Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 4hIt’s horrendous, if not quite as horrendous as anybody who would watch it. 020
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 4hAye, a small modern community stadium in the town centre would be a genuine asset. The proposed arena site will probably be free in a couple of years. 000
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 8hJust shy of 50 years since Gateshead moved to the GIS, none of the owners over that time have built a new stadium. Hard to see how an investment fund plans to make money out of buying GFC really. 220
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Arsenal’s Dein and Liverpool’s Noel White were the main men.theguardian.comDeceit, determination and Murdoch's millions: how Premier League was bornIn 1992 Rick Parry, David Dein and Greg Dyke turned British football on its head and forged a whole new ball game. But how did the revolutionary deal happen? 100
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal were the ones who pushed the SL idea, the others just hopped on near the end. Those three clubs were also the key instigators of creating the Premier League. The red cartel, putting their own interests before the good of the game since 1992. 100
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Before things like Teams calling somebody at work was simple - you called them and they would either answer your call or it would be engaged. Now it’s a it’s a stupid dance around status interpretation and ignored chats. 😔 020
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026More importantly the effect of a rule change can only be measured by what happened after it was introduced. The cartel clubs have won 22 majors trophies since 2013. So if they were (as is being claimed) shit before then, that only proves the rules are working in thier favour. 011
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Be it a redevelopment or a new stadium, a new logo is going to have zero bearing on that decision. 020
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Too much may be being read into a logo that could have been knocked up in an afternoon. 160
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Nothing really nice about the top end of LP. The fake Victorian bits are OK, but not really utilised. Think the general idea is that the lost park would be replaced with a park on the current site of SJP. Looking after LP has become a big problem as well, having the club involved could be a big + 010
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NUFC are well supported but never going to attract 75k on a regular basis. Catchment area is too small and we are too far north to attract large numbers of match goers from outside the region. 65k is probably about right. 220
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One week until NUFC play again, then 28 days until the next international break. 010
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Amazed anything gets done. Our support can’t agree on anything. 040
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not sure about. Crossed my mind absorbing them into an NUFC multi club model might be good for both parties, but not sure about that either. 120
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This line of thinking is so flawed. If City hadn’t spent so much money they may not have made the final. They might have lost to NUFC in the 4th round completely changing the complexion of the draw for the 5th round - perhaps NUFC should be declared winners of the 2014 League Cup? 150
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wouldn’t bank on that. There is every chance these events will be used as a pretext for bringing in new rules aimed at ‘state’ ownership. 100
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Didn’t take long for the City shite to be turned into to right wing propaganda. 230
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026All City have done is invest thier own money in thier own business. You’d think they’d dropped an atom bomb of Flamingo Land the way some are going on. 110
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What City did was only wrong if the rules were just, and that case is far from proven. 111
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The tribunal is a private sporting arbitration panel, lying to them is not a criminal offence. Submitting falsified accounts to HMRC would be. There’s an air of hysteria being whipped up by the media about this. 140
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Spending caps also offer a route to making football affordable again. This is what’s irking me about the reaction to the City charges. It should really be a watershed moment when the state of the game is put under scrutiny, not an excuse for the usual suspects to push thier favourite agendas. 040
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Spurs were listed in 1983 MU in 91 Arsenal 95 Chelsea 96 100
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Football managed perfectly well without the current financial regulations for a 100 years. That alone draws any claim it isn’t now over regulated into doubt. Ditto the way fans now have to spend time analysing accounts etc 100
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If I was City I’d be looking at the legal requirement for contractual penalty clauses to be proportionate and serve a legitimate interest. 020
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Think it’s import in all this to remember the rules city have broken are contractual commitments not laws. As for NUFC. I doubt many fans want to buy success, but they do want the owners to be able to invest the funds required to fix the damage inflicted during the FCB years. 130
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That would be an incorrect interpretation of the rules, not about how just the rules are. 000
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Unjust rules should be challenged not observed, breaking them is not a crime or cheating. The cheating in this scenario is the rules themselves. 100
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Aye, this could easily escalate into opening Pandora’s box. No doubt self interest and greed will take precedence over the collective good, that’s how we got here. 000
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026All City have done is circumnavigate rules that were invented to stop them disrupting the status quo. They are not the bad guys 310
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026EFL have already tried to bring in salary caps - PFA stopped that in no time. A level playing field is needed, but can’t see it ever happening.thepfa.comPFA welcomes the withdrawal of salary cap rulesThe PFA welcomes the EFL's agreement to withdraw the salary cap following an arbitration ruling and hopes to open constructive dialogue to agree reasonable and considered cost control measures for the... 100
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Manchester United £1.15 billion in debt ✔️ Manchester City wanting to spend thier own money ❌ 160
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Already talk of City planning to sue the Premier League for reputational damage, which sounds plausible - city’s owners are going to come out swinging. It will be carnage, and all because the cartel shit their pants when some competition rolled into town. 251
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Big conglomerates buy advertising blocks and have thier own in house AI studios. It’s shite and all about creating barriers to market entry - nobody buys something because it was advertised on ‘TV’ 010
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026PFA would have a tantrum and challenge it in the courts. Partly the reason anchoring wasn’t adopted too. Fair enough really, the average wage for a premier league player is only £5m pa. 220
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just different. Many voices online, harder to find something new to say and reading off a screen just isn’t the same experience. Think mindset may be a thing though. Printed media was expensive and writing for paper may have come with a greater sense of responsibility. Things change. 110
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Like owning an album, the whole experience was richer. Overall the move to digital fanzines has reduced the quality of the content, The Mag being the best example. 120
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 24/09/202615 match unbeaten run 10 games without conceding Stellar stuff. 061
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Sounds familiar 😆 Fashions change but we have been stuck in current clown shoes cycle for years. The white soles things isn’t even fashion, it’s about reducing operational costs to increase profits. Very much a case of ‘the public wants what the public gets’ 010
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Aye. All the latest boxes are stream only with no drive for storage - cheaper to manufacture and makes it easier to screw money out of consumers. They will slowly make the old boxes obsolete so we have to get the new shit ones. This is what progress looks like nowadays. 030
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Part of a wider shift towards consumers being forced to use subscription models. Can’t have people owning things. 010
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Sounds like a plan. The greedy capitalist are phasing out recording off your TV (which we have been able to do for four decades) so we can’t fast forward through adverts. Bastards. 210
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ultimately Xg… - lacks match context - is a reflection of the data model not reality - still requires humans to watch videos to generate its data Over a sustained period of time it may tell us something, but that’s it really. 030
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not sure about that. He’s pretty good a using his strength to roll his man in tight spaces. I’d be a little less sure about Nico in the pivot, early days but a few long passes aside I think he’s been quite average. 100
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026They did sit back and give us room to play in. Very different to the previous two league games. The jury is still out on if this version of NUFC can handle a press - when do we play Brighton. 120
Matt Black @jazzstandard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Difference between singing during a game and going to the lengths of making a banner beforehand to celebrate another team’s misfortune - kind of thing normally reserved for hated rivals. Doesn’t define our relationship with Villa but was a proper tosspot thing to do and hasn’t been forgotten. 110
