McFaul

At least you're admitting the club was spending millions that it didn't have, now perhaps you could tell us how spending millions you don't have is a sustainable way to run a football club? It's a breakthrough for you to admit that, I'm impressed. Will you fuck off you OOT arsehole! The club was doing very well as a business until 2004, and FFS made some errors, we weren't living beyond our means till that point.

I wonder how much money has been wasted on him for first scorer bets in the last 6 years. You have to be talking seven figures.

Norman Aye, he looked like a slightly thinner hulk hogan. He used to stand on the barrier going "Oheeeareeeheh aaaniightaamy" Ossie Ardiles black and white army to normal people. It was Norman who was first on the pitch against Boro for the beamback as well, next thing ye naa 14000 follow him. I only ever stood close to him once and he put the rumour about that Harry Roberts was in the corner that day, being younguns we knew Harry Roberts was an OB killer but we took it as face value he was there, and people were pointing to the hotdog stand right in the corner "hes owa there" pmsl. Aye and the if ye proud to be a geordie stuff started by Norman too one of them was if ye proud to be a geordie be a tree, and 5000 in the corner would stand like a tree making ruffling noises.

They shouldn't but they all are becasue of the football creditors rule. Clubs that should have died and gone back to the start: Charlton 1984 Middlesbrough 1986 Tranmere 1987 Newport County 1989 Walsall 1990 Northampton 1992 Kettering 1992 Aldershot 1992 Maidstone 1992 Hartlepool 1994 Barnet 1994 Exeter 1994, 2003 Gillingham 1995 Doncaster 1997 Millwall 1997 Bournemouth 1997, 2008 Darlington 1997, 2009 Chester 1998, 2009 Hereford 1998 Portsmouth 1999, 2010 Crystal Palace 1999, 2010 Oxford Utd 1999 Barrow 1999 Swindon 2000, 2002 Scarborough 2000 Hull 2001 QPR 2001 Chesterfield 2001 Leicester 2002 Barnsley 2002 Carlisle 2002 Notts County 2002 Bury 2002 Bradford 2002 Port Vale 2002 Lincoln City 2002 Swansea City 2002 York 2002 Halifax Town 2002, 2008 Derby 2003 Ipswich 2003 Huddersfield 2003 Oldham 2003 MK Dons 2003 Wimbledon 2003 Wrexham 2004 Cambridge 2005 Crawley Town 2006 Rotherham 2006, 2008 Leeds United 2007 Boston United 2007 Southampton 2008 Luton 2008 Stockport 2009 Salisbury 2009 thats a canny few supermarkets !! Hope Ahmed's corner shop buys them considering how many bigots and racists they have amongst them.

Rangers regularly averaged 15 and 16000. Both clubs never averaged over 40,000 in their history till the mid 90's neither, historically we piss on them support wise, and in my eyes by far we will always be bigger than the two of them. Both fickle supports surrounded by mistruths and myths, most of their support don't even realise the truth, especially the younger ones.

https://twitter.com/#!/RogerQuimbly/status/169850029551521792/photo/1 From 1988...pmsl

Would be mint if they go bust, honestly I would love, then they could say "er wan o eh biggest former clubs in eh werruld". I've never heard anyone who isn't scottish say Rangers are a big club, that's what happens if you live beyond their means, we as workers pay our taxes why should a medium sized football club be exempt?

Aye didn't realise it was that long ago. http://nufc.com/html/2005-06html/2005-11-05birmingham-h.html Conditions: First Signs of Winter Aye fuckin winter in Siberia, I physically shook with the cold. How the fat cunts go about with nee top on is beyond me.

Aye I do as well, even when I don't have anything to say I'll come out with a random "fuuuckin hell" it's like 90 minute tourettes, the drink doesn't help though.

I was at that Watford game you're on about, one of THE worst games I've ever seen, think there was only about 14000 there, I seem to remember we were in the Paddock for some ridiculous reason. I also remember people raving about David James in their goal, who had the most pathetic haircut in life at the time. I have to say though the coldest I've ever been at the match was against Birmingham a few years ago when Emre got a late winner, think it's more to do with age than owt else tbh.

I can't remember but I remember Mick Quinn's against Bradford that hit the scoreboard. He used to turn round spit at the ground and score normally, this time though he put it 30 yards over the bar.

When I first started going there wasn't as much swearing in the West Stand. It seemed almost obligatory on the Gallowgate though. I remember going to a game against Man City 3-1 win think it might've been the second game I ever went to and we were in the West Stand, and I remember two things about the game, one about me dad telling me Man City had a MACKEM keeper Barry Siddall, and two, two old dears behind us saying eeh bliddy Tony's having a good game in shock at Cunningham's decent show. So the moral is if you don't like swearing go to the Platinum.

Aye that's one thing right, but me mate, a veteran of 300 games plus and a weathered 30 something who with me went home and away in the darkest Ardiles days, told me to stop swearing against Man Utd because there was kids in earshot! I says you've got a free ticket out of the goodness of me heart, I could've given it to numerous people, we're playing Man Utd and Webb is being a cunt?! Fuck off. That's what happens when you become a copper. Tbh, I probably would've tried to temper it a bit for his kids but I doubt his kids even heard what I was saying. It was literally me talking to the person next to me (Gemmill on me Dad's ticket). He was a proper middle class prick who'd obviously decided he was going to take umbrage with anyone swearing. If you don't want kids to hear swearing, don't take them to the match or sit in the family enclosure. The cunt! Aye I think you've probably handled yourself with more dignity than I would there. Off The Rugby Fuck and To all would've been used.

I'm telling you now, he wouldn't get a game in my five a side team, has even got a trick, has he used a trick in his career?

Aye that's one thing right, but me mate, a veteran of 300 games plus and a weathered 30 something who with me went home and away in the darkest Ardiles days, told me to stop swearing against Man Utd because there was kids in earshot! I says you've got a free ticket out of the goodness of me heart, I could've given it to numerous people, we're playing Man Utd and Webb is being a cunt?! Fuck off. That's what happens when you become a copper.

Mirruh man. Yeez say probleas instead of probably too. You can't beat a Newcastle geordie accent imo.

I remember when Bull was getting in the England squad and they came up to our place. It was 0-0 at half time and my old man was telling everyone that Bull looked shit and there was no way he should go to Italia 90. He came out and scored 4 second half. Cunt indeed. Aye, and Brock scored a free kick, he took about 500 in his toon career and scored two, one when we're 0-3 down at home to Wolves with 5 mins left, and the other in the AIC.

The type of 21 year old kid who wears their toon top over a shirt, with 69 WOR LASS on the back or ASHLEY 8 MY BURGER. I cringe so bad. I haven't even wore a replica top to a game for maybe 18 years.

I think Sir John Hall picked the Town Moor as he knew the reaction it would get, and that made planners let the SJP development go through. Stevie nails it about the increase in capacity. To me though its the passage of time from the Taylor Report. If you weren't brought up on the terraces you (mostly) don't have the "matchday ettiquette" that some of us older ones have. Hence some young shaver, no older than 18, swining punches at me at Brighton last month because I said Ben Arfa had been shite. Honestly, I couldnt fuckin beleive it. In the old days one of us wouldve moved a different part of the terrace. Changed days. Don't think we get the match-long racket of the Keegan years any more and I doubt that will return, mostly as I say due to a "changing of the guard" fan wise. Less old radigies, more fan boys. Many radgies priced out of it too.Shame. Fanboys every where. To be honest there's fanboys my age even who in effect were KBJ's, todays fanboy is no better nor worse than the KBJ's. The Cardiff game on that friday night was like the old days, faces you hadn't seen for years its better for everybody when it's like that imo.

No (See q2) Yes No and Yes (Each generation finds their own groove if you like. Im sure the kids tramping along to the SOL dont give two hoots that their dad used to go to Roker Park. However having a club bang in the centre of Town is much better than on the outskirts and away from all the pubs. Seating killed the atmosphere for me plain and simple. Its quite unbelievable how quiet a full st james can be. It can be electric though it's no different to any other ground. As I said full of people who enjoy walking around garden centres on a Sunday.

The full SOS including their 2001 add on cost £22m. The SJP redevelopment cost £120m from 93-2000. The Castle Leazes ground was for a capacity of 55,000 initially with the option of extending to 70,000. That's it aye-wondered why I couldnt remember a finite figure, it's cos it had the ability to extend. I'm surprised the Mackems ended up £22 million after the add-on, I could have sworn it was only £6 million for the initial 40,000?? Nar it was 15m for the initial 42,000, and £7m for the extra tea-ur on their North Stand.

Here man SJH in 1991 wanted us to share a 48000 ground with Sunderland in FUCKIN WASHINGTON! SJH is higher in most peoples esteem than he is mine for lots of reasons.

The full SOS including their 2001 add on cost £22m. The SJP redevelopment cost £120m from 93-2000. The Castle Leazes ground was for a capacity of 55,000 initially with the option of extending to 70,000.

Probs from Shields though I'd imagine? I've met many a person from Shields, Jarrow, Fellgate etc that sound distinctly Makem but support newcastle Nar they probably sound more like us than mackems, Happy Face and NJS will be pleased to see this crack

I makes my brain bleed, a proper Sunderland tewny accent/ Eyst Durum ye naa like Peaturlea, Eysington and 'Orden oh dear, oh dear. West of the A1 isn't too bad, you couldn't detect much mackem in SBR, and you can't when you speak to Tom on here neither.