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Jason Baker of CJ is stupid

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In collaboration with CJ , Jason Baker is cycling from Liverpool on the west coast to Lowestoft on the east coast of England, 350 miles in total, and having meetings with publishers & agencies along the way. He is doing this next week and you can read about it on the CJ blog http://www.cjblog.co.uk/

He is doing this in aide of the charity Valueclick supports, Kids Company http://www.kidsco.org.uk/about-us

You can sponsor him here

Me being a stupid idiot have agreed to try and cycle with him from Lichfield to Liecester.

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Toon looks really bad…..ah

Sport written by Doug Scott

Aswell as the poor old Toon being relagated having looked at some of their finances things get really scary…….here are some things to watch for at your football club…….scary observations:

1. Many players get loyalty bonus’s if they see out there contracts, normaly a years salary
2. Many clubs pay for players in in stalments at the end of each season, most urchases are setep to have 4 X 25% payments

Lets look at what is about to happen at Newcastle:

1. Who is leaving and out of contract and what were they estimated to being paid per year? Owen (£6 million), Viduka(3 million), Lovenkrands, Cacapa and Edgar (£5 million combined). So lets call it £10 million being conservatively
2. Over the past 3 to 4 years Newcastle as a club has spent over £100 million on players, so they are probably due to pay an installment of £20 million plus at the end of June ( the end of the football year)

So now the players out of contract have gone, but we still have a load of players being paid a fortune. Reports were that 15 players were on over £50K per week, and only 3 of them will have gone as they were out of contract. We now have to persuade some other players to leave. Now as they have not asked for a transfer we as a club have to pay them their loyalty bonus…..lets say another £10 million to shift some of them on. As they also have now left the club we have to settle the debts on the transfer instalments……lets call it £25 million. Mind you we do get some money back from the transfer fee…lets say £25 million and not the £100 million we paid for some of them ( think Alan Smith bought for £6 million, sell for £1.5 million, Coloccini bought for £10 million, sell for £2.5 million).

The club will also have to subcidise some of the players wages who left the club as no one is going to pay someone like Alan Smith the reported £60K per week he is currently on. So lets say it costs the club another £10 million over the next 2 years.

So basically in the next month or so NUFC  have to pay £10 million to players and £20 million to other clubs and in the next 2 years shell out another £10 million to old players who have left the club.

Total spend after revenue from selling players £40 million. Balloon payment for being relegated £15 million.

Result loss of £25 million and no quality players…but club financially ok going forward as long as we stay in the Championship.

The other option is to not sell anyone, bank roll the club to the tune of £30-50 million and hope that the players at the club are good enough to get promoted, which I don’t think they are. If the club does not get promoted then sell everyone and loose £40 million.

Anyone in Dubai want to buy a club?????

Course we could be Liverpool and have a even bigger wage bill and bigger debt and yearly losses.

Doug

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Alan Shearer New Newcastle Manager

Sport written by Doug Scott

Doug

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Newcastle fans

Fun, Sport written by Doug Scott

Merry Christmas to some well known Newcastle fans online:

Chris

Dan

David

Dixon

James

Jason

John

Nadeem

Patrick

Shane

And obviously we can’t leave out:

Kieron

Cheers

Doug…..smiling:)

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David Beckham

Sport written by Doug Scott

Curious, was he not paid US$250 million to help grow the US soccer market?

So the US season ends, LA Galaxy are 2nd bottom, but more of a concern Beckham now packs up and leaves. How is that helping the US soccer industry? Shouldn’t he be off talking to everyone and anyone and generally help promote soccer in the US.

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Do you honestly think he would pick Manchester

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Looks like Milan was a better choice for Ronny

WOW surprised

Some place in Italy with women pretty for half the money or wet in the North West of England with women with false tans and people who whine through their noses.

So I hear he could have choosen Liverpool, but he couldn’t afford the car insurance

Doug wow surprised not

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Newcastle football song

Sport written by Doug Scott

I have spent my whole life being upset by Newcastle. If not can Keegan please leave whilst singing.

Get on your racing bike, mountain bike or any bloody bike:)

Doug hopeful

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Gazza

Sport written by Doug Scott

Firstly a great quote:

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles, The Third Man

Paul Gasgoine went home today and just want to wish him all the best. Never met the guy, but a genius of a football player and when everyone who knows him says he is a lovely guy and superbly generous it probably means he is.

Personally I think he should be taken on by Newcastle in some sort of ambassador role, he messes up things sometimes, but the guy has a heart of 9ct gold and is a pure lover of football and wears his heart on his sleeve.

A great piece here:

It’s become commonplace to date the resurgence of English football from the foundation of the Premier League in 1992 but the road to the Wealthiest League in the World began in 1990.

Following football before 1990 was a grim pastime. Decrepit stadiums, hooliganism, and the aftermath of the Heysel, Bradford, and Hillsborough tragedies all combined to make the game a minority interest.

The sport didn’t have any water cooler moments because attempting to bring the game up with a non-fan just produced knowing looks and the sort of sympathy given to someone suffering from a strange disease. By 1990 football didn’t really matter to whole swathes of the population.

That all changed in 1990 – more precisely at the 1990 World Cup, when England went on an unlikely journey to the last four, fired by the midfield skills of a 23-year-old from the North East. Do you have your football memorabilia of the event or any sports memorabilia….I know another plug:):)??

There has been lot of talk in the world of football about helping Paul Gascoigne since he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. It’s fitting because the multi-million pound salaries, huge profits earned by shareholders, and satellite dishes sold on the back of the Premiership wouldn’t have been possible without Gascoigne.

Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma as the theme tune might have had a bit to do with it but the England midfielder grabbed the tournament by the scruff of the neck – and as well as being able to play, Paul Gascoigne was fascinating because his personality made him different to the average footballer.

When England went out on penalties in the semi-final, millions watched Gascoigne’s unashamed tears when he realised a harsh booking would put him out of the final if England got there.

When the team came back to the UK the newly christened ‘Gazza’ was a phenomenon (comedy breasts and all). For an all too brief time he was just about the best player on the planet until a rush of blood in the 1991 FA Cup final ended with a stupid sport injury almost as soon as it began.

Suddenly serious writers wanted to get into print about football and publishing companies were prepared to publish something more than a ghosted autobiography. Soccer was back in zeitgeist again and it hasn’t been out of it since.

After 1991 his talent still flourished at regular intervals but with it also came a number of incidents and worrying behaviour. His last great highlight was Euro 96 when he performed consistently and England went out on penalties to Germany again in a semi-final.

There have been some unsavoury incidents over the years, some daft ones, and a whole lot more that gained less publicity, which showed Gascoigne as a generous individual at heart.

Since he left top level football there have been a lot of ventures in places as far and wide as Boston United and China but none of them have been successful beyond the short term – even a brief stint as television pundit at the 2002 World Cup.

Gascoigne might not be suited to management but when it comes to talent and midfield play he had few equals; it’s a shame no role could be found harnessing his natural enthusiasm for the game and his keen football brain – his performance away against Italy in a World Cup qualifier showed his ability adapt his game to circumstance.

Though he’s often been his own worst enemy, it would be nice to believe that the football world can help him out of his current situation. Without Paul Gascoigne the game would still be played in crumbling grounds to a dwindling audience – an awful lot of people owe him a lot.

Thanks to Athlone Advertiser

Doug – a hopefully Newcastle fan

Ps.Paul any chance of some free tickets:) Not from that rubbish site though…..

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