The English Football Thread

[TheCunningStunt]

I hope they go down now, I really do.

[Bulldog]

Same.

The official line is that they want a 'more experienced' manager at the helm, but if that's the case, why get rid of him in the bleedin' middle of the season?! And I dunno about anyone else, but a promoted club being 11th at this point of the season kinda makes it look as if they don't really need one. Certainly not this season anyway, which should be about consolidating a place in the top flight again.

I always knew Mike Ashley was a cunt who doesn't have a clue how to run a football club, but this just takes the piss.

[Mojo]

Jesus Christ!

I've kinda been cut off from the rest of the world so far today so hadn't heard about this. This is disgusting. Mike Ashley already shat all over Kevin Keegan and eveything he gave to the club and for a club that changes manager every week, I think the fans all thought that Hughton would bring them a bit of stability as they were all behind him and the job he was doing.

Ashley out! I hate Newcastle but I hate that cunt more!

[Mojo]

http://www.thenewsgrind.com/sport/fo...-of-stability/

“We should be challenging for Europe, given I’ve bankrolled moves for big name players such as Leon Best and Wayne Routledge.”

[Bulldog]

'Desperate Newcastle sack Hughton to halt worrying period of stability'

[Mojo]

"Owner Mike Ashley is understood to be concerned that Newcastle are on course to quietly achieve Premier League survival, damaging the club’s reputation for keeping the whole of football amused." xD

It made me laugh, but this whole thing just angers me so much to be honest. He shouldn't be getting involved, he should be there to invest his bags of money in the club and let everyone around them do their jobs.

One of my Geordie mates used to go to pretty much every home game and a lot of away games over the course of the season. Now he goes very, very rarely and often even just looks up the scores but doesn't even watch Match of the Day. That started when this idiot forced Keegan out by refusing to let him do his job and so I'd love to know what he makes of this.

[Zaqarbal]

Originally Posted by right-track

Money in the right places, talks.

Exactly. And if we see what Russia and Qatar have in common...

[Mojo]

Alex Beam: Hardball in Liverpool - The Boston Globe

Read that if you fancy a laugh. I use that word lightly because it is not funny.

If you don't know anything about football, don't write about it. Even if you seem to consider yourself the link to the sport for Americans who don't know anything about it. Most false claims can be forgiven but eventually your lack of understanding is gonna catch up with you - and you're gonna call the Hillsborough disaster a "soccer riot!"

[right-track]

The only accurate part of that article reveals itself with the transatlantic knowledge of Liverpool (self pity city) and it's fans are still wallowing in the tragedy that was Hillsbrough, after all these years.
I bet the Bradford fire and Heysel stadium disasters of 85 aren't as well known across the pond.
Wonder why that is?

I also have it on good authority that the anonymous Bostonian who is a rabid Liverpool fan, is in fact our own Big3.

[Bulldog]

BBC Sport - Football - Alan Pardew set to be new Newcastle manager

...really?

This has to be some sort of sick joke. What a good time not to be a Newcastle fan!