PaddockLad

err....it was called off around late Thursday afternoon http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/04/l...unction-pickets Don't blame them for trying it on to be honest....lots of folks with old school pay and conditions have been completely shafted without any discussion or consultation by greedy employers taking advantage of the credit crunch/recession and politicians who will never be affected by the cuts they impose on the rest of us.

He would by dint of the fact that although on paper you have possibly the best midfield outside of the top 4 or 5 clubs there are almost always at least 2 of them injured....like fuckin twigs the lot of them. You do well in spite of that, Moyes definetly has something, besides ginger pubes and halitosis (so I'm reliably informed )

Came out the Black Bull about 1-15pm and wandered underneath the Leazes and everyone was singing.....I had a feeling it was going to be a bit special then. Been to most derbies home and away since the late 80s and that was better than anything I'd heard before...fuckin marvellous

What could you offer professional advice in then? drinking vodka like a Bigg Market slapper?

Berfore you waste money on a sparky, have you checked the fuse behind the kitchen ring switch in the circuit box. Each switch in the main board box usually has a fat little fuse behind it and these can quite often blow. Usually about £1 from your local diy shop. I haven't but all the lights for downstairs are on the same curcuit breaker... wouldn't they all be off if it was a blown fuse? Sorry if thats a stupid question but I know nothing about electrics Aye, all your downstairs lights will be on one ring. So if only that light isnt coming on then its either a dodgy bulb or fitting. Its normal when something goes "pop" to trip the fuse and that resetting brings other stuff on the same breaker back on. Have you put a new bulb in and a second just in case? Is the correct answer...just to say you're very unlikely to have fuses and breakers in the same consumer's unit. As Andy stated everything comes back on bar the kitchen light/s, so its almost certainly a cirucit breaker board as a lamp blowing is nowhere near strong enough to take a fuse out but frequently takes out the more senstive circuit breakers. If it's not fixed by changing the bulb/lamp and you do a bit of investigating, make sure you turn the same breaker back off again as there may well be live cables in the fitting even though its not on. I could've nipped in and had a look yesterday for you but I did have Strongbow for breakfast before I went to the game...oh and I was up nearly all night at my brothers drinking too....maybe not such a good idea and I'm now back home "darn sarf" Any other questions, don't be shy about asking...PaddockLad, qualified 1990

I think the number 10 who got their third is Gary Macallister with hair...Roy Aitken's debut that day too. Christ knows how many left....must've been at least a third of those who were there at the start

Didn't really mean you personally like, just seems the general consensus in this thread. Strange surge of confidence from you lot. Don't see why we shouldnt be confident, we're at home and you've failed to beat Liverpool,Wigan,West Ham (you were at home too, theyre fuckin shit mate ) and Blackburn. Yes youve had some decent results too. But fuck all to be scared of to be honest.

Leaves you a bit short in the middle like, especially considering we're playing 5 in there. Man City did as well and Tiote did the work of 3 men against them....made that yo yo gadgie look like an overpaid shithouse and de Jong wasn't too keen to mix it with someone who can take care of themsleves either, the big fuckin girls blouse. If he wasn't so supernaturally stupid I'd rate Cattermole quite highly as a footballer. Can he be trusted not to do something daft on Sunday? Henderson is good too, but neither them nor Malbranque or any else in your midfield is going to score a goal to help you win the match. Thats why you're only one point ahead of us, despite money spent in recent years dwarfing our championship style budget, not to mention our season actually in the championship. Now do you still think you're going to qualify for Europe? We've never once thought we were going to qualify for Europe, or at least none of my mates have even thought of it! Cattermole will have be completely drilled into keeping calm against you lot, no doubt about it, it'll be the final straw with him if he gets a red. Henderson is always calm no matter what the occasion, mind you he can't wait for this one, buzzing in fact. Not sure why you lot seem so confident. You're making it seem that we're shit, far from it, and we'll be the best opposition you've played at home this year if you ignore last night in the cup. Should be a cracking game, can't wait. Well hardly, I said you've got good players but alluded to the fact that your team hasn't got a lot of goals in it. I think it'll be a draw on Sunday. Either side could win it though, and lets face it you lot winning at our place is hardly uncommon. Think I've seen it 3 times myself.

Leaves you a bit short in the middle like, especially considering we're playing 5 in there. Man City did as well and Tiote did the work of 3 men against them....made that yo yo gadgie look like an overpaid shithouse and de Jong wasn't too keen to mix it with someone who can take care of themsleves either, the big fuckin girls blouse. If he wasn't so supernaturally stupid I'd rate Cattermole quite highly as a footballer. Can he be trusted not to do something daft on Sunday? Henderson is good too, but neither them nor Malbranque or any else in your midfield is going to score a goal to help you win the match. Thats why you're only one point ahead of us, despite money spent in recent years dwarfing our championship style budget, not to mention our season actually in the championship. Now do you still think you're going to qualify for Europe? . I find it hard to believe that anyone can be as much of a mong as you have just presented yourself to be. We are only 1 point ahead of you because we have had a FAR harder start than Newcastle. We have played Man U, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Villa and Blackburn. Yourselves... well I don't need to remind you of the games at home to Blackpool and Stoke do I? We have lost just 1 game against a team who have went and hammered Arsenal at the emirates. Jeez aye, and you're still only a point ahead of us but touchy tonight though but.....anyone would think you're nervous about playing the likes of us.....we're fuckin rubbish after all

Leaves you a bit short in the middle like, especially considering we're playing 5 in there. Man City did as well and Tiote did the work of 3 men against them....made that yo yo gadgie look like an overpaid shithouse and de Jong wasn't too keen to mix it with someone who can take care of themsleves either, the big fuckin girls blouse. If he wasn't so supernaturally stupid I'd rate Cattermole quite highly as a footballer. Can he be trusted not to do something daft on Sunday? Henderson is good too, but neither them nor Malbranque or any else in your midfield is going to score a goal to help you win the match. Thats why you're only one point ahead of us, despite money spent in recent years dwarfing our championship style budget, not to mention our season actually in the championship. Now do you still think you're going to qualify for Europe? .

Shearer was indulged by Shepherd ,Souness and Roeder to keep playing on beyond his time of being truly effective in the team just to break Jackie Milburn's goalscoring record. I've always had a sneaking suspicion that Shearer was involved in Bellamy's exit from NUFC...didn't he sign a new contract around that time to continue playing after he had announced his retirement? Nowt to base it on but my own prejudices, but I wouldn't put it past him. "The club is bigger than one player, whoever it is" was said more than once last week about Rooney, but for the biggest example of that being only partly,if at all, true is towards the end of Shearer's playing career. I think Bellamy would've been an obstacle to him breaking the record before he completely ran out of steam. When I look at the scenes from Shearer's testimonial I think I'm pretty much in a minority among us in thinking that but if Bellamy had been kept at the club post 2005 and the team had been arranged around him we wouldnt have been looking at relegation 4 years later.

Apparently Titus won't be facing charges over this.....his brother remains on police bail though http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...m.html?ITO=1490

Wonder if Jenas thought he's be starting a champions league game at the San Siro again after he left us?..... Theyve taken 5000 with a few in the neutral zone....how the fuck did we get allocated more than 10k? oh and Zanetti's just scored

Would Cameron have the balls to spunk a fortune on a state funeral?....

Scottish Herald, reporting on Prime Minister Browns visit to his local ship builders in Scotland..... Just to avoid doubt. What's that got to do with the aircraft carriers again? Because Brown has used the same termination clauses to avoid the incoming government being able to cancel the orders. You've got it the wrong way round.....it would be BAE who insisted on the clauses being inserted. They are the closest thing to a nationalised industry we have left. A little known fact is that any contract they take on for any foreign government is guaranteed by the British taxpayer. We stump up the money if the contract tender price is exceeded beyond a certain level.And we keep on paying...and on and on. And you can imagine how easy it is to make a contract hit that magic point?....or if a government doesn't want a certain product after all: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbys...-ship-deal.html key phrase here:

Didn't Chris Mort and Redknapp both confirm they had actually had a meeting, and then when Redknapp turned us down (as even he could see Ashley wasn't going to finance a multi million pound player spending spree as long as he had a hole in his arse) Mort said he wasnt offered the job?...because if you're not going to bother to do due dilligence and then sack a manager in the middle of a tranfer window with no successor lined up, are you actually going to meet a top manager (whatever folks may say, Redknapp has ability as a manager) with a vacant posistion available and take your time in your deliberations?...

"That's it, Fergie, I'm gonna put some wax on the tracks and slide on outta here, with Marco, Merrick, Terry Lee, Gary Tibbs and your truly" Way too much knowledge for a casual fan, I'll bet you a pint theres a part of the Howman bunker thats a complete shrine to the cockney big girls blouse/post punk fruit loop

Who is going to want to employ somebody who is termianlly bone idle anyway? and more to the point in these hard times, where are all the fuckin jobs for them to fill? anyone tried to find decent even part time work lately? Philip Green advising the coalition on how to save money across Whitehall departments: "get the misuss to move to Monanco and put your government department in her name and you'll save a fuckin fortune in tax, it worked a treat for me with Arcadia"

It used to be the wmc at the other side of the ground but I think they banned away fans from there a few years back, I havent been in there for ages now which is a shame as it was cheap and easy to get to the ground from. If you didnt have colours on you could probably still get in there, afterwards as well. Get off the tube at Plaistow but for fucks sakes dont go to the Victoria Tavern down the road and over the bridge from the station...a load of us turned up there a couple of years back and it was like a BNP meeting...got loads of grief from the locals, yet the year before I took the then missus in and was made welcome. Go past that shithole and down to the next one on the same street, the name of which escapes me at the moment, but if you get a kicking from the lads stood outside the Tavern dont blame me That pub is called the Black Lion and its about 10 mins walk from upton park...just follow the locals http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/16998/ Or you could try the Duke of Edinburgh on Green St, turn left out of the tube station..

We went to Phuket for a wedding the same year as the tsunami and landed right at the start of what they hilariously call "the vegetarian festival"...this appeared to entail some scary looking hicks from the hills wacked off their nuts on the local dope sat on the back of pick up trucks with various barbrcue and butchery impliments inserted about their person. Nothing says "WELCOME TO PHUKET" like a bamboo hut dweller with a machete through his cheek, as I'm sure the local tourist board would agree

De Jong went through the player to get to the ball, play is waved on...same as Williamson for the pen, and Willo also got a booking (why wasnt it a red? last man etc?) Fuckin dreadful refereeing, amongst the worst I've seen in 25 years

Randomly, when we played Palermo we were sat on the bus coming into the city from the airport and we got speaking to this lad who claimed to be Malcom Allen's nephew,who said his uncle was a coke crazed piss heed who had just been declared bankrupt. Wasn't Malcy in the news for something or other a while ago?

3 games in 8 days...won 2, lost the easiest one on paper.........typical Newcastle United

They had this on draught in our local CAMRA emporium a few months back..... a great night was had by all I'm a big fan of honey beer like Waggldance too...Holt's Humdinger, Fuller's Honeydew and the Co op's Bumblebee ale are all highly recommended