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After Sholas goal at Leverkusen in the champs lge a few years back the camera pans across the crowd and I can clearly be seen bouncing across the screen from right to left...which was a bit of a result as thanks to the MP's belonging to the British Army of the Rhine who were 'policing' the away turnstiles we had missed Lua's opening goal. After the game we had one of the best post game piss ups its been my pleasure to attend at Cologne's only gay/lesbian/trans gender club which opens on a Tuesday night, which culminated in around 100 completely arseholed Mags on the dancefloor singing with the house band as they played 'hey jude' :-D

Martin Samuel is a well known West Ham United fan. End of thread.

err...thought you might be looking for some mags down south to go to games with never mind if not. Shame you'll miss Wyclef though

Thats fuck all, Wyclef Jean is gone till November If your looking for idiots on the south coast who favour NUFC, I may be able to help...

Obviously the complete waste of money on Gosling (so far...) and Ireland hasnt deterred our recruitment team...false economy getting rid of Nolan and more than likely Barton and then signing apparently more players with either current or dubious histories when it comes to injuries. Too many players without premier league experiance to blend in too if you ask me. Another huge gamble from fat Mike, which is par for the course with him I suppose.

We payed his agents 2mill seemingly just to get to speak to him. Maybe thats why Everton didnt get involved...? Oh aye, I can see Ashley falling for that one. Not Well the Daily Mirror aren't above reporting 'internet rumours' so make of this what you will but they said on wednesday that we were paying his people 2mill to make sure he joins us. Seeing as there is no fee involved to West Ham then it looks like whoever payed the agents the most got to speak to the player. Thought it was a bit strange at the time when I read it like...the club has to say how much agents fees are each season doesnt it? Any idea when?..

We payed his agents 2mill seemingly just to get to speak to him. Maybe thats why Everton didnt get involved...?

Ok so you're using Sunderland as an example, yet its in a different area completely and is again a one club city. I see what you are trying to say, but at the end of the day your point isnt exactly a fair comparison. Manchester would be one that you could compare Liverpool too as this is also a true 2 club city.... Tyne & Wear aint. Anyway this is all getting rather tiresome... Its the same old shite debate, you love your club, I love mine, lets just move on from it as no-one gives a shit... we'll pick up the debate again in the future no doubt, mainly when we finish above you yet again next season or when Ba's knee implodes in the 1st minute of the 1st match of the season I'll keep any info I get regarding your club to myself in future... you're all very defensive and even if I had a video of the negotiations in which Ba gets a £70k a week contract you would still all get up in arms about some Toffee on here daring to tell you something that's not from a geordie lol! It would be nice to share info without hostility, but I guess there's no such thing as a perfect world eh? You mentioned the 'one club city' thing and I was just illustrating that if you look at population (and if you want to, trophies won in the last 40 odd years..and lets face it, you do) that there should be far more people watching football on Merseyside. You can offer an opinion why if you want, but no worries if you don't. Just wanted to make the point. And try not to beleive uncheckable sources on the internet. It does make you appear rather foolish in this thread, and,it has to be said,suffering from a nasty case of sour grapes. ps....you may want to consider how much we payed the player's agent/s if you want to get to the real reason why he came here.

Choke, cough, splutter, gargle..... That should say 'Tyne and Wear' but the point remains...posting on my phone etc etc :$

Andy there are more supporters going through the turnstiles throughout each month of the season on Tyneside than there is on Merseyside. Each area has 2 premier league clubs but Merseyside has a population of around 500k to 750k more than Tyne and Wear. And Merseyside has one club with a much vaunted 'world wide fanbase'...not that it helps them fill their place that often either....;-)

Are you familiar with the saying "a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing" (Oscar Wilde) No? Thats 3 of you including fat Mike and Dekka then Forget his age,ability,recent record,influence in the changing room/around the club,legs,length of contract, inside leg measurement or his nightime drinking habits..its all fuckin irrelevent to what sort of message this sends to his (former) teamates and other clubs who may be circling them. Pardew comes out of this looking like Ashley has his hand up his arse and is fuckin operating him. Someone said a lot of managers would walk over this and thats spot on. Not this one though, who knew he'd never get the chance to manage a club as big as Newcastle United in his career ever again when he was offered the job and will spout mealy mouthed bullshit to cover for these fuckers as a result. Until we're in the bottom 3 at christmas when they'll sack him. How will you feel then Alan?....team matters taken out of your hands by the footballing genius who seemingly rated Alan Smith so much as a player he the useless twats name printed on his shirt. A really great captain if you ask me. One of the best I've seen at any club.

? Didnt we have him on trial when Gullit was manager?...think he warmed the bench at Bolton after that......played for Milan but injuries cut his career short I think. Anyway, thats the leading local sunday paper making two appalling mistakes in one article....I wouldnt sack Mark Douglas, I'd sack his editor for letting it go to print.

As long as theyre free that seems to be ok for them....Gosling and Ireland's fitness didn't seem to matter, and it looks like Ba's troubles in that department are seemingly unimportant too....he'll do well to play in 25 games iyam, which means we need at least one more striker in, to avoid probably half the campaign being played with Best and a mostly half fit Shola

Yeah but I went to school over the border....where there are probably half a dozen different accents all along it too...I am probably more than half English though...mums a Manc! Hawick folk speak a different language to the rest of Britain and its only 20 minutes away from Kelso where I went to school...and then Berwick and all that is only 20 minutes in the other direction where they too speak something pretty alien to most ears.I speak with a pretty typical Border's "lilt" but it's changing there even now though...my sister's kids in Kelso speak like they're from fuckin Edinburgh

If you go to the game you'll have to ritually trash the pub in Seahouses thats a shrine to safc on the way home...its tradition apparently! The accent is a strange one...what you've got to remember is that Berwick has been a frontier garrison town for 800 years and in the middle ages a major port...my old man did his national service in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers and the regimental HQ was in Berwick. He says that evil bastards who were on the run from either Edinburgh or Newcastle had settled there over the years and mixed with those who had jumped ship from all over Europe, hard nut ex squaddies and a large local gypsy population.All of which had resulted in, in his opinion, a sort of "Liverpool" of the north, where the mix of blood is bad news. And all that must have contributed to the accent, which is porridge thick and neither one thing nor the other.

Paul Smith - Sunday Mirror He says the same here....and about Nolan...the "derisory" offer was 1.5 million....and it looks like "player of the year" Scotty cant get a move because he's 31 and on a squillion quid a week no doubt....peaks and troughs Scott, peaks and troughs... http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/transfer-...ers-future-lies

that was my immediate thought! how about "we're gonna wreck your fuckin toon,we drink ex and newcastle broon" in the under 16 section as well

Berwick upon Tweed is indeed one of the best kept secrets in the British Isles Was home last weekend and the old man picked me up at the station...I had to go to the bank so we drove into town and eneded up going over the old bridge....fuckin glorious evening, I went a bit wobbly to be honest...hairs on the back of the head came up..think I'll end up back in the Borders at some point...maybe quite soon.I take you took that piccy from the new bridge?...great shot that like. Berwick used to engender different feelings on Saturday evenings after games...sometimes used to have fight our way off the train....I think mackems must have outnumbered mags in Berwick 3-1 in the 80s...probably different now like after KK and the 90s etc.. someone told me it was in some way a hangover from the days when Durham Cathedral ruled everything from North Yorkshire almost up to Edinburgh..dont know if thats true, but the Borough of Berwick itself didnt start till the middle arch of the old bridge up until the late 1800s, and the church basically ran the rest of North Northumberland...

Danny Simpson trying to gain Stevie's favour? http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#...761796&ap=1

Aye. Pulitzer in the post to Walkerville as we speak Used to know Jensen wen he first started doing/selling The Mag and he seemed a good lad.....not seen him years though and from what I've read on here about him and the supporters club/trust it seems its all gone tho his head a bit. Havent read any of them in years tbh, as CT says t'internet has in a way superceded the fanzines, which is a shame in a way as they were truly a huge breath of fresh air in the 80s when as you say coverage was a bit thin on the ground. One of the Mag's writers Billy Furious has written a couple of good books, the one about the 93 promotion season is excellent.

Agree 100% with you. Its baffling that more people can't see it! We should be competing with the likes of Liverpool and Spurs, not selling our best players to them or anyone else who offers enough money. Liverpool sold Torres in the same window, Spurs sold Berbatov & Keane, Man-u sold Ronoldo, Arsenal sold pretty much everyone. So how exactly are we differing? They back their managers. Spurs and Liverpool both had DoF's when those deals were brokered, which is the complete opposite of backing the manager. Coincidentally it was Damien Comolli at both clubs and he has a nasty habbit of ignoring the squad needs. Spurs needed a defensive midfielder and he bought a Bent (when the had Berbatov, Keane & Defoe) and Bentley (when they had Lennon), it seems at the Liverpool they have no left back and a lack of pacey wingers, so he's signed "Hendo" and is still after Adam. Commoli also left Redknapp a champions league qualifying squad because he knew how to invest the money he got for their best players properly. Stealing Modric from under our noses (dont know if were just used to get Spurs to take notice but it hs to be noted that our dof at the time was one Mr D. Wise Esq) was part of that rebuilding. Graham Carr seems to be the key man at NUFC, and his record seems quite good but with the goons above him seemingly unwilling to pay anyone more than about 30k a week then the chances of getting anywhere near what the largely Comolli recruited Spurs side have done in the last 3 years are pretty fuckin remote. But obviously time will tell, as will what happens at Liverpool this season.Something tells me though we'll be at least 10 points behind both clubs come May 2012 and for a club witharound 10k more fans watching us every home game than both Spurs and Liverpool thats fuckin sad.

You can see the Great Wall of China from space....like fuck can you Oh and the Marc Almond legend....its still getting told to wide eyed and no doubt revolted teenagers to this day...I remember being told about it nearly 30 years ago or so but I bet some of the young un's on here have heard it too....

Looks a little bit like Lerner has "done an Ashley"....realised just how much money it takes to make a football club competitive at the top level and said "naaahhh"....Martinez comes over as a smart guy, but with the players that are likely to leave this is Villa massively lowering their horizons and no doubt their overdraft.

If we've got up to half a dozen (a majority possibly French/continental) players with no previous premier league experiance in January then survival will be a fuckin miracle. I had a horiffic thought a few weeks ago but have kept it to myself so's not to tempt fate but with all the usual suspects being earmarked for a move it crossed my mind that Collocini could be just the sort Arsenal are looking for.... he's done 3 seasons in English football, comfortable on the ball, and he's better than anything theyve got, bar possibly Vermaelen.

I went to Hyena's on Friday night as part of a stag do pacakage....they seemed to have a strict "no mobiles/no talking during acts/ no heckling policy...to be fair its a few years since I've been to any comedy club but is this the way most have gone? ....the compare was a complete knob end who was about as funny as a dose of the crabs (single syllable name, southerner, fancied himself as some sort of modern day hippy) The first act was probably pretty good but he talked in broad Glaswegian, which led to the mainly southern English crowd starting to talk among themsleves, which then led to two lads getting fuckin ejected! I couldnt beleive it...he had a single syllable name too, big bloke with a beard. The last act was apparently quite funny to most of the crowd, making rude words and nosies from various "speak and spell" type childrens toys...he was funny apart from that actually, biggish bald bloke. Sorry about not having any nmaes, Friday night was a long time and much alcohol ago