GWT: Premier League Matchday 37

[The Abusement Park]

@Stray Wasp You'll have to pardon my ignorance, but has there been a real push of late calling for Ashley to sell the club? I know there's been in the past, but I've not hear anything of late. Perhaps a Benitez flight to greener pastures would create greater demand. That said Ashley doesn't seem the sort to care a jot what the supporters think when it really comes down to it.

I know at some point in I think it was October or November he said he wanted to sell the club by Christmas if I’m not mistaken. But obviously that didn’t happen,

 

[Stray Wasp]

@Stray Wasp You'll have to pardon my ignorance, but has there been a real push of late calling for Ashley to sell the club? I know there's been in the past, but I've not hear anything of late. Perhaps a Benitez flight to greener pastures would create greater demand. That said Ashley doesn't seem the sort to care a jot what the supporters think when it really comes down to it.

There hasn't been a push to dislodge Ashley recently- the fans have preferred to back Rafa. There's a logical reason for this, namely that Newcastle United is a tent held up by one peg, and the peg is Benitez. The club has no infrastructure, which is by Ashley's design, not be accident. When Benitez goes, Newcastle risks going the way of the lot down the road.

I think the supporters' rejection of Ashley does rile him, but that only exacerbates his desire to exploit the club to the last penny. He's like a nightmarish amalgam of Charles Foster Kane and Daniel Plainview.

He's increased his price from the already extortionate £350 million he demanded last summer to £400 million. That isn't the action of a 'desperate' vendor, for all that's how Ashley styles himself. I'm convinced he wouldn't only want to sell Newcastle at a vast profit, he'd want to leave behind such an enfeebled husk of a club it'd never be able to compete again. Because this is a man who loves to feel he's ripped people off by making them pay over the odds for a heap of shit- particularly when he can gloat to the world about it afterwards. I also believe if he possessed every last penny on earth but one, he'd feel tortured until that final penny was in his flabby paws too.

A part of him will itch to be rid of Benitez and that massive salary, bring in Alan Curbishley, or David O'Leary or some other deadbeat on a Championship-level salary and try to recreate 2011/12.

A part of him will itch to flog Lascelles for a fee that exceeds the John Stone deal, and to sit back and laugh as Lascelles goes the way of Andy Carroll.

A part of him will itch to dispense with every over-25 year old in the squad, never pay an eight figure transfer fee again, qualify for the Champions League, sell every single member of his first team for £100 million, have the entire world of football prostrate itself at his feet, and repeat the process the next decade in a row.

And given the bloke is a gambler, I reckon he won't settle as long as any of those itches remain unscratched.

The cliche is that Newcastle's fans are deluded, but they have nothing on the wishful thinking that impels the neurotic running the place.

 

[Halladay]

Saints almost safe if this result holds.

 

[Burner Account]

WBA officially relegated

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Only if they fired Pardew earlier.

 

[Savant]

Come on Huddersfield. One point against Chelsea and they are safe.

 

[Stray Wasp]

The Baggies' mistake wasn't firing Pardew too late.

It was giving him the job at all.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

That's Saints safe on goal difference, barring a disaster. Thank God, I'd be really bummed if they went down.

 

[YNWA14]

Come on Huddersfield. One point against Chelsea and they are safe.

Why settle for one? They should take all 3. Then everybody's happy.

 

[bleedblue1223]

The fact that Chelsea are still in the race for top 4 at this point is hilarious.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Come on Huddersfield. One point against Chelsea and they are safe.

I think Huddersfield fans going to be sad after Sunday.

Huddersfield face Chelsea&Arsenal
Swansea face already relegated Stoke at home

0 points for Huddersfield
3 points for Swansea

= Swansea 17th, Huddersfield 18th

There is a very big chance that 3 teams will end up with 36 points
Southampton,Swansea,Huddersfield

 

[Savant]

The fact that Chelsea are still in the race for top 4 at this point is hilarious.

Yeah I think it's the stupid draws in the beginning of the season that are hurting Liverpool right now more than anything.

 

[Havre]

I´m rarely nervous before games, but considering how crap Spurs have been lately I´m far from confident that Spurs will win tonight - even if Newcastle are a bit lost themselves.

 

[bluesfan94]

Arsenal down a goal and down a man within 15 minutes.

Huddersfield isn't going down; Arsenal can't do shit on the road anymore.

 

[Vamos Rafa]

Bullshit we didn't get a corner

 

[hatterson]

Yea that was an odd finish to the half.

 

[koyvoo]

1-0 Huddersfield

 

[bluesfan94]

Cabalolero

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Spurs apparently looking totally lost.

Come on Huddersfield. Heh.

 

[hatterson]

Not really sure what Caballero was doing there, seemed to go in for the challenge and then chickened out and spin sideways.

 

[bluesfan94]

Not really sure what Caballero was doing there, seemed to go in for the challenge and then chickened out and spin sideways.

He misread the ball. He thought it was going to go further and so he didn't come out as fast as he needed to. Basically he should have come out a lot sooner and farther. Plus he got wrecked.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Chelsea goalkeeper handled that very expertly (not).

 

[hatterson]

Crazy bounce there.

 

[sabremike]

And the plucky minnows get a freak equalizer!

 

[hatterson]

Milner-esque goal there by Alonso.