Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

Why will television people call it that? I know they will, are they contractually obliged to or something? Also, I bet they don't keep saying 'as we have to call it these days', like you still get with linesmen fifteen years later.

It's the Sports Direct Arena stu, call it by it's real name.

Pretty certain they're required to call it that, Ismael.

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Will always be NAMING RIGHTS to me.

meh, ashley has done a fucking awesome job and if he wants to rename a stadium every non-televised person in the land is still going to call st. james, who gives a fuck? many people talked about the etihad stadium recently?

people talk about the emirates a lot though. it depends on the name i think. or maybe that's because arsenal fans aren't real fans.

but the Emirates has always been called that

the emirates has always been the emirates tho, I think? Must admit that I thought when they first moved that people would just refer to it as 'ashburton grove' this doesn't seem to have happened.
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that's true enough. what do folks call etihad now? is it city of manchester stadium? eastlands?

iirc John Henry made the point that you can only do it with a new stadium - nobody would ever stop calling it Anfield

Most people seem to call the new Lansdowne Road stadium the Aviva although they did totally demolish the old one.

meh, ashley has done a fucking awesome job

If the whole of English football ends at this exact point in time then yes.

Yeah it is because it is a new stadium that Emirates works. 'Etihad' is only 10 years old or whatever but in conversation it is still just Eastlands.

tbf that's a sentiment I'm not entirely opposed to

Well, he learnt from his lessons. Hiring Shearer obv was stupid as shit, whereas getting £35m for overrated and bad tempered local boy and replacing him for free with one of the best strikers in the country = good.

In fairness everyone was saying at the time that sacking Houghton and replacing him with Pardew was completely cretinous. I'm still not convinced that everything that's happening at Newcastle isn't taking even Ashley and Pardew by surprise. This just doesn't have the feel of having happened by design, and might yet fuck up.

Getting £30m or whatever for Carroll does look like incredible business however.

Also you know that Ashley is dropping this particular bomb now because he thinks the fans will be so overjoyed at sitting third in the Premiership that they'll be less likely to tear of their shirts and stand outside St James's Park baying for his blood.

Also you know that Ashley is dropping this particular bomb every now and then because he thinks the fans will be so overjoyed at sitting third in the Premiership that they'll be less likely to tear of their shirts and stand outside St James's Park baying for his blood. then buy a new shirt each from sportsdirect.com

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True Newcastle fans will never bow to the tyranny of the shirt-wearers
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ashamed guy makes that photo work.

rafa is in toon army????!!

hiring shearer was amazing long-game strategy imo, that was a step to be o'erleapt or else forever failed

Also, I bet they don't keep saying 'as we have to call it these days', like you still get with linesmen fifteen years later.

Think you might have misunderstood - 'linesmen' were officially renamed 'referee's assistants as we have to call them these days'.

i wish there was a newcastle fan on ilx

all @ sportsdirect.com

Right, let's sign one. How can we go about this? Tap up someone from another board?

rename ILF to ILF @ sportsdirect.com

We have to wait for the transfer window to open again.

Come to this board, my children.

"sportsdirect.com@I Love Football" would be the proper syntax.

I bet Mike Ashley never gets any email.

I've had a soft spot for them for much of the Premiership era but it's been soured in recent times and my heart's not in making a proper go of supporting them.

We could try constructing an optimal searchable thread title to lure in a suitable googler? What would it be? It'd have to be the right type of fan.

TINO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGe9OrT53Y

I know some american newcastle fans but idk if they're what you guys are looking for

OFFICIAL JOHN TERRY FAN CLUB (Blind Cunts need not apply)

US fans probably won't have the delusions of grandeur

thx for that onimo. I loved Tino. Him arriving at Newcastle to sign in a blizzard with a massive fur coat on will always be my favourite transfer window moment (other than selling torres for £50m obvs)

CHEAP PETER BEARDSLEY BELLY TATTOOS /seo

St. sportsdirect.com Park.

we should have a poll deciding which ILF regular to assign the role of token Newcastle fan.

the winner would have to take it v seriously, obv. Pierre Menard, Supporter of Newcastle.

Divint fuckin accuse us ay no takin wor club serious
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For an international message board ILF fandom is definitely concentrated among a few teams, to the extent that Villa, the most successful club in the second biggest city in Britain, have one fan. See also the delight at a Norwich fan popping up. Imagine how great a passionate Stoke or Blackburn fan would be.

*Condescending pat on head*

Need more Utd fans imo

I mean sometimes I feel like I'm the only person around here who actually likes Wayne Rooney

No. It's bad enough that yourself and NBS have softened my hatred of Man Utd, don't want to take the chance any more posters could lead me to a grudging admiration for that club.
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I believe EZ Snappin is a Villa fan.

Unless he was the one you were thinking of, in which case fuck off London-centric media conspiracy have you won the european cup wahhh

It's a fairytale for the Villa and Norwich fans, getting to post on the same board as Matt, pandemic, etc.

every post is like a cup final

They can tell the grandkids about the time a hoy hoy zinged them

Official Newcastle United forum - FA Cup winners 2011/12, Europa League here we come!

Playing it straight, setting some google-bait.