McFaul

I'd be surprised if there's 23000 there me. Utterly disgusting. We just have to sit there and take it like Robert de Niro when the mob shoot Joe Pesci in Goodfellas for now. There's literally fuck all we can do. Nothing. Boycotting matches makes no difference we'll still be wealthier this season than last even if no one was there with this sky deal.

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I think I need to adopt the J69 policy of giving up drink. I can go four or five days without a drink, but when I drink I can't just have four pints and that's it, I'm far more likely to drink fourteen. It's Tuesday now and I didn't do a minute of work yesterday as I was so fucked, and I still feel wrecked now. Mind I'd say three of the biggest hangovers of my life, all in the last few years, have been after Sunderland games.

A disgrace of a club Cowardly. I might write something happy one day. Having said that though, my blog is about Newcastle United and football, so I doubt it. I’m no different to anyone who supports the club today, hungover, suffering, of course it’s only a game, but losing to them when you care so passionately about the club is very difficult to take. Before the game Pardew said, “One of the things on my agenda to prove is that we will be putting out a very similar team to that one. The same players are available, Remy is the only change. “We were tired from that Benfica quarter-final – no doubt about that in my mind but that needs to be proved because if we get beat again, I ain’t got that argument this time.” Yet we did get beat Alan and this is what you said afterwards, “I didn’t think it was a free kick for their second goal.” No more excuses. Look at facts not excuses, we lost to the team who have had the worst start of any football club in the history of the Premier League, a team what had scored 5 and conceded 21 in the first eight games. Pardew is a disgrace and so are all of the players. It’s very easy to get all Billy Britain about it, but the vast majority of our players are cowards. Or they certainly were yesterday. Sissoko is 6ft3 and built like Patrick Vieira, yet he is a mouse, he truly is. He should be bullying midfields with his frame but he has all the heart of a coward. You can say the same about the rest too. We started that game yesterday and the players didn’t even seem to know what formation we were playing. Ben Arfa was supposed to be in the middle yet he was dropping deep so every attack it looked like we had no centre forward. It tells you how utterly shit we were that I think most toon fans welcomed the fact that Shola came on. ”Get in here comes Shola!!” If that sentence doesn’t define the embarrassment we are and were, then I don’t know what does. This may sound bitter but I still think Sunderland are shit, and I think they have an outstanding chance of being relegated, yet a club with 1 point in 8 games, who’s confidence was supposed to be shot out fought so called superior players. I’m sorry but it’s not acceptable. We’ve all been ridiculously loyal to Pardew, but in my view he should lose his job. 0-3 to Sunderland, 0-6 to Liverpool and 1-2 to Sunderland in the space of 6 months would see any manager sacked, other than an arselicking mouth piece who is the only manager in football who states once a week “the fan av to understand we can’t compete wiv the big boys”, just fuck off you greyed haired cunt. Five years ago we were generating more money than Borussia Dortmund, of course we can compete but we won’t and never will while our owner doesn’t give a fuck and our manager is a feeble coward who won’t stand up to him. The whole club stinks was than at any point since 1985 which is when I started supporting the club. McKeag was hugely unpopular but he didn’t have anything like the personal fortune this fat cunt has. ”Newcastle aint getting any more of my money” a man who’s business made £300m profit in the last financial year. Fat bastard. We need more British players, or we need players who aren’t going to wave the white flag at the tiniest point where we need to display grit and passion. http://moderndaydoilum.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/a-disgrace-of-a-club/

Just googled it, we're both wrong, 1994 it was published.

Absolutely spot on.

It's an old one that, written in 1993 if I remember rightly.

They've been banned by the club. Chronicle, Journal and Sunday Sun.

Legendary pub, reminds me of Cup Finals and England games.

The Allsopp Arms was always a toon pub, was 15 mins walk from my work, used to go there regularly never been in for years, few mins walk from Baker Street tube heading east

I can't remember what my username was tbh, I sent them an email 2 days ago and I've had no reply.

Too ugly to be a parody.

Haha true. Apparently I'm Newcastle's most narcissistic fan.

I will add if we don't beat these the Liverpool, Cardiff and Villa games were a waste of time. You even have mackems comparing this side unfavourably with their 15 point relegation team. All out attack from the start and we should win comfortably. We may not, it is a derby game, but what a desperate side. Their best player Fletcher can't even run he's so slow.

http://moderndaydoilum.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/mackems-and-sunderland-afc/ Mackems and Sunderland AFC I worked in Sunderland for nearly four years so I know how the mackem brain works. Now I’m not arrogant or bigoted enough to deny there are some canny mackems. There definitely are, even though they are in short supply. The main problem mackems have as a collective group of people is their obsession with Newcastle upon Tyne and for most of them Newcastle United as well. We have arseholes on our side it’s undeniable, but with Sunderland it is borderline unbelievable. I used to work with this bloke who we’ll call Jim Scott (his initials are JS). He was from a place called Ryhope, THE most boring cunt I’ve ever known, never had a wife or a girlfriend in all of his life, so at 48 year old he fucked off to some far flung Asian country, and came back with a 4ft11 wife who couldn’t speak a word of English. Now for me that is my abiding memory of working there. He summed the vast majority of them up, he came out with this once, “Suuuunlun is a more important playuss than Newwwwcassul”, “aye how’s that John?”, “well there TWO UNDRUD AND EYUTEA thousand pea-pul in Sunlun, and there’s oahnley two undred un sixtea in Newwwwwwwwcassul.” That was his argument. At the time the City of Sunderland had a slightly bigger population than Newcastle upon Tyne, so it was a more important better known place nationally. Ironically enough they can’t even say that now, but to feel so inferior to come out with something like that is just staggering, and he was too thick to see it. The biggest problem Sunderland will ever and has ever had as a place, is Newcastle, and their inability to just get on with it and make the best of what they have without envy. Everton fans are often called bitter blues because of the fact that the red dippers claim, the blue ones are more obsessed with Liverpool failing than their own team doing well. Personally I think that’s a load of bollocks. However, I can say with sincerity a significant majority of Sunderland fans are happier when we fail big time, than when their own team do well. This picture confirms it for me. Image Look at that picture. That is 10 seconds after their tannoy bloke has told them Newcastle have been relegated in 2009. Look at them, when have you ever seen a mackem end celebrate so hysterically (other than when they score against us). It’s FUCKIN PATHETIC YOU SAD MACKEM CUNTS! Look at the old fella, so happy he looks like he’s going to start crying. Probably been bullied for having a shit accent while pilfering one of our jobs on the Tyne in the 80′s no doubt. The only surprising thing about this picture is the fact there is a genuinely good looking mackem lass stood there near the front. Probably from South Tyneside to be fair. Me personally, although I pity mackems I never want them to go down because I’d rather play Sunderland at St James’ Park once a year than your Fulham’s or Wigan’s. I remember when Paul Bracewell signed for us from Sunderland in 1992, on the Tyne Tees evening news they were interviewing Sunderland fans, this fat ginger bloke came out with “e’s went from beegur cloob tiv a smarla cloob.”. The bloke had a straight face as well. The mackems often use 1992 as being “the year Keygun cayum and the mag re-lized that ‘ad a footbarll cloob”. You’ll often see mackems saying Newcastle United founded 1992. That’s all fine but the fact is in the previous 12 years, Newcastle were better supported in eleven of them, so if Newcastle were founded in 1992, have Sunderland yet to be founded? Sunderland’s largest average gate between 1982 and 1996 was 21,000. Our largest average gate between 1982 and 1989 was 29,810 in 1984. From that era their gates went up from 21,000 ave (at best) to 47,000 in 2002, difference of 26,000 whereas wors went from a high of 30,000 to 52,000 in 2001, a difference of 22,000. So Sunderland found more new fans than we did you cliched mackem doilums. On top of that we didn’t have to send letters to schools in mackem heartlands like Hexham, Berwick and Amble inviting 7,000 school kids every week for a quid. There should be something done about their accent as well. It’s a big place Sunderland, nearly 1% of England’s population is a mackem, yet successful mackems are few and far between. Kate Adie is probably the most famous in the last 100 years. The fact is no one has a good chance of making it big with a mackem mentality/accent. That is a fact. I’m not saying it to be controversial neither. It truly is Loserville. It has the lowest life expectancy in Western Europe as a city over 250,000, it’s an embarrassment on human nature. Something should be done, because they should grow up with the same chances as everyone else but they’re drawn in to a world of depression, mediocrity and ill health. Image My main point is this. Sunderland as a City is the biggest failure of a place in Europe, in America on a much large scale Detroit is the same, and apparently they have the same crime/alcohol/drug problems the mackems have. It’s a downtrodden hovel with the lowest life expectancy in the UK, where 80% of its’ population smoke, where its’ Champs Elysee is Fawcett Street (pictured above with it’s Harrods aka Wilkinsons) and it’s no better than Shields Road without even taking the piss. It’s not our fault mackems are backward, it’s not our fault their city is a shithole (even though the ones who admit it is a shithole blame us), it’s not our fault their football club have been in the top 10 only three times in the last 63 years. The only way I can ever see the City of Sunderland improving, and in particular the football club, is if they stop obsessing about us. Sunderland should be a biggish club. How many clubs in the country have a better/bigger support than the mackems? Eight? Nine max. Yet they fail every season and I can’t help feel for a club who have only played FOUR European games ever, they are held back because of the toon. Newcastle United are a failure in that there are so many reasons why we should be challenging for trophies every single season, yet we don’t, so we fail. That is one thing, but the very essence of Sunderland, the true height of their supports ambition is to be better than we are. They can deny it but it’s true. How depressing it must be when the absolute ceiling of your ambitions is to be better than a failure. They can deny everything I’ve written but they know every word of it is true and so does any geordie who’s had the misfortune to spend as long as I did there. Anyway I think we’ll win 3-1, they’re absolutely shite and if Pardew can’t exploit their weaknesses he wantslocking up.

Anyone got a skunkers username and password I could borrow please.

http://moderndaydoilum.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/mackems-and-sunderland-afc/ My latest blog ahead of the derby.

Aye I have with the weather and gym has been twice a week lately instead of five, but the new work have a gym which will be handy.

6ft2 and 15st3 heaviest I've been for ages, disappointing. I'll be down to 14 and a half in no time though, I can do it when I put my mind to it. The thing is I've been a big cunt most of my life, and when I'm down to 14ish everyone says I'm too skinny, can't win.

I think the point he's making is we were magnificent AWAY at Cardiff without him, and should we use that ploy again? It's a fair enough question but I think he took one for the team on Saturday personally, and certainly was no worse than Cisse's been in an alien role to him.

Fish you wouldn't enjoy it if you saw Dale Winton calling your lottery numbers out while receiving oral sex from Kirsty Gallagher you.

I should start every mackem game thread after this.

What happened was we beat the WP 2-1 at Anfield, then the next week we were 0-3 doon at home to Coventry and the entire Gallowgate has a sit down protest at half time.

I can speak authentic mackem no problem at all, to the point where you wouldn't know I was putting it on.

Aye well done Jonathan. I tell you what I'm from the west of Newcastle but working in Sunderland for four years put a lot of mackem in my accent for quite a long time.