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Every time I see Wheater he always reminds of another young local Boro lad, namely Jamie Pollock. I'm sure their training acadamy involves them beating up the kids then throwing them into darkened kennels for days without food before chucking a steak in and seeing which kid comes out on top before leading him out the kennel and telling him to run face first into a brick wall. Would definitely explain Pollock's features, genuinely a face of a bulldog licking piss from a particularly strong nettle.

you're severely limited by the limitations of your players. It's dignified, but you don't get prizes for being dignified, any more so than trying to do a job with your hands tied behind your back. And thats my last word on this, but I really don't understand how people can blame Hughton too much. A bit like when your man tied SBR's hands with the signings of N'Zogbia (similar situation to the Gosling transfer), Pievert on a free, and signed Nicky Butt against Sir Bob's wishes. But I suppose you'll see that as backing his manager, whereas the signing of a world cup midfielder and getting Ben Arfa in on a season long loan with a view to a perm deal is tying his hands. sigh. Bellamy, Robert, Viana, Jenas, Bramble, Ferguson, Solano, Given, Dyer, Milner, Domi, Maric, Duff, Martins, Owen, Carr, Goma, Parker etc etc, there are more....how many more times are you going to go down this road. And wtf are you talking about ref N'Zogbia ???? What is the significance of reeling off those players? They weren't all signed the summer before he was sacked. How did you feel about the N'Zogbia signing? Did you think we should have been buying players from lower divison french clubs? Or is it only Mike Ashley who gets criticism for wanting to sign quality from lower divisions?

That's got to be a 'had to be there' type of humour as that's so far over my head it might as well be a orbiting satellite.

It's my favourite song ever, mate. I know that'll sound weird but I love my roots and the place I grew up. I'd love to have worked at Swans, instead we've got skilled older men having to work in fuckin' Asda or daft call centres just to earn a crust. 'This is a mighty town, built upon solid ground, and everything they tried so hard to kill, we will rebel'. It's also the only song I'd sing on a karaoke. All the old tarts come flocking when you burst into the chorus Doesn't sound wierd to me, MT, I worked opposite SJP for about ten years for Newcastle Breweries and was quite proud to be there in what was a working Newcastle icon, used to see all the NUFC memoribilla in the visitors centre bar, (Where KK was unveiled as our manager) and like you say, have seen some ex-workers in ASDA etc pushing trolleys in the snow looking pissed off.

Excellent call, mate.

If you've ever been pissed and heard 'Big river' its amazing how sentimental you get!

"Margaret Bloody Thatcher, ad had it up t 'ere with a' hahaha "What do you expect to find up there, like? A new striker for Newcastle Utd?"

Oz "Ah bollocks!!" (Although he doesn't actually say it in this clip, sorry!)

They played there in the eighties as well when Jock Stien died of a heart attack he had in the dugout.

Well the second best win of the season was Villa because we owed the boring cunts a hiding and didn't they get just that. Record put straight and back to the non-entities they are to us. Forest was a good win as it was a time we might have felt the pressure but we stuck at it and Shola turned the game by coming on as a sub and hitting one of those early shots in the bottom corner which he is capable of doing and Jose putting the icing on the cake with a very popular goal amongst his team-mates never mind us, judging by the celebrations! (Plus, always nice beating the scabs and they were a bit classless in their home win against us which I was at). Liverpool was a good one as we owed them too and seeing they're fans reactions afterwards made it doubly entertaining.

He's a totally different player to Beckham. Beckham was never as technically gifted as Totti. Yet Totti would never work as hard as Beckham did. The formation Roma peaked with a few years ago with Totti as the main striker was a work of genius. Every time I've ever saw him for either Roma or Italy he's looked pretty average to put it mildly, then again, I don't get to see Roma that much. I compared him to Beckham as they were both the 'Goldenball's' of their countries.

On a similar note to Del Piero, the most overated player I've seen and heard good things about must surely be Totti of Roma and Italy. I think he's their Beckham but not quite as good as the half decent Beckham once was.

I've had a bad run up to Christmas through laziness and other 'problems'. A bit of a washout is expected, just hope my girls are ok with their stuff.

Hmmm. Bit un-ladylike tbh. Vodka & diet coke? Wine? I've just scoffed a load of chocolates if that helps. .....Whilst watching Victoria Wood?

I don't want to cause offence to anyone, but I really can't stand the bongy-eyed little cockney cunt. I don't and can't believe a word this self promoting goon comes out with. Also, love how he gets his name mentioned and gets interviewed about his time with us, it was a couple of years ago and he's disappeared off the radar ever since. Why doesn't he talk about little Wimbledon or the fucking Bridge? Just like big Sham and that arch cretin, Souness, they just can't let it go, can they?

There's been some good posters mentioned, but Stevie mentioned something about noticing when people aren't on, well, on the other side of the coin you can tell what a difference it makes when you get Toonraider and the other female posters on, definitely livens the place up and usually for the better.

I read it sometimes, people will say I'm obsessed mentioning it, I'm not. It just seems to me that on the football board there's one or two knowledgable people, and absolutely scores trying to out do each other with a piece of knowledge or angle on present things in football. Whereas on here especially talking about old times people bounce of each other more, more like a shared knowledge in each thread, like "ah aye i mind that now". With that in mind I give you a post from infrequent, (but excellent), poster Percy Street on another MB talking about 'cracking games'. That's the type of patter I like. Says more and makes you smile more in one paragraph than certain posters could do in a years worth of posts.

Current = erm, err........fuck knows, Iniesta or Messi. Retired = Michael Laudrup or Zidane, probably the latter.

Tinofbeans sounds more Geordie, that might help.

Damned by faint praise, there, Fish! I don't post that much and it's usually nostalgia when I do so think I'm getting a sympathy vote by Stevie. Some of the older posters (30+) would get my own vote, Fist, Stevie for the generalising of other fans is superb, NJS and others I can't think of off the top of my head.

LM = Claudio Shepha

I posted my real name earlier...Patersaldo... but my TT name is err....Paddildo A pedalo with 'special' seats for the ladies?

Sounds like a Geordie Boxer Whereas the first one sounds like an Brummie sex aid!

Good thread Real name = Daldo! Toontastic name = Heymeca