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Normally, causes of illnesses can be due to multiple factors and I was pondering yesterday if perhaps as well as the physical blows to the head, the h...
Fans of David Squires cartoon strips in the Guardian will no doubt be unsurprised that he's gone with the Newcastle takeover this week. Here's the lin...
@martin-bellamy I forgot to mention that the programme concluded that the main downside to all this acquiring of assets from these external 'investo...
@plato Depends if you would be equally happy if members of the UK government set up a fund using the proceeds from state assets to invest in a footb...
@powmillnaemore No problem, at least you were trying to find a possible benefit of Brexit for someone...
@powmillnaemore Please don't temp me into straying into the subject of Brexit - I promised myself I'd try to keep to general politics. Though the or...
@martin-bellamy There are certainly issues for the UK government to answer on this matter but it appears they prefer to hide behind the notion that ...
Talking of Old Etonians... We already know that current UK PM Boris Johnson is a former pupil of the elite school but I was interested to read that Th...
Perhaps you should look at Man City as an example - they were bought by Sheikh Mansour in 2008 and it took them three years to win the league - though...
@original-fat-bob The Southgate link sounds nothing more than lazy journalism - he's under contract with England until the end of 2022 and if we kno...
@powmillnaemore It seems what clinched the approval was Saudi Arabia's decision to stop blocking Qatar's BeIN sports network from being broadcast in...
Who knows what else will crawl out of the woodwork...
I guess it's only a matter of time before Ant and Dec are involved in the project - possibly with a new series of "I'm a overpaid trophy signing get m...
Here's former Newcastle player Rob Lee's view on the Saudi connection... What do I think of the owners being a Saudi Arabian-led consortium and that...
@selwynoz You should really ask the question as to why a billionaire with no ties to the area is interested in buying the football club - it certain...
Back on the subject of the Newcastle takeover - just read this entertaining well written article in the Guardian by Barney Ronay: Newcastle’s Saudi ta...
@martin-bellamy I think there's something in what Pedro has said but I think perhaps it's related to how individuals are influenced by social media....
@deleriad Just catching up on this thread, thanks for the link to that article on Boro tactics and does help explain the limitations of our play und...
@martin-bellamy Unfortunately, many supporters of football clubs have become little more than addicted hookers who are hooked on the prospect of glo...
Just to let you know that Diasboro was down for a few hours earlier due to a technical problem at the hosting end. It seems the domain name of diasb...
@ken Whether individuals should have the amount they earn publicised is possibly not fair on them - though perhaps those who award those wages shoul...
@billy I'd certainly be in favour of reporting the true cost of all deals by including wages and transfer fees of players - though I've not usually ...
@exmil If Warnock can agree with the guy upstairs to a parting of the waves in order to lead Boro into the promised land then he's got an even more ...
@exmil I'd probably agree that promotion was more unlikely than likely this season and maybe Gibson thought perhaps Neil Warnock had a methodology t...
@exmil I think Warnock was appointed for another season in the hope of him pulling off another promotion - he himself said in the summer that "a clu...
@martin-bellamy Talk of managerial change is not to be unexpected - I think after the results and actual performance on the pitch of Boro have produ...
In terms of Warnock's future and the truth of various rumours doing the rounds on social media, it has often been said if you give someone enough rope...