Have ‘Time4Change’ lost their chance to seize the day?

Posted on November 17th, 2013 | 74 Comments |

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My latest piece on metro.co.uk was published earlier today.

Entitled ‘Have two Newcastle United victories cost ‘Time4Change’ their momentum?,’ as you might have guessed from the title, it takes a look at the Newcastle United ‘Time4Change’ movement.

In the piece I ask if they are now in danger of losing their momentum after their first march almost a month ago, which made more of an impact than they might have imagined due to Mike Ashley’s childish and ludicrous overreaction to their little stroll through Newcastle before the game with Liverpool on 19th October.

You can find it by following the link below.

Have two Newcastle United victories cost ‘Time4Change’ their momentum?

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  1. Newcastle fans are idiots, they are in the top 10, have a pretty good squad, an owner who buys good quality players and a manager that knows what he’s doing yet they want more… greedy unemployed little whingers that have too much time on their hands and not enough brains. Utter Idiots. You are not a big club so be happy with the excellent season so far and stop moaning. You make yourselves look pretty stupid all you time4change twats. Again, IDIOTS!!!

  2. and look WHO is above you in the table, every team above you is bigger with more history so 9th is a good place to be and if you get that at end of season it’s a massive achievement. Good team, good coach, good setup, good structure, shit uneducated fans.

  3. Jim, Why don’t you say what you really think! lol

    Good article Worky, They probably have lost a bit momentum, With the two wins, And certain Football fans being fickle.
    It’s like impermanence though, Nothing stays the same, And i’m sure there will be something else around the corner, To warrant another backlash!
    Probably in the form of Pardew lousing it up, Against Norwich City, Or Ashley being Ashley, Something else is bound to come along, And “Stir Up A Hornet’s Nest”…

  4. Yes i was on the march in fact i am a #time4change committee member and because local press covered the march MA bans local press because we got up his nose. Its uneducated fans that don’t understand how MA is running the club. The NUFC shops and nufc.direct are now run by sports direct so do the club get any profit from merchandise sales ? Its illegal in the USA not to pay for advertising one of MA best assets in SJP advertising sports direct,Firebrand and others. If we are in the top 20 richest clubs how come we would have gone in the red in the summer buying one significant player (Pardee’s words). Why bring in Wonga when Virgin was offering £6m a more per year. And finally £60m tv, £14m Wonga, £18m transfer profit end of January 2013, and £42m from premier league for 2012/13 season where has £134m gone ?
    can’t wait for Jim to reply

  5. to the time4change committee member: get a real job, stop signing on and blagging off the tax payer and stop talking about stuff you know nothing about. Get a Life Loser

  6. Jim, I do a job you couldn’t with your brain cell im a quality assurance manager in the food industry and i know what im talking about it isn’t hard to do a bit research into things and a colleague was leaving so we all chipped in for Newcastle united vouchers for the club shop only to be given shit direct vouchers we didn’t take them so take off your FCB tinted glasses and come into the real world oh and the club is not out of debt we owe the FCB £129m yet he took £18m last season and is apparently taking £28m this season
    the owner and directors have no ambition only want to finish 15-17th in the league and not play in Europe or challenge for the title if you have the same ambition go support another team

  7. Jim, Good to see you have your finger on the pulse, And you seem to know everyone’s employment status.

    Your not a spy for the NSA by any chance?

    So if these Clubs you speak of, The one’s with a bigger history, So for instance, Obviously you would have to Include Liverpool into that equation.
    So was their success not paid for by the D.H.S.S, And all those Dolite uneducated fans, Who went through the turnstiles, Who paid to watch with their Giro money?

    You stupid f**k!, Stop making generalisations and “Stereotypes”, Because people don’t share your view of things.

  8. lol priceless, i bate, you bite, idiotic toon fans all sharing their collective brain cell.

    COME ON YOU SPURRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. “a quality assurance manager in the food industry”

    hahahahahahahahahahaha great job there mate, wow, you must be the talk of the toon you flash git LOL…. “a quality assurance manager in the food industry” your words not mine, jesus mate i wouldnt be admitting to that job, it’s hardly a badge of honour. You’d be better off on the dole with the rest of the time2moan plonkers… LOL@NUFC

  12. I drive a 08 Jag XKR… you don’t, but hey maybe one day I’ll make your day and wave at you when I cruise by you in your metro.

    A new chant for the Toon Army: We’re not very smart, we’re not very smart, we’re NUFC, we’re not very smart

    *chortle*

  13. joe hawkins, that is the most illiterate piece of nonsense with horrific grammar.. wow, you lot prove my point without me having to lift a finger. I’ll tell you what, you should all join the time2moan group and let the rest of the educated world know where your club house is so we can nuke it, do humanity a favour LOL@NUFC

  14. What is a “quality assurance manager”? YOU SAID:

    “Jim, I do a job you couldn’t with your brain cell im a quality assurance manager in the food industry and i know what im talking about”

  15. Jim, And your grammar is top notch, What a f**kin’ moron!
    The “Come On You Spurs”, Tells it’s own story.
    Isn’t Haringay one of the most deprived areas of Great Britain?

    Glass houses my friend!

    Typical Spurs fan, On one of their “We’re a big Club” Crusades!
    In reality though, They are the only one’s who share their view.

    And they say Newcastle fans are deluded…

  17. Can you believe the pr|ck’s boasting about driving a too-farsandanait clunker jag? :lol:

    I don’t feel so bad about my three year old Phaeton now.

    *chortle*

  18. Jim says
    “I drive a 08 Jag XKR… you don’t, but hey maybe one day I’ll make your day and wave at you when I cruise by you in your metro.
    A new chant for the Toon Army: We’re not very smart, we’re not very smart, we’re NUFC, we’re not very smart
    *chortle*”

    Wow if you’ve said you drive one on a blog then it must be true!!!!
    For someone with so much going for him old jim seems to have a hell of a lot of free time to troll blogs of teams he has f all to do with!

  19. What will he come out with next?
    I wouldn’t put it past him to start a, “My Father will chin your Father” nonsense!

    That said, We are talking about a Football Club, Who use a derogatory word for Jewish People, And incorporate it into their identity.
    The Jewish don’t want them to use the word, But the silly f**ks, Think they are claiming it back!
    Why do they not respect the wishes of people?, And they say we are thick…

  20. @1 Jim. You are picking a fight with a minority of people that support time4change. The reality is average gates are 50k plus and despite the march being an open invitation to all toon fans only 300>500 made the effort. The local paper then gets banned for what is perceived by NUFC as repeated accounts of disproportionate journalism and inaccurate publications on the general feeling towards the owner. But guess what the same site that speaks out against the ban then remove any comments for speaking out against time4change or the blogs owners? Hypocrites!

  21. As a “quality assurance manager” i have to run a team of 18 quality assurance technician’s making sauces and mayonnaise for companies like Marks and Spencer and with it being egg based hygiene is upmost important so is health safety and cosh regulations and l get a new company car every year

  22. grow up Jim, your just making yourself look like a bitter fool, why waste time bragging about non football related belongings? hey we don’t care what you drive your still a prick!

  23. “I drive a 08 Jag XKR…”

    I’m guessing here but I’d say Jack the Lad’s a car dealer ? All sheepskin coat and no brains :lol:

  24. Joe @19: they sing the worst song of any football club.

    “When the Spurs go marching in” or something like that.

  25. time4brains says:

    “But guess what the same site that speaks out against the ban then remove any comments for speaking out against time4change or the blogs owners? Hypocrites!”

    However we’re also fully aware the Fatman’s PR army love to dress up in supporters clothing and pretend that all is well in Cloud Cuckoo Land !

  27. I think it was nice of Dim Jim to pop in. There is always someone worse off than yourself.To handle a key board when your knuckles trail on the ground every day must take some effort.Well done Dim hope that poorly brain cell of yours soon gets better.

  28. What a bunch of mugs… im starting to feel sorry for that poor quality assurance mayo taster, he must be newcastles most succesful business man what with the 18 staff and all lol u lot are so thick, thats why you live in newcastle and i flash about London LOSERS

  29. How did all you junkie scum neandertoons get your hands on laptops anyway??? Exchanging methadone with the scousers is my guess, apart from the mayo assurance guy, he saved up for 5 years for his LOL@TinyToon and the Mighty time2moan brigade. LOSERS

  30. Come on lads, be nice to him, to be so bitter and angry he obviously has problems. Most of the Spurs fans that I know and have met are really decent blokes and whilst there may be some humorous banter they are not usually as nasty as this guy. Nuff said by us to him now imo.

    I did read the article Worky. I have always maintained that if we had a successful season and actually winning something, a lot of the nays would become yeas. With MA and Pardew actually becoming feted instead of hated. With The Alan Pardew appreciation society holding their end of season meeting in The Albert Hall!!

    I don’t know what the odds are on that actually happening though.

  31. Newcastles most intelligent to go on Eggheads, Beardsley, Shearer, Gazza, Big Jack and the mayo taster… good on paper but can any of them spell their own names??? Duhhhhhhhh Toon Army Toon Army duhhhhhhhh duhhh lol hahaha you thick inbred pikies, u make me laugh

  32. Grumpy @30: that Spurs song has irritated me forever. I am glad that Jim came on so that I could let out my annoyance at it.

    “inbred pikies” :) he’s a card.

  33. And what is this mayo taster? He probably can’t spell mayonnaise.

    Jim must be about 12:

    “Newcastles most intelligent to go on Eggheads, Beardsley, Shearer, Gazza, Big Jack and the mayo taster… good on paper but can any of them spell their own names??? Duhhhhhhhh Toon Army Toon Army duhhhhhhhh duhhh lol hahaha you thick inbred pikies, u make me laugh”

  34. Jim says:
    November 17, 2013 at 8:44 pm

    “How did all you junkie scum neandertoons get your hands on laptops anyway???”

    Well, we know how you got yours, bonehead.

  35. Getting tiresome now tinytoons.. the mayo taster is your above colleague, let me just finish today by saying I dominated this blog. I destroyed it, I pissed on it, I made each and every one of you chomp, bite and lose. An amusing little bunch you are, so easy to beat. LOL@toonymugs. Long live Joe Kinnear and Mike Ashley, there very being there must raise the average IQ by at least 20, you gutter folk should be thankful..but hey, what would the UKs Gutter Folk know?? LoL

  37. Dim says:
    November 17, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    “there very being there must raise the average IQ by at least 20…”

    Did you mean “their very being there” by any chance? :lol:

    Looks like your IQ could use a boost, chump. We’ll send Joe and Mike down to you – see if we can’t get you into double figures at least.

  38. Like i said previously Jim, Haringey is one of the most deprived areas of Great Britain.
    It’s a bit rich coming from Baby p’s father, To call us pikies, Coming from that craphole!
    In fact a recent study had some of the places in London, Being the worst to live in.
    If your talking about Geordie’s being this and being that!
    Then you couldn’t have thought much of Gazza and Chris Waddle, Who played well for your club.

    There has got to be a wanting in you kid, And it’s way past your bed time!
    I wouldn’t mind if you had any decent patter, But if that’s the best you can come up with.

  41. Jim, please don’t leave the blog now. I’m really enjoying your Frankie Boyle type of humour. I don’t think the lads have had so much fun with a troll for ages.

    Come on, see if you can really rile us. you’ve done the warm up now give us the best you have.

  43. Jim, The only thing you destroyed, Was yourself, Basically!
    The way you have conducted yourself today, Says more about yourself, Than anyone on this blog.
    The fact you might be an adult, Makes it all the more disturbing!

  44. joe hawkins says:
    November 17, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    “Like i said previously Jim, Haringey is one of the most deprived areas of Great Britain.”

    Joe, I’ll have you know that Crouch End / Muswell Hill area is very respectable and one of the more desirable areas of London thankyou very much!

  45. workyticket says:
    November 18, 2013 at 12:07 am

    “Joe, I’ll have you know that Crouch End / Muswell Hill area is very respectable and one of the more desirable areas of London thankyou very much!”

    Next time they all kick off down there, can you get me a 50″ LED Smart TV, worky? Samsung if possible – LG will do if they’ve all gone :)

  46. Shouldn’t it be a GOOD thing that Time4Change loses momentum? Time4Change campaigns for progress. Progress happens. Time4Change achieves progress, rests.

  47. DarthBroon says:
    November 18, 2013 at 6:02 am

    “Next time they all kick off down there,”

    Darth, let me tell you, if the riots ever reached this side of the tracks there’d be a few stiff letters going into the Guardian about the state of Cameron’s Britain, and if anyone got their Prius damaged then things would really start to get nasty!

  48. well I can’t believe old jim is still commenting on another teams blog. for some one with such a flash lifestyle he hasn’t half got a lot of time on his hands.
    Let’s face it id be bitter if I felt like a foreigner in my back yard.

  49. WBD says:
    November 18, 2013 at 12:13 pm

    “Shouldn’t it be a GOOD thing that Time4Change loses momentum? Time4Change campaigns for progress. Progress happens. Time4Change achieves progress, rests.”

    This might seem like a dumb question but what progress has happened, WBD?

  50. bifftoon says:
    November 18, 2013 at 12:51 pm

    “well I can’t believe old jim is still commenting on another teams blog.”

    bifftoon, he’s in Dublin so he’s probably a Manchester United supporter, though a few of the more backward ones even support Sunderland.

  51. Maybe I am totally politically correct challenged. Why are Spurs fans being threatened with being arrested for using the “y” word? I wont use it in case I offend somebody.

    But, erm, ah, what? They are not using it in an offensive way and have used it for years. Is everybody just up their own ars* now?

    Do I have to now refer to a religion as the “j” word? Can’t even say c@nt anymore. I was watching Ars@nal the other day and Jack Wilshere was being his typical c@nt self and I said to my (now ex) girlfriend – he’s a bit of a c@nt. She was shocked I knew such a word, Matron.

  52. Worky what was that Spud called that used to come on here and change his name all the time?
    Was years ago and I really miss abusing him :lol:

  53. Funny to see the Aussie Rugby players get kicked off the team. A drunken Aussie? A drunken rugby player?

    I lived in Munich for a while and the Aussies would be travelling around in their buses. I asked one once what he was going to take home from his European Cultural Adventure.

    He said “A beer belly, mate”.

  54. GS says:
    November 18, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    “Maybe I am totally politically correct challenged. Why are Spurs fans being threatened with being arrested for using the “y” word?”

    GS, do you remember a so called ‘comedian’ over here called David Baddiel? He’s a real grade 1 tit.

    Well anyway, he was very angry about his fellow Chelsea supporters saying stuff like “f*ck the Yids” and making the noises of gas taps being turned on etc, so he decided to attack the victims of the abuse and tried to have them arrested. Spurs fans have just ignored it and carried on. I think that one Spurs fan was arrested at a West ham game.

  55. Worky: he had a football show and didn’t he do the Football’s coming home song?

    I sort of like Spurs apart from their stupid song that I mentioned earlier.

  56. GS says:
    November 18, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    “Worky: he had a football show and didn’t he do the Football’s coming home song?”

    That’s the one, he did it with Frank Skinner.

  57. sirjasontoon says:
    November 18, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    “Worky what was that Spud called that used to come on here and change his name all the time?”

    I think that was more on Ed’s site, SJT. Er, it’s hard tell you what he was called as he kept changing his name all the time! :-)

  58. GS, it was actually a complete and utter w@nker called Peter Herbert, the chairman of the black lawyer’s association who made the first call for Tottenham fans to be arrested for calling themselves Yids, with Baddiel climbing on the bandwagon.

    It was also Herbert who reporrted Mark Clattenburg to the Police for being a racist and is demanding action against Roy Hodgson for his NASA monkey joke to Andros Townsend.

  59. Hey, worky-odd thing: there are several comments under my username at the “NU with & w/o Williamson” thread that I didn’t post. The last one that was mine was #167 (November 15, 8:55pm). All later posts are not mine. It’s strange, there’s nothing untoward in the posts so I’m not sure it’s anything malicious. Then again, whoever it was seemed to pick up on my line of commentary from earlier in the discussion, which is strange. You may want to keep this in mind/look into it. (I’ve changed my password-gotta keep off all the people who want to impersonate me!)

    That said, to answer the question that is the title of the post: yeah, seems like it.

  60. On the Yid thing I had a mate that was a Spurs supporter who used to write for some Spurs publication or other. His pen name was Kid Yid or some such.
    GS @53
    Kevin Bloody Wilsons Absolute c@nt of a Day would thrill her and of he would have to be an OZ

  61. tunyc says:
    November 18, 2013 at 3:44 pm

    “Hey, worky-odd thing: there are several comments under my username at the “NU with & w/o Williamson” thread that I didn’t post.”

    I did a trace on him tunyc, it was a Mackem again. I’ll sort it out later.

  62. tunyc, I’ve deketed all the comments. It might not have been a Mackem after all. I looked very quickly and I thought it said he was from Whitburn which is quite close to Sunderland, but then when I looked at it properly it was in Whitley Bay.

  63. Shola with a perfect pass for Nigeria. Rossi scored a great goal as well. Did he even get a game for us? And Balotelli has calmed his hair down.

    What, Shola just scored! Who is this Nigerian super striker? We might want sign him up. Maybe JFK is watching, like he was with Ferguson at Brum :)

  64. GS says:
    November 18, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    “Who is this Nigerian super striker? We might want sign him up. Maybe JFK is watching, like he was with Ferguson at Brum :)”

    GS, I don’t understand, was that supposed to be funny?

  65. Worky @64: yes, I wasn’t being serious and Shola scored a great goal.

    Who was manager when Man U loaned us Rossi? We could easily have signed him.

  68. Made up for shola – funny to think he will be going to Brazil and our much fancied French lot look unlikely to.
    Decent goal and assist – he must be in dreamland, hopefully he’ll carry this form against Norwich

  69. WT @ 62: thanks! I just wish he/she had been funnier in my name. Why jack someone’s identity to make banal comments?

    GS @ 63: well I thought it was funny. Different strokes, I guess.

    Nice goal from Shola. He can finish when on form. Funny thing though-was able to immediately identify him in the wide shot from his lazy(-looking, I’ve decided) trot.

  70. tunyc: ESPN 2 are showing the Sweden Portugal game if you can get to a TV.

    Fox Sports 1 are showing England. I am going to record that one as the Germans are a good team but you can never tell in an England friendly, they beat Brasil but get beat by Australia.

    Nothing on France which is really the most important to NUFC fans.

  72. Thanks Worky.

    The idiots at ESPN have put the Iceland Croatia game on. I always thought Americans could be geographically challenged but this is ridiculous.

    Their build up was for the Sweden game and then they switched to Croatia after saying “we now send you to Sweden”.

  73. GS says:
    November 19, 2013 at 7:52 pm

    “The idiots at ESPN have put the Iceland Croatia game on. I always thought Americans could be geographically challenged but this is ridiculous.”

    You could scout Finbogg the Iceman, GS.

  74. GS-you can’t expect the suits at ESPN to actually understand, like, sports and sports fans. Especially if you’re talking any sport other than American football. Croatia v Iceland. F’in brilliant.