McFaul

Yes but you're just a victim of media driven propaganda to reach this bigoted view, I hope you realise this.

I think as I said what Paddocklad has said there is bollocks, he actually mirrors their views, and obviously has some attachment to the city. Newcastle faced the bleak 80's, with the end of industries like coal mining, but we rebuilt and got on with it, they alienated themselves, blamed everyone, and created an even bigger siege mentality.

The press can only have so much influence, and you've obviously listened to too many of their insular victim like views, and for some reason or another fallen for it. Take The Sun, they've done little but arselick Merseyside since Hillsborough, while a spor of what you say may be true of views from the 80's, I'm talking about today.

Batty used to say our fans were more passionate than Leeds, but he never loved us as much as Leeds illustrated by his desire to go back there.

The difference for me is Liverpool's support is fickle as fuck. Regular 30,000 gates under Houlier, even on the back of two CL finals within the last 6 years, 34,000 gates under Woy because things weren't going well. Man Utd didn't win the league for 26 years and still got 45,000 every week rain and shine. Man Utd's local support is the biggest in the country, people can peddle as many myths as they want but it is, for every OOT at OT, there's 6 or 7 locals. You go to Anfield it's a complete joke, the only way you can tell the ones who aren't OOT's is they are more poorly dressed. I bet there are 65,000 locals at OT every week, maybe 28,000 at Anfield. You have to respect that.

I think the two provinicial groups of people with the strongest and best known identities are geordies and scousers, I wonder people widely find us quite endearing and why scousers are widely looked down upon by many as the worst people in the country. Why is that? Because that's the wider perception as a nation. Stick up for them all you like, but you know for a fact its true, there has to be a definitive reason.

Who do you prefer Man Utd or Liverpool and why? This isn't just a question to the 30 something owld cunt birthday boy, but anyone.

Coventry got the worst bombing of any city outside London.

Micky Quinn is a passionate Liverpool fan from his childhood, but he's on record as saying the passion on Merseyside is incomparable to that in Newcastle. Terry Mac aye, by far as well.

Bellamy purely and simply because he's bitter no other reason, bitter at Souness, bitter at the shit receptions he always receives here. You wouldn't come out with an unnecessary statement like "Newcastle will never win a trophy" or childishly abusing Shearer by text, if you weren't bitter, he'd have gladly stayed here forever and he knows it. Mark McGhee and Darren Jackson boyhood tims, both played more for Celtic than us, and speak more favourably about us. Apart from Bellamy I can't really think of anyone.

Err 500,000 didn't die in the Blitz in Liverpool mate Anyway the Blitz was all but over by mid 1941.

Fancy sharing a birthday with Paul Wyn Happy Birthday

J69 as ever, nothing to say. I didn't call him a paedo anyway. Anyway if he goes to jail, I'll have to have a new sig because that will apply to him too.

Kensington that's it, awful, last time I was there was early 2008, we lost 3-0 as it goes, and fuck me, you saw burnt out cars, waste land every where, there has to come a time when you stop taking the piss and start feeling sorry for these people. In 1941 the population of the City of Liverpool was 900,000 today it's a little over 400,000, I doubt there's a city anywhere in the western hemisphere which has seen such desertion. I bet the population of Hiroshima didn't even go down that much, and it's another reason as to why it feels so desperate and desolate.

It's all to do with Munich mate. Newcastle and Arsenal were the most successful and generally best supported clubs in England up to the point of the Munich Air Disaster.

Aye he seemed to talk about Shankly more than the supporters or the club itself, Shanks was without doubt the major influence on his career.

I know what you mean about feeling alienated in London, and I've got family there! Liverpool centre, isn't THAT bad, it's just the outlying areas, I've NEVER seen anywhere like them to be honest it doesn't matter what way you go to Goodison or Anfield, from the city centre or the motorway, it's just a tragedy and it's no wonder they're insular bitter people having to live there when they've seen other places flourish. I haven't been there since the investment for the culture city thing though.

It certainly was fuck all to do with Martin Edwards, they had a massive deal with UMBRO and with Sharp. Newcastle were paying £850,000's out for the likes of Beasant and Andy Thorn, they'd pay £2.3m for the likes of Pallister and Danny Wallace, they were living within their means.

It's a shithole on another level Liverpool, been there so many times, Newcastle is nothing like it at all. Awful place, reeks of desperation and depression.

Just been talking to Nobby this morning on twitter. He took over the biggest club in Peru, their record was W2 D4 late, since then W9 D5 L1 at any level of football that is completely outstanding. I hope he progresses, would love to see him work for us in the future.

Man Utd pay the money off their own back though not because of some Arab attention seekers with too much money. Moura has done fuck all, they signed Rooney when he'd been the best player in Euro 2004, while Ferdinand and Ruuuuuud were 24 when they signed for Man Utd.

I think Colin Kazim-Richards is a good signing for Blackburn, I think 14/1 is a canny price on them to win the Championship. Owen away to Fenerbahce too, maybe.

Even when he played for Liverpool he used to say Newcastle had the best fans in football, after the 1974 Cup Final apparently he was nearly reduced to tears by our support and graciousness. I think once you've played for Newcastle too the club touches you like no other club can, in terms of the emotional attachment, and obviously he as much as anyone found that. The fact his fatha was a massive toon fan from Consett way will also have had a big impact on him without a doubt. The attraction of Newcastle for him as a player combined with all of that, must've been the potential of the club, which has always been as great as any other in this country over 100 years, sadly we nearly got there with him as manager but not quite, and we sit sadly in a place of maybe 6th or 7th biggest club now, with Man Utd and Arsenal by far the two biggest clubs, the only way we can properly bridge the gap long term is by being given the artificial investment of Man City, Chelsea or Liverpool. It could happen though, Villa haven't got it, Everton would need a new stadium, and a new fanbase completely, we'd be next in line if any rich Arabs come around again I'd imagine. He was class Keegan as a player, maybe like Shearer in that he utilised every ounce of his ability, I think Liverpool fans voted him 8th or 9th in their greatest ever player awards, and the bloke who got interviewed said a lot of Liverpool fans resent the fact his true love is Newcastle, and if it wasn't he'd have been even higher.

Your views are about as relevant and respected regarding Newcastle and Newcastle United, as Gary Glitter's are as a spokesman for the RSPCC. I truly mean that as well, people like you epitomise Rupert Murdoch's murder of English football culture. How many times have you been to Newcastle, truthfully?