Mags embarrassing themselves yet again

I've posted a lot on this thread mate and I can assure you it's not taking the mick.

I'm disappointed, with this takeover, for many reasons and none are trivial.

Football, the game I love, is going down the toilet.

Having a barbaric country, like Saudi, buying a NE club isn't what I signed up for all those years ago.

These people murder, torture and mutilate people as enshrined in their own laws.

 

If you think about it @Smug in Boots football as we knew it died when the Premier League was formed. Clubs like Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal and others who pushed for it cos they wanted more money for themselves and since then other clubs were playing catch-up spending money they didn't have just to have the chance to win a trophy. Then when Europe saw how the Premier was a success, closed shop on the European formats and hence the Champions League was formed giving the so called "big clubs" carte blanche on the competition and the players who want to play in it. The likes of Leicester may win the league every now and again but to keep up there demands big money and the global audience of the Premier League will appeal to all and sundry to either make money or push their propaganda on the back of it. No longer will teams like Forest get promoted, take on all comers in the league and win it and then do the same in Europe. The main clubs will ensure that won't happen as that lot up the road has already found out. As my dear departed dad once said to me - money has killed football and years later it still holds true

 

I know all that's true mate ...

... I'd just like them to leave enough so I can pretend there's something good left in the game.

It's proving difficult tbh.

 

I think it's long gone mate. I've even got to the stage that I very rarely watch the Premier League now

 

I never watch European games, tape MOTD and whizz through 50% of it, can't be bothered with the Championship.

I watch us and the EFL on Quest but skip through it on fast forward.

I'll watch FA Cup games if it's non/lower league and the hint of a David v Goliath.

At one time I'd watch the FA Cup final from dawn til dusk, now I watch the highlights the next day.

Cup final day used to be incredible, now it's tame ...sad isn't it.

 

It's not really as I do exactly the same! It's at the stage now that if it's not Sunderland on tv, I'm not bothered

 

Glad it's not just me! I genuinely watch more NFL now than football.

 

Pleased it not just me either.....
I'm pretty much the same...not Sunderland, not bothered.
I will look at results that affect us, like the two games tonight for example, but that's as far as it goes.

Used to love MOTD as kid but there's more analysis than football now.

F.A. Cup Final day was always great....I loved the build up, the focus on the two teams, a little bit about each player, it just really set the scene. It used to be a big thing. Most teams even treat it as a distraction now, mostly putting out weakened sides. I find it hard to be that bothered, when the clubs that mostly get to the finals aren't that bothered either.
Even the media aren't interested in anything outside the so called Premier league "big boys".....to the point where, say for example a league game, Man City vs Southampton....Southampton never get a mention!

I would love another 1973, I don't think anyone outside of Sunderland would be bothered anymore.

 

A Wembley visit these days is soul destroying.

The atmosphere is poor, the build up sterile and the announcement of 'thank you for your support' makes me feel sick.

The aftermath is always the same ...

.... some Queen anthem blasted out at full volume, everything totally staged and less spontaneity than a headless corpse.

You'll never see a daft bloke in a Mac and trilby gallop across the pitch ever again.

 

Couldn't agree more. It just like a corporate event now....soulless.

You'll never see a daft bloke in a Mac and trilby gallop across the pitch ever again.

Love that.

 

It must be quite common, I hardly watch European footy or Premier League. On Monday I watched Boreham Wood v St Albans City, instead of Everton V Arsenal. I'd much rather watch a National League match

 

I watched the Hartlepool game last night rather than the chanpions league stuff

 

I stuck the MK Dons v Plymouth out

 

First Benitez turns Newcastle down to manage them ...

... now he's after their main January targets

"Juventus midfielder Aaron Ramsey could be on his way to Everton in January, with the Serie A side happy to sell a player who has featured just five times this season."

"That is a blow for Newcastle, who had hoped to make Ramsey one of their first signings under their new owners."

 

I never watch the Premier league, unless I'm at someone's house who has got it on. I have never been a very good neutral supporter last watched all of match of the day about 15 year ago.

I can't stand watching other teams do well and their fans gets to watch them win things or even just play decent football consistently . I doubt I would recognise 90% of premier league players these days. As the gap at the top grows more people are going to turn that way but the pyramid isn't going to be bothered as it's the foreign fans who will never see "their" team live or even go to the city the team is from but bombard everyone on social media with how great (insert name of top 4 club here) is.

 

He is on ginormous wages at Juve. Over 30 and despite being a bloody good player, he might be past his peak.

Sounds like just the type of signing Everton have been making on the way to remaing mid table, while spending £1/2 bn!

Maybe that lot are trying to ape them.

 

I'm another who doesn't watch Premiership or Match of the day, it's so duh.
listen a lot to 5 live in the car radio when I'm working weekends just to keep up with the lads and I've no idea when the commentator mentions a player in the Premiership as to which team they play for.
I've said on other threads I never listen to the pundits as it's awful so I cherry pick games I'm interested in.
anything Sunderland related then I'm there otherwise can't be arsed.

 

AKA "the pub"

 

Funniest thread on the board this, can't be having it on page two!

Mind, they haven't played yet .