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yes, it is eerily familiar and strikingly on the horizon again. It's a good read but some of it is exaggerrated as you say, and Arthur Cox did a great job for the club, and Gordon Lee was the right manager at the wrong time. Lumping them in with McGarry and Dinnis is like lumping Hughton in with Souness and Kinnear. My mate found a video he made of the ManU cup game when we lost 3-2 and we sat and watched it last week, the current situation and expectations of that time hit home, people accepted back then that we had no chance of ever doing anything and sold our best players to replace them with inferior, yet at the same time seemed to think we should be better without acknowledging we were run like Netto. Anyway. Who fouled Jim Leighton for Kevin Scott's goal again? Quinn fouled Leighton, tripped him up. Ah, right you are. To be truthful I thought it was McGhee, but this shows otherwise... 6:35

yes, it is eerily familiar and strikingly on the horizon again. It's a good read but some of it is exaggerrated as you say, and Arthur Cox did a great job for the club, and Gordon Lee was the right manager at the wrong time. Lumping them in with McGarry and Dinnis is like lumping Hughton in with Souness and Kinnear. My mate found a video he made of the ManU cup game when we lost 3-2 and we sat and watched it last week, the current situation and expectations of that time hit home, people accepted back then that we had no chance of ever doing anything and sold our best players to replace them with inferior, yet at the same time seemed to think we should be better without acknowledging we were run like Netto. Anyway. Who fouled Jim Leighton for Kevin Scott's goal again? Quinn fouled Leighton, tripped him up.

Aye. Complete and utter wrongun. No soul, no anything. If you're gonna be a WUM at least make it plausible, championing Liverpool's shit support on one hand and criticising the best second tier average in any league on earth in the last 35 years. Fuckin idiot. A good WUM is intelligent, take that with you and you may improve with your next ID. yes i have a soft spot for liverpool but that is also the case with Brighton and westham fc. am not criticising the supporters because they are great but its also true some did leave the club last year. if that wasnt the case then there would of been a full house every game. am being respectful so plz be the same to me I feel like Samuel L Jackson at the end in Pulp Fiction here, in normal circumstances I'd have just said look do one you total and utter mug, what you are saying is beyond comprehension, and you support 4 clubs so just you know do one. I won't though because I refuse to believe people like you exist, and I will show you respect by pretending you haven't made these posts, and pretending you're not there for any future posts you make. How's that sound?

Aye. Complete and utter wrongun. No soul, no anything. If you're gonna be a WUM at least make it plausible, championing Liverpool's shit support on one hand and criticising the best second tier average in any league on earth in the last 35 years. Fuckin idiot. A good WUM is intelligent, take that with you and you may improve with your next ID.

Is anyone else trying to keep their laughter in? Is it like grafiti'ing "Mohammed" on the shed? I've had and hosted plenty barbies in my time, can't remember a bacon BBQ though. The muslims are in lets the bacon oot pmsl its wor country

7/1 Villa to go down, if my big AUSTRIA bet comes up I might stick £100 on at that price.

I recall the racism every single game up till about the start of 1988. Seen so many banana's on the pitch, Garth Crooks used to get it worse than anyone, must've made black players even more determined to stuff us. Every time a black player got the ball you'd hear oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo. Nee good, but it seemed everyone used to accept it then, Everton, Newcastle and Leeds were reknowned for having the most racist fans in the country.

I work in London quite a bit, see loads of toon fans, have had chance encounters with plenty too. There are more Newcastle fans in London than any other provincial club, outwith Man Utd and Liverpool. At the end of the day worldwide fanbase doesn't count when this worldwide fanbase doesn't put any money in to the club. A clubs local support is its' support as far as I'm concerned. People from around the country can class themselves as fans, and the ones who go to games ARE fans. Where Newcastle and Liverpool differ is local fanbase, when things go wrong here, we stand united. At Liverpool they just don't go, 34,000 at a few league games under Hodgson just this season. It's insulting that a Newcastle fan, albeit one who won't really understand the club, can even compare that plastic blood stained organisation to Newcastle and our fans. Worldwide support is a nonsense by the way. If Tottenham won the Champions League this year they would gain 20m new fans around the world. None of them count, and few could name more than five players. You're a fan if you go to games, or have a history of going to games even if you've made the effort to just go to 3 or 4. If not, like 99% of Liverpool fans you're not part of the true fanbase, and our true fanbase is bigger than theirs. if that is the case then why do liverpool and utd go on a tours of the far east?. i think you are being harsh on liverpool fans calling them plastic fans, chelsea yes liverpool no. Newcastle might be getting full houses now but what about last season? you cant tell me some supporters didnt turn their back on the club. you get those kind of supporters what ever club you look at. Can we ban this cunt please? I don't know why wanks sign up. No life. No anything. No ambition. Just wanks. If you're under 25 it's understandable.

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Cracking read. Growing up I didn't really think Newcastle was a shithole, it was just normal, but today it's twice the city it was then, and I think Newcastle and Liverpool for that matter were the clearest examples of the North/South divide which Thatcher's government almost supported in some respects. The footballing side of things, we'll be reading the same article in 25 years time, nature of the best, although I thought it was a touch harsh on Arthur Cox, to chuck him in the same bracket as Richard Dinnis, McGarry and Charlton.

I'll tell you now if Al Quaeda bought Newcastle and made us successful I would be blown to bits. FYP hehe I think if they were having a debate in their cave in Afghanistan, which club should we bomb, and which should we buy. The Mido thing has to have put us top of their list. I mean what other clubs fans have done anything which was reported to be racist against muslims? There must be a few in the former Yugoslavia. Anyway, I bet even Bin Laden et al dismissed it when they saw Louise Taylor's name on the article.

I'll tell you now if Al Quaeda bought Newcastle and made us successful I would be blown to bits. FYP hehe I think if they were having a debate in their cave in Afghanistan, which club should we bomb, and which should we buy. The Mido thing has to have put us top of their list. I mean what other clubs fans have done anything which was reported to be racist against muslims?

I'll tell you now if Al Quaeda bought Newcastle and made us successful I would be thrillied to bits.

omg, ref this and your post further up the page... I take it you think - as per the other thread - that Mike Ashley will come good ? You said that about Souness and being bankrolled to the hilt until the day before he left. Not bad for an accountant. Maybe Souness would move next door to you and thank you for your support Then one day Souness comes to visit. Fucking Graeme Souness! On your street! And he's carrying a Koran. What now? wearing a t shirt saying bacon sandwiches are evil

I'd ask them how long they supported Liverpool. I don't think you should define people by their religion anyway, view them as people, if they're mugs just ignore them.

Happy Birthday Darrel

I work in London quite a bit, see loads of toon fans, have had chance encounters with plenty too. There are more Newcastle fans in London than any other provincial club, outwith Man Utd and Liverpool. At the end of the day worldwide fanbase doesn't count when this worldwide fanbase doesn't put any money in to the club. A clubs local support is its' support as far as I'm concerned. People from around the country can class themselves as fans, and the ones who go to games ARE fans. Where Newcastle and Liverpool differ is local fanbase, when things go wrong here, we stand united. At Liverpool they just don't go, 34,000 at a few league games under Hodgson just this season. It's insulting that a Newcastle fan, albeit one who won't really understand the club, can even compare that plastic blood stained organisation to Newcastle and our fans. Worldwide support is a nonsense by the way. If Tottenham won the Champions League this year they would gain 20m new fans around the world. None of them count, and few could name more than five players. You're a fan if you go to games, or have a history of going to games even if you've made the effort to just go to 3 or 4. If not, like 99% of Liverpool fans you're not part of the true fanbase, and our true fanbase is bigger than theirs.

I'll win quite a bit if they beat Belgium tomorrow night. I'll be waiting of England and Eire for £550. The two home nations will piss their games, so mon the Austria. I've been to Austria, fucking great country, so hot when I was there, then you go to the mountains and it's freezing. Beautiful country. They don't feel like proper regimented krauts neither. Aye, it's supposed to be a lovely place. They've had their share of wronguns though, Fritzl, Priklopil, Adolf... Mag Pog at Boro, and that Sharner at West Brom, he's always struck me as the type of bloke to shave NIKE signs in his pubes. Apparently they really are a bit mad Austrians like.

I'll win quite a bit if they beat Belgium tomorrow night. I'll be waiting of England and Eire for £550. The two home nations will piss their games, so mon the Austria. I've been to Austria, fucking great country, so hot when I was there, then you go to the mountains and it's freezing. Beautiful country. They don't feel like proper regimented krauts neither.

The keeper is an absolute plum.

You posted this at 1101, then edited 30 seconds later at 1101. The story seems as plausible as heatonlass95 being a real person. You've hunted for it all day, then 30 seconds after you post this it turns up. Aye "souuuuuuuuuund" as yeez would say.

I've scored better goals than that to be honest. Gazza used to dee that in his sleep. Is he still playing beach football?

fuckin what a tune, many memories of this

People have been saying this for years on these boards NO here other boards, and I've been contradicting them. People said when we went 28000 would be the norm, I knew for a FACT, we wouldnt get less than 42000 on a regular basis. Our average turn oot of 44,000 is unparalleled in the modern era by any club on earth largely speaking, and to be honestly. I would say without question that is OUTSTANDING. A club nobheads class almost as big as us Leeds United get 20,000 less than that, and most of their support can remember them being English champions in 1992. Newcastle are phenomenon by any standards in any sport, in any country, in any walk of life. This season and I'm repeating myself we will average 48,000 people, that is OUTSTANDING, with a bastard owner who will sell when the price is right, who makes decisions so bad it appears his sole aim is to wind the supporters up, and still we fuckin turn out. You are saying for some unknown reason our attendances will go down? I can't understand the logic, we have 40,000 daft cunts like me who have said fuck you Ashley the toon are part of our lives we're not gonna stop going. That number won't go down. The club has been in decline for 7 years since we sacked Robson and replaced him with the biggest arsehole in world football. Shepherd made his mistakes, potentially could've rectified them, but the rug was taken from underneath him by that over celebrated arsehole Hall (and his son) while he was lying cabbaged in hospital with pneumonia. I don't agree that the club is in decline I think we hit rock bottom losing at Scunthorpe last season, and since then people like Kevin Nolan have helped drive the club slowly forward. We're stagnating in some regards but if you'd told me we'd have Ben Arfa here, and £35m in the bank from the sale of Carroll, 12 month ago, I'd have been questioning your sanity. Our attendances will go up next season and I'm prepared to bet £200 now on that.