Spike

That we agree on.

You’re allowed to do whatever you like mate, no one has said otherwise. I just don’t buy the ‘it’s hard’ excuse, a lot of things in life are hard and I don’t think watching another team or giving up a hobby is one of them; I reckon slave labour in Saudi Arabia would be harder. A billion other things you could do and even more while you travel across the UK, I don’t think for a second your life is so empty that football is the one thing you have, but maybe it is, I don’t know you, and if it is that’s perfectly fine. If you want to stay on with Newcastle, then stay on, you don’t have to do anything that anyone says, if you literally said ‘I don’t give a toss about the owners or Saudi Arabia, I’m here for the footy’ that’d be cool, but you aren’t, you keep trying to throw it back at people ‘you wouldn’t give up your team!’ I don’t know what you mean by ‘precious’ but I’m not the one getting bent out of shape and making weird excuses because people don’t like your owners. All in all mate, this isn’t personal, you’re allowed to follow Newcastle, I wouldn’t and I’ve proved in the past I have dropped teams. I’m not attacking or criticising you mate, if that’s what you think.

Should be illegal

Is it? I went to Cubs games all the time. Don’t tell me how hard or easy something is when you can’t do it yourself. Support whoever you want IDGAF but this whole ‘it’s so hard to stop’ is absolute nonsense, just admit you don’t want to. ‘You don’t go to games’ doesn’t hold water at all, and is a weird flex.

None. But I used to buy merch all the time and pay to watch. I hope you aren’t building up to a ‘gotcha’, I don’t need your validation on my worth as a fan of something. I also never went to a Broncos game despite living there for two years.

Chicago Cubs - Family are real estate tycoons, gentrifying Chicago, pumping money into Trump campaigns, flagrantly anti-fan by pay walling the team’s games behind their own network and constantly raising prices. Brisbane Broncos - owned by Newscorp. Evil. Chelsea - I was okay with it for a long time but Abramovic’s billions are at the cost of the Russian people, an oligarch that sucked up vast amounts of natural resources that should belong to the people of Russia, not one man. A callous man, murderer, and Putin stooge. and the Chicago Blackhawks and Bears push my patience too, they tread a razor wire.

I’ve sacked off three teams. It’s remarkably easy.

People get bogged down in the semantics of everything. Always a label for this, a label for that, instead of asking why something has this association they just argue their semantics. It’s sports team tribalist nonsense and obfuscates the what and the how of the reality with labelling and identity politics. It keeps the public stupid and misinformed, but makes them think the opposite, of course they have to feed both sides of the sport game to ensure their is conflict without resolution; as both sets of supporters barrack something that doesn’t exist. Think tanks, newspapers, and all sorts of organisations do this from the most expensive Turning Point USA Fox News Tucker Carlson, to Leninists bickering with Maoists on some neckbeard LARPing subReddit. Just keep pumping the groupthink with rubbish information, content without context, memes with no value, keep the idiots consuming, drunk on content. Or some shit like that.

CNN from day has existed as a platform to sell the news, not report. Anyone that has sucked CNN’s dick at any point is deluded. MSNBC is not left leaning. It is a liberal piece of shit just like Fox and CNN. The only difference is that it sells it’s corporatism to socially open people. People need to accept there is no left major media in the west, it’s all corporate liberalism, with occasional lip service to minorities or lip service towards social conservatism. Liberalism is not a good thing, people in this thread aren’t liberals, accept the fact that liberalism is a conservative ideology based on exploitation and colonialism. Which are two things that still happen, but it just looks different. Liberalism and conservatism aren’t antithetical, any western conservative movement is either liberal or fascist. The shite that Fox drones on about are literally key ideals of liberalism.

I probably mentioned it before @Danny but the Channel 9 website with a VPN set to Australia is working a dream right now. Cricket and league.

Can confirm the bitumen gets enough heat to cook an egg

Here lies Bazball, it never scored 2022-2023

we’ll just hit with the ol down under charm

Same thing innit

Edinburgh, The Northbridge Hotel or something?

Yeah I’m not there long but if anyone wants to meet somewhere for a beer, I’m happy to join

I think we are staying downtown and the taking a bus out to the Belhaven brewery

A couple of nights in Manchester, Leeds, and Edinburgh and a lot of sightseeing and tours. Gonna really soak it all in

I’m hoping so. Shaping up to be an intense series, if the rain would fuck off that’d be great.

I did yes mate. 1st test at Leeds.

The cope is unreal

Gundogan is easily as good as de Bruyne

I know what you mean but giving up and letting things just happen is just sad. There has to be a resistance no matter how seemingly insignificant. These things happen and a difference can be made, Liverpool is evidence as a city. Sure The Sun still exists but the people fucked them off, didn’t they?

Anyway it’s not like a person has to support a club to watch the sport. I don’t support any clubs.

It doesn’t matter. Any stand worth taking should be. Everything starts off small and from those little things big things happen. Change doesn’t happen by giving up at the start.