This whole shit storm makes me believe that Pardew may actually have a standard 8 Year contract without defined compensation (e.g. a Years Salary) if he was to be sacked.
I completely disagree here, his technical ability is what makes him the best in the world by a considerable distance.
La Masia is also a mute point, unless you believe technical ability is purely nature as opposed to a mix of nature and nurture, which I don't
Had a mackem say that the penalty shouldn't have stood because the header by Shola was in fact off his arm. This lad's not exactly the most intelligent I know but even for him thats just horrendous.
Also, only place I ever got abuse when playing football younger, being canny tanned, was from a team in pennywell and another mackem team, although the pennywell one could be forgiven as frankly I'd be a bitter cunt to the world if I lived there.
I'd say quite a sizeable proportion of people in Newcastle are 'casually racist' as in they haven't really been exposed to a large amount of different ethnicities so it's a bit of fun to make jokes at a 'chinkies' expense when they're not there and when properly battered it may lead to it going too far. However if your on about proper racism as in hating someone just because of their ethnicity, I'd say Newcastle is very good in that respect.