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 Still Hack |
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Posts: 8384 (27/05/09 10:18:57)
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Joey is right. Like many of the modern-day football club buyers, Ashley converted debts into shares.
So his business empire has collapsed in value and his football club have collapsed in value. Poor bloke. Bwaaaaaaaaaaa... |
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Posts: 5504 (27/05/09 10:22:16)
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How much is Newcastle really woth, I wonder.
They are in the Championship and are crippled witha massive salary bill they will not be able to cut to the extent required. Ashley had them on the market for £350 million ish. I reckon they are worth about £50 million now. |
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Still Hack |
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Posts: 8385 (27/05/09 10:49:49)
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Fantastic dilemma for Ashley.
Sell and take a £100mil-plus hit. Or hang on, spend even more trying to get them promoted - and either get more of his cash back or lose even more of his dwindling fortune. As I said, bwaaaaaaaaaaaa... |
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Posts: 1305 (27/05/09 12:23:42) Thick as Fucking Pigshit |
Just to show you how much of a wide boy Ashley is, he strolled into a very influential company here in the Middle East at the end of last year and rather than
sell the club basically told them 'it's 300m quid or I'll shop it elsewhere'. Needless to say he was told to poke it, I mean even back then
they were bottom half of the table and going nowhere fast.
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Upton Parker |
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Posts: 67 (27/05/09 17:42:32) |
What you are all forgetting about Newcastle is that according to a lot of the media, they have the best and most passionate fans in the country.
Ashley is not worried one little bit as he knows that 55,000 Geordies will turn up week in and week out buying shirts, burgers, programmes, scarf's - you name it. I'm telling you, a wet February night under lights against Scunthorpe, will be a full house..... |
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A Man of Constant Sorrow |
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Posts: 6347 (27/05/09 17:47:21) Got his
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They may well do - for a season.
But miss out first time and it becomes that much harder next season - as we so nearly found to our cost. If I were Ashley I'd get out as soon as I could - because that club could very well turn into a cash black hole. Here's hoping, anyway... |
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Upton Parker |
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Posts: 68 (27/05/09 17:55:00) |
That was said somewhat tongue in cheek. The way a lot of media portray the Geordies in amazing and the one that sticks in my mind was when Keegan re-signed as
manager and skysports immediately reporting from outside the ground.
There was a queue of about 2000 trying to get tickets for the next game. Sky failed to ask a single supporter why the fuck they never had a ticket already if they are such the great fans they were all claiming to be. IIRC even the reporters sign off commnted about what an amazing bunch of supporters they are. The cunts. |
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A Man of Constant Sorrow |
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Posts: 6348 (27/05/09 18:00:22) Got his
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It's the most indolent of lazy journalism.
Here's another gem: "West Ham always try to play football the 'right' way" And as anyone who saw us play Newcastle in the early to mid 90's would testify both theories are utter bollocks... |
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Posts: 334 (05/06/09 10:55:34) |
It has just hit the news that Hull have been charged with fielding an unregistered player at the end of January '09.
Apparently when they signed Kamil Zayatte from Young Boys for £2.5M on 23 January this year, there had been some irregularities with the transfer and he was not formerly registered when Hull drew 2-2 with West Brom. West Brom have been awarded 3 points for that game instead of 1 but it has made no difference to them, they are still relegated. However Hull have been stripped of their point, which puts them on the same points as Newcastle but with a poorer goal difference. Newcastle have complained immediately and if our claim is upheld, Hull will be relegated retrospectively and the Toon will stay up! Carlsberg don't do e-mails for delusional Geordies but if they did this would probably be the best e-mail in the world! |
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optimistic aidan 83 |
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Posts: 1554 (05/06/09 11:18:03) |
Fuck me you had me going for a second!
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CTatlast |
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Posts: 2338 (05/06/09 13:13:55) |
from my 'season review' video of 89/90.....gate at theirs for WHU was 14000....and that included the away fans.
yeah, best supporters ever. Its novel following your club 1st season after relegation but as mentioned if you dont get promoted at that attempt it'll affect the attendances. |
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doomhunk |
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Posts: 380 (06/06/09 07:10:32) |
What CT said. The season we both came up, with Newcastle as champions, their attendances were lower consistantly than ours, as I remember.
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Pen Pusher66 |
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Posts: 2555 (06/06/09 12:23:15)
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I went to see Chelsea against Man Utd back in 1993 or thereabouts at Stamford Bridge. It was the game when Cantona hit the bar from the halfway line. I was
stood in the home end, and the place was full to the rafters - about 38,000 at the time. As the game was kicking off, a load of supporters in the home end
identified themselves to the stewards as Man Utd fans, and were escorted along the side of the pitch to stand in the away end. But once the first few had done
that, everyone around us was going, 'I'm a Man Utd fan', like it was Spartacus or something, and there was a huge, constant stream of blokes
walking down the side of the pitch towards the away end for about the first five minutes of the game.
That same season, Chelsea played Wimbledon at Stamford Bridge in midweek and the attendance was (if I remember correctly) about 8,000. |
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One McAvennie |
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Posts: 1697 (06/06/09 13:38:55) Cunt-Spack
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I hope you started yelling out " I'm a West Ham fan ! " just for comedy effect.
I remember being in the West Stand there when Clive Allen came on and scored for us in his first game, about 20 little fights all kicked off simultaneously as we celebrated, and the old bill pulled us all out and stuck us in the "sold out" away end. Happy days. Oh and we lost. |
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