As a lifelong Toon fan - I can still picture Jackie Milburn scoring after 45 seconds against Manchester City in the 1955 F.A. Cup Final - I am torn on this one. I am delighted by the investment and the improvement in the club's fortunes which it should bring in its wake but the source of the funds gives me cause for concern. As Danny says, the fans can't choose the...
Why do you spoil yourself time after time APG, it’s starts off being a decent debate then it’s ‘do some homework ‘ yada yada, yada , you’re not forthright as you like to think you are, you are quite rude !
You were rude by insinuating because I am a 'foreigner' I would not understand the passion of football fans. I suggested you 'do your homework' with regard to Ice Hockey fanatics in Canada. I really can't see there was any animosity in that reply.
Bednobs, I agree, they can't do a thing to stop it. Putting up with something you have no control over, and openly celebrating the fact that Saudis have taken over your club by hooting and cheering and wearing tea towels on your head are two quite different things!
Not all 'Toon' fans are happy. I came in from shopping just in time to catch a bit of Jeremy Vine's prog on Radio 2. While most of the fans were expressing their delight at the takeover, there were one or two dissenting voices. One was even considering switching allegiance to the 'Boro!
> Putting up with something you have no control over, and openly celebrating the fact that Saudis have taken over your club by hooting and cheering and wearing tea towels on your head are two quite different things!
Yep, that's how I see it too. If I was a Toon fan, I would be even more disappointed with the incoming owner than I was with the outgoing one ... not celebrating.
To be fair to those Toon fans who were hollering and whooping outside the football stadium, they were probably doing so because they had finally got rid of Ashley. They'll soon turn on the new owners if things don't improve on the pitch.
What's the worst that the hated Ashley has ever done? And what about the adored new owner? Disappearing his wife and murdering a dissenting journalist, for starters ...
Ken // to be fair to those Toon fans who were hollering and whooping outside the football stadium, they were probably doing so because they had finally got rid of Ashley.//
By putting tea towels on their heads to look like Saudis?
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