Newcastle Thread

The Club feels it necessary to respond to the article published in the Sunday Express newspaper, headlined 'Pardew's One Game From Sack - Beat Villa or it's the Bullet', and claimed as an 'exclusive' by the paper. The article was written by John Richardson.

We consider it extremely poor practice for a newspaper to print such an article without first seeking comment or clarification from the Club. The article was completely untrue and we can only assume published for commercial reasons or as an attempt to unsettle and disrupt.

The article also created subsequent ill-informed and damaging coverage in other media outlets and across social media.

To publish an article of such nature gives the profession of journalism a bad name. Journalists and newspapers which print such wholly inaccurate stories should be aware that there will be consequences for their actions.

Newcastle United will not accept false, misleading, mischievous or inflammatory reporting such as this and will take appropriate action as and when necessary. To this end, Newcastle United can confirm that the Sunday Express is banned with immediate effect. This ban does not extend to the paper's sister publications, including the Daily Star, who made contact with the Club to check the validity of the story and accordingly did not publish it.

Do Newcastle not understand how newspapers work?

This ban does not extend to the paper's sister publications, including the Daily Star, who made contact with the Club to check the validity of the story and accordingly did not publish it.

Or you could just fucking ignore it like every other club in the world. This just has the opposite affect of actually encouraging more negative press as "journalists" know they're gonna get banned anyway so why not go out with a bang

Why should they ignore it?

Don't worry, Shola will tell you soon enough how you're a complete prick for worrying

was clarified that the owner and senior staff including its former director of football, Joe Kinnear (JK), determined the key Club message for those notes, with the final wording prepared on JK's behalf but with his full approval.
The Club accepted that, while the notes were printed publicly and indirectly became a marketing asset for the programme; this messaging should also have been circulated via its official website in order to reach as many supporters as possible.
Gordon Gilchrist (GG) suggested that it was less than transparent for the former director of football not to have physically written his own notes.
LM explained that it was common practice at professional clubs (and many other organisations) that similar notes would be dictated by a director but typed up on his behalf or ghost written.
SC asked why the notes were attributed to Joe Kinnear.
The board clarified that Joe Kinnear was involved in the drafting of the notes but that the overall messaging was determined collaboratively and could be read as communication from the board.

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