same fashion gets to automatically join them.
The very fact that it has only been Leicester, Wigan, Birmingham and Pompey as unlikely winners this century is already pretty damning. As you say though, it'll soon be laughable to even contemplate a club outside of the petrostate clubs winning anything major.
Football fans and the media were...
No, it's depressing as **** as far as fair competition etc in football is concerned. This is the way the world at large has gone though in terms of the super rich, which is also depressing as ****.