Hey, look! Pete´s Talking About Newcastle United Again.
7th October 2009
YesYes Ramblesods! Pete here, and I write this wee dispatch with a heavy heart. A heavy heart, and a black 8 quid keyboard from Maplins. Because it looks like Newcastle United aren´t quite out of the woods yet (and into the Barry ´Moat´) - all signs point to Mike Ashley trying to hold onto the club until they´re back in the Premiership.
We´ve endured another appearance from the usual ´club insiders´ making further ham-fisted attempts at demonising Kev-Gan, filling fans´ heads with words like ´administration´ and ´foreclosure,´ if Kev got his full payout. Last week we even had Dennis Wise crawling out from out of his cave and in front of the camera, pockets still bulging from his 20 grand a week pay packet (which as of late July he was still receiving as part of his severance agreement.) "It has all had a damaging effect on my career and has not been fantastic for me." Sorry, what career now?
And now, after the latest round of blood letting, we´re back at square one. Fat Mikey wants his money back.
I was talking to my Dad this week. After a couple of years down the mines in Seaham, then the Navy, then shovelling Titanium Dioxide around a chemical plant and subsequent redundancy (I dare anyone to find a more North East career path) he took an admin job at a solicitors. Seeing my dad go to work in a suit was disconcerting and enchanting in equal measure - but I digress, because this is not a blog about my Dad. More´s the pity.
Anyway, he told me that a fair proportion of the cases handled by his firm were either defending, or prosecuting clients who had been accused of dog fighting. Not your usual common-or-garden pub car park urban monstrosity, mind you. Apparently one of the more popular ways to ´get things done´ is to chuck two fighting dogs into a lift at the top floor of a block of flats, and seeing which one survives by the time the lift gets to the bottom.
Wow.
And not to sound like a priest trying to grind out a laboured Christian moral or two from a convoluted analogy which bears no resemblance to pretty much anything...it does kinda put in mind the mire that toon fans have had to wade through for the last ten years.
No? I´ll give you a clue. They´re not the dogs in the fight.
They´re not the lift.
They´re not even the old fella who has to clean up the resulting mess.
No, they´re the old fella´s mop head. Slowly, painfully soaking up the in-fighting, the bitching, the broken promises and shitty journeyman centre backs. Then puking it all into a bucket, and then starting over. Thirsty hopes.
The Times, 7th October:
Moat, the preferred bidder of Seymour Pierce, the investment bank that has been hired by Mike Ashley to push through a sale, has yet to receive a response from Newcastle after finally submitting a formal bid for the club, five months after they were placed on the market.
The reason for yet another delay to a laborious process has now become apparent, with the South African group, headed by a prominent bond dealer, conducting the due diligence process directly with the club.
Here we go again, and all that.
http://www.youtube.com/user/admesporte - The agents reportedly pimping Ignacio González around Europe, and their YouTube channel. Some of the grainiest footage I´ve seen on YT, and that´s saying something, knowing that website.
http://www.admesporte.com.br - Hey, this website isn´t finished! They should totally pull in some favours to get one done. Maybe Nacho González knows some html, God knows he´s had enough free time to learn it in the last 6 months.
PS I promise my next blog entry won´t be about those useless swines up on Strawberry Place.
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Alfonse
:::2009-10-07 12:07:42
Liked the article Pete,is it wrong i read it in a sarcastic geordie accent?!
Particular favourite is "(I dare anyone to find a more North East career path)".
It´s sad what´s going on up at newcastle and i´m surprised there is yet to be a "fans consortium" in a similar way to Liverpool´s efforts see
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liverpoolfc/0100news/tm_headline=liverpool-fc-fans-8217-buyout-plan-full-details-revealed&method=full&objectid=20423628&siteid=50061-name_page.html
Apologies if this has happened but make sense for Newcastle fans to at least try.
Keep up the good work,rambleforce hooooooooooooooo
Neville
:::2009-10-07 12:21:35
If Ashley wants to make his money back on Newcastle I´d imagine you´ll be stuck with him for a long time. Anyone studying business should be made to do a case study on him and be told that "this guy made a billion pounds, if you can´t make a million just give up".
Will the hierachy at Newcastle learn from these mistakes when the club returns to the Premiership or will they return to their crazy ways?
Pete
:::2009-10-07 15:44:18
hoooooo! I think there is something similar - very much in the conceptual stage, but nonetheless just as exciting:
http://www.nust.org.uk/the-trust-is-backing-the-yes-we-can-campaign
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