This season

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 4403]

I know we all want to qualify for the CL but I’m 56 and this the best season I have ever witnessed. No matter what happens from here on in this season will go down in history for me.

[Dougle 3856]

4 minutes ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said:

I know we all want to qualify for the CL but I’m 56 and this the best season I have ever witnessed. No matter what happens from here on in this season will go down in history for me.

 

 

56? Mate I thought you were at least in your late 60s  early 70s with your crack. Nay offence

[strawb 4768]

All seasons go down in history tbf

[Dr Gloom 24339]

22 minutes ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said:

I know we all want to qualify for the CL but I’m 56 and this the best season I have ever witnessed. No matter what happens from here on in this season will go down in history for me.

it’s the best of my lifetime whatever happens next. We won a trophy and we’re well placed for champions league football with four games to go. Europa league would also be a triumph given the lack of recent investment.

 

having said that, I still think we’re going to do it. 

[Howmanheyman 38064]

The trophy should make it the best and it was immense but if you're not there to see it plus if you're no onger a young buck? I always say my joint favourite seasons were 92-94 promotion plus 3rd in the PL. A young man in my prime enjoying the KK feast after the famine of division two. Amazing. I loved the cup win, who couldn't as a NUFC fan but it's at a distance so different.

[Christmas Tree 5419]

Lovely to finally win a trophy but there will be no escaping the damage if we miss out on CL football.

 

Really they are two separate things in my mind. The league is “the season” and the cup is an event.

 

With that in mind,  3rd with Keegan and getting CL with Eddie, both beat this so far.

 

 

[Kitman 2491]

3 hours ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said:

I know we all want to qualify for the CL but I’m 56 and this the best season I have ever witnessed. No matter what happens from here on in this season will go down in history for me.

Completely agree. Lifting a domestic trophy trumps everything for me. Hopefully we can add CL qualification to it too.

[thebrokendoll 10872]

with both ct and hmhm here.

the promotion season with keegan the manager after so nearly going down to the 3rd division was fucking immense, we went top of the table in september and then stopped there. as if that wasn't enough we were introduced to a young lad away at swindon town in late march, andy cole who'd go on to notch 12 goals including 2 hat tricks in the last 10 games, fucking unstoppable.

not gonna dwell too long  on the following season, just enough to say that finishing 3rd in the top division was the stuff of fucking fantasy for anybody who'd supported nufc throughout the 70s/80s (and earlier for those older), it would provide for us the following year the opportunity to see us play in europe for the 1st time (for me) but also we played football which at times was sublime, the best football I've ever seen newcastle play in my life, NOWT has come close, I doubt it ever will. I love isak, but andy fucking cole man.... for fucks sake!

I was lucky enough to have a good chat with keegan in 2018 and thank him for the memories he'd provided, he asked ne which was the best....

the promotion season in 83/84 was unbeatable for me. I'd seen my teenage home in the leazes pulled down in '78, we were shit, really shit. I cut my teeth as a regular away supporter under mcgarry as a mid/late teen in the 2nd division, with cox, varadi, waddle it improved a bit, and again the next year after the initial euphoria of keegan signing, but 83/84 man...

our ground was a shit tip, every fucker was on the dole, hooliganism was an adrenaline pumping head fuck, the miners strike had started, the north/south divide felt like a chasm. I plodged in ponds on golf courses looking for balls to sell, I did cash in hand fiddle jobs as a builder's labourer, I tarmaced the roads at feathers caravan park in whitley bay, I scraped the money together to see us at every away game that season amongst the biggest away support you could ever witness, we took over cities, towns and football grounds in our thousands and thousands in a way which can never be replicated, we were a proper army.

I was 21 year old, invincible, devilishly handsome and despite all the shit we were going through as a region I've never been so proud to be a geordie in my life. 

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by thebrokendoll

[Holden McGroin 8050]

Great post @thebrokendoll.

 

i also think the wave of europhia when KK was manager tops it. The first and probably last time I cried at match was  the 7-1 Leicester festival game when the entire crowd were singing the Andy Cole song (even East Stand).

 

That was when I was around 12-13 and had been watching football since 5. All id known was us being shit but i still loved it when we had Kevin Dillon and Billy Askew patrolling the midfield. I probably didn’t even understand the tactical side at that point (first full season ticket was 88-89)  but I loved the smell of bovril and fags and atmosphere was intoxicating. My Dad passed about over 10 years ago and we’d always go together. I associate going to the match with him and I hope my lads grow up the same.  I wished he was around to see the cup win.

Edited 2 hours ago by Holden McGroin

[Toonpack 12197]

1 hour ago, thebrokendoll said:

with both ct and hmhm here.

the promotion season with keegan the manager after so nearly going down to the 3rd division was fucking immense, we went top of the table in september and then stopped there. as if that wasn't enough we were introduced to a young lad away at swindon town in late march, andy cole who'd go on to notch 12 goals including 2 hat tricks in the last 10 games, fucking unstoppable.

not gonna dwell too long  on the following season, just enough to say that finishing 3rd in the top division was the stuff of fucking fantasy for anybody who'd supported nufc throughout the 70s/80s (and earlier for those older), it would provide for us the following year the opportunity to see us play in europe for the 1st time (for me) but also we played football which at times was sublime, the best football I've ever seen newcastle play in my life, NOWT has come close, I doubt it ever will. I love isak, but andy fucking cole man.... for fucks sake!

I was lucky enough to have a good chat with keegan in 2018 and thank him for the memories he'd provided, he asked ne which was the best....

the promotion season in 83/84 was unbeatable for me. I'd seen my teenage home in the leazes pulled down in '78, we were shit, really shit. I cut my teeth as a regular away supporter under mcgarry as a mid/late teen in the 2nd division, with cox, varadi, waddle it improved a bit, and again the next year after the initial euphoria of keegan signing, but 83/84 man...

our ground was a shit tip, every fucker was on the dole, hooliganism was an adrenaline pumping head fuck, the miners strike had started, the north/south divide felt like a chasm. I plodged in ponds on golf courses looking for balls to sell, I did cash in hand fiddle jobs as a builder's labourer, I tarmaced the roads at feathers caravan park in whitley bay, I scraped the money together to see us at every away game that season amongst the biggest away support you could ever witness, we took over cities, towns and football grounds in our thousands and thousands in a way which can never be replicated, we were a proper army.

I was 21 year old, invincible, devilishly handsome and despite all the shit we were going through as a region I've never been so proud to be a geordie in my life. 

 

 

 

 

Great post TBD, but it has to be said:

 

[Dr Gloom 24339]

10 hours ago, Christmas Tree said:

Lovely to finally win a trophy but there will be no escaping the damage if we miss out on CL football.

 

Really they are two separate things in my mind. The league is “the season” and the cup is an event.

 

With that in mind,  3rd with Keegan and getting CL with Eddie, both beat this so far.

 

 

Football is about how it makes you feel though. I shed tears of joy when we won the league cup. That never happened when we qualified for the champions league or finished second or third under Keegan. You could argue we were better then over a league season and there were amazing memories and moments but I don’t recall one that made me feel how I did after seeing us finally lift a cup. 

[Dazzler 12685]

All this nostalgia proves is that you’re all canny old tbh. I remember the keegan days, but was only 10 when he chucked in the towel, and we got lumbered with the dour Scottish cunt who ruined us.

 

Sir Bobby was in during my formative years and I’d probably say I preferred those times over Keegan purely because I was old enough then to appreciate it. All that before another dour Scottish cunt came in and ruined us again.

 

None of it tops this season though, because you simply can’t compare nearly winning stuff with actually winning something IMO.

 

I’m saying all of this to say once Eddie wraps in be prepared for Moyes ball because we always replace our favourites with a dour Scottish cunt.

[Toonpack 12197]

4 minutes ago, Dazzler said:

All this nostalgia proves is that you’re all canny old tbh. I remember the keegan days, but was only 10 when he chucked in the towel, and we got lumbered with the dour Scottish cunt who ruined us.

 

Sir Bobby was in during my formative years and I’d probably say I preferred those times over Keegan purely because I was old enough then to appreciate it. All that before another dour Scottish cunt came in and ruined us again.

 

None of it tops this season though, because you simply can’t compare nearly winning stuff with actually winning something IMO.

 

I’m saying all of this to say once Eddie wraps in be prepared for Moyes ball because we always replace our favourites with a dour Scottish cunt.

Don't think PaddockLad wants it tbh.