Its up for debate how Newcastle fans viewed our takeover , what isnt up for debate is your club signing the letter that wanted us investigated by UEFA & the Premier league for financial irregularities , there were nine clubs who signed . NUFC being one of them.
No doubt Ashley will take the blame for this as well , but be prepared to be roundly hated by the majority of opposing fans and the many accusations the media will invent over the next ten years , we have endured all this crap but the trophies and trips to Wembley and trips all over europe do soften the blow.
Hope you can grow the thick skin you will need
hello sir, hope you're well.
I'll address your reply in two parts.
for fourteen years newcastle's owner steadfastly refused to communicate with its support in any way, shape or form. the fans forum meetings it was obliged to hold were regularly cancelled and never rescheduled, the ones that did take place were worthless anyway, no dissenting voices were allowed, the members vetted to ensure that, including the banning of the n.u.s.t. on the odd occasion an ashley criticism was voiced it was omitted from the minutes. the closest we came to any sort of communication from the club in nearly a decade and a half was to witness yet another thousand sports direct logos plastered on the foundations, stands and roof (unpaid for) of the ground he'd turned in to a giant advertising hoarding for his fucking tat shop.
I'm aware newcastle were one of the clubs that signed the letter to prompt an investigation in to man city's finances, but rest assured that'll have been by ashley and his little bald lickspittle lee charnley. to suggest any input was made by newcastle's support in this is frankly ludicrous.
and yes I do blame ashley for every single shit, soul destroying and vindictive fuck up he made at MY club throughout his tenure. I hope the fat piece of human scum falls in to a skip full of razor wire. :)
I don't care mate what other clubs support thinks of newcastle, to be honest I haven't got a great deal of love for anybody else other than us anyway, that's the way it's always been and I'm an old bastard now! in fairness, other than a banner at crystal palace I haven't really encountered any hostility since our takeover at a match. online though is an altogether different matter, most obviously from our nearest and dearest. they've racked up over100,000 posts on the smb since october 7th last year about their angst regarding human rights issues. odd really coming from the most insular, bigoted, hovel of a town in the country. the reality is the wearside branch of amnesty international has amassed 150 facebook followers since 2014 and its twitter account 70 since 2017 with no increase in the last 14 months. you could almost be forgiven for thinking that the average sunderland supporter's moral outrage was more about newcastle potentially having a decent football team? finally, the only other clubs support to rival the bile and hatred aimed at us by the mackems is that of liverpools. some of the stuff I've read on rawk is truly fucking headspinning. apparently I'm (or rather we are) a supporter of and condone amongst other things, beheadings, dismemberment, stonings, war atrocities and I have blood soaked hands. for any scouse looking in... we might have had a few pissed up bellends who stuck a tea towel on their head when the takeover went through, the rest of us though are decent, normal people. it's not our job to be the guardians of sporting morality, that was sold a long time ago. our hands are clean, I know of no newcastle supporter that's killed anybody at a football match, liverpool supporters though, most definitely have.
apologies for the long post, look forward to visiting the etihad in march and this time hopefully providing you some competition!
