BBC to schedule Newcastle United as light entertainment 26-06-13 THE BBC’s coverage of Newcastle United’s 2013-14 season has been transferred to the department running variety shows and situation comedy. Kinnear will spend a lot of time going downstairs on a trolley Following Joe Kinnear’s appointment as ‘director of football’ the corporation decided that for Newcastle to appear on Match of the Day alongside serious teams, wold be ‘incongruous’. Instead the club’s farcical adventures will will go out 8.30 on Wednesday nights as ‘Kinnear a Minute’ with a laugh track and Ronnie Hazlehurst-style theme tune. A Geordie will provide a voiceover as we follow Kinnear’s bumbling antics. Other characters will include Alan Pardew, who will act as dreary, grey sidekick to Kinnear and Mike Ashley, the club owner, who according got a BBC source would be like ‘Captain Mainwaring, or some other fat oaf with appalling judgement’. Storylines include Kinnear accidentally turning up on his first day at Nottingham Forest’s ground after forgetting he was sacked by them in 2004, as well as repeated attempts to sign Kevin Keegan as a striker. Kinnear will also insist that winger Jonas Gutierrez is former Argentine dictator General Galtieri, before dragging him to the Hague and demanding they prosecute him for war crimes. In one episode he will mistake himself for the late actor, Roy Kinnear. Meanwhile, Mark Lawrenson will make a guest appearance as The Man Who Says ‘Not’.
Oh dear. It goes one of two ways. They get bought by filthy rich oil billionaire or he can't sell it and he slowly cuts away whilst clawing back the money he's put it.
This is old news chaps. http://www1.skysports.com/football/...l-consider-any-realistic-offers-for-Newcastle What he is basically saying is that he has no plans to sell but if the right offer came along..... I think the same can be said for most clubs these days. I personally hope he stays because sometimes better the devil you know. We're a profitably business and have a lot more playing assets that the average club thanks to the way he has done things.
My biggest nightmare that they become the next Man Shieky or Chelski? Would be just our bloody luck that. Lol On a more serious note, is this really a surprise? I always thought Ashley would sell as soon as someone coughs up the £300m he is owed by the club. I find it incredibly amusing to read all the mags say that Lambeezee got the finances under control and are a role model for fiscal prudence when all they did was lump the entire debt under the Ashley Global Financial Empire, to be called on at whatever time he sees fit. When I also hear them slag Ashley off I piss myself and wish he would just cash in on the loan, selling all the players, or just sell up to a completely unsuitable buyer who will ravage them even more. I live in hope. Lol
Anybody know what price? I bet he over values the club and generates no interest then says 'look i tried didn't I?' Because he's no intention of selling yet.
And there you go. Ha ha! Who going to pay that? With the amount of outgoings to keep a club running, how long will it take an investor to see a return on 267m? A very very long time.
With the FFP rules coming in, I reckon we've all seen the last of the sugar daddy-type buyers in football, coming in and pumping in endless cash then winning everything in sight. Mike Ashley couldn't sell that for half the price he's asking. The first mistake the new owner would make and you've got an entire city on your back hounding you out of the club. Every owner in the world makes mistakes as well, it's not exclusive to Newcastle. I do feel sorry for them having chumps like Pardew and Kinnear as part of their set up but I feel a lot more sorry for team like Blackbury who have owners that would quite happily liquidate the club if they got into trouble. Newcastle have a good owner for the most part, but it seems they won't (all) be happy with him ever, despite him getting them in touching distance of Champions League football just last season, now he's just a fat cockney bastard again.
Blackbury?????? Can see Ash turning Wonga dome into a Sports direct supply depot with Pardew on a fork lift and Kinnear sat at the front gate opening the barrier.
It does nothing of the sort... What part of 'I'm not actively looking to sell, but if the right price was offered...' is so hard to understand? Didn't we know this anyway? Can't we say that about almost any club, product or business? Non story. It gets more coverage on your board than it does on our own, as most NUFC stories do.
