PaddockLad

As far as I remember the first "sack the board" chants were around the christmas of 88 i.e. we knew we were going down then, 4 months after Gazza was sold. Simpler times in those days, and the average teenager's football knowledge is far more broad and refined nowadays due to mass media/internet, but on top of the sales of Waddle and Beardsley it was the last straw for many. It was definetly the first time I'd heard the phrase "lack of ambition" in conjunction with NUFC, but sadly not the last. Am pretty sure Hall wasn't a figure to rally round during sit down protests on the Gallowgate or in the road outside the Strawberry, it was just youthful exuberance mostly. Me and my mate Gog were on front page of the Journal at the time, I think the picture is on that facebook page with all the old NUFC piccies on it. I don't think I'd heard of "the magpie group" or whatever Hall and co called themselves till the second season in divi 2, but I could be wrong in that. Think they were definetly active 89ish . By 91 he was in the Journal every day though.

I think the fundamental unfairness was pretty much illustrated by my family, which went from my old man paying a tax on the rateable value on our home and his small joiner's workshop which was easily affordable, to all five of our family paying the same, with my mother a housewife and me, my brother and sister all at various stages of YTS or training/apprenticeships, none of the 3 of us earning more than £40 a week.The sum went from around £500 in rates to 3k in poll tax. The Duke of Roxburghe is the local landowner paid the same as me. The richest man in Scotland saw his circumstances radically improve on the back of our struggle to pay even half the amount we owed. Agreed about Ashley, his is the only game in town as we speak. Till he accepts the Keegan Consortium's offer

people feel impotent so theyre doing something. even if it is a bit futile. most people are against "the man"...whether its someone like Ashley, big business harming the enviroment, government etc etc...look what we acheived by a bit of action 20 odd years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF5-enWLYGU That basically got rid of an unfair tax and brought down Thatcher So as long as they take a scaffold pole each Ashley should be gone by Monday morning

Have NO seen that particular little beauty

No, its the job of one of the midfield 3 iyam.

See, I think thats where players are lacking nowadays, they seem to need to be instructed to do everything and nothings their own fault if it goes wrong. Its happened enough times for them to have learned what to do now. If Santon or Debuchy have been instructed to push on, all Pardew should then have to say is "make sure you drop in to cover" before the game to the midfileders tbh. Its basic football intelligence and it should be second nature to players at this level.

This is spot on like. The double standards and hypocrisy are staggering. Why not sit on the story?...they want the right to press freedom but they refuse to use that freedom responsibly. Cunts.

The £20 thing is a good move by the clubs involved but I'd be surprised if more than half of Premier League clubs took it up.

It depends on the day,time and location tbh....Everton and Man City were down in numbers, both Monday night games and shite performances. Villa and Cardiff were were full and in good voice for obvious reasons, Saturday, 3 o'clock, good performances.

Fuckin hell http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/10384676/Roy-Hodgson-forced-to-apologise-in-bizarre-race-row-after-making-joke-about-England-winger-Andros-Townsend.html "London biased media darling Redknapp"

Hats off to audacious Bosnia-Herzegovina There is so much to celebrate about Bosnia-Herzegovina's qualification for Brazil, primarily the happy aside it offers to a country that has suffered so much. It is also a boon for neutrals because they are far more fun to watch than Greece, the team they beat to the top of Group G on goal difference. Whereas the best Greek players are defenders, the brightest Bosnian talent is in attack – and their manager, Safet Susic, has the wit and neck to choose his tactics accordingly. Only Germany, Holland and England have scored more in the European qualifiers than a Bosnian team that hurtle at opponents with no handbrake. "It may sound tactically immature, I am fully aware of that, but I just think it would be wrong to play different," said Susic ahead of the decisive win in Lithuania, where his side only scored once despite playing with their usual abandon. "I just think that it would be wrong to play differently. We know that we expose ourselves too much and that there is a huge risk in a way we play – using one defensive midfielder and opening up huge space for an opponent – but it would be unfair to the fans, to the game and to us if we were to suppress such a talent and such a skill. We know that it can cost us, but that is the price we are willing to pay. In the end, we play to score more goals than the opposition – and it has paid off so far."

To be fair I think Belgium are just another horse now, so am expecting a spectacular failure....bit like when Pele and dozens of others tipped Colombia in 94 after a brilliant qualifying campaign but were fuckin hopeless at the finals Am pleased for Bosnia-Herzogovina, first time theyve qulaified Pleased for Hodgson too, he's a good egg really and I've also seen his tadger in the toilets at Schipol Airport (ftao Stevie: nowt to be shy about our Roy )

Agreed, but you've posted it yourself in the past that Allardyce got a standing ovavtion from us at Stoke in the cup game before he got sacked. I was there, its true. The Keegan comment is just bizzare.

flippanty flip ask the questions CT, truly have a good think about it. If immigration really was an election issue ukip would have over 100 seats at the last election, when the recession first bit. For the record, I had no work for 6 months off and on around that time but it didnt make me want to shoot the Polish folk upstairs or put a poster of Nigel Farage in my window. You're either easily mainpulated or bored out of your skull btw

While the NUFC support had lost all confidence in Caçapa as a player after the Portsmouth debacle, he slotted anonymously back in the side and was not responsible for any major disasters as the hated Allardyce administration gave way to the populist fiasco of Keegan’s second coming. Indeed Caçapa scored in Keegan’s return game, a 4-1 battering of Stoke City in an FA Cup replay. I was always willing to give Gene the benefit of the doubt as he's a bit different to your usaul punter but I think he was off watching West Allotment Celtic while all this was going on and so had to research this article on NO

Yeah, its like he'd quite like to be an axe murderer but cant find that page on google

Have you ever asked yourself who wanted mass EU immigration in the last decade,who facilitated it, and who in the big scheme of things benefited most from it?

Labour didnt fuck up CT, they called it "an experiment" without really giving two fucks about the results. They only did what the EU and their corporate paymasters wanted though; i.e. supply a huge pool of cheap labour which can be easily exploited; "flexible workforce" etc etc.. And as for banning those wanting a better standard of living thats pretty much what every wave of immigration on every continent throughout history have wanted tbh so thats a tall order iyam

That is easily in my all time top 5 tracks of all time, like ever....I'd use Sarah Cracknell's pubes as dental floss to this day

Do you expect Andrew, as a Newcastle United supporter, to compete with the top 5 clubs? I have only ever seen us briefly compete around the top 4 or 5 in 32 years of watching us. My expecatations on the back of that, and with Mike fuckin Ashley as owner of the club, are minute. Pardew is conforming to the media party line of us as suppoters, he also seems to want to manage one of the biggest clubs in the country and have absoloutely no expectatins placed upon him whatsover. He's talking uttter fuckin shit man.

How much immigration has there been in Boldon CT?

For CT, best wishes, Shane x http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/ferguson-enjoying-northern-exposure-29657625.html

Seen it meself, utterly depressing. Better than Kinnear atm?...

Are you saying CT is actually Pardew?

do you think the authorities are informed automatically if your score is on the high side?...Ant?...you still there?...Ant?.......