Howmanheyman

Do you do Bar Mitzvahs, Andy?

His biggest asset is he doesn't realise just how limited, (I'm being nice), he is and he plugs away till he eventually gets one. He'll probably be our top scorer.

My late Granny met The Iron Lady on a field where she landed in a helicopter in the eighties, (This was on an estate in Belfast), and she thought she was very nice. I loved my Granny, she was very, very funny and a total entertainer. She got it wrong that day, though.

I once worked with an ex Navy man who discovered an old tunnel near a beach in Bulgaria, he and another holidayer fetched a torch and followed the tunnel till they found armoured personnel carriers and tanks which he reported to the MoD when he returned. He also claimed to have volunteered his services to the MoD a few days after the Twin Towers attack "In case the balloon went up" as he could pass "for one of the Beggars!". He was half Indian from London originally with a Squadron Leader type of voice and he spent nearly twenty years working by himself in the Boiler house before being transfered to work in my Department and he had twenty years worth of tales to tell and by Christ did he tell them! He came to my eldest daughters christening and my wife and her family were just about ready to kill him whereas me and my lot saw the funny side and took him with a pinch of salt. He was called 'Mac'.

Unfortunately Dean couldn't be present to give you his online formation as he's currently designing an eclectic patio-steps out-of-a-back-door-to-the-garden project, however he has passed on his good wishes to everyone at Toontastic and sent a pic from his actual location on how he sees Pardew's formation to take out Forest from the cup.

Tricky one for our manager, he has to try and leave one or two out just to avoid potential injury problems which could fuck our squad but on the other hand we've surely got to actually have a serious go at winning a trophy and assuming we're not going to win the league anytime soon, then this and the FA cup have got to be our, err, cup finals. Unless supporters feel going out early with only half your first team present just so you can finish 11th is the stuff of every schoolboys dreams? Rest a couple at the most. I want to see black & white ribbons on a cup this year for a change.

My mate got lifted at that game for going on the pitch, another bloke we were with jumped off a fence and fucked his back, he got stretchered around the peremiter of the pitch as wor end were singing 'if you're proud to be Geordie....' and as he was lying in agony still managed to clap his hands in time to the chant. Proper Walker Dan, that lad! Also took a metal sign from the wall with a 'you are being watched by CCTV at Brammal Lane' on it back to a bar in Walkergate.

When a policeman can watch and see people suffocating and be in a dilemna on how he should act then you have to question the way in which he was trained and how it was no doubt hammered into him how a supporter was to be controlled and treat.

Is the honest, right answer I'd expect from you.

Although he wasn't sports minister in 1985, Colin Moynihan was in 1988 when England had that riot in Dusseldorf a riot involving 5000 people which lasted 8 hours, the German authorities ALL to a man said the trouble was instigated and largely caused by the krauts and the dutch, yet Moynihan wanted England thrown out of the tournament and out of Italia 90 because of it. They have always wanted to demonise football fans as scum of the earth. HMHM you're completely right in what you say, and in a country which has told the whole world for centuries, we are the last bastion in fairness, in openness, and anti-propganda ethics, then what Thatcher did with Hillsborough, The Miners Strike and other occurances of the time, manipulating the media as part of this, was absolutely no different to how the much scolded Soviet Union media function "TASS" was managed by the polit bureau and KGB. Unfortunately, Moynihan attended a Millwall v NUFC game where he witnessed a big window at the Den get smashed by supporters he stressed were not Millwall fans but NUFC supporters. You're spot on regarding his comments about the trouble in Germany, he and his party wanted us out of it, in fact they were pissed off the UEFA ban on English clubs didn't include the national side. Luton's chairman was a Tory MP so no surprise that the crawling bastard had his club ban away fans and introduce an ID card to get in. The same MP later called anyone on the dole a 'scrounger'.

NUFC, proud sponsors of SportsDirect.com I honestly wouldn't give the man the steam off my shit let alone a single penny more.

What a wanker, basically. Everytime Llambias opens his trap the 'poor Mike' patter is usually bound to follow, top businessman? Like you say, If Marks and Spencer has a bad year and gets bad press and customer complaints the last thing their PR man will do will be to take a hissy fit at reporters and their customers about it.

Electric fences at Stamford Bridge for fuck sake. Good job there wasn't a disaster there then, eh? What would health and safety say about that?

jawD reminiscing about his LSD days again?

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/co...icle800222.html I know a few will read this and not really give a fuck and maybe some will even think, 'Scousers moaning again', (or maybe I'm being harsh on some of TT's posters), anyway, when it comes down to football and Thatchers government then I always have an interest in reading about anything like this as when I was a young'un and going to games you quite often were treated like shit and having seen and read up on the way the Miners were battered by the Police and then demonised by Maggies biggest backer, (Murdoch and all his Editors, Mckenzie etc), then I think if there's something, somewhere, that can expose her party for what they were then I'm all for it. Anybody who's ever heard Bernard Ingham, (who was basically her go-between to the media), will be under no doubt that the 'pissing on the dead' and the generalisations that it was an unruly mob who caused all of the deaths would have been encouraged and welcomed by many of Thatchers Toadies in her party and acted on by the likes of Mckenzie. When a Police force can stand and look on as people were clearly in serious trouble and, lets be honest, do fuck all at first, then it's about time it was officially recognised and it all stems from the contempt the football supporter was held in by her and her party. (Moynihan, her sports minister was great, he condemned any fan on a pitch for whatever reason, then ran on the pitch at a hockey game when GB won a medal at the Olympics). Anyway, as usual I ramble on and my patter wanders like a drunken man making his way home, but these bastards hated the working class and I hope any extra evidence that shows the Governments lack of care to get to the real reason and pinpoint those who could've done more to avert innocent deaths comes about.

That's a great gesture by him.

Should the thread title not be, 'Mackem in pieces'?

I was thinking that as well.

I wouldn't say J20 has a bee in his bonnet he just didn't believe Salty was genuine, which is fair point given his chosen avatar tbf. On a different matter, I thought J69's avatar change was comic genius... Alex's too. Didn't even realise Alex's! Neither of them hold a candle to mine though. Aye not bad.

Craig he's not any ordinary poster, he's come off Newcastle-Online for racism, it's like when Lee Hughes signed for Notts County this. Well after hearing the reason why Paddocklad was banned from N-O I wouldn't be too quick to jump to any conclusions over his dismissal just yet!

I wouldn't say J20 has a bee in his bonnet he just didn't believe Salty was genuine, which is fair point given his chosen avatar tbf. On a different matter, I thought J69's avatar change was comic genius... Alex's too. Didn't even realise Alex's! His patter seems alright whether thats his pic or not. Have to say, there's a fair bit of suspicion over who is actually who which is quite funny at times but a bit strange.

Really?

From what I can see, auld Salty balls is a welcome edition so far. He's even taking the photo stuff in good humour. There's been some good craic so far between him and others although not sure why J69 seems to have a bit of a bee in his bonnet?

No they just hanged him. His arse stayed intact.

There was IIRC five of them and they were all sacked but two got their jobs back on appeal. I wasn't there at the time but the tale is 100% genuine. (Thats actual 100% as opposed to a 'Pardew' 100%)