Steven Butcher

Things what I like and things what I don't like.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@jayrayner1 @ftweekend Q. When they ask. Like most people, do you say everything was okay and just pay. Or do you tell them what you really think?

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@1GAVINNORTH @CraigSkellorn that's the point I'm making. This seasons move to SCR impacts heavily on other clubs that want to redevelop. Loss of matchday income directly affects amount that can be spent on players and 1st team coach.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@1GAVINNORTH @CraigSkellorn Spurs have done well but things have changed. While the redevelopment costs themselves sit outside SCR, there's no allowance for loss of matchday income (critical to SCR) during redevelopment works. This impairs a teams ability to compete during the works)

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@AlbertEllis2 @AlanRichar6162 @trime61 Spurs have done well but benefit from geography. Two seasons at wembly, owned by the FA (all other clubs) when your match day income increased. Now match day income is integral to SCR, an allowance should be given during redevelopment works. There's fair.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@TheAthleticFC @CWeatherspoon_ If in europe, you must comply with UEFA 70% for their Jan to Jan accounting period even though UCL is season based. So Newcastle's in-out-in-out UCL participation demands 4 yrs of 70% compliance for 2 seasons UCL. On these figures 311 becomes 256. So penalised for success!

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@footycorner_tv @xsiro22 @RichardBennison @TunawithaCh Uefa rules are skewed towards the established clubs. Their competion operates by season yet accounting rules are calender year. NUFCs in-out-in-out participation requires continual 70% UEFA SCR compliance for prize money every other season. See the problem for aspirational clubs?

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@KieranMaguire @5liveSport so does one season in Europe require two calender year compliance. And NUFCs in, out, in, out requires continual compliance?

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@npepper101 As you say building of infrastructure is a free hit, but loss of match day income during any rebuild is not. It comes straight off income in SCR calcs introduced this season. And I for one wouldn't want to replace SJP with some gouhl of a stadium out in the sticks.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@deepcovergecco @Jaycen_solo @NUFCBrace Under SCR revenue is king. NUFC cant afford a drop in revenue to redevelop SJP. Grade 1 listed building to the east, Grade 2 park north, underground station south. Nearest equivalent sized stadium 100 miles away. Spurs increased matchday income at wembly compared with WHL.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@lighty64 @brianlfc0210 NUFC are limited in what they can do. Measured each year, SCR limits annual expenditure as a ratio of income. Unlike Spurs, who relocated to Wembley, loss of match day income during SJP redevopment will have a massive impact on expenditure hence competitiveness.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@AmraWatson I'm surprised Reform are fans of Argentina.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@Bob_Helpful @Yanited1892 Match day revenue considered each year. That's why reduced capacity during renovation of SJP would be significant for NUFC. Unlike Spurs who just pissed off to Wembley.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@NUFCMurph This is what Arsenal want. They want us to turn against him, so that remaining at SJP is untenable, forces NUFC to sell and pushes down the price. That's why it's all been done through intermediaries and no official bid.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@Magpie24_7 Bruno got slaughtered by the Brazilian press and public after the Norway game. At 29 he wants to rebuild his reputation in Brazil and sees winning the PL & UCL as the way to do it. Unfortunately, not something NUFC are likely to offer in the few years playing he has left.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@ClennellPeter The Greens now hold the balance of power in Newcastle. They have specifically stated they are against a stadium in Leazers Park. NUFC have left it too late. Hence having to wait for a change in national planning policy. Taking the decision away from the council.

[SCARECROW @drChrisSyn]

I'm old enough to remember the English eccentric/astronomer, Sir Patrick Moore, who I'd always assumed to be homosexual.

Touring his autobiography, not long before he died, he'd revealed (as he was getting lifetime injuries, flying for the RAF) he had lost his sweetheart in the Blitz.

The idea of love expired in his mind, with her own death — under the bombs of the Luftwaffe — and that of the future together, which they had planned.

It was not that, as so many like me had assumed, he was a "confirmed" bachelor. Moore had chosen the path of embracing an aching loss in his heart instead.

No one compared, or ever could compare with the love that World War 2 had killed, and robbed from him. Which his subsequent life never wanted to besmirch with the tawdry, or dishonour.

This meant he had likely been celibate for seven decades up to his death.

The wheelchair seen here, even as Moore eventually fronted the longest continual programme on British television, in "The Sky at Night," I think it was called: being not unrelated to the irrepressible, workaholic, and energetic nature for which Sir Patrick became famous.

As basically the last publicly-noted monocle wearer in Britain, shrapnel, caught near the spine, while he flew Spitfires, would for the rest of his days creep closer to his spinal cord gradually paralysing him, the doctors had said.

Discovering the fact of this gentleman's dead love — which I almost felt to be an horrific intrusion, to learn of; as Moore plainly sought with this brief chapter, to settle a lifetime's worth of speculation on — was the day that I stopped judging, any public figure on their chastity.

Because, what idea could anyone else truly have as to why.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@GeordieMAG_ @SkySports_Keith meant to say 29. Ask google how he's been treated in Brazil. He's always said he wanted to go back to Brazil to end his career

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@GeordieMAG_ @SkySports_Keith My thoughts. Bruno got slaughtered by the Brazilian press and public after the Norway game. At 39 he wants to rebuild his reputation at home and sees winning the PL & UCL as the way to do it. Unfortunately not something NUFC can offer in the few years playing he has left.

[Steven Butcher @Steventbutcher]

@ToonPolls With vilification over his WC penalty miss, Bruno is public enemy No1 in Brazil. At 29 he wants redefine his legacy by moving to immediate trophy contenders, silence his critics and prove he belongs at the top of club football. Unfortunately, not something NUFC currently offer.