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So - let’s get this right. The bloke that devised the race - Brendan Foster - was originally going to have the race from Newcastle to Sunderland. That bitter mag bastard, Brendan Foster, got involved and objected. At this point Brendan Foster relented and agreed it should end at South Shields. Was that how it went down or have I missed something?

Think the blonde out of Kenickie might be a mackem. I'd have treated her like a seagull back in the day.

It would actually be fitting if it started in Sunderland. Thousands of people running away from the shit, piss and mouthbreathers. Probably improve race times.

It took us 90 minutes longer to get back to Newcastle than it did for us to run the bloody thing! Hugely humbling and emotional experience for me personally. Raised almost £1000 for Blood Cancer UK which is a charity so close to my heart. I appreciate some of you will be saying it's only a half marathon but I'd genuinely never ran more than 5 miles before in my life until the start of last month. Finished it in 2h 44m. Happy with that.

And then the whole bus clapped

https://x.com/CensoredMen/status/1700638380101337157?s=20

Do you think marra? Let's post it anyway, why aye.

Mysterious Cabal of Wearside Businessmen "We need to get serious and get this club back on top. We might have to start some doping to give our players an advantage and get ahead of a certain Tyneside based club. Get on it, marra." "Will do, boss " ..... later on.... "How did you get on, marra?" "Our budget is a bit restricted, couldn't get high performance athletic enhancing drugs, got some placca bags and a few tins of glue instead." "For fuck's sake, we're eternally fucked aren't we? Glue sniffing? How's that going to work?.......... Fuck it, give it a go."

My curiosity got the better of me- looked them up. They had a fairly recent resurgence of fame unconnected to their musical past.

From wiki After meeting them in New York, Courtney Love said: They're a big bunch of sex, that band Kenickie. They're a big, raw-boned bunch of fucking sex — all three of them and the boy. I hope they get good. I hope we're a good example to them, I hope this record's huge and then the big labels will start sniffing around and then those big fucking raw-boned sexy Newcastle (sic) girls will be huge and have Number Ones and there will be an Amazon planet the way I want it. Fewmin marra. FTM

"Viewed nationally as a symbol of the North East"? [citation very much fucking needed], I'd say

You've missed the bit where the founder of the Great North Run, Brendan Foster, said to the other great NE cross country runner of the time "How Crammy, a knarr yer a mackem cunt but its bad publicity and the shadowy cabal of the Newcastle Development Board don't like it. Here's what you're going to do, you're going to deny being a MLF and be claimed by Newcastle, like the Angel of the North, alright 'Marra'?" To which Steve Cram of course bravely sticks up two fingers and says "Fuck you Brendan, I'm a MLF for life, STID, FTM!". That's how it went apparently.

I didn't have time to post "Don't get Renton started on Laverne". He likes them mumsy! (dirty cunt)

Trouble is,

I'm pretty sure posting RobinRobin's home videos is a GDPR breach.

And ate crisps that looked like lions

'Ah waz telt years ago a load of shite about the greyat north run being a Mag hayatred of Sunderland, it was another MLF who told me as we sat and wanked each other off spinning conspiracy theories about the mags. It might be bollocks but ah think he came first when ah mentioned ah heard from someone else that ponteyaland airport was originally going to be at the Washington air museum until Newcastle council overruled something and demanded they got it instead. Actually, ah might have squirted me sarce fust...... canna remember, marra? FTM etc'

Harry Maguire Just fucking retire.

Even by Express standards, this is quite something. I doubt Viz could do better. The picture shows some OFF DUTY french police officers having a drink.

That terrible bastard plane to the Sin City? Full of women, booze, nightclubs, gambling, show girls, fine dining, strip clubs, pool parties, nice weather and fantastic shows? That one ?

makes the game more entertaining too, let’s be honest, watching turbocharged athletes go at it a million miles an hour.

It's not like certain clubs in Italy to be a bit corrompere, is it?

As soon as I heard about it I thought it seems very convenient for Juve.

Admin crew, it’s time. Name change to Wycuckitoon please.

Well that's turned straight off so I don't have to listen to Jill Scott, Joe Cole and Souness. It says everything about the former two when out of the three I'd rather listen to Souness, mind.

Anyone citing Southgate’s England record as evidence he’s a decent manager is a fucking idiot btw

That'll be him Saw him casually walking down the sliproad from Grandstand Road about 10 mins before we started, the mad bastard

I'd never watched the origins of this meme. I fucking lost it when the big moment came.

Wearside Jack and the lad that fucks seagulls are their most famous sons.

This is the thing though their best and brightest; Henderson, Adie, Cram are/were good at what they did and at no point did any Newcastle fan think "Let's have a bit of that". The Airshow, the Penshaw Monument, I'm quite happy for them to be associated with Sunderland. By the by, out of curiosity I had a look at the Wiki page for the Penshaw Monument and this stood out for me. Poorly constructed, lacks purpose, and is mostly empty. Not even obvious who or what it's for. Seems a perfect analogue for Sunderland AFC

Eh?

Is there anything else that happens in or around Newcastle that should actually be happening in Sunderland but corruption, or a shadowy cabal of businessmen stepped in? The hoppings maybe? Maybe even NUFC games? It’s staggering that somehow every event and celebrity with anything to do with Newcastle should in fact be connected with Sunderland . It’s such a fucking weird obsession they have, it’s like a Newcastle fan hearing about Jordon Henderson and going “actually he’s a proper Geordie through and through” who gives a flying fuck?

Listening to Monday Night Club. They have Conor Coady on. What a fucking bell pipe. Talking about England. He's so far up the arse of Southgate he can taste his fucking food. Talking about Harry Maguire 'Yes, H is great laaaaa, H is mint ya nooooo warra meeeean la like' Fuck off you no mark Dipper.

( it’s got nowt to do with the fact the shortest road route to sunderland from Newcastle is over 14 miles either, bit more than a half marathon)

I didn't watch the game as he's taken all enjoyment out of England for me. He's beige as fuck and his football follows it. Apparently the game was slow as fuck, probably after his pre-match reading of some fucking poem the boring cunt. I would love it if Scotland decided to use the game to experiment and try a few new players and Beige Boy sticks with his pals. Deserve everything we get under him. Fuck all.

Aye, exactly. And they’re the most corrupt and influential of the lot

He’s barely played since he signed a four year deal for Juventus last summer. He’ll be on a fortune as he was out of contract iirc. Purely coincidental

He’s got Abbot Ale as his avatar/wish list.

A folly is widely described as a folly? Remarkable stuff. Btw, if we're not allowed Knopfler cos he wasn't born in Newcastle, they're not having Adie who was born in Whitley Bay. So there.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66780611 What a cunt 😂

What is particularly impressive about that double post is that they're an hour apart, with several replies in between. Too much £6 premier inn cooking lager...

This amoeba posted this , twice, in response to that subject. If you’re going be wrong, be wrong twice. Premier Inns charge about £6 for a pint of cooking lager.

Bet he has his bairn on his knee when he has his picture taken signing his new contract and then kisses his club badge, damn it!