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In a lot of ways am a natural labour voter but as ive got older Ive realised some things about myself; one, Ive always had a deep mistrust of idealogies and those who espouse them and two, am a fairly natural fence sitter in general. Add that to a fairly strong current of Liberalism in my old mans family (my gran was present at Jedburgh town hall when David Steele was first elected, 1966 I think?) then its fairly easy to see which way Ive mostly voted. I really liked Charles Kennedy, but I voted Labour in 92 & the last two GEs. Blair turned me off complelty as a person, Im fairly happy to say I saw through him straight away, but I understood completly why he could win most fair minded Labour folk such as yourself and the whole country over. Thing is CT is a blatant tory, but many of them were sedeuced too and its my opinion that theyre the ones who complain most loudly about him now when they were utterly complicit in putting him into power. Theyre also the ones who bang on about Brown selling the gold etc etc whilst not uttering a dicky bird about what the likes of HMHM's wife and Happy Face's brother have been through under the tories.

Living down in Lancashire in the 60's i remember being taken by my dad & my uncle to most of Evertons home games in the 69/70 season i was 9 it was the year Everton won the 1st Division trophy they had a great team that included Gordon West, Howard Kendall, Brian Le Bone, Clin Harvey, Joe Royle & Alan Ball. All that season we managed to get 3 seats together but on the night they were awaded the trophy the ground was jam packed & i had to go in the "kids pen" baically a big cage so you didnt get crushed in the corner of the Gladys Street end while my dad & uncle tried to get in were they could. My first Newcastle United memory was the 1975 derby game against Middlesborough i was 15/16 we won 1-0 Supermac scored the winner. St James Park was a bit of a mythical place to me as i'd only ever seen pictures in football books. I was living in Felling at the time & my new school friends asked if i fancied going to the match with them they got me a ticket saturday came we got the train from Felling to Central Station the first thing that hit me when we walked out the Central Station was the smell of the brewery we walked up some side streets & went to a chippy for fishcake & chips then we walked up to the ground i was a little underwhelmed as we walked from the Gallowgate to the Leazes End as from what i could see SJP was a big grey corrugated shed we got searched on the way in but once we were inside it was magical. We made our way to the far left hand corner of the Leazes End i stood there with a big grin on my face it may not have looked anything from the outside but it was fantastic inside as i say we won the game 1-0 on the way back to the train we got a hot dog & that was it i was hooked i used to go to all the home games with a similar routine if we didnt have time for the chippy it was a bovril & pie from the little kiosk in the Leazes End but you had to be quick the pies sold out very quickly. Anyways there's a couple of my memories lets hear yours

"When the players ended their warm-up I shouted 'Come on lads, we've come all this way so give us a win'," said Jewitt. "However, the players didn't even come over at the end, I didn't get a shirt or anything. We didn't get back until about 2am." Says it all.

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I'm sure even if we are taken over by oil rich Saudi Princes with Rafa Benitez given a vast transfer budget, we'd still find a way to Newcastle it up.

That was the EU debate.

My first every memory was sitting in Gallowgate Stand watching Jackie Milburn score against Puskas Hungary side as we won the European Fairs cup winners cup 3-0.

CT, whether Labour 'bribed' the electorate or not, the point remains that the current, centrist system, is falling apart. It's not Labour's fault that everyone is miserable. It's not even really the Tories when you get down to it, they've been following the same flawed framework as their predecessors - they're just too stupid to realise that they can't answer the question within that framework. It's going to happen one way or another. It has to and it will. Whatever people think they're voting for is not as relevant as actually reforming the system.

I didnt understand it at the time but am more sure than Rayvin is in thinking Blair was pretty much the ultimate neo liberal. Its why he was close with Bush and why Obama was on good terms with Cameron, theyre all tied in to this massive shift of public money into the private sector and also willing to go into massive debt both to corporate institutions and foreign powers eg China.

Could be worse tbh. She could be a political activist

Was too young to vote Blair the first two times and was out of the country and totally distracted for the third. I voted for Brown because I was afraid of an electoral wipeout for Labour and what the Tories might bring, but I was utterly disillusioned with their surrender of the narrative about the economic stuff even then. Wasn't taken in by Clegg and am pleased I wasn't tbh. Voted Miliband although very nearly didn't bother because I was so fed up with Labour and their nonsense agenda by that point. Thank fuck we now have an alternative to centrism that isn't xenophobia.

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She was a pissed up alcho who has subseqently been dismissed for the bar or whatever they call it and company gone pop......

One of those that improves the players around him too. Just by taking up good positions, timing passes well and being calm under pressure.

Definitely. Especially seeing as he usually comes in as an "impact" manager so clubs chuck money at him which he spends extortionate amounts on players (who are average at best and limited to his style of play) leaving anyone who's picking up the pieces after him with little amount to spend to get better players in.

I wouldn't have thought it was that easy to forget. Any emails from them?

Fair point with Roeder as well tbh. Him resigning was clearly because Shepherd was selling and Ashley/Allardyce was coming in but his full season post-Shearer saw him juggle a load of injuries, bleed in youngsters and actually pull off some memorable performances. All got a bit weird when he referred to himself in the third person and started Matty Pattison at home to Spurs but the decent outweighed the shite.

Aye, forgot about Hughton. Big respect for him. Not just how he handled himself here but what he’s gone on to achieve. One of the good guys.