Alex

He took it way beyond that though with his dedicating wins to the owner and the like when it was completely unnecessary and also when anyone with a modicum of commonsense would know it would alienate the vast majority of the fans.

A few of the ones I know have said, without any prompting, that they'd swap places with us in a heartbeat, or words to that effect. I think most probably would but wouldn't like to admit it to Newcastle fans.

A more continental name

Bet you can still get a good tray bake to go with your wee cuppa tea so you can

Bet the same place does keech

A few years back I was in the one on Saltmeadows Road in Gateshead and got a breakfast special (or whatever it was called) which was basically coffee and a croissant or pain au chocolat. Asked for the latter and the lass didn't have a fucking clue what I was on about.

There's still a nice one in Forest Hall but aye, generally speaking, you're right

I like pease pudding. To get vaguely back on track, they do a version of it in Crete.

It certainly smacks of desperation

The cheese and onion pasties are nice.

Brings a whole new meaning to that old James Garner film as well

Now that's a real periscope

It's a novel (by Philip K Dick) rather than a film. I don't think it's one of his that has been made into a film. Although most of the ones that have bear little resemblance to the books anyway.

Not sure what film you're on about but the description reminded me of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Exactement, Davide

Is it any less depressing than people going out on the piss and spending about 75% of the time looking at their phones, updating their Facebook status and trying to fool everyone (except the mates they're actually supposed to be out enjoying themselves with) how amazeballs their lives are?

That's partly true but there's also a mistrust of more mainstream media due, in part at least, to their own failings. Really though I think something like Brexit can be overanalysed. It was basically some dickhead taking a political gamble to quell disunity in his own party who got the timing badly wrong. The same vote with the economy riding high sees a completely different result I reckon.

On the contrary, you're too nice, if anything

The daft thing is you'd think that, along with employing the right manager, getting the academy set-up right must be about the best way of recouping any investment in a football club. Edit: There's also more chance of a local player coming through the academy having an affinity with the club and its fans etc. I.e. actually giving a shit about the shirt

Rayvin, I agree with lots of your posts, if that helps.

It's a reference to our resident sanctimonious bore.

Is it not a real periscope then?

The reason I thought he was was simply because I thought it was to demonstrate the dearth of talent we've unearthed since the initiation of these supposed 'centres of excellence', rather than just pedantry. Also, take away that bit where we obviously lucky in having a load of players coming through at once - Robbie Elliot, Steve Watson, Lee Clark, Alan Thompson and Steve Howey and it's been fucking dire for years. I suppose a lot of lads from the 85 FA Youth Cup winning side became professionals but, Gazza apart, they weren't great.

Think he was only there on school boys forms wasn't he, i.e. not even as an apprentice. Stretching it to call him a 'product of the academy' or whatever.

It was a reference to your beard