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Post by White Lightning on Feb 6, 2014 16:51:46 GMT
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 6, 2014 17:56:14 GMT
One for the Capt'n.... WL
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 7, 2014 14:35:49 GMT
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 9, 2014 20:20:03 GMT
More stuff circulating... this in reply to a Lee Ryder piece on . WL
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 10, 2014 13:47:13 GMT
Is the feeling some kind of action needs to be taken now, growing...? Taking stock...WL
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 10, 2014 14:15:10 GMT
Great piece from Mick Martin at TF.... GrotesqueWL blackandwhitethinking
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 10, 2014 14:41:02 GMT
Borrowed from Saturdays Guardian.... Who is the real laughing stock at Newcastle United? Not for the first time, it is tempting to wonder whether the statue of Sir Bobby Robson outside St James' Park should have his hands covering his eyes, rather than negotiating his trouser pockets, bearing in mind some of the birdbrained goings-on behind the stadium walls. The most startling point about the Joe Kinnear tragicomedy was that it was so utterly avoidable, both times, if only Mike Ashley had carried out the kind of background checks that might ordinarily be expected for a man who has made millions through business. Maybe he could have put in a call to Nottingham Forest, for example, and he might have learned that Kinnear's time at the City Ground was just as chaotic and half-baked as everything we have subsequently seen at Newcastle. It just escaped the same level of attention because it occurred towards the bottom end of the Championship, away from the glare of the Premier League. Kinnear set the tone on his first day at Forest when he became hopelessly lost driving around the city while the club's directors waited for him to pitch up to sign the relevant paperwork. More than once, he rang ahead for directions without picking up the trail. The place was covered in darkness by the time the club had a lightbulb moment to help him out. Or a thousand lightbulb moments. The chief executive ended up switching on the City Ground's floodlights to guide him in. Kinnear promised "sexy signings", mentioning clubs and targets who would later seem totally nonplussed (the sexiest it got was Andy Impey on a free transfer from West Ham's reserves). The fans who questioned him were called "morons" and the correspondent on the Nottingham Evening Post experienced Kinnear's full-on rage long before the words "which one's Simon Bird?" became part of the modern-day Newcastle story. They also remember one defeat at Forest when Kinnear worked himself into such a froth he picked out one player, Chris Doig, for some particularly harsh criticism. Doig had been one of the unused substitutes. As for Yohan Kebab, Derek Lambeeze, Ammomobi, Ben Afra et al at Newcastle, they are merely extensions of Jean-Louis Paul (Matthieu Louis-Jean) and Marvin Harwood (Marlon Harewood). Kinnear left Forest amid escalating protests – any of this sound familiar? – and the kind of thud and blunder that would put off any football club owner operating with common sense. Now we hear stories of Kinnear leaving a missed call on Alan Pardew's mobile phone one night last August, as if unaware Newcastle were actually playing a Capital One Cup tie in Morecambe at the time. There was the account of him watching a game at Birmingham and asking Lee Clark about Shane Ferguson only to be told that, well, all a bit awkward, but the player was actually on loan from Newcastle in the first place. Yet the daddy of them all will always be that little masterpiece from his first spell at St James' when he elaborated on his time as Nepal's national coach and the shocking events when the king's son – "one of my closest friends," Kinnear recalled – was instructed to "marry some bird … he wanted to marry someone else but he couldn't … like the usual crap. So what did he do? He killed them all and then blew his own brains out. I got out of there about three days after and I have never been back." Journalistic gold, bar one inconvenient detail. Kinnear managed Nepal in 1987. Prince Dipendra killed himself and eight members of his family in June 2001, when Kinnear was managing Luton. He reminds me of the television guy talking into the camera while someone stands in the background with a placard reading: "Don't believe a word." But if Kinnear is to be remembered as one of football's great absurdities, what does that say for the man who employed him twice? The more I read stuff like this about Kinnear and his appointment the more I realise supporters are on a hiding to nothing when it comes to shifting our most benevolent owner. Mikey will listen to no one except himself...we are well and truly F*cked! WL
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 13, 2014 22:23:56 GMT
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 13, 2014 22:33:40 GMT
Here's one view that's probably as spot on as anything has been recently... Adrift WL
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Post by White Lightning on Feb 20, 2014 12:02:35 GMT
More views on the Ashley conundrum this time by Mark Duffy in his ESPN blog.... Another fine mess...WL
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 2, 2014 12:10:50 GMT
Interesting article from local rag The Journal.... Barca mkIIWL
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 4, 2014 11:52:32 GMT
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Post by LeazesEnder47 on Mar 4, 2014 20:51:59 GMT
Canny piece that WL, from a lass an aal!! I think he should get a 5/6 game touch line ban to calm the baying media ............however, fear it will be a stadium ban for the rest of the season which can only be detrimental to the players.........bloody media bandwagon
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 5, 2014 10:56:20 GMT
Leazes, I believe no matter what the FA decide to do it doesn't matter one jot as it's all been hyped to the hilt. Media are loving this and making hay while the sun shines. Can't see what purpose a Stadium ban serves as it doesn't stop him communicating with the bench. I recall another manager (I think may have been Whinger) having a similar thing imposed and all they did was stream the game to him on TV and he communicated via mobile phone. Read a good point in TF where one of the guys mentioned the preview before MOTD for the six nations in which two sets of forwards come together either in a scrum or possibly during a ruck!. The clash is not for the faint hearted and is part and parcel of that game. Makes the so called heed butt from Pardew look pathetic by comparison. Not condoning what APee did just the reaction to it all. May have been even more sensational had he actually connected and chinned the guy at least then you can understand what all the fuss is about. LMAO when some people come out with the had he done that in the street he would have been arrested for assault malarkey, FFS! Does that also apply to the tosser Meyler as well then who clearly believed he had a right to shove Pardew out of the way in the first place. There was a time where I wouldn't take too kindly to someone doing that to me in the street or a bar. However I suppose that's the point some are trying to make, times have changed. Not that some of the things have changed for the better in my view, starting off with the effectiveness of the bloody FA and its disciplinary panel! WL
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Post by LeazesEnder47 on Mar 5, 2014 11:52:07 GMT
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