McFaul

I can see this becoming difficult. How do you define it ? There is an obvious link between acting big and becoming successful, attracting supporters back, and being seen to be big by others as a result. The problem is, if a club acts like a small club [like we are doing], does it mean they aren't a big club anymore ? Or is it just that you are a big club being run badly ? That's the thing though, people not going to matches isn't just about success on the field Lots of our fans have stopped going because they aren't happy with how the club is being run, sick of having to get by and then there was the 2 failed stadium moves (1 of which none of us wanted) I think we'll get less season ticket sales next season because people seeing that we are being left behind if we don't get investment so are boycotting Newcastle are obviously a big club and have a fantastic support, you could see that with the protests etc but I don't think support equals everything I have to disagree with your first comment. Success on the pitch is everything. Win and your crowds go up, at any level of the game, at NUFC a winning team is a full house. 2nd sentence - most people have forgotten about those stadium moves now. Personally, I think we should have moved to Leazes Park and forced the issue more. We will get less season ticket renewals next season because the team is struggling on the pitch and there is little optimism for improvement. 3rd sentence - I don't think any club would fill a 52000 stadium anywhere in the world having put up with what we have for so long to be honest, although it is going down now, it will still hover between 30-40,000 even when the damage inflicted by Mike Ashley increases, and no club in the world would get that either, especially when even a few wins in a lower league will send it back near 50,000 again. Just my opinions of course. Disagree with that like. There are more than enough dafties like me to keep going. We averaged 44,000 in the Championship playing the likes of Doncaster and Scunthorpe every week. The next few years we will come out of the recession and people will have more money. We were in the bottom half of the table largely from 2004 to 2009 and 90% of home games sold out. I think economic conditions are having an impact, but we're still averaging nearly 48,000 fans, and how many times have we been on live telly?? A fuckin lot. We will never go under 40,000 in the Premiership, and even if Ashley is here the next five years, sadly it will have no impact on attendances. This season the games have been fucking great you don't know what will happen, the gates have been going up all season, and we'll have even more season ticket holders next season, particularly if there's a few decent signings in the summer. Don't underestimate how daft NUFC fans are. There isn't a parallel to Newcastle United's support in world sport, anyone that says Man City is a mug, they all fucked off under Pearce, we stayed and faced the Championship music. As for big club. Course we're a big club. I find it insulting to be compared to Aston Villa. The muddy area of what a big club comes when you're comparing sizes. To me it's fanbase. You can't pin it all down to history. Man Utd are 10 times bigger than Liverpool in my eyes, but have slightly fewer trophies, and I can think of parallel examples with certain clubs and us. If you don't have more fans able and willing to go to support the team than Newcastle, you're not a bigger club than us, and only Man Utd and Arsenal have, Liverpool have many more when they're doing well. All of the rest well it's just muddy water. A debate no one can ever win, but I think we're an important club which the Premiership can't do without. There are only a few clubs you can say that about. Not one person would miss Villa, even if they were gone 10 years you'd just think so fuck. Everyone missed us, even if they don't admit it, they did, BBC certainly did. Stevie.......before Keegan came back to Newcastle, our crowds were around 20,000 and for periods prior to that, sub 20,000. I know things were different then, but a prolonged period of apathy [which will happen if Ashley stays long term IMO] and the crowds and interest that have been generated will ebb away to low levels again, maybe not as low as this, but around 30,000 or less on occasions, however the team only needs to win a few games in any division and it would hit close to the 40,000 mark even for a temp period. We will see. I do agree with you about us being unique in sport, because we are. But no club would even get those gates above, time has shown it, everybody in football who knows anything about the game knows NUFC are the sleeping giant of world football. The Keegan years showed it, if we had had a 70,000 stadium like the Millenium we would fill it with local support alone. Anyway, as you say its a debate nobody can win and hopefully he will sell to somebody who understands football business before things get much worse. I went to games from 1985 onwards. Between 1976 and 1993 we finished in the top half of the table once, and spent 10 of those seasons in the second tier. I remember the game before Keegan came actually was a FA Cup Replay at home to Bournemouth and there were 27,000 people there, and yes we fuckin lost, on pens, O'Brien nearly smashing the Scoreboard with his. Before Keegan came league wise there was an official boycot by the USFC, I remember one game against Oxford there were as many outside as inside. Our average in 1990 was 22,000 in D2, 17,000 in 1991 at the height of the boycot, and 21,000 in 92 when we finished TWENTY FIRST IN DIVISION TWO. All this at a time when football wasn't fashionable at all, our gates near the bottom of D2 were still among the best in the country. Since 93 and especially Euro 96 football became cool, a lot more OC's go to games, far, far, far more women, you even get ethnic minorities going so the fanbase has changed in terms of profile slightly and not only that probably doubled. I will pay £100 to a charity of your choice should we ever get a gate under 40,000 in the Premiership, it's just not going to happen. I don't know one person who is jacking it next season, but I know plenty who are coming back. NB. that Bournemouth game got an inflated gate because the first game was abandoned by fog and because they wouldn’t refund our money they made the re-arranged game half price — iirc, which bumped the attendance. wasn’t that the game where Alan Thompson got sent off for that disgraceful 2 footed stamp? — which is one of the worst things I’ve seen a footballer do to another player. You are right but there was 26,000 at the abandoned game. Aye re Thompson. Keegan got rid right after that game, he never played again. Right in front of me that was in the East Stand benches that night. didn’t know it was 26,000, I thought it was a lot less. Ardiles was the manager at the time and said he would never play Thompson again after that. Aye but Keegan was at the game, he was working in a PR capacity if you remember.

I can see this becoming difficult. How do you define it ? There is an obvious link between acting big and becoming successful, attracting supporters back, and being seen to be big by others as a result. The problem is, if a club acts like a small club [like we are doing], does it mean they aren't a big club anymore ? Or is it just that you are a big club being run badly ? That's the thing though, people not going to matches isn't just about success on the field Lots of our fans have stopped going because they aren't happy with how the club is being run, sick of having to get by and then there was the 2 failed stadium moves (1 of which none of us wanted) I think we'll get less season ticket sales next season because people seeing that we are being left behind if we don't get investment so are boycotting Newcastle are obviously a big club and have a fantastic support, you could see that with the protests etc but I don't think support equals everything I have to disagree with your first comment. Success on the pitch is everything. Win and your crowds go up, at any level of the game, at NUFC a winning team is a full house. 2nd sentence - most people have forgotten about those stadium moves now. Personally, I think we should have moved to Leazes Park and forced the issue more. We will get less season ticket renewals next season because the team is struggling on the pitch and there is little optimism for improvement. 3rd sentence - I don't think any club would fill a 52000 stadium anywhere in the world having put up with what we have for so long to be honest, although it is going down now, it will still hover between 30-40,000 even when the damage inflicted by Mike Ashley increases, and no club in the world would get that either, especially when even a few wins in a lower league will send it back near 50,000 again. Just my opinions of course. Disagree with that like. There are more than enough dafties like me to keep going. We averaged 44,000 in the Championship playing the likes of Doncaster and Scunthorpe every week. The next few years we will come out of the recession and people will have more money. We were in the bottom half of the table largely from 2004 to 2009 and 90% of home games sold out. I think economic conditions are having an impact, but we're still averaging nearly 48,000 fans, and how many times have we been on live telly?? A fuckin lot. We will never go under 40,000 in the Premiership, and even if Ashley is here the next five years, sadly it will have no impact on attendances. This season the games have been fucking great you don't know what will happen, the gates have been going up all season, and we'll have even more season ticket holders next season, particularly if there's a few decent signings in the summer. Don't underestimate how daft NUFC fans are. There isn't a parallel to Newcastle United's support in world sport, anyone that says Man City is a mug, they all fucked off under Pearce, we stayed and faced the Championship music. As for big club. Course we're a big club. I find it insulting to be compared to Aston Villa. The muddy area of what a big club comes when you're comparing sizes. To me it's fanbase. You can't pin it all down to history. Man Utd are 10 times bigger than Liverpool in my eyes, but have slightly fewer trophies, and I can think of parallel examples with certain clubs and us. If you don't have more fans able and willing to go to support the team than Newcastle, you're not a bigger club than us, and only Man Utd and Arsenal have, Liverpool have many more when they're doing well. All of the rest well it's just muddy water. A debate no one can ever win, but I think we're an important club which the Premiership can't do without. There are only a few clubs you can say that about. Not one person would miss Villa, even if they were gone 10 years you'd just think so fuck. Everyone missed us, even if they don't admit it, they did, BBC certainly did. Stevie.......before Keegan came back to Newcastle, our crowds were around 20,000 and for periods prior to that, sub 20,000. I know things were different then, but a prolonged period of apathy [which will happen if Ashley stays long term IMO] and the crowds and interest that have been generated will ebb away to low levels again, maybe not as low as this, but around 30,000 or less on occasions, however the team only needs to win a few games in any division and it would hit close to the 40,000 mark even for a temp period. We will see. I do agree with you about us being unique in sport, because we are. But no club would even get those gates above, time has shown it, everybody in football who knows anything about the game knows NUFC are the sleeping giant of world football. The Keegan years showed it, if we had had a 70,000 stadium like the Millenium we would fill it with local support alone. Anyway, as you say its a debate nobody can win and hopefully he will sell to somebody who understands football business before things get much worse. I went to games from 1985 onwards. Between 1976 and 1993 we finished in the top half of the table once, and spent 10 of those seasons in the second tier. I remember the game before Keegan came actually was a FA Cup Replay at home to Bournemouth and there were 27,000 people there, and yes we fuckin lost, on pens, O'Brien nearly smashing the Scoreboard with his. Before Keegan came league wise there was an official boycot by the USFC, I remember one game against Oxford there were as many outside as inside. Our average in 1990 was 22,000 in D2, 17,000 in 1991 at the height of the boycot, and 21,000 in 92 when we finished TWENTY FIRST IN DIVISION TWO. All this at a time when football wasn't fashionable at all, our gates near the bottom of D2 were still among the best in the country. Since 93 and especially Euro 96 football became cool, a lot more OC's go to games, far, far, far more women, you even get ethnic minorities going so the fanbase has changed in terms of profile slightly and not only that probably doubled. I will pay £100 to a charity of your choice should we ever get a gate under 40,000 in the Premiership, it's just not going to happen. I don't know one person who is jacking it next season, but I know plenty who are coming back. NB. that Bournemouth game got an inflated gate because the first game was abandoned by fog and because they wouldn’t refund our money they made the re-arranged game half price — iirc, which bumped the attendance. wasn’t that the game where Alan Thompson got sent off for that disgraceful 2 footed stamp? — which is one of the worst things I’ve seen a footballer do to another player. You are right but there was 26,000 at the abandoned game. Aye re Thompson. Keegan got rid right after that game, he never played again. Right in front of me that was in the East Stand benches that night.

I honestly cannot see what people would have seen this season to make them come rushing back next? On the alternative theres 8 lads I know (and the mates they go with) who are seriously contemplating not renewing, they've not taken up the cheaper offer and are waiting to see what happens. Many people are looking to jack in the ST and pay game by game. I reckon we'll see our first sub 40k Premiership game next season. In fact I'll stick my neck on the line and predict we'll get as low as 35k in at least 2 games. *All that is on the basis we're actually in the Prem of course The greatest come back of our lives (well some of us ) The greatest derby game of our lives Six goal annihilation of Aston Villa Five goal annihilation of West Ham Three goal win against Liverpool Unbeaten at home to the big 5 Exciting games Great come backs even Wigan was a good come back More home goals than any other team in the Prem apart from Man Utd I'll stick my neck on the line also and say the average THIS season will be over 48,000, and next possibly 49 or 50k. We had all these doom and gloom merchants in the CCC, 25-30k average gate, I was the only one who said 44-45k, who was right? I know about these things Might have been different if we’d finished mid table. As I think LM mentioned, we’re not immune from voting with our feet. In the early 80’s crowds around the 10k mark weren’t unknown. It just takes more shit for longer to grind us down. NUFC are a well supported club and on the whole our supporters are more likely to stick with it when the going gets tough than most clubs. The size of our support is big club, our acceptance of year on year shit isn’t. Supporters at big clubs don’t tolerate sustained failure, and this is the catalyst for their clubs to keep pushing on. Our loyalty should be the security on which the owner speculates on serious progression; all too often it breeds complacency and contempt in the boardroom. Three gates in our post-war league history under 11,000 yes they weren't unknown, the same as a 4,000 gate at Celtic, Rangers and Arsenal was not unknown in the last 35 years, same as 15 gates under 12,000 at Spurs in the last 25 years were not unknown, same as Man Utd gates under 20,000 were not unknown. Pathetic even to mention that to be honest. As for if we'd been midtable I think the gates could've been even higher tbh. People were getting bored of winning 4 and 5-0 every week. Indeed when we had our dodgy spell losing to Blackpool, Scunthorpe and Forest in the space of a few weeks, the next home game there was nearly 45,000 against Doncaster fucking Rovers.

The Eastern Europeans who got drafted in to the Allies team in Escape to Victory, had more weight on them than yee man. You must be 9st.

I honestly cannot see what people would have seen this season to make them come rushing back next? On the alternative theres 8 lads I know (and the mates they go with) who are seriously contemplating not renewing, they've not taken up the cheaper offer and are waiting to see what happens. Many people are looking to jack in the ST and pay game by game. I reckon we'll see our first sub 40k Premiership game next season. In fact I'll stick my neck on the line and predict we'll get as low as 35k in at least 2 games. *All that is on the basis we're actually in the Prem of course The greatest come back of our lives (well some of us ) The greatest derby game of our lives Six goal annihilation of Aston Villa Five goal annihilation of West Ham Three goal win against Liverpool Unbeaten at home to the big 5 Exciting games Great come backs even Wigan was a good come back More home goals than any other team in the Prem apart from Man Utd I'll stick my neck on the line also and say the average THIS season will be over 48,000, and next possibly 49 or 50k. We had all these doom and gloom merchants in the CCC, 25-30k average gate, I was the only one who said 44-45k, who was right? I know about these things

I can see this becoming difficult. How do you define it ? There is an obvious link between acting big and becoming successful, attracting supporters back, and being seen to be big by others as a result. The problem is, if a club acts like a small club [like we are doing], does it mean they aren't a big club anymore ? Or is it just that you are a big club being run badly ? That's the thing though, people not going to matches isn't just about success on the field Lots of our fans have stopped going because they aren't happy with how the club is being run, sick of having to get by and then there was the 2 failed stadium moves (1 of which none of us wanted) I think we'll get less season ticket sales next season because people seeing that we are being left behind if we don't get investment so are boycotting Newcastle are obviously a big club and have a fantastic support, you could see that with the protests etc but I don't think support equals everything I have to disagree with your first comment. Success on the pitch is everything. Win and your crowds go up, at any level of the game, at NUFC a winning team is a full house. 2nd sentence - most people have forgotten about those stadium moves now. Personally, I think we should have moved to Leazes Park and forced the issue more. We will get less season ticket renewals next season because the team is struggling on the pitch and there is little optimism for improvement. 3rd sentence - I don't think any club would fill a 52000 stadium anywhere in the world having put up with what we have for so long to be honest, although it is going down now, it will still hover between 30-40,000 even when the damage inflicted by Mike Ashley increases, and no club in the world would get that either, especially when even a few wins in a lower league will send it back near 50,000 again. Just my opinions of course. Disagree with that like. There are more than enough dafties like me to keep going. We averaged 44,000 in the Championship playing the likes of Doncaster and Scunthorpe every week. The next few years we will come out of the recession and people will have more money. We were in the bottom half of the table largely from 2004 to 2009 and 90% of home games sold out. I think economic conditions are having an impact, but we're still averaging nearly 48,000 fans, and how many times have we been on live telly?? A fuckin lot. We will never go under 40,000 in the Premiership, and even if Ashley is here the next five years, sadly it will have no impact on attendances. This season the games have been fucking great you don't know what will happen, the gates have been going up all season, and we'll have even more season ticket holders next season, particularly if there's a few decent signings in the summer. Don't underestimate how daft NUFC fans are. There isn't a parallel to Newcastle United's support in world sport, anyone that says Man City is a mug, they all fucked off under Pearce, we stayed and faced the Championship music. As for big club. Course we're a big club. I find it insulting to be compared to Aston Villa. The muddy area of what a big club comes when you're comparing sizes. To me it's fanbase. You can't pin it all down to history. Man Utd are 10 times bigger than Liverpool in my eyes, but have slightly fewer trophies, and I can think of parallel examples with certain clubs and us. If you don't have more fans able and willing to go to support the team than Newcastle, you're not a bigger club than us, and only Man Utd and Arsenal have, Liverpool have many more when they're doing well. All of the rest well it's just muddy water. A debate no one can ever win, but I think we're an important club which the Premiership can't do without. There are only a few clubs you can say that about. Not one person would miss Villa, even if they were gone 10 years you'd just think so fuck. Everyone missed us, even if they don't admit it, they did, BBC certainly did. Stevie.......before Keegan came back to Newcastle, our crowds were around 20,000 and for periods prior to that, sub 20,000. I know things were different then, but a prolonged period of apathy [which will happen if Ashley stays long term IMO] and the crowds and interest that have been generated will ebb away to low levels again, maybe not as low as this, but around 30,000 or less on occasions, however the team only needs to win a few games in any division and it would hit close to the 40,000 mark even for a temp period. We will see. I do agree with you about us being unique in sport, because we are. But no club would even get those gates above, time has shown it, everybody in football who knows anything about the game knows NUFC are the sleeping giant of world football. The Keegan years showed it, if we had had a 70,000 stadium like the Millenium we would fill it with local support alone. Anyway, as you say its a debate nobody can win and hopefully he will sell to somebody who understands football business before things get much worse. I went to games from 1985 onwards. Between 1976 and 1993 we finished in the top half of the table once, and spent 10 of those seasons in the second tier. I remember the game before Keegan came actually was a FA Cup Replay at home to Bournemouth and there were 27,000 people there, and yes we fuckin lost, on pens, O'Brien nearly smashing the Scoreboard with his. Before Keegan came league wise there was an official boycot by the USFC, I remember one game against Oxford there were as many outside as inside. Our average in 1990 was 22,000 in D2, 17,000 in 1991 at the height of the boycot, and 21,000 in 92 when we finished TWENTY FIRST IN DIVISION TWO. All this at a time when football wasn't fashionable at all, our gates near the bottom of D2 were still among the best in the country. Since 93 and especially Euro 96 football became cool, a lot more OC's go to games, far, far, far more women, you even get ethnic minorities going so the fanbase has changed in terms of profile slightly and not only that probably doubled. I will pay £100 to a charity of your choice should we ever get a gate under 40,000 in the Premiership, it's just not going to happen. I don't know one person who is jacking it next season, but I know plenty who are coming back.

Not as gay as sit doon meals clunking glasses with Isegrim.

See DKN Chez is a good looking kid, dark skinned, but on the pic in the club mashed off his nut, he looked like he was from Leith Walk. Just goes to show we can all take a bad pic. Cunts on the Leith walk would have avoided us that night (thats bollocks actually, in that state your like a magnet to alkie sweaties). There was pro photographer at the wedding the other week, the shots of me and our lass are dreamy. I'll email you one if you're interested? Stick them up here and delete them. The wronguns seem to have fucked off from TT for now. They're on Picasa which is blocked at work. Aye send the through to me msn/email then leazeslad30@hotmail.com, cheersh

Hate to tell you this Stevie but you can get shingles more than once. You may get another attack if you get run down etc. Really, I'm sure I was told that's the finish at the time. Wouldn't wish it on anyone that shingles like, was like weeping sores. You should be OK as long as you don't get immunocompromised. Was it definitely an attack of shingles or a first episode of chicken pox? Got a friend who gets shingles occassionally and its not nice. Verified as full blown Shingles, I wasn't left with scars or anything which was good.

See DKN Chez is a good looking kid, dark skinned, but on the pic in the club mashed off his nut, he looked like he was from Leith Walk. Just goes to show we can all take a bad pic. Cunts on the Leith walk would have avoided us that night (thats bollocks actually, in that state your like a magnet to alkie sweaties). There was pro photographer at the wedding the other week, the shots of me and our lass are dreamy. I'll email you one if you're interested? Stick them up here and delete them. The wronguns seem to have fucked off from TT for now.

Hate to tell you this Stevie but you can get shingles more than once. You may get another attack if you get run down etc. Really, I'm sure I was told that's the finish at the time. Wouldn't wish it on anyone that shingles like, was like weeping sores.

I had shingles when I was about 23, fuck me it was painful. It went away in a few weeks like, and you can supposedly only get it once thank god. Was on my arms and chest, some people get it on their face. Poor cunts.

See DKN Chez is a good looking kid, dark skinned, but on the pic in the club mashed off his nut, he looked like he was from Leith Walk. Just goes to show we can all take a bad pic.

You know what bit of self awareness here, I can give it in spade loads but when someone takes the piss out of me I'm setting new world records for dummy spitting. Anyway CT please put a chart up or something to deflect this Jeff Winter crack from peoples memories. I reckon you knew you'd get a bit of grief off here, posting that pic. You can use the abuse as a motivational tool to push you towards your goal. So I'm being cruel to be kind comparing you to Jeff. I've seen pics of you before and you're a decent looking lad, its just that particular pic does you no favours. If its any consolation I look like Dietmar Hamann I'd rather look German than Smoggie haha! Nar I look like a mick, nee offence Irish people, but I do. There's a few others on here who look German to be fair. Herr Gemmill definitely does, and looking at the Fish you can just see him shutting cattle truck train doors in a Nazi army uniform.

Aye I'm blind as fuck without my lenses too. 1.5 is my prescription, can't see anything in detail further than 4 foot away. My eyes changed one night at a game against Norwich, just after the Leazes had been built, during the game honestly my eyesight changed, I was scared shitless. Refused to wear glasses for a few months in the fifth year cos of vanity, used to miss buses and everything cos I couldn't see the fuckin numbers if I was on me own. By the way 23 or 28, 23 or 28, 23 or 28 Super Jonny Haggerty have you telt your team mates you're 23??? That's what it says on that team website. You've said here you're 28 before. Try -7 in my left eye and -4 in my right eye Fuck me that is really bad. No New Years Day to celebrate....

Google Newcastle 5 Leicester 4 and stick it in youtube. Listen to the roar when McGhee makes it 5-4. Thing of the past that noo, only 21,000 or so there too. Best noise I can remember was first home game of the season against Spurs who Gazza had just joined, we'd lost 4-0 at the blue dippers the week before, and were supposed to get stuffed off Spurs too, but we were winning 2-0 after 4 minutes, both goals at a dangerously full Gallowgate End. There was 45,000 in that day imo. Given as about 35,000.

Aye I'm blind as fuck without my lenses too. 1.5 is my prescription, can't see anything in detail further than 4 foot away. My eyes changed one night at a game against Norwich, just after the Leazes had been built, during the game honestly my eyesight changed, I was scared shitless. Refused to wear glasses for a few months in the fifth year cos of vanity, used to miss buses and everything cos I couldn't see the fuckin numbers if I was on me own. By the way 23 or 28, 23 or 28, 23 or 28 Super Jonny Haggerty have you telt your team mates you're 23??? That's what it says on that team website. You've said here you're 28 before.

That's a void argument though. Newcastle is not a big city. If you class Tyne & Wear as one city, it's still smaller than Merseyside 1.1m to 1.5m iirc. Yet we get more in than Liverpool, and the mackems get a good few in more than Everton. Big catchment area is null and void, big population area is a better argument. Leeds is bigger than the whole of Tyneside, and they're shit, we don't have an outstanding catchment population by any means.

Most of mine have been caused by fighting or playing football. In the past I've broken both hands, fucked me knee ligaments, had chronic hamstring problems when I was fast which took a year to get over, shin splints and that's about it from football. From fighting/getting set about, lost a tooth which I had replaced, had to go under general anaesthetic for a broken nose which now looks pretty but looked out of shape when it happened, and on another occasion got set about by three kids and had a fractured eye socket and broken cheek bone, for which 9 years later I still have a metal plate in. Problem I have now is I can't run more than 2 or 3 mile before I get a slight pain in the bone at the bottom of the knee. Had food poisoning really bad when I was in Thailand, and I've been smoking again since May last year, chucked it in 2005, I never used to get colds and flus but I'm getting them all the time lately. Good thing is I've had 2 since Friday neet which as any smoker will tell you is great, so I'm gonna keep going to see if I can conquer this terrible affliction.

What 47000 to 27000 in 3 seasons I'd say that was fucking off. Leeds certainly did they were under 20,000 most weeks a few years ago.

He had a really posh accent at Yale btw. He was told to dumb it down when running for office. True story. I think that was one of the worst insults this country has even been subjected to. We're the fourth military power of the world, fifth or sixth biggest economy depending on which gauge you use, historically and culturally the world's most important country, one of the most influential players in mankind, and that absolute arsehole speaks to our leader like he's some president of some Carribbean island with 6 rocks and a sewage outflow. Imagine Cameron going "how Putin here pal", he'd be Litvinienko'd before you could say pipe down. I agree, but it was partly Blair's fault, no gravitas behind the fake charisma. Too concerned with lapdogging his way into the history books. In a strange way I notice that most of the time if we are clever we can get the americans to do our dirty work for us. If that makes sense. Aye well Lady T, as you no doubt affectionately call her, certainly knew how to play Reagan.

He had a really posh accent at Yale btw. He was told to dumb it down when running for office. True story. I think that was one of the worst insults this country has even been subjected to. We're the fourth military power of the world, fifth or sixth biggest economy depending on which gauge you use, historically and culturally the world's most important country, one of the most influential players in mankind, and that absolute arsehole speaks to our leader like he's some president of some Carribbean island with 6 rocks and a sewage outflow. Imagine Cameron going "how Putin here pal", he'd be Litvinienko'd before you could say pipe down.

Just got a text before which famous non footballer do you hate more than any other? George Bush hands down for me. Mugs. I hope George Bush dies a bad death, his fatha was an arsehole and he was an even bigger one. "Yo Blair". Yo fuckin Blair you cunt. The leader of the country which made the modern world, the leader of the country which stopped Germany from changing your biggest cities name to Neuen Yorken. Yo Blair. If Blair had any balls he would've battered the cunt, this was in front of the whole of the G8, krauts there, Russians, japs, chinese they're all there.