McFaul

Was basically a reserve Cup. Tottenham and Arsenal have had these types of crowds for league games man. No one has had less shite gates given our history over the last 40 years than Newcastle United. It's amazing how out of town fans buy in to talksport myths, fuckin idiot. Half the people who support this club genuinely have no idea at all about our history, the culture, or the history of the pain and suffering and magnificence of the crowds we've had given what we've had to put up with for over half a century.

All Craig's answers are right apart from number 8. Bogie's first goal was against Shrewsbury in the Simod Cup, Dina got a last minute winner, and I remember it cos it was the lowest crowd I've ever been part of at SJP, was in the Paddock with me dad they were building the Milburn behind and it fuckin pissed it doon. what was the attendance? 7000 or so.

All Craig's answers are right apart from number 8. Bogie's first goal was against Shrewsbury in the Simod Cup, Dina got a last minute winner, and I remember it cos it was the lowest crowd I've ever been part of at SJP, was in the Paddock with me dad they were building the Milburn behind and it fuckin pissed it doon.

Never heard of it. Or the vast majority of them games on there. "French cricket" wtf do they like go in bat and wave a white flag when they realise they're gonna get turned over?

I have nee idea what hot rice is by the way.

Did you grow up in Bradford like?

Never used to play it at school was always in the streets. At school it was always ever football, never a bad thing.

I was mint a curbs. Did you play a rule where if it bounced back off the curb and you caught it you got double points?

I donno, one place though? American sports sphere of influence are probably USA, Canada, Japan and Taiwan. British sports are basically every country on earth. Only true of football really. Which was invented by the Chinese anyway according to Sepp Blatter. Maybe, but golf, rugby and cricket absolutely dwarf any yank sport not to mention F1 and tennis.

Ahhhhhhhhh the now now PC British Bulldog! lol you've no chance we called that game "British Bulldogs" over here British Bulldog was mint, nee good if you were slow though, used to often end up in fights. What would yous call it? Irish Wolfhound? lol aye, irish wolfhounds or just "bulldogs", near enough every game ended up with me and another lad Michael vs half the playground, i've always been quick and was a bit bigger than most at that age when we would've played, so i'd end trailing some poor bugger who managed to grab hold of my jumper You're taking the piss?

I donno, one place though? American sports sphere of influence are probably USA, Canada, Japan and Taiwan. British sports are basically every country on earth.

Load of bollocks. The yank ones are only known in America so how can you market them worldwide. Messi, Ronaldo, Rooney will be head and shoulders above everyone else purely because of football being 3 or 4 times bigger than anything else. Probably Bolt next, Lewis Hamilton, then Nadal. Many years since the yanks had a truly global icon.

Ahhhhhhhhh the now now PC British Bulldog! lol you've no chance we called that game "British Bulldogs" over here British Bulldog was mint, nee good if you were slow though, used to often end up in fights. What would yous call it? Irish Wolfhound?

What the original? What a game. I still remember my first blast of the demo England 2 (Lineker 6, 8) CIS 0. Yeah pretty much sensible soccer international edition i always go for the custom teams though, i was Chinese Takeaway I built my own database man, of Italian teams about 92/93 I was always Lazio of course cos of Gazza. The tune was mint nu nu nu nu nu nu nu nu nu nu nu nu. The crowd chant always sounded like "whoooos the fat cunt, whoooooos the fat cunt". Was definitely a game well before its time MUCH better than Kick Off 2.

What the original? What a game. I still remember my first blast of the demo England 2 (Lineker 6, 8) CIS 0.

Was always a subbuteo kidda me, other pals used to play that dungeons and dragons shite, what a load of wank. Later on I was obsessive about Sensible Soccer on the Amiga, and Championship Manager, I still have a blast of FM2011 even now.

There was a coffee shop 200 yards from the ground, was mint seeing as many peaceful England fans. The dutch police were absolutely fantastic, as opposed to the Belgians who were bigger cunts than wor police even. Terrible people. I think that's the first stadium I'd ever drunk beer in my seat as well. Surely in the all seater era they should allow that in this country.

Cheers lads. Aye totally makes you think about what's important in life, rows with friends and lasses, NUFC, trivial things in life just don't matter and you never imagine it's going to happen to someone you care about. At the same time it's the type of thing when I see him which is nearly all the time since he found out, I just go there in a mindset that it's going to be alright, because I'm sure it's the type of thing where positivity is absolutely vital in overcoming it. If you just accept it then you're fucked. He seems to be positive as well, and its still doing normal things like going to the pub. I've focussed on how happy I've been with my life for the last half year and it's getting better, and tried to rub that off on him. In five weeks time we'll know if the treatments and operation he'll have are successful. They reckon they got it just in time and it's not spread. Spot on. My mam has had cancer a number of times and this has always been her philosophy, macmillan actually ask her to counsel other cancer patients. No one is saying you sweep it under the carpet, stick your fingers in your ears and get on as normal, but it's not the death sentence that many perceive it to be. This. Both my parents had it, my Dad's was operable, he got over it and is leading a life as good as he did before. In fact I'd go so far as to say I've almost forgotten he's even had it. My Mam wasn't so lucky, her's was inoperable and eventually took her. In both instances though positivity is what got us through on a day to day basis - you have to look at life's good points and the glass has to be half full. And it's important for everyone around him to be equally positive. Keep believing mate. Sorry to hear about your mam Craig. What age were you? I just don't know how we can send a space ship to jupiter, but can't sort cancer or arthritis oot. When I was talking to the surgeon who's going to do it, I said basically why don't you just dee the operation now, but they're much more advanced even than ten years ago. He said what we do is we use the treatment to shrink it massively then it's easier to operate and prevent it spreading rather than just diving in like fuckin Freddie Kruger.

He's got to go every day for radio therapy for 5 weeks, and has chemo tablets? I've never heard of them, but it means his hair doesn't faal oot. He's got exactly the same thing as Sid Waddell. Cheers lads. Aye totally makes you think about what's important in life, rows with friends and lasses, NUFC, trivial things in life just don't matter and you never imagine it's going to happen to someone you care about. At the same time it's the type of thing when I see him which is nearly all the time since he found out, I just go there in a mindset that it's going to be alright, because I'm sure it's the type of thing where positivity is absolutely vital in overcoming it. If you just accept it then you're fucked. He seems to be positive as well, and its still doing normal things like going to the pub. I've focussed on how happy I've been with my life for the last half year and it's getting better, and tried to rub that off on him. In five weeks time we'll know if the treatments and operation he'll have are successful. They reckon they got it just in time and it's not spread. Spot on. My mam has had cancer a number of times and this has always been her philosophy, macmillan actually ask her to counsel other cancer patients. No one is saying you sweep it under the carpet, stick your fingers in your ears and get on as normal, but it's not the death sentence that many perceive it to be. Aye definitely. It's like people who lose their jobs at 65, many of them think they've lost their reason to live and die shortly afterwards, and you find old couples, one goes and the other follows. You have to stay ultra positive especially with cancer. Fucks me off all the money in the world and they can't find a cure it's probably to keep the population down.

Wigan game date, that Saturday would be good. Radge that that's five month ago now.

Cheers lads. Aye totally makes you think about what's important in life, rows with friends and lasses, NUFC, trivial things in life just don't matter and you never imagine it's going to happen to someone you care about. At the same time it's the type of thing when I see him which is nearly all the time since he found out, I just go there in a mindset that it's going to be alright, because I'm sure it's the type of thing where positivity is absolutely vital in overcoming it. If you just accept it then you're fucked. He seems to be positive as well, and its still doing normal things like going to the pub. I've focussed on how happy I've been with my life for the last half year and it's getting better, and tried to rub that off on him. In five weeks time we'll know if the treatments and operation he'll have are successful. They reckon they got it just in time and it's not spread.

That's a great stadium but the away end is fucking shite. I was there for England v Portugal.

I've been to loads of stadiums at home and abroad many which are more highly rated than this, but it's my favourite stadium. Everything a ground should be. Stands are so steep, atmosphere immense, facilities amazing.

Must be the only ground where you have a chance of getting bitten by a scorpion. Actual death trap that if they scored.

That's the spirit Stevie. Life's too short. Be all you can be. Sometimes everything falls on a personal level in to place beyond your wildest dreams, and other times its shit, but there's other facts which aren't so good, which am managing to cope with. 1 A very close family member has cancer 2 I haven't really accepted how serious it is yet, and called the doctor a mug for saying the survival rates were 60/40 in this case 3 I owe the police £120 and have been refusing to pay it out of principle but I'll have to 4 I think I technically have a criminal record now 5 I failed two driving tests last month 5.1 Who the fucks Steve Jobs, I've heard the name, I thought that thread was about me and my work before I opened it