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Football is about how it makes you feel though. I shed tears of joy when we won the league cup. That never happened when we qualified for the champions league or finished second or third under Keegan. You could argue we were better then over a league season and there were amazing memories and moments but I don’t recall one that made me feel how I did after seeing us finally lift a cup.
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Great post TBD, but it has to be said:
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pleased you've found a ticket mate. a draw in this one lets villa right back in it and us very likely needing something at arsenal. man utd and tottenham are about as likely to provide villa any opposition as the bindippers did chelsea yesterday, we desperately need bournemouth to do us a favour on the saturday or chelsea is a must win. well fucked off with the kick off time, thinking of a 4.30am set off, pleased it's not my turn to drive, hoping to be in the casino by 9am for a couple before heading to the percy when it opens at 10.... my unofficial no drinking till 1pm (ish) rule goes well and truly out the window for this one!
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Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
Alex replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
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A draw here would be agony for the run in but brilliant for the neutrals and broadcasters. But we will win this and beat Everton. The Forest v Chelsea game will be the shoot out for 5th, with us in 4th. Also, I’m going to this one and am on an hot streak of wins, looking to make it a four match heater.
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Great post @thebrokendoll. i also think the wave of europhia when KK was manager tops it. The first and probably last time I cried at match was the 7-1 Leicester festival game when the entire crowd were singing the Andy Cole song (even East Stand). That was when I was around 12-13 and had been watching football since 5. All id known was us being shit but i still loved it when we had Kevin Dillon and Billy Askew patrolling the midfield. I probably didn’t even understand the tactical side at that point (first full season ticket was 88-89) but I loved the smell of bovril and fags and atmosphere was intoxicating. My Dad passed about over 10 years ago and we’d always go together. I associate going to the match with him and I hope my lads grow up the same. I wished he was around to see the cup win.
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I think we'll be back on it for this match. Away to Brighton is a bogey game for us for some reason. 3-0 against a Chelsea team who have been close to a bottom half team since their string of good results was broken early in the season. Isak two and Murphy. I only want to see one change with Miley in for Willock. Willock has been crap.
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To be fair to the Orange Lunatic, for once he’s talking about something he knows about- an island full of serious criminals.
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You wouldn't put it past the orange loon to catch this film while flicking around the channels and think it would be a good idea to open it up again
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with both ct and hmhm here. the promotion season with keegan the manager after so nearly going down to the 3rd division was fucking immense, we went top of the table in september and then stopped there. as if that wasn't enough we were introduced to a young lad away at swindon town in late march, andy cole who'd go on to notch 12 goals including 2 hat tricks in the last 10 games, fucking unstoppable. not gonna dwell too long on the following season, just enough to say that finishing 3rd in the top division was the stuff of fucking fantasy for anybody who'd supported nufc throughout the 70s/80s (and earlier for those older), it would provide for us the following year the opportunity to see us play in europe for the 1st time (for me) but also we played football which at times was sublime, the best football I've ever seen newcastle play in my life, NOWT has come close, I doubt it ever will. I love isak, but andy fucking cole man.... for fucks sake! I was lucky enough to have a good chat with keegan in 2018 and thank him for the memories he'd provided, he asked ne which was the best.... the promotion season in 83/84 was unbeatable for me. I'd seen my teenage home in the leazes pulled down in '78, we were shit, really shit. I cut my teeth as a regular away supporter under mcgarry as a mid/late teen in the 2nd division, with cox, varadi, waddle it improved a bit, and again the next year after the initial euphoria of keegan signing, but 83/84 man... our ground was a shit tip, every fucker was on the dole, hooliganism was an adrenaline pumping head fuck, the miners strike had started, the north/south divide felt like a chasm. I plodged in ponds on golf courses looking for balls to sell, I did cash in hand fiddle jobs as a builder's labourer, I tarmaced the roads at feathers caravan park in whitley bay, I scraped the money together to see us at every away game that season amongst the biggest away support you could ever witness, we took over cities, towns and football grounds in our thousands and thousands in a way which can never be replicated, we were a proper army. I was 21 year old, invincible, devilishly handsome and despite all the shit we were going through as a region I've never been so proud to be a geordie in my life.
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Trump must have sniffed some extra strong glue over night: 1) 100% tariffs on non US movies stating its “a threat to national security”. 2) Ordered the reopening of Alcatraz for violent criminals. 😂
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At home we will be back to our best. Tonali and Bruno won't have stinkers. Howe may try to accommodate both Barnes and Gordon in the starting side by moving Barnes to the right. Harsh on Murphy who has had a fine season. I still think he will persist with Willock, but hope he doesn't. Joelinton gives a lot more defensive cover than Willock and Chelsea have been played somewhat back into form by a half arsed B grade Liverpool so it's important that our midfield shape is good. Miley has never really let down Howe whereas Willock has on multiple occasions. There's a point where you accept that getting far up the pitch with the ball without scoring or creating chances is a pointless endeavour. Willock has played in 30 PL games this season (averaging 33 mins per game) and has no goals and 2 assists. In the cups he scored 3 in 9 games. Miley has 1 goal in 12 premier league appearance, but that's averaging only 20 mins a game. In the FA Cup he started three games and scored once.
- Yesterday
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Completely agree. Lifting a domestic trophy trumps everything for me. Hopefully we can add CL qualification to it too.
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Lovely to finally win a trophy but there will be no escaping the damage if we miss out on CL football. Really they are two separate things in my mind. The league is “the season” and the cup is an event. With that in mind, 3rd with Keegan and getting CL with Eddie, both beat this so far.