Big Onion

Good one of an old baths at Gallowgate here but unfortunately a bit further along from where you're after.

The lass who took the Byker photo's is coming back shortly and is trying to trace the original people from the photo's to re-enact the scenes. Obviously a lot of them will be dead so she's wanting local Byker people to take their place. She's wanting me to take the part of him standing against the wall with the tattoos. Funny you mention that. I was looking through this site a few months back and came across a photo of a lad I knew some 25+ years ago (at least I'm 99% certain it's him). Joe Melia was his name, big, daft, fairly shy lad really. Died of alcoholic poisoning after a birthday night out - might have been his 21st. It couldn't have been long after this photo was taken, poor cunt. Some of those fish quay blokes drank like lunatics back then.

Some of you may know this site but just in case: Amber Online Side Gallery's website, which is fantastic. I've linked the Byker page, but there's allsorts in here. The ones from North Shields (some belters taken in The Jungle) and the fish quay include the odd pic of a couple of old villains/ne'er-do-wells I knew once upon a time

They're displaying signs of paranoia with increasing frequency. Llambias was bristling with hostility towards NUSC members recently, Ashley is taking legal action against The Sun, now they've banned two journalists for what really was a trifle (suggesting Kinnear has had a setback). They are very mistaken if they think the way to handle criticism and dissenting voices is to attempt to silence it/them. It's probably a symptom of the pressures of failure. They can't silence their biggest critic of course, unless they ban the league table.

Cuntfeatures Carragher's scored for Hull, spuds, West Ham, ManU and the Dippers

It's not his fault he's been put in this position but the bloke is never a leader in a million years. There's a number of reasons for us being in the shit we're in, but one almost entirely avoidable one that might be what tips the scales is leaving Hughton in charge for two prolonged spells. As Director of Football, presumably this must be Dennis Wise's decision, or at the very least one taken on his advice.

Venables won't come, Wise won't touch it, and we've already scraped the bottom of the barrel to get Kinnear so there's nowt left there. Ashley and co. have fucked up big-style and they're now almost out of options. They may as well give it to Calderwood, who at least has managerial experience, unlike Hughton. I think it's all effectively in the lap of the gods now regardless. If we get the breaks we might just stay up; if not we'll get the relegation Ashley's incompetence deserves. What a fucking mess.

Which means a possible CB pairing of Coloccini and Cacapa. Drogba, and later Stoke's big lads if Bassong doesn't get back in time, will have a fucking field day.

I tuned in briefly before realising Supermac wasn't on, thus removing any dirt-dishing potential. I can't be sure but I think I could just make out the sound of strings being pulled in the background.

The Leeds 'keeper would have been David Harvey, who really was one ugly cunt like Edit - here is the fucker:

Dennis Wise Don Hutchison Lee Cattermole Ben Thatcher El Hadj Diouf Jamie Carragher Dozens more I reckon.

*clears throat* *strikes 'the pose'* *adopts the Jonny Gielgud voice* On yonder hill, stood a cow. It must have shifted, caus it's not there now. Gielgud was an awful reader mind - he was accused of 'singing', much to his annoyance. Richard Burton was the boyo I came across some of my own pathetic attempts a couple of years ago, cringed, and quickly got rid of the evidence

A lad I used to play football with wrote poetry. I was an avid lit' student at the time and thought his stuff was awful. He's now (20 years later) had loads of stuff published and is fairly well known in littererchewer circles I still think it's fairly pap like.

I don't listen to the Legends. is it supposed to be on tonight? Might tune in, just in case. I don't listen to it either but likewise I might have a listen - and aye, I think it's on tonight.

saw macdonald leaving ground at 8.15pm approx we were next to him at traffic lights on barrack road. Oh well that seems to put paid to that theory then Wonder who it was.

Kid on Skunkers reckons it was Macdonald, that all he did was ask a few no doubt pointed questions and invite Ashley onto the radio programme. He might be a bit of a tit nowadays but to have a club legend like Macdonald chucked out by stewards shows once again what a bunch of cunts this lot running our club are.

Gary Speed could probably still do a better job than Nolan. He looks nowt special at all from what I've seen so far. I felt at the time that Given & Nzogbia out/Taylor & Nolan in = weaker squad, and nothing I've seen so far makes me think any different.

I'll need to watch again as I got fucking mortal after and I've obliterated a fair bit of the detail from my already piss-poor memory I've just got a vague general impression of his overall shiteness.

I agree. If the rest of them were putting it in like him, Enrique and Bassong have done lately we might well be a few points better off than we are. Ryan Taylor and Coloccini were fucking shocking yesterday.

If they stick with a policy of banning journalists who print things they don't like they'll be down to a couple of Thomson House lads and Rob Beasley by next season. How ridiculously petty.

If we have I hope the fucker arrives to wash away Ashley and co. come summer

that was because he was out of the way , we had two strikers upfront that the oppositions centre backs had to deal with , leaving owen to drift into the box unmarked and unnoticed , trouble is we have to give up a centre midfield spot to let him do it , and he's bloody useless on the ball imo , cant remember the last time i seen him beat a man . I can't agree with you there. Owen rarely gave the ball away during that spell he played deep and was getting a lot of praise for it at the time. 'Useless' on the ball is wildly over the top. Of course his main asset these days is getting in the right place at the right time and finishing, both of which he still does well, but he's not a complete mug with a ball at his feet. You don't see that side of his game when he's playing up top though. Not that I'm suggesting he's a silky-skilled playmaker of course, but he cerainly kept possession well when he was more involved last season. The bottom line is that it worked. That 7/8 game run from Birmingham till we got safe was the best we've played in two seasons.

Looks like they're aiming for something like last season's home game v Arsenal. That was the game where the players got loads of praise for a 'battling performance' having been shite for five games previous Smith had his only good game for us that day, when he was going up and battling for the long balls, dropping back into midfield when they had it if I remember it right. To be fair to the useless cunt he did well that game. I think that's what we'll see tonight.

Owen played his best football here when Keegan played him deep. In several games I thought he was actually arguably our best midfielder - very tidy in possession and using the ball intelligently. And the goals he was scoring arriving late were instrumental in getting us out of trouble last season. Why they don't even seem to be contemplating employing a similar system again is beyond me. It worked.

If only. Canny piece by Barclay that. I reckon he's got Ashley spot on. I've noticed him and Winter have long been sceptical about Ashley's motives. I remember Winter's refusal to take Ashley's bum-boy Beasley seriously in one edition of The Sunday Supplement had Beasley in a rage. I notice Beasley and Barclay are on this Sunday incidentally.