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Football owner’s message to Mike Ashley

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Peterborough United chairman Darragh MacAnthony has put on record the advice he gave to the unpopular Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley.

The advice given by the Posh top man was for Ashley to let the fans get to know him more, get a taste of who he really is by making himself more accessible.

I feel like this advice comes from a good place but Ashley has done too much to upset United fans over the years and MacAnthony, who is clearly on decent terms with the high street tycoon, said it is a shame that the relationship is beyond repair.

He was also high of praise for the Newcastle fans, which is always nice to hear. When speaking on his podcast, he said that the Georide fans are magnificent and also went on to say:

“Regardless of who owned it, if Colonel Gaddafi owned Newcastle they would still all show up because they just love their football.

“A couple of my pals are Geordies and they are just obsessive about that place.

“I have been there for a couple of games and there is no better place to go. It was the most daunting thing to go from the tunnel on to the pitch and up to where I was sitting.

“It is an unbelievable stadium.”

Whilst he may be slightly wide of the mark regarding Gaddafi (10000 packed in their season tickets just because Steve Bruce replaced Rafa Benitez and despite being a truly terrible manager, you couldn’t accuse him of being a facist dictator.) his comments will be appreciated by Toon fans.

He also spoke highly of the 1892 pledge, a scheme launched by the Newcastle United Supporters Trust to try and buy a small stake in the club and MacAnthony feels it is something that Ashley should entertain.

“Look, they want to feel part of it and they could buy a short equity stake. If Mike Ashley had any sense he would sell or he would put a fan as part of the board.”

The amount of common sense talked by the Peterborough chairman is completely different from anything we have ever seen from our owner.

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