Recent content by rowley

Not sure! Maybe it's his slightly smug grin. Or maybe his even more smug certainty when he was a talking head on the telly. Whatever it is, I'm sticking with it ( Unless he ends up here!)

Brentford should be fine as long as they don't lose Thiago to injury or a sale. Despite that bloody Andrews, who I can't stand! You might be right about Elland Road though.

Wolves are bound to get a win sooner or later, so why not against that lot? I'm sure the useless feckers conceded four points to Derby when they went down with 11 points?

Definitely two down already. Leeds or West Ham for the other. Leeds have went a bit more direct lately and it's paying off. But both they and West Ham concede too many goals. Nearly two a game man, that's seventy goals if it isn't sorted out. It will be the team that stops the bleeding that...

PIF "buying" that lot was just a move to disguise the Saudi involvement. Not that it does of so course, it's as much camouflage as a toy tache. It is a big SWF, but by no means the biggest. It's maybe worth about £600bn the last time I read about it. Nor does Saudi Arabia by any means have...

Worth noting on that subject, that Spanish football is approaching a bit of an upheaval on ownership. The two main players are in very big debt, Barcelona far worse off than Real. Two things can dig them out of the hole Barca especially, but Real too are in. One is a Super League, restricted...

Exactly. Out of town is obvious. And if they were serious, they'd be nearly in it now.

The Saudis would probably be right to do some blaming, but some due diligence would have helped! They are used to swatting away their problems with cash and it might not be that easy with this They are faced with what anyone is faced with in the UK now when they want to build or do anything...

Time, (more of it!) will tell. But even using the car park would encroach slightly onto Leazes Park, as the current Leazes end does actually. And any new ground utilising it would mean, at the other end, causing light trouble, ( at least) for Leazes Terrace. That is grade one listed, and you...

Fair enough! I suppose he must have kept going at it a bit to have got that far, so fair play for that. He was right about their performance of course, though again it's worth saying that there are an uncounted number of teams who have said after bumping into one of Regis' set up teams, that...

That's always possible, though the city centre option has giant hurdles, would take billions, years of planning and regulatory challenges and a very serious commitment. Do the Saudis have the latter?

He's floating around back in this thread somewhere. Looking bloated and quite rough actually, and quite comically, occasionally slipping into the odd word in posh Geordie. He must think he's a star! Mind, he was accurate about Howe's single approach to football.

They would improved by a loud and public mea culpa. Progress is rarely in a straight line, though ours has been as close as you see. We got so lucky, even now it's not sunk in properly.

Bloody hell! I know he's had an upbringing a long way different to all of ours, and he's got a few bob. But that is the case with umpteeen people. How he has done what he's done, made his plans, held his nerve, stuck to his guns, found the right balance between detachment and involvement, and...

If that's right, the person or people who appointed him must surely have to go. I know this rarely happens, but the incompetence in this case is eye popping.