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Post by White Lightning on Mar 10, 2014 20:22:19 GMT
If things are not mental enough when it comes to following The Toon reading stuff like this just gets my back up... Newcastle midfielder Dan Gosling has admitted a Football Association charge after breaking rules over betting. The matter relates to multiple breaches of Rule E8(b) for misconduct in relation to betting. Gosling has requested a personal hearing, on a date yet to be arranged. Rule E8(b) specifies players must not bet either directly or indirectly or instruct, permit, cause or enable any person to bet on any result, progress or conduct of a match or competition in which they participate or have participated in during a season or in which they have any influence. The 24-year-old is back at St James' Park following a spell on loan at Sky Bet Championship side Blackpool earlier in the season. It will be interesting to see if the FA either open a book on him regarding punishment or throw the same one as with APee on Tuesday 11th.... WL
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 17, 2014 21:42:03 GMT
Nowt to do with football really this link, however probably explains quite a bit regarding OMBO..... Some are more equal than others...PMSL at the last bit about Mikey! WL
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Post by LeazesEnder47 on Mar 18, 2014 19:26:00 GMT
Ssooo...... OMBO is now 1.4 Billion richer than when he bought our beloved club!!!!!!! Almost DOUBLED his fortune.......FFS ya fat cockney wanker,
SELL UP and BuGGER OFF!!!!!!!! Broon, Wheor's me marchin' boots?? Time 4 Change? Yer bliddy right it is!!!!!!
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 19, 2014 21:57:35 GMT
Newcastle United's Dan Gosling has been fined £30,000, subject to any appeal, and warned as to his future conduct following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing. Gosling, who requested a personal hearing, admitted multiple breaches of FA Rule E8 (b) for misconduct in relation to betting. WL
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Post by White Lightning on Jan 28, 2015 20:59:52 GMT
If one of the secrets of building and sustaining a business empire is it's all about knowing who your best customers are....OMBO has it down to perfection. Newcastle United have announced a freeze on the price of all season tickets for next season and have significantly reduced the price for its younger fans in the 18-21 seating area, with tickets being cut from £300 for the current season down to £250 for 2015/16. The Magpies have taken the lead in ticket pricing over recent years, with initiatives including hugely popular long-term season ticket price-freeze deals and a move to encourage reciprocal pricing agreements between opposing clubs to drive down the cost of ticket prices for away fans. The decision to reduce season ticket prices for young fans and to freeze all other prices has been taken in line with the Club's policy to make football affordable, reward loyalty, and also takes into consideration that by the start of next season Premier League clubs will be aware of the value of the new television rights deal negotiated by the Premier League with broadcasters, to commence in 2016/17. To ensure season ticket holders gain maximum value and to further reward their loyalty, for next season single tickets for the higher category games will be subject to a price increase and will, on occasions, be restricted to members-only sales, meaning there will be no general sale. Lights Oot!
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 11, 2015 18:30:05 GMT
Here's another piece borrowed from The Independent that may or may not stir the emotions...
It is the biggest television deal in the history of world sport for the Premier League but, for match-going football fans in the English game, the £5.136bn contract will mean one thing above all: that ticket prices must at last come down.
They are not alone in that belief which, when the first gasps of amazement had subsided at the announcement of Sky Sports and BT Sport’s division of the spoils, was also the reaction of some of the biggest names in broadcasting. It is not just the fans, with their banners lamenting the scourge of modern football, who interrupted the Premier League’s backslapping to call for subsidies to ticket prices that are cutting many supporters out of the game.
Chief among them was Sky’s star pundit Gary Neville, and a man even Richard Scudamore will find impossible to ignore, who tweeted that he wanted “sensible ticket pricing and grassroots football to benefit as much as possible from this deal”. Neville’s intervention was significant but, even without him, this will be an issue that simply will not go away.
After all, as far as the Premier League is concerned, it is only at halfway in the selling of the rights for the 2016-2019 cycle – the international rights sale is coming and the eye-watering income is expected to increase again.
Even the Premier League appeared to acknowledge that ticket prices would be top of the agenda with the promise that “keeping grounds full” was a priority and that it hoped the “flexible ticketing policies” would be allowed to flourish. It was a long way from any commitment to bringing down ticket prices, especially for young fans who, without the benefit of parental subsidies, appear to be less able to attend games than ever before.
Behind the scenes at the top of English football it is argued that ordering an across-the-board cut in prices is a non-starter for the 20 different business models that exist in the league. But something will have to give.
In the past clubs have only gone as far as blocking ticket price increases with Arsenal, for example, having announced last month that they would freeze prices for the sixth season in a row – although they already have the highest-priced season tickets in the Premier League.
As it stands the Premier League has a £12m away support fund over the three-year cycle that clubs can use their share of to do anything from subsidise ticket prices at away grounds to laying on free transport. It is a drop in the ocean in the context of the current deal, under which the 20th-placed team in the Premier League season can expect to earn £100m from television revenue. The league has already committed around £160m over its current three-year television deal to charitable work but it will have to be a great deal more than that now.
It will be interesting to see whether the new deal includes the soft wage cap that was negotiated by the Premier League clubs two years ago for this existing deal. Under the terms of rule E.18 in the league regulations, there is an annual cap on the amount clubs can spend from money earned from the “PL central fund” – TV revenue.
Criticised at the time, it has been largely forgotten since. However, it effectively fences off some of the television revenue from spending on the clubs’ three dreaded costs: fees, player wages and agents’ fees. For the clubs it has been a useful tool in wage negotiations but supporters may ask where this money is going, and whether it finds its way back to owners and shareholders.
In these days of plenty the Premier League and its 20 shareholders know they have also never been under greater scrutiny as to how they spend their extraordinary revenues.
Having read the above and plenty of other stuff since the announcement was made I can only think anyone that firmly believes OMBO is going to pack his bags at the end of season 2015/16 then bugger off to the promised land of Rangers is completely off their heads.
Lights Oot! blackandwhitethinking
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 30, 2015 20:12:48 GMT
Hire the open top bus the 13/14 accounts are out..... £18.7m ProfitThat's alright then! Lights Oot! blackandwhitethinking
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