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If the wife says it was then that's good enough for me... telling her she might be wrong about something is just not worth the bruises..

He knows you are a muslim and probably assumed your's is also a muslim and she doesnt have a hijab so he must have disliked it.... or I could be totally wrong and he must have clicked the wrong rep by mistake...

Me and the missus on my friends weeding a few months ago.

Must be Blade Runner promotions. Pictures look cool though. Anyways, Happy Diwali to you. May your year ahead be filled with joy and happiness. And also to others as well.

I wasn't implying that Ashley is good in any sense. I know he only wants to be in PL, without achieving anything, so I agree on the rest. Just wishing that you lot don't get done by FA's incompetence. They have allowed shitty people to own clubs, like at Blackburn, Leeds, etc. As someone who now follows NUFC because of Rafa, I genuinely hope you get decent owners.

Get him in the first team next season. It can't harm and he's 22 now so it wouldn't be necessarily rushing him! Him being a "late developer" will only work in his favour I reckon as Pedrito and Busquets were somewhat like this themselves. Great finisher though, whatever level he's playing at. As for Carles Aleña, I'm really impressed by that lad and expect big things in the future. He's the type of player who is going to be massively needed soon as well. Hopefully a new generation of cracks are to come.

Doesn't matter if he won't put his own money in. That's not the prerequisite of running a club well. The club's commercial revenue has collapsed under his tenure. The wage bill is now more than Burnley's but less than Watford's. He treat Keegan and Shearer like shit and then out of spite decided to pick a fight with supporters. The club drove the local media out, they stripped the club staff down to skeleton level, they deliberately broke up any section of the ground that opposed the hierarchy. They sold the land around the ground that prevents the club ever expanding on the future. They sacked Chris Hughton, sold Kevin Nolan and Joey Barton because they were making demands on behalf of the fans. They appointed Joe Kinnear making a mockery of the club. They gave John Carver the job and wrote an entire season off against the fans wishes. They refused to listen to fans over managers repeatedly and deliberately, exacerbating the tension. He nearly took us down but we then appointed McClaren who no one wanted who took us down. They covered the stadium in tacky sponsors and we the match goers paid so Sports Direct advertising could be put up for free. They lie all the time. They lied this summer about how much the club had to spend so they could sell early season tickets. Fact is Mike Ashley only puts his hand in his pocket when his lack of knowledge of football puts the club in such a threat that he might lose all of his money. Apparently we are supposed to just accept that as being as good as we can expect. What a horrendous worldview.

We're always looking for a trio and @Azeem98 seems like a nice young boy! Let me think...

mate, the cross is definitely on the wrong person. Even TB knows this.

He jelly.

José Arnáiz about to burst onto the scene It was Barcelona legend José María Bakero who brought this kid in from Real Valladolid as a talented prospect for the future. But nobody expected the situation to be so quick and for the player to make such headlines so quickly. He's been dubbed the next Messi and although it's always ridiculous when these things get said about any player, the reason they're saying it is because of the major strides he's taking in such a short period of time at a club like Barcelona and also because he plays on the right wing. Forgetting the fact pundits are comparing him with Messi, let's just say that he does look like something more than just special. Infact it was Carles Aleña and a couple of others that have been looking more likely to be about to make it into the first team squad this season and now this has happened with José Arnáiz. He's literally been ripping everything apart with ease in Spain's La Liga 1|2|3 (second division) and finding it easy. So much so that in the past few weeks Ernesto Valverde has been attending almost every Barcelona 'B' game he can when it doesn't conflict with the first team's obligations. He's even had Messi with a few other colleagues in the first team go to a couple of games to see him play. He's 22 and he looks mature in the way he plays his football. With Ousmane Dembélé out for a few months at least and Gerard Deulofeu not gaining all the confidence he should in his head coach Valverde. It's looking like Arnáiz could be about to have his dream come true sooner than he ever expected it to. When interviewed the other day and asked what he felt about the rumours he could be soon added to the first team squad, he said this; "Until someone tells me different, my place is here in the 'B' team. I don't think about the first team in terms of whether I will be there this season or not because all I want to do is play football. But obviously I came to Barça for a reason and for all of this to be happening so soon is incredible."

I am sure I would be able to do the cognitive gymnastics to allow a human rights abuser to win us a trophy, since we have basically got the British version of one now anyway I would prefer someone clean so I can stay on my high horse though. A bit of investment under Rafa and we could be turned into a regular top 8 club I think. Or even just someone who is willing to speculate to accumulate, take a risk on a bigger wage bill and more expensive signings using the financial position we've already got. One of Mike Ashley's biggest mistakes (and this is touched on by the fat man himself) is that he implemented austerity at a time the games finances were about to rapidly expand. MORON. We collapsed on the pitch and completely missed the boat. It is one of the great balls ups of football club ownership in the modern era. Did you know for example that Newcastle United are the only club whose commercial revenues have gone DOWN in comparison to 10 years ago. Everyone else has trebled, quadrupled and more. That is the product of giving free advertising to Sports Direct and not bothering to expand the clubs relationships. Rafa Benitez has been working incredibly hard off the pitch to rebuild this club in the local community. Ashley stripped it of activity, the club was and still largely is ran on a barebones basis. Rafa reconnected the club with the local media, with local schools, local businesses. Ashley had stripped the clubs staff so far back that they didn't have the capabilities or thought on the role other than the basics that the club plays in the community. We also went through a few years of fascist behaviour against supporters who dared speak out in the ground against the regime. Stewards man handling fans to get banners and signs off them if it was negative. The singing section disbanded and split up, forced to move their season tickets. Stripped of their discounts and forced to pay extra. Let's not forget the lies. The oh so many lies. The court case where a judge ruled that the club were lying to Keegan and the public. The lies they continue to this day. It was the clubs mouthpiece in the press that put out across the world that Newcastle United had tens of millions to spend, they were coming back a force. It was a lie to sell season tickets. They never had that money or the intention to spend anything like that. You have to sleep with one eye open under this regime. They drove our King out and then a couple of years later when we fell in love with the closest gentleman to Bobby we would ever see, Chris Hughton, they sacked him because his and the players relationship with the fans was getting too strong, so they installed a puppet and sold all the players who were willing to challenge the leadership inside the club on our behalf. We've been at war and only a tosspot would think we should forgive and forget because Rafa has got a team with a wage bill between Burnley and Watford's into the top half after 8 games. We are not stupid, we are always on our toes ready for the next power struggle between the people and this regime. Rafa has rebuilt this club on and off the pitch. Everything we know about Ashley tells us that at any moment this period of peace could collapse. It very nearly did this summer. The next owners might not be any good, the results on the pitch might not be any good, but it would take something quite monstrous to be worse than a regime that deliberately went to war with its fans. At least the late Freddy Shepherd for all his flaws and mistakes had a desire to be liked, rather than the billionaire child who decided he would give us a fight out of spite. Plenty of billionaires really are mentally aloof people. Low in empathy and excessively driven by their ego. It seems perhaps you don't get that kind of wealth without being a cunt.

I always stay in Montmartre. It's a beautiful area. I usually get this bus/metro pass: https://booking.parisinfo.com/il4-offer_i149-paris-visite-pass-pass-transport.aspx Try to fit in a trip to Versailles, it's spectacular. Go to the catacombs if that interests you. Get ice cream from the man on Pont Alexandre III. Have a picnic at the Jardin des Tuileries. Relax at the Jardin du Luxembourg (I agree with Danny, it's my favourite). Sit by the Seine at night and drink wine. You may not like classical music but I'd highly recommend going to see a concert at Sainte-Chappelle, the stained glass is beautiful. There's so much to do. I've been four or five times, and I don't think I'll ever get bored of it.

Probably the HMRC thing, or that he knows he can't take us any further and is sick of being a prick.

Point taken, however we are not going anywhere with this fat cunt. Our purpose is to just survive, not even survive in the top flight judging by the lack of investment in the Summer. Having owners that would invest in the team would be nice. There were rumours of us having £80 Million to spend in the Summer, investing that much would do us good under Rafa. Also getting the fucking disgusting Sports Direct adverts ripped out of our home will be great. I know the grass isn't always greener, but at the moment there is no grass. Until Rafa rocked up we were a fucking misery of a club.

He hates your mug mate. Get over it