I thought he hated living in the north last time he went there. Granted Newcastle is very different to Burnley but still
We usually agree with each other on most things Ides , but in this case you seem to have under estimated footballer's need for greed and money talks. Remember Blackburn? Utd, City and the rest will still get big names but when players see what Newcastle are offering they'll be up there before you can say "It's always been a dream of mine to play for the Toon".
Oh absolutely. I am staggered stuff like this isn’t reviewed in detail as part of a performance review for refs they seem completely unaccountable
Newcastle are arguably an historically bigger club than Chelsea and Citeh were before their massive investment and there's is no reason why they can't become as successful as them in a couple of seasons.
Agreed. However, I think it’ll be a little harder now that say 10-15 years ago. Will require some shrewd CEO management & ****e loads of investment. 5 years minimum I’d say. Btw, I’m sort of loving the club fall out over this. Probably won’t help SFC but think we’re already a bit up ****e creek & without that life saving paddle & can’t see anything/ much changing even if we get a new owner.
Yes there is - there are more top teams in the PL now then there were back then. Liverpool weren't as good, teams like Everton and Spurs were bottom half. The PL is far more competitive now than it was back then.
Hopefully Ralph can use last night’s incident at his hearing. Had VAR told Dean to review the foul, he would probably have had to change his decision from yellow to red. I think is the point Ralph was making when he said that he knew that JWP’s card would become a red once the VAR official (Dean?) referred the ref to the screen and that it wasn’t an attack on the ref’s integrity.
Yes it is more the inconsistency of the VAR application that is the problem. I don’t fully blame Dean on this one as he is a human and watching things in real time
I'd seriously consider accepting £50m for JWP. So at a hypothetical £70m, I'd snatch their hands off. We'd be lunatics to reject that sort of money, in my view.
We agree on most things! Are you sure? Having questioned the level we agree on things, I am delighted that it has always been your dream to play for the Toon!!
I love this kind of debate about clubs being historically big, and the reality that it bears little relation to today until they start winning things. Wolves were massive in the 50s, Sunderland in the 30s, Huddersfield in the 20s and Preston in the late 19th Century, and Portsmouth in the 16th Century.