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you had to be there. you were probably out jogging....

Looking forward to us winning the Premier League, only to be told it wasn't as good as being in the second division.

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.

I know we all want to qualify for the CL but I’m 56 and this the best season I have ever witnessed. No matter what happens from here on in this season will go down in history for me.

You were blatantly sucking lads off for ticket money. I can read between the lines.

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

You want a fucking hiding is what you want.

Completely agree. Lifting a domestic trophy trumps everything for me. Hopefully we can add CL qualification to it too.

The trophy should make it the best and it was immense but if you're not there to see it plus if you're no onger a young buck? I always say my joint favourite seasons were 92-94 promotion plus 3rd in the PL. A young man in my prime enjoying the KK feast after the famine of division two. Amazing. I loved the cup win, who couldn't as a NUFC fan but it's at a distance so different.

All seasons go down in history tbf

56? Mate I thought you were at least in your late 60s early 70s with your crack. Nay offence

1st class or standard sir?

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.

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.

Maybe let the lads down the front know to have, erm like a few more attempts at the goal rather than fanny farting on, and when they do to aim at the actual fucking goal.

randomly bumping in to footballers in unexpected places. jordon pickford on his way in to tescos in cinderford in the forest of dean.....

That's such a predictable response.

Any minute now…

Dirty bastard

Think your father in law has been rubbing off on you

I mean all of this is already being discussed in other threads, but no you had to start a new topic because you crave the attention. bit like when you sprained your ankle.

I want a spreadsheet chart.

Don't think PaddockLad wants it tbh.

opening times for anyone who is interested. Not sure I have a 7am starts in me

Great post TBD, but it has to be said:

He turns back into Banner, seduces her and mid shag re-hulks his cock splattering her to bloody atoms.

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.

It's bad enough as it is.

If we don't win this it's over. In my opinion there's no reason we can't, even though our form has been a little off we were still comfortably better than Brighton and this game we'll be at home. Hopefully the fans are well up for it. The positive is Chelsea are a "traditional big team", and our players seem to turn up for that sort of shit. Should also help us against Arsenal.

You were very close NSFW, obvs.

A very stupid man with dreadlocks.

don't confuse the fucker man, he's been working on his original post since 18.30 yesterday evening.

I thought somebody needed to take control of the situation and actually do the work. Instead of you sat with a bowl of mung beans, trying to count out different amounts for each team.

We could do with Palace beating Forest tonight. That would give us a 3pt buffer with a superior GD over Forest/Villa. Effectively giving us a loss in the bank with 3 games to go.

To be fair to the Orange Lunatic, for once he’s talking about something he knows about- an island full of serious criminals.

Hopefully Eddie has a cunning plan for these and Arsenal.

Match thread already parsnipped and we didn’t even win. The penalty and subsequent equaliser must’ve gone down well

Dick fully out and waving for this one. 3-0 to us

I'd also chuck in @Howay. Miss his mackem rants and unusually, his macron/Palace ones.

No doubt brown envelopes to refs and VAR people along with other conspiracy theories as to why it was given ignoring the blatant hand ball

I was too young for the 83-84 season, my dad took me to the first home game which I loved even though we managed to get beat and that was my first and last glimpse of KK in a NUFC shirt for a proper match. I'd have loved to have went to the aways but it was about five years after that season I went to my first. A completely different environment to what there is now and that's not always a bad thing but I'm just glad I got to see football raw and uncut for a few years anyway. Obviously there's rose tinted glasses a la gemmill which I wouldn't deny but I read someone saying not too long ago that the SJP clientele is more Jesmond than Walker, more Darras Hall than Cowgate and whilst that's an exaggerated point it's not that exaggerated.

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.

All we can do is concentrate on our results. We may look back in a couple of weeks and that 1 point we got today was a big one point.

Just (genuinely) had a look to see if there was a BBC Archive account on Bluesky. Apparently there is:

I was going to wager that I was the oldest girl around here but then remembered we’ve got CT 😘 Also, nice to see Mark Williams representing us oldies in the snooker 😁